Artificial sweetener could have major therapeutic benefits, study finds
A significant breakthrough in the field of immunology finds that the artificial sweetener sucralose could have therapeutic benefits.
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JJ Shavit
- Mar 23
Researchers Find Music-Listening Interventions Can Enhance Cancer Treatment
Music-listening interventions are like over-the-counter medications. ou don’t need a doctor to prescribe them.
JJ Shavit
- Feb 16
Scientists make major lung cancer discovery
Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer, accounting for an estimated 1.8 million deaths worldwide. Treatments have improved recently.
JJ Shavit
- Feb 3
Groundbreaking discovery in muscle regeneration, study finds
Now a discovery made at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM) opens the door to the development of targeted therapies.
JJ Shavit
- Feb 3
Alzheimer's patients benefit substantially from 40 Hz sensory stimulation
40Hz sensory stimulation to treat Alzheimer’s disease found to be well tolerated, producing no serious adverse effects among participants
JJ Shavit
- Feb 2
Single injection reverses paralysis from severe spinal cord injuries
researchers have developed a new injectable therapy that reverse sparalysis and repairs tissue after severe spinal cord injuries.
JJ Shavit
- Jan 3
Single injection reverses paralysis in patients with severe spinal cord injuries
A new injectable therapy harnesses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 7, 2022
Microtubules identified as promising new cancer fighter
To make new cells, we have to divide existing ones. This is a continuous, frequent and ubiquitous process which starts at conception.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 5, 2022
Researchers improve short term memory problems through laser therapy
Researchers demonstrated that the therapy, which is non-invasive, could improve short term, or working memory in people by up to 25%.
JJ Shavit
- Nov 21, 2022
Nanoparticle therapy can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers find
Threats posed by pathogens that are increasingly becoming resistant to all known antibiotics is an alarming and pressing health care problem
JJ Shavit
- Nov 17, 2022
'Natural killer cells' deliver dramatic results as new cancer therapy
Albert Einstein College of Medicine research team used different human immune cells known as natural killer (NK) cells with dramatic results
JJ Shavit
- Nov 13, 2022
Silver-bullet antibody kills all known SARS-CoV-2 variants
Scientists have been searching for an antibody that would be broadly neutralizing — able to fight off any viral variant that might emerge.
JJ Shavit
- Nov 9, 2022
Medical discovery strikingly improves treatment of colorectal cancer
A rare gene in the tumors of some colorectal cancer patients could lead to more accurate diagnoses and, eventually, personalized treatments.
JJ Shavit
- Oct 2, 2022
Revolutionary nitric oxide therapy prevents and treats obesity and diabetes
A novel therapy developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ameliorates obesity and Type 2 diabetes in mice fed a high-fat diet.
JJ Shavit
- Sep 11, 2022
New antiviral therapy may block COVID-19 transmission
By the time you test positive for COVID-19, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already taken up residence in your respiratory system.
JJ Shavit
- Sep 6, 2022
Breakthrough therapy improves cognitive function in patients with Down syndrome
Researchers test the efficacy of GnRH injection therapy in order to improve the cognitive functions of patients with Down syndrome.
JJ Shavit
- Sep 1, 2022
Nitric oxide therapy can cure obesity and type 2 diabetes, study finds
The therapy acts through release of nitric oxide whose most important function in the body is relaxing the inner muscles of blood vessels.
JJ Shavit
- Aug 28, 2022
Therapeutic viruses can turbocharge the immune system against cancer
The immune system has evolved to safeguard the body from a wildly diverse range of potential threats. Among these are bacterial diseases.
JJ Shavit
- Jul 24, 2022
Revolutionary new drug eliminates breast cancer growth and recurrence
Researchers found MitoQ avoids the appearance of metastases in 80% and local recurrences of human breast cancer in 75% of cases.
JJ Shavit
- Jul 23, 2022
'Trojan Horse' eliminates cancerous tumors from the inside out
A new technology enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are needed.
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