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Grain-sized robot could change how doctors deliver drugs

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Scientists in Switzerland have built a robot as small as a grain of sand. Surgeons control it with magnets and move it through blood vessels to place medicine exactly where it is needed. Bradley J. Nelson, an author of the paper in Science and a professor of robotics at ETH Zurich, said …

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Fast-growing cancer could be slowed by common blood pressure drug, research shows

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Scientists studying an existing blood pressure drug called hydralazine accidentally discovered that it could potentially fight cancer. Hydralazine has been used to treat high blood pressure since the 1950s, but until now it’s been unclear exactly how it works. “It came from a ‘pre-target’ era of drug discovery, when researchers relied on …

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Brain cancer patients who received this pain medication lived longer, study shows

Glioblastoma, the most aggressive and deadly type of brain cancer, is known to have a very poor prognosis — but a new study suggests that a pain-relieving drug could extend survival. Researchers at Mass General Brigham have found that an already-approved medication — a pain reliever and anti-seizure medication called gabapentin — has been linked to improved survival in patients …

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