A recent study by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine found significant racial disparities in the age of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients at the time of hospital admission for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and CVD-related deathBlack women were youngest to both be admitte

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NEW YORK -- The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced today that it has awarded a grant of $228,668 to Cognition Therapeutics (CogRx) to develop small molecule drugs that block the action of the toxic "oligomers" thought responsible for Alzheimer's disease (ADCogRx's small-molecu

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Montreal -- The internationally-renowned scientific journal Immunity, from the Cell Press group, publishes online today, and will publish in its August 27 print issue, the results of a study conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr. André Veillette, Director of the Molecular Oncology Th

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The brothers of men with prostate cancer are at an increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis because of increased diagnostic activity and not necessarily because they carry a genetic mutation that increases risk of the disease, according to a study published online August 19 in The Journal of the

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TORONTO -- Progressive diseases are among the most dreaded kind, because they worsen over timeAnd as the disease goes from one generation to the next, the severity increases and the age of onset decreases. Researchers are aware of some 40 neurological, neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases

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At present the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, also known by its brand names Paxol and Abraxane, is often prescribed to shrink ovarian tumours by stopping cancer cells dividingBut some ovarian cancers are resistant to such drugs, known as taxanes, which are derived from the yew treeNow British and

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A large prospective study of 5033 men and women in the Tromsø Study in northern Norway has reported that moderate wine consumption is independently associated with better performance on cognitive testsThe subjects (average age 58 and free of stroke) were followed over 7 years during which t

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Viruses that can invade host cells, initiate cancer and then flee from their own trail of destruction could be stopped in their tracks, say researchers writing in the September issue of the Journal of General VirologyScientists at the University of Cambridge have not only provided the first unequi

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  -- A team of researchers from Whitehead Institute, MIT, University of Colorado, and University of Massachusetts have discovered that each cell type in our bodies has a unique genome structure, which is due to a newly discovered mechanism that controls our genesThe protein co

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TORONTO -- A study led by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) reveals a new method of identifying drugs to treat children suffering from fatal cancers for which an effective treatment has not been foundRather than developing a new drug from scratch, which is a complicated and t

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