Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MARCH 28, 2024

Young to middle-aged women who reported drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages per week--more than one per day, on average--were significantly more likely to develop coronary heart disease compared with those who drank less, finds a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session.

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Disease 350

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MARCH 24, 2025

The study is among the first to examine multiple dietary patterns in midlife in relation to overall healthy aging.

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Disease 331

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 4, 2024

Driven by an older, more diverse population, along with a significant increase in risk factors including high blood pressure and obesity, total costs related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) conditions are likely to triple by 2050, according to recent projections. At least 6 in 10 U.S. trillion price tag in direct and indirect costs.

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Disease 333

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 15, 2024

Over a ten-year period, biobank participants who met recommended levels of physical activity had a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular disease, and the protective effects were even more pronounced in individuals with depression.

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Disease 345

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Two new studies are pointing the way toward round-the-clock personalized care for people with Parkinson's disease through an implanted device that can treat movement problems during the day and insomnia at night.

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Disease 300

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Consuming moderate amounts of coffee and caffeine regularly may offer a protective effect against developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke, according to new research.

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Disease Research 362

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. Researchers drew this conclusion after studying proteins from blood samples taken from over 42,000 adults recruited to the UK Biobank.

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Disease Research 339

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A class of drugs for diabetes may be associated with a lower risk of dementia and Parkinson's disease, according to a new study.

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Disease Drugs 327

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 15, 2025

Most treatments being pursued today to protect against Alzheimer's disease focus on amyloid plaques and tau tangles that accumulate in the brain, but new research points to a novel -- and noble -- approach: using Xenon gas. A phase 1 clinical trial of the treatment in healthy volunteers will begin in early 2025.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Research has revealed clear evidence that changes in the orchestration of brain oxygenation dynamics and neuronal function in Alzheimer's disease contribute to the neurodegeneration.

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Disease Research 293

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Researchers have found that semaglutide may lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

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Disease Drugs Research 328

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 4, 2024

Scientists have discovered a new cause for asthma that sparks hope for treatment that could prevent the life-threatening disease.

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Disease Treatment 356

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The findings indicate that concentrated physical activity patterns may be just as effective for disease prevention as patterns where exercise is spread out throughout the week.

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Disease 313

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Unstable proteins are the main drivers of many different heritable diseases, according to a new study, including genetic disorders responsible for the formation of cataracts, and different types of rare neurological, developmental and muscle-wasting diseases.

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Disease 280

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MARCH 20, 2024

Infectious diseases specialists call the medical field to be ready to deal with the impact of climate change on spreading diseases, such as malaria, Valley fever, E. coli and Lyme disease.

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Disease 312

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer centers.

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Disease Trials 305

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 26, 2024

Engineers have developed a pill that releases microscopic robots, or microrobots, into the colon to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The experimental treatment, given orally, has shown success in mice. It significantly reduced IBD symptoms and promoted the healing of damaged colon tissue without causing toxic side effects.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 2, 2024

With further research, doctors could one day use this simple and non-invasive approach for early detection of diseases. These temperature differences are not easily perceptible by one's own touch but can instead be identified using specific AI-derived spatial temperature patterns that require a thermal camera and a data-trained model.

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Doctors Disease Research 322

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Without immediate action, humanity will potentially face further escalation in resistance in fungal disease, a group of scientists from the around the world has warned. According to the scientists most fungal pathogens identified by the World Health Organization -- accounting for around 3.8

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Disease Drugs 311

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, including ALS.

Disease 313

Disease 313

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MARCH 31, 2025

New research reveals that lower proportions of specific sleep stages are associated with reduced brain volume in regions vulnerable to the development of Alzheimer's disease over time.

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Disease Research 280

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Our organs age at different rates, and a blood test determining how much they've each aged could predict the risk of conditions like lung cancer and heart disease decades later, finds a new study.

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Disease 284

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Low levels of traffic-related air pollution harms the liver and may raise the risk of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease, a new study in mice suggests.

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Disease 307

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Researchers have conducted one of the largest eye studies in the world to reveal new insights into retinal thickness, highlighting its potential in the early detection of diseases like type 2 diabetes, dementia and multiple sclerosis.

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Disease Research 294

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

AIRNA is one of several biotechs to debut plans for target alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency in recent years, with competitors such as AlveoGene, Wave Life Sciences and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals.

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RNA Disease Science Pharmaceuticals 310

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Biobank, a database of medical histories and genetic, lifestyle and other disease risk factors, to study the effect of those early-life sugar restrictions on health outcomes of adults conceived in the U.K. The researchers used contemporary data from the U.K. just before and after the end of wartime sugar rationing.

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Disease Research 331

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Much anticipated clinical trial data for Immunovant’s experimental FcRn inhibitor could catalyze business development decisions for its parent, Roivant Sciences.

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Clinical Trials Disease Science Trials 271

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Researchers have found that a newly developed diet inspired by the eating habits of non-industrialized societies can significantly reduce the risk of a number of chronic diseases -- and are to share recipes with the public.

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Disease Research 312

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By combining 25 datasets, researchers have created the largest cohesive cell atlas of the human gut and uncovered a new way that stomach cells may play a role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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Disease Research 285

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 18, 2024

The discovery could lead to more targeted treatments, with fewer side-effects, for issues from lengthy COVID infections to autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis. Current anti-inflammatory drugs used for this purpose suppress the body's whole immune system, making patients more vulnerable to infection.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 17, 2024

Could measuring protein clumps in our cells be a new way to find out our risk of getting age-related diseases? Researchers propose the concept of a 'protein aggregation clock' to measure aging and health.

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Disease Research 302

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Scientists have engineered the microbiome of plants for the first time, boosting the prevalence of 'good' bacteria that protect the plant from disease. The findings could substantially reduce the need for environmentally destructive pesticides.

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Engineering Disease 287

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 15, 2023

Researchers have used the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas to create disease resistant rice plants, according to a new study. Small-scale field trials in China show that the newly created rice variety exhibited both high yields and resistance to the fungus that causes a serious disease called rice blast.

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Disease Trials Research 262

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Researchers have identified a new pathway that contributes to cardiovascular disease associated with high levels of niacin, a common B vitamin previously recommended to lower cholesterol. The team discovered a link between 4PY, a breakdown product from excess niacin, and heart disease.

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Disease Production Research 301

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A new study has revealed that the shape of the heart is influenced in part by genetics and may help predict the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

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Disease Research 259

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But a new study suggests the drug may also provide a surprising and life-saving benefit: lowering cholesterol and cutting the overall risk of cardiovascular disease. The drug finasteride, also known as Propecia or Proscar, treats male pattern baldness and enlarged prostate in millions of men worldwide.

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Disease Drugs 312

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A new study looked at 926 polygenic risk scores for 310 diseases. It found that, on average, only 11% of individuals who develop disease are identified, while at the same time 5% of people who do not develop the disease test positive.

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Disease 231