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Pre-clinical study finds, with new approach, tumors shrink with little or no harm to normal cells
Nov 12, 2014
Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center have found a way to defeat one of the most tantalizing yet elusive target proteins in cancer cells - employing a... Read More
Research study recommends five steps for businesses and Americans to benefit from workplace disease prevention programs
Nov 12, 2014
As Americans face growing health and financial burdens from preventable, non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers, a new study demonstrates employers... Read More
News from Annals of Family Medicine: November/December 2014
Nov 12, 2014
Two Techniques Make Swallowing Pills EasierWith previous research showing more than half of people experience swallowing difficulties when taking tablets or capsules, researchers in Germany... Read More
A vaccine directed against tumor blood vessels suppress tumor growth and metastasis
Nov 12, 2014
In a new study published in the scientific journal Oncotarget researchers from Uppsala University show that a therapeutic vaccine directed against tumor vessels can reduce tumor burden and suppress... Read More
Discovery may advance breast cancer treatment
Nov 12, 2014
Researchers led by Dr. Debra Auguste, associate professor, biomedical engineering, in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, have identified a molecule that could lead to... Read More
Use of hospice care by Medicare patients associated with lower rate of hospitalization, ICU admission, invasive procedures and costs
Nov 11, 2014
Medicare patients with poor prognosis cancers who received hospice care had significantly lower rates of hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and invasive procedures at the end... Read More
Gene expression assay of peripheral blood appears to identify patients at risk of acute rejection of kidney transplant
Nov 11, 2014
Acute rejection after kidney transplantation occurs in about 15%-20% of patients despite immunosuppressive therapy. Read More
US skin cancer costs rise from 2002 through 2011
Nov 11, 2014
The costs associated with skin cancer increased five times as fast as treatments for other cancers between 2002 and 2011, according to a CDC study published online in the American Journal of... Read More
New treatment for cervical cancer developed using anti-alcohol drug
Nov 11, 2014
Researchers have found using an anti-alcoholism drug in a vaginal ring could reduce the side effects experienced by cervical cancer patients during treatment. Read More
Actimab-A Phase I/II trial interim data demonstrate extension of overall survival to 9.1 months in elderly secondary acute myeloid leukemia
Nov 11, 2014
Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative targeted payload immunotherapeutics for the treatment of advanced cancers, today announced positive interim data... Read More
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