Scientists have identified a series of molecular candidates for those parts of dog allergens that cause immune reactions in people – the first step in developing a vaccine against most causes of dog allergies.

[KI] The discovery that the anaesthetic ketamine can help patients with severe depression has raised hopes of finding new treatment options for the disease.

An international evidence review has found that certain nutritional supplements can increase the effectiveness of antidepressants for people with clinical depression.

With the advent of genomics, researchers are learning that placebo responses are modified by a person's genetics. A new review article explores the many questions that this raises regarding the role of the placebo in both patient care and in drug development.

A non-surgical injection of programmable biomaterial that spontaneously assembles in vivo into a 3-D structure could fight and even help prevent cancer and also infectious disease such as HIV, scientists have demonstrated.

A new breast cancer vaccine is showing promising signs of success in the early stages of a clinical trial. Early evidence suggests the vaccine helped slow the cancer's progression.

Daily doses of aspirin could help reduce the risk of recurring blood clots, researchers say.

Researchers have discovered new vaccine targets that could help in the battle against malaria. Taking a new, large-scale approach to this search, researchers tested a library of proteins from the Plasmodium falciparum parasite with antibodies produced by the immune systems of a group of infected children.