{"id":75449,"date":"2018-01-21T02:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-breakthrough-drug-canakinumab-slashes-heart-attack-and-cancer-in-clinical-trial"},"modified":"2018-01-21T02:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:42:39","slug":"new-breakthrough-drug-canakinumab-slashes-heart-attack-and-cancer-in-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-breakthrough-drug-canakinumab-slashes-heart-attack-and-cancer-in-clinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"New Breakthrough Drug Canakinumab Slashes Heart Attack and Cancer in Clinical Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-breakthrough-drug-canakinumab-slashes-heart-attack-and-cancer-in-clinical-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In last years CANTOS trial, the anti-inflammatory drug Canakinumab reduced heart attacks 25% and cancer by 50%.<\/p>\n<p>(Part of the look back at the best of 2017) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: The drug Canakinumab reduced heart attacks by 25% and cancer by 50% by reducing <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/inflammaging-age-related-chronic-inflammation-causes-disease-premature-aging\/\">chronic inflammation,<\/a> according to the authors of the recent CANTOS trial. [This report was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a> on Aug 27, 2017, and has been updated. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman]<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In late August, researchers announced that they had found a breakthrough drug which reduces heart attack risk by one-fourth while cutting the risk of cancer in half. The researchers announced that the new medicine can prevent tens of thousands of deaths from heart attack and cancer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Biggest Breakthrough Since Statins<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Harvard researchers said the discovery promises to \u201cusher in a new era\u201d of treatment. Presenting their findings at one of the largest gatherings of heart experts, doctors hail the new drug as the \u201cbiggest breakthrough since statins.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-breakthrough-drug-canakinumab-slashes-heart-attack-and-cancer-in-clinical-trial\">Continue reading \u201cNew Breakthrough Drug Canakinumab Slashes Heart Attack and Cancer in Clinical Trial\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last years CANTOS trial, the anti-inflammatory drug Canakinumab reduced heart attacks 25% and cancer by 50%. (Part of the look back at the best of 2017) Summary: The drug Canakinumab reduced heart attacks by 25% and cancer by 50% by reducing chronic inflammation, according to the authors of the recent CANTOS trial. [This report [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}