The diseases … the cures and treatments …

Lots of medical digs tonight for the night crew

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Aussies develop new class of anti-cancer drugs - no side effects, and maybe no recurrence?

New anti-cancer drugs put cancers to sleep—permanently

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-anti-cancer-drugs-cancers-sleeppermanently.html

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Are bipolar disorder and/or severe depression caused by the human herpesvirus HHV-6?

Surprise finding in neurons

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-neurons.html

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New way to treat infectious diseases? Dietary iron supplementation overcomes a normally lethal bacterial infection and results in later generations of those bacteria being less virulent

Scientists find that common dietary elements cure lethal infections, eliminating the need for antibiotics

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-scientists-common-dietary-elements-lethal.html

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Can lecithin, a harmless dietary supplement, treat an incurable illness?

Possible treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease discovered

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-treatment-charcot-marie-tooth-disease.html

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A class of drugs already approved for use in people with certain types of blood cancer may be useful in treating Alzheimer's by fixing pH imbalance

pH imbalance in brain cells may contribute to Alzheimer's disease

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-ph-imbalance-brain-cells-contribute.html

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Eating lots of different foods at same meal can make you fat - just eat a few and not too much of them. Take that, Moochelle!

A diverse diet may not be the healthiest one

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-diverse-diet-healthiest.html