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ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

Malaria drug target raises hopes for new treatments

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST

Scientists have taken an important step towards new malaria treatments by identifying a way to stop malaria parasites from multiplying.

Innovative screening strategy swiftly uncovers new drug candidates, new biology

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST

Scientists have demonstrated a drug-discovery strategy with a double payoff —- it enables the rapid selection of chemical compounds that have a desired effect on cells and also highlights how the compounds work.

Where Alzheimer's starts and how it spreads

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST

Using high-resolution fMRI imaging in patients with Alzheimer's disease and in mouse models of the disease, researchers have clarified three fundamental issues about Alzheimer's: where it starts, why it starts there, and how it spreads. In addition to advancing understanding of Alzheimer's, the findings could improve early detection of the disease, when drugs may be most effective.

Two-drug combo helps adolescents with ADHD, aggression

Posted: 20 Dec 2013 11:30 AM PST

Prescribing both a stimulant and an antipsychotic drug to children with physical aggression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with teaching parents to use behavior management techniques, reduces aggressive and serious behavioral problems in the children, according to researchers.

How cells remove copper

Posted: 20 Dec 2013 08:58 AM PST

New research provides deeper insight into causes of serious diseases involving copper metabolism. Mapping the mechanism that regulates the transport of copper across the cell membrane and out of the body's cells actually provides a new understanding of conditions related to chronic imbalance in the body's level of copper.
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