Anti-Clotting Drug Based on Bat Saliva
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Stroke victims being treated at a Louisville hospital may benefit from the lessons of the vampire bat...
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they may have found a series of chemicals that could counter the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and other viruses.
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Research on the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus has revealed a molecular structure that appears to be a promising target for antiviral drugs.
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NEW YORK  - A new type of bacteria-killing  compounds, called nubiotics, appear to be potent antimicrobial  agents in animal experiments, researchers report.
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India&#39;s Ranbaxy Laboratories said Wednesday it&#39;s developed a new anti-malarial drug, claiming it would cost less but work as well as drugs now used for the disease that kills more than a million people a year worldwide.
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Researchers report that a new topical cream appears to stop female monkeys from getting an HIV-like virus. The treatment, which aims to protect cells in the vagina from
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BEIJING (dpa) - Chinese and Thai scientists have developed a herbal anti-AIDS drug that proved effective in 89 per cent of cases during clinical trials, Chinese state media said on Sunday.
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NEW YORK DEC 29, 2004  - Genzyme Corp. announced Wednesday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the nucleoside analogue clofarabine (Clolar) for the treatment of children
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There's encouraging news about an enzyme replacement drug.
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The discovery of a molecule which appears to play a key role in allergies may lead to new therapies, experts say.
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A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don't use a condom.    The experimental drug isn't ready for human testing yet, but it provided potent protection to female monkeys exposed to large amounts of an AIDS virus, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science...
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A research team in Texas used a common antiretroviral drug to halt the transmission of HIV in lab mice engineered to behave like humans
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THE REGION GTC Biotherapeutics Inc. has won fast-track designation from the Food and Drug Administratrion for ATryn, a protein produced in the milk of goats that has anticoagulant and anti-inflammatory properties. The Framingham company said fast-track designation allows for an accelerated review of ATryn as a treatment for patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency who are at risk of developing deep ...
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Gene Simmons, eat your heart out. A newfound bat's tongue can stretch to one and a half times the length of its body, and now scientists think they know why.
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Virologists from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium report that chloroquine, a widely used antimalarial drug, exhibits antiviral activity against the SARS coronavirus.
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British scientists have discovered a new way to improve the effectiveness of drugs used to treat prostate cancer. Researchers at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular
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LONDON - Researchers in India are testing a new way to deliver medications orally that previously had to be injected. Based on their laboratory results, the scientists say they&#39;ve created a gel that withstands the acidic environment of the stomach.