About 11% of Australians will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their life.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com
This year, International Women’s Day coincides with Endometriosis Awareness Month. Endometriosis is a common and painful gynecological disease that impacts 14% of women and girls across the world—currently, there is no long-term cure. Finding new […]
Treatments that target a fragment of the mutant protein that causes Huntington’s disease might be more effective than treatments—now in clinical trials—that target the whole protein but leave this fragment intact, a new study in […]
Researchers at Monash University, together with a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals and medication safety experts, have developed the first national consensus list of medicines with a high risk of harm in Australian residential […]
Oral semaglutide (a GLP-1 pill) is not effective at slowing progression in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease, finds the first large Phase III randomized controlled trials on the topic published in The Lancet.This article was […]
Around 70,000 people die each year from infections with the hepatitis E virus. There is currently neither a vaccine nor a specific drug against this virus. This could change with the identification of bemnifosbuvir as […]
A deluge of weight-loss drugs is set to transform the global fight against obesity as India prepares to unleash low-cost generic versions of injections like Ozempic after a key patent expired Friday.This article was originally […]
A clotbusting drug commonly used to treat ischemic stroke interacts negatively with a promising anti-inflammatory treatment (anakinra), underscoring the need to test new stroke therapies alongside existing standard care. According to The University of Manchester–led […]
Findings from two early clinical studies suggest a new dual-action antimalarial drug candidate is well tolerated in humans. The first-in-class clinical candidate, MK7602, is being developed by WEHI and global biopharmaceutical company MSD (tradename of […]
There is an urgent need for new and more effective treatments for depression. The results of a recent study show that psilocybin, an active compound found in certain mushrooms, can have a significant antidepressant effect. […]
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