Compound Shows Promise Against TB
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A chemical compound shelved as a failed treatment for inflammation has unexpectedly become the most promising new tuberculosis medicine to emerge in 40 years.
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A drug used to treat people infected  with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future  weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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The first TB vaccine to be developed in more than eighty years has passed safety trials in the UK.
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Promising drug test results make this a company to watch.
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A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half. Tests on the new antibiotic drug in Zambia were so successful that the trial was halted early to make the drug available more quickly.
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A drug widely used to treat H.I.V. infection may also be effective in fighting cancer, a new study suggests, and a human trial of the medicine is already under way.
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A new antibiotic shows promise, thus far in mice, for treating tuberculosis much faster than current drugs do, scientists report. Additional evidence indicates that the antibiotic may work against multidrug-resistant strains of the tuberculosis bug.
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A drug treatment combination can reduce deaths from tuberculosis meningitis by up to a third, scientists believe.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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Scientists have devised a blood test for tuberculosis which they hope will help doctors in the developing world.
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The biotech mines extra value from its compound library.
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Here's what a newly approved drug looks like.
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Scientists say they have engineered a molecule which could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
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A new HIV drug shows promising results in people for whom other treatments no longer work, a study suggests.
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Fears of bird flu resurrected a drug for this small pharma, and it has some other promising compounds in the pipeline.
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THURSDAY, Feb 10 (HealthDay News) -- A compound derived from a rare South American plant shows promise as a treatment for breast cancer, according to a University of Virginia Health System study.
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Streptomycin proves a godsend for tuberculosis victims and the sufferers of other infectious diseases, but the fallout from its discovery almost undoes its discoverer.