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«New class of drugs shows promise in treating chronic diarrhea.»

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The ongoing American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in New Orleans is producing a deluge of data — including some promising prospects for a class of next - generation cholesterol drugs that have been slow to take off so far in the U.S. So - called PCSK9 inhibitors have shown tremendous efficacy in lowering LDL - C, or «bad» cholesterol.

Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

The judge told Curry that he showed an extreme lack of judgment in posting the «joke» online, and sentenced him to probation, regular drug tests, and parenting classes to get him back on track.

Six months later, however the council decided to go against its original decision and classify methylamphetamine as a class A drug - something the committee warns proves its lack of coherent criteria, and shows a tendency to respond to media concern.

Blood samples taken from people about to start treatment with citalopram, one of the most widely used SSRIs — a class of antidepressant — showed that those who subsequently improved in response to the drug had about half the levels of miRNA - 1202 as those who failed to respond.

OCA is the first in a new class of drugs, farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonists, and the response of the patients to OCA shows that abnormalities in the system it targets may be critical for this condition.

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

The rationale for using spironolactone - an inexpensive, generic, medication - stems from the pioneering research of Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine, who showed the benefit of this class of drugs in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, and who also served as chair of the TOPCAT Steering Committee.

The results of the study, funded by the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), are published in one of the world's leading medical journals The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and show that adding high doses of ivermectin, an endectocide class of drug, to the antimalarial dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine (DP) had a major and prolonged effect on mosquito mortality.

Vitamin B6 has been shown to have a small effect on hangover in scientific studies, as have prostaglandin inhibitors, a class of drugs that includes aspirin and ibuprofen; for optimum effectiveness these should be taken while you are drinking, not the next morning, though they can also help the morning after.

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, show that a major HDAC still functions in mice even when its enzyme activity is abolished, suggesting that the beneficial effects of HDAC inhibitors may not actually be through inhibiting HDAC activity, and thus warranting the reassessment of the molecular targets of this class of drugs.

It also showed that the public cost of expanding public coverage for high - cost drugs — such as treatments for cancer and rheumatoid arthritis — would be modest and, under most plausible scenarios, would be offset by savings achieved in relatively common drug classes — like treatments for high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

A new class of experimental drug - like small molecules is showing great promise in targeting a brain enzyme to prevent early memory loss in Alzheimer's disease, according to Northwestern Medicine ® research.

However a new class of drugs known as «immunocheckpoint regulators» have shown huge potential, Soria says.

Previous studies have shown a benefit in adding a second antiplatelet drug like ticagrelor, from a class called P2Y12 inhibitors, but they investigated the additional therapy for only a year, leaving unanswered the question of whether patients would benefit from continuing this treatment longer.

Clinical trials with the drugs to date have shown that nearly half of patients with lung cancers eventually develop resistance to this class of drugs for reasons that have been unclear.

The study, led by a team in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, is the first of its kind to show these results from an exon - skipping drug — a class of therapeutics that allows cells to skip over missing parts of the gene and produce protein naturally.

This has been supported by studies showing a rapid response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a widely used class of antidepressant drugs.

A new class of drugs under development to treat depression has shown some success by targeting brain cells» ability to respond to the chemical messenger glutamate.

A new class of drugs has shown promise for treating the bacteria that cause legionnaires» disease, a potentially fatal lung infection.

A new class of drugs for blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma is showing promise.

This candidate new drug, a first - in - its - class, shows activity against a broad range of tumor types in mice and appears safe at this stage.»

The discovery builds on research showing that a promising class of new drugs for BRCA2 linked breast cancers — known as PARP inhibitors ** — may also be effective in men who have developed prostate cancer due to a BRCA2 alteration.

He has been studying a new class of drugs that have shown great promise in the cancer arena.

(Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - Toronto)- A pilot study of a class of drugs used to treat hepatitis and some forms of multiple sclerosis has been shown for the first time to ease symptoms of Ebola patients, while also increasing their survival.

The study also showed that, in contrast to several cancer drugs that have been documented to cause cardiac toxicity, BRD4 inhibitors may be a class of anti-cancer therapeutics that has protective effects in the human heart.

Although this class of compounds has shown efficacy in a variety of cancers, interest in developing new topoisomerase I inhibitors, indenoisoquinolines, are currently being evaluated in human patients as agents with improved drug stability and measurable blood levels.

While the entire class of drugs appears vulnerable to resistance, not every product has shown reduced efficacy.

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