Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise in Treating Kidney Disease
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 07:49
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United States, Yale University researchers report.