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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
For high blood pressure (hypertension), a new class of drug, called a vasopeptidase blocker (inhibitor), has been developed. It decreases blood pressure by simultaneously dilating the peripheral arteries and increasing the body's loss of salt.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.