Dr. Butler answers the question: 'What Is An ACE Inhibitor?' — -- Question: What is an ACE inhibitor, how does it work, and when is it used to treat heart failure? Answer: ACE inhibitors are very ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the impact of a syntenin inhibitor on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) entry. Study: A ...

Most medicines for Alzheimer’s disease improve your symptoms rather than treat the disease itself. A type of drug that’s often prescribed soon after you’re diagnosed is called a cholinesterase ...

Your doctor has recommended expanding your treatment plan for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to include an interleukin 6 (IL-6) inhibitor — a biologic that’s often prescribed when conventional ...

There are many types of treatment available for cancer. One of these is targeted therapy, which uses drugs that are designed to specifically target different aspects of cancer cells. Angiogenesis ...

Since the first US Food and Drug Administration approval of a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor in 2011, the number of these medications available — and their treatment indications — have continued to grow ...

Ruxolitinib cream is the first FDA-approved JAK inhibitor for skin repigmentation in people with vitiligo, paving the way for additional oral and topical JAK inhibitors to treat this autoimmune ...

In the CAPItello-291 trial of capivasertib plus fulvestrant, 73% of patients had already received a CDK4/6 inhibitor. As compared with fulvestrant alone, the combination more than doubled the median ...