May 16, 2012
An editorial in today’s Science Translational Medicine about traumatic brain injuries, genetics and the long-term risks for degenerative brain disease caught our eye. According to the authors, the suicide of former star NFL linebacker Junior Seau, a death that mirrored other suicides of former NFL [...]
September 25, 2008
Researchers are sometimes frustrated when a prospective drug proves effective in some patients, but not enough to justify giving it to everyone who has the condition it is intended to treat. The beta-blocker drug bucindolol met that fate in 2001 when it was originally tested as a treatment for heart [...]
