Industry News
New test detects toxic prions in blood
Jun 12, 2014
The first cases of Mad Cow disease in humans (properly called variant Creutzfeld Jakob Disease, or vCJD) occurred in the late 1990s and are thought to be the consequence of eating contaminated beef... Read More
Paradigm shift in new short-term, highly targeted leukaemia therapy
Jun 12, 2014
Researchers from the University of Adelaide's Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) have established a new, short-term... Read More
New research could provide key to overcoming resistance with HER2 targeted breast and gastric cancer treatments
Jun 12, 2014
Scientists from the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin have made a significant discovery of a new biomarker which may help overcome resistance to newer and more... Read More
EKOS initiates a pivotal new study in patients with chronic Deep Vein Thrombosis and Post-Thrombotic Syndrome
Jun 12, 2014
EKOS Corporation, a BTG International group company, has announced the start of patient enrollment for the ACCelerated ThrombolySiS for Post-Thrombotic Syndrome using the EKOS® System (ACCESS... Read More
A reduction in diagnosis of late-stage breast cancers due to mammography
Jun 12, 2014
In the last 30 years, since mammography was introduced, late-stage breast cancer incidence has decreased by 37 percent, a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds. Read More
Venom variation in closely related snake species
Jun 12, 2014
Specialist researchers from LSTM have identified the diverse mechanisms by which variations in venom occur in related snake species and the significant differences in venom pathology that occur as a... Read More
Recommendations address long-term needs of prostate cancer survivors
Jun 12, 2014
New American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care guidelines outline post-treatment clinical follow-up care for the myriad of long-term and late effects an estimated 2. Read More
Discovery offers insights for the creation of better, more targeted therapies for various forms of cancer
Jun 12, 2014
Twelve years ago, UNC School of Medicine researcher Brian Strahl, PhD, found that a protein called Set2 plays a role in how yeast genes are expressed - specifically how DNA gets transcribed into... Read More
Childhood cancer survivors hospitalized frequently years after cancer treatment
Jun 12, 2014
Survivors of childhood cancers were hospitalized more often and for longer durations because of blood disorders and other problems, many years after cancer treatment was completed, compared with... Read More
Low cholesterol linked with worse survival in patients with kidney cancer
Jun 12, 2014
People are often told to reduce their cholesterol to improve their heart health, but new research suggests that low cholesterol may increase kidney cancer patients' risk of dying from their disease. Read More
Previous Page Next Page