Prescription drug Bumetanide improves symptoms of autism by targeting brain’s chemical messengers

Monday, January 27, 2020 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

Bumetanide – a prescription drug for oedema (the build-up of fluid in the body) – improves some of the symptoms in young children with autism spectrum disorders and has no significant side effects, according to a new study from researchers in China and the UK. Published today in Translational Psychiatry, the study demonstrates for the first […]

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