Breast cancer: a new treatment in the hereditary form
Olaparib, an oral treatment already used in ovarian cancer, has just been authorized in the United States for breast cancers ...
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Lung cancer: reduced access to combination therapy shortens life expectancy
The results of a recent study show that the obstacles that American patients face in receiving validated first-line treatment for ...
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HIV: soon a weekly treatment to improve adherence
American researchers have developed a capsule capable of slowly releasing a combination of antiretroviral drugs over a week. Progress for ...
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High blood pressure: the risk of cardiovascular disease reduced to 140 mm Hg systolic
To be effective in preventing cardiovascular disease and related deaths, treatment of systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or ...
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Modern treatments for epilepsy would not be more effective than the old ones
The number of drugs for epilepsy has increased significantly in recent years. But the effectiveness of the treatments has not ...
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Omalizumab effectively fights several food allergies
Despite advances in single-food desensitizing oral immunotherapy, there is little evidence for the effectiveness of treating people with multiple food ...
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Hemophilia A: two new treatments will radically improve the lives of patients
Two major therapeutic breakthroughs in hemophilia A were presented at the American Congress of Hematology, ASH 2017. They will profoundly ...
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Fibromyalgia, almost indifferent to doctors when there is something new
"Fibro Myalgia" means pain in muscle fibers, and that's what it is: pain, which gradually becomes general, and intense fatigue. ...
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Being overweight worsens the prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis and interferes with its treatment
Being overweight and obese may make it difficult to achieve remission in an autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis, according to ...
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Resistance to HIV treatment is on the rise worldwide
A large Lancet study testifies to the increase in the frequency of HIV resistance to first-line antiretroviral therapy, especially in ...
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AIDS, new avenues to cure it
A bone marrow transplant in a treated HIV-positive person has significantly reduced the reservoir of the HIV virus and achieved ...
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A new minute treatment for back pain
In lumbosciatica due to a herniated disc resistant to medical treatment, a new treatment by pulsed radiofrequency, guided by imaging, ...
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Atopic eczema: better understood, it will soon be better treated
By better analyzing the multiple causes of atopic eczema, researchers have developed new treatments in recent years. More targeted, they ...
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Imaginary voices and faces to fight schizophrenia hallucinations
One percent of the French population suffers from schizophrenia, a split personality. The most famous psychiatric disease, but also the ...
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Epilepsy: a food supplement, it’s possible!
British researchers carried out tests on rats and mice. They found that glucosamine, a dietary supplement, would calm the hyperexcitability ...
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High blood pressure: questioning the goals
An American study calls into question the goals of treatment for high blood pressure. She recommends higher targets than the ...
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Osteoporosis, more or less effective drugs
A recent study compared the effectiveness against fractures of 2 drugs in women with severe osteoporosis.No clinical trial has compared ...
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Breast cancer can benefit from hormone therapy for a long time
Hormone-sensitive breast cancer can come back for a long time after stopping hormone therapy, a new study shows. Certain criteria ...
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Chronic pain: diagnostic and therapeutic revolution
Paradigm shift: a team has just discovered that autoimmunity targeting small nerve fibers can cause chronic pain. Immunoglobulin injections improve ...
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The 10 essential things to know about bronchiolitis
The bronchiolitis season has started. Like every winter, but always with the same concerns. Gravity? emergency? Processing? Physiotherapist? 10 essentials ...
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Hip fractures: medical leave is not good
Women who stop bisphosphonate treatment for osteoporosis are at greater risk of hip fracture and this risk increases with the ...
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Record negotiations to end Hepatitis C
For months, if the media have been inundated with information on hepatitis C, it is more on the “security hole” ...
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Anti-baldness treatment would promote depression
The National Medicines Safety Agency warns against the side effects of a finasteride drug prescribed to treat baldness.While some men ...
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Alzheimer’s: a new therapeutic option
A Canadian research center has made an important discovery for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The early declines in the ...
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Cancer: patients testify in a film
For the first time, patients, caregivers and researchers testify in a documentary on the difficulties encountered in following chronic anti-cancer ...
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Hepatitis C: “set up universal screening”
INTERVIEW. While the eradication of hepatitis C is within reach, hepatologists are calling for the establishment of systematic screening in ...
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Asthma: a more effective plant than salbutamol
German researchers have extracted an active ingredient from the leaves of a common plant, crenellated ardisia. It would be more ...
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Cancer: study assesses the real cost of drugs
The treatments would be much less expensive to develop than what the laboratories say. The selling prices would thus be ...
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AIDS: towards less treatment for HIV
Antiretrovirals have revolutionized the approach to AIDS, which no longer kills people who are on treatment. But research continues to ...
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AMD: a promising treatment
For the first time, a study reports the effectiveness of a treatment in reducing the progression of AMD, an incurable ...
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