1930s drug slows tumor growth

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 11/04/2009 - 23:00

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes.

A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer.


 

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