"New drug may help aggressive prostate cancer: study"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 23 Jul 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

A new prostate cancer drug could extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of the...
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"Antihistamine improves Alzheimer's symptoms"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 17 Jul 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

An allergy drug that's been used in Russia since the 1980s is showing promise in the treatment of...
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"Vitamin D improves colon cancer survival rates"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 19 Jun 2022

Category: Other

Rating: (1 star)

Colon cancer patients who have high levels of vitamin D in their blood have a reduced risk of death...
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"Patch vaccine holds off traveller's diarrhea: study"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 11 Jun 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

Patients who took a new vaccine against traveller's diarrhea were significantly less likely to...
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"New bird flu vaccine looks promising"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 12 Jun 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

The first experimental bird flu vaccine made from lab-grown cells instead of chicken eggs shows...
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"Antioxidants may protect cancer tumours, report says"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 29 May 2022

Category: Other

Rating: (½ star)

A new report suggests that cancer patients should not take antioxidants because they appear to...
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"Drug fights breast cancer spread: doctors"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 31 May 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3½ stars)

A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the...
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"Canadian-born doctor's vaccine fights brain cancer"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 04 May 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

It's a type of aggressive and incurable brain cancer that strikes about 20,000 people a year, but a...
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"Pain medications may ward off Parkinson's"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 05 Nov 2021

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

Taking over-the-counter pain medicines such as ibuprofen or aspirin may reduce the risk of...
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"Aspirin may help prevent asthma in adults"

Source: CTV.CA

Published: 15 Jan 2022

Category: Other

Rating: (3 stars)

Aspirin is known to prevent heart attacks but now researchers think it may also help adults ward...
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