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FDA approval announced of Ruconest® for the treatment of acute angioedema attacks in patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE)
Jul 18, 2014
Pharming Group NV and Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., have announced that the Food and Drug Administration has approved RUCONEST® (C1 Esterase Inhibitor [Recombinant]) 50 IU/kg for the treatment... Read More
Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy confers marginal life expectancy benefit
Jul 18, 2014
The choice of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) by women with breast cancer (BC) diagnosed in one breast has recently increased in the US but may confer only a marginal life expectancy... Read More
Early onset prostate cancer a newly identified, more aggressive subtype often linked to genetic mutations
Jul 18, 2014
The number of younger men diagnosed with prostate cancer has increased nearly 6-fold in the last 20 years, and the disease is more likely to be aggressive in these younger men, according to a new... Read More
Improved understanding of melanoma development
Jul 18, 2014
A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows how a genetic defect in a specific hormonal pathway may make people more susceptible to developing melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer. Read More
Decrease in HIV death rates from some causes
Jul 18, 2014
HIV-positive adults in high-income countries face a reduced risk of death from AIDS-related causes, cardiovascular disease and liver disease, compared with a decade ago. Read More
Vulnerable moments for cancer cells' energy production revealed by game theory model
Jul 18, 2014
Cancer's no game, but researchers at Johns Hopkins are borrowing ideas from evolutionary game theory to learn how cells cooperate within a tumor to gather energy. Read More
A method developed for the more exact dosing of heavy ion irradiation in the case of cancer
Jul 18, 2014
Irradiation with heavy ions is suitable in particular for patients suffering from cancer with tumours which are difficult to access, for example in the brain. Read More
Detection rates of early stage breast cancer in older women unchanged despite increase in screening costs
Jul 18, 2014
Medicare spending on breast cancer screening increased substantially between 2001 and 2009 but the detection rates of early stage tumors were unchanged, according to a new study published July 16 in... Read More
Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
Jul 18, 2014
In results recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Saint Louis University scientists have discovered that removal of disordered sections of a protein's structure... Read More
Exploiting gastric vulnerability: how Helicobacter pylori identifies and colonizes sites of small injury in the stomach
Jul 17, 2014
Helicobacter pylori infection promotes stomach ulcers and cancer. How H. pylori initially interacts with and irritates gastric tissue is not well understood. Read More
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