US scientists have found a key mechanism in the brain that helps explain why cocaine is so addictive and could pave the way towards a potential cure, a study showed Thursday. Researchers revealed how the highly-addictive drug brings on changes in the brain through a process which influences the expression of genes without changing the brain's gene sequence. These ...

Part of the rising cost of health care is the price of prescription medicine, which can be just pennies a pill for a generic drug to hundreds of dollars per pill for some of the most expensive medications. But within that price range of different kinds of medicine are often significant ...

BUILDING MUSCLES WITH GENES

Fixing heart ailments by delivering healthful genes to the organ remains the great, unrealized hope of cardiovascular treatment. But Celladon in La Jolla, Calif., seems to have come a step closer. It reported on the progress of the first nine human subjects to be treated with Mydicar, a "gene therapy" for heart failure, which is caused ...

There's new evidence that people with an increased cardiovascular risk need to be careful when using over-the-counter pain medication. A team lead by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has found that ibuprofen increases the risk for osteoarthritis patients already prone to a heart attack. The researchers compared combination treatments of low-dose aspirin with the drugs ibuprofen, naproxen ...