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Overactive Bladder Diagnoses Tripled, but Treatment Is Still Rare

Drugs.com

22, 2025 -- A sudden need to urinate is more common than previously known, but treatment is less common.Diagnoses for overactive bladder more than tripled between 2013 and 2017, after the American Urological Association (AUA). WEDNESDAY, Jan.

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Gene editing extends lifespan in mouse model of prion disease

Broad Institute

The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein in the brain by as much as 60 percent. A base-editing approach could also likely be a one-time treatment for all prion disease patients regardless of the genetic mutation causing their disease.

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Early Treatment Can Push HIV Into Remission in Kids: Study

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, March 8, 2024 -- Ever since one child, dubbed the 'Mississippi baby,' went into drug-free remission of HIV in 2013, experts have wondered if giving treatment within hours of birth might do the same for others.The results of a new trial.

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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

Since their initial development, both base editing and prime editing have been used by thousands of laboratories around the world and have enabled the study and potential treatment of many genetic diseases. In 2013, Broad founding director Eric S. The Breakthrough Prize is one of the worlds most important science awards.

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Buprenorphine now replaces methadone as the most common medicine for opioid dependence’: 10-year trends in opioid agonist treatment medicines in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Kendal Chidwick NDARC’s Kendal Chidwick discusses the findings from a recently published study that examined how patterns of opioid agonist treatment medicines have changed over the past decade. Other changes around this time aimed at improving treatment accessibility included increased use of take-home doses and telehealth appointments.

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Targeting KRAS Diversity: Covalent Modulation of G12X and Beyond in Cancer Therapy

Covalent Modifiers

In 2013, Shokat and co-workers achieved a groundbreaking feat by covalently targeting a previously undiscovered allosteric pocket (switch II pocket (SWIIP)) of KRASG12C. This breakthrough led to the development and approval of sotorasib (AMG510) and adagrasib (MRTX849), revolutionizing the treatment of KRASG12C-dependent lung cancer.

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Breakthrough for pancreatic cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

1 Although pancreatic cancer is rarer than the abovementioned cancers, it claims over 50,000 lives each year in the United States because of a lack of effective treatments. In 2013 2 , Dr Shokat and his team developed the first cancer drugs to stop a different K-Ras mutation, G12C. Available from: [link]