Drug may boost Down's learning
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A drug may help alleviate the learning difficulties associated with Down's Syndrome.
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Scientists said on Friday they were a step closer to developing a new class of easy-to-take asthma and allergy drug, capable of tackling the underlying cause of disease rather than just the symptoms.
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It might be possible to make a pill that prevents the brain damage that marks Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said Thursday.
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The biggest test yet of an experimental drug that offers the fairy-tale promise of helping people lose weight and quit smoking found that it helped people not only drop
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Researchers have found that drugs being developed for Alzheimer&#39;s disease can also provide a better treatment for the cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or T-ALL.
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Taking one drug to raise "good" cholesterol and one to lower bad cholesterol can slow the progression of heart disease more effectively than either medicine alone, a new study has found.
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They hope their findings, published in Science, may lead to new drugs to help smokers quit. It is thought nicotinic acetylcholine receptors found on the surface of brain cells are key.
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Scientists believe learning a second language alters a part of the brain.
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Respite from the diet roller coaster may come in the form of an experimental pill. And because the pill also targets the brain&#39;s pleasure center - the first diet pill to do so - it&#39;s showing some promise in helping smokers kick cigarettes.
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Scientists discover a new protein they believe could help develop much more effective medicines.
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A drug sometimes used to treat Alzheimer's disease can also moderately improve dementia caused by Parkinson's disease, according a report in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.
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Scientists claim a drug can reverse some early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease - with effects seen within 10 minutes.
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A drug widely prescribed to treat symptoms of Parkinson&#39;s disease does not hasten the progression of the illness as some had feared, and it might even slow it down, a study suggests.
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WEDNESDAY, June 6 (HealthDay News) -- Anti-cancer drugs called histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors improved long-term memory and strengthened neural connections in the brains of mice, says a University of California, Irvine, study.
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New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Standard blood pressure-lowering medications already used by millions of patients may also slow the mental decline seen in Alzheimer's disease, a small study suggests.
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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.