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A New Type of Cancer Drug Shrinks Hard-to-Treat Tumors

Jyoti Madhusoodanan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:00:00 GMT

New drugs called antibody-drug conjugates help patients with cancers that used to be beyond treatment

AI Program Finds Thousands of Possible Psychedelics. Will They Lead to New Drugs?

Ewen Callaway, Nature magazine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:30:00 GMT

Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively

Lower Drug Costs Are Just a Federal License Away. But They Require Biden Administration Leadership

James Love — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:30:00 GMT

It’s a longstanding government failure to never use federal “march-in” licensing rights to lower drug prices. It’s also a mistake to limit them to only a few cases

The New Year Resolution We Need Is to Avoid Miracle Cures

David Robert Grimes — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:30:00 GMT

Bad diets, stress, impaired sleep and aging can’t be reversed by juicing, healing crystals or influencer-endorsed pills. Don’t buy them

Asthma Drug Still Being Prescribed to Kids Despite Potential Mental Health Risks

Joanna Thompson — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:00:00 GMT

The allergy and asthma drug montelukast, also known as Singulair, can cause psychiatric side effects—and researchers aren’t sure why

When Choosing What Diseases to Develop Drugs For, It All Comes Down to Funding

C. Michael White, The Conversation US — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:00:00 GMT

Prescription drugs and vaccines have revolutionized healthcare, but how do researchers and industry decide what diseases to pursue?

5 Ways Ozempic and Other New Weight-Loss Drugs Have Changed Health

Lauren J. Young — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:00:00 GMT

Ozempic and similar drugs are ushering in a new era of weight management and obesity treatments, and researchers are racing to understand their impact

How Two Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don't Work

Randy Hatton — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:30:00 GMT

A loophole in FDA processes means older drugs such as those in oral decongestants weren’t properly tested. Here’s how we learned the most popular one doesn’t work

New Class of Antibiotics Discovered Using AI

Tanya Lewis — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:00:00 GMT

A deep-learning algorithm helped identify new compounds that are effective against antibiotic-resistant infections in mice, opening the door to AI-guided drug discovery