Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that the randomized Phase 2 trial [PALOMA-1] of palbociclib achieved its primary endpoint by demonstrating a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival ...
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Adoption of new guidelines recommending screening mammography every two years for women ages 50 to 74 would result in breast cancer screening that is equally effective, while saving the United States $4.3 billion a year in health care ...
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Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled in the previous 30 years and researchers are asking the important question of how this epidemic will impact the future health of these obese children and public health in general. A University of ...
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EOS imaging (Paris:EOSI) (NYSE Euronext, FR0011191766 - EOSI), the pioneer in orthopaedic 2D/3D imaging, today announced the installation of the EOS imaging system at Shriners Hospitals for Children® in Philadelphia. This fourth ...
If Nuvilex can use the Cell-in-a-Box technology to develop marijuana-based treatments for cancer with the same success it has seen in two independent clinical trials to develop a treatment for advanced inoperable pancreatic cancer, then the ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: New Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign Targets Youth Ruined teeth and damaged skin are among the images being used in a new U.S. government ...
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Chi-Huey Wong,professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute(TSRI),has won the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering contributions to the synthesis of compounds vitally important to biology and medicine. Sometimes ...
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Cantrell Drug Company today announced amendment of its U.S.Food and Drug Administration(FDA)registration to include the new 503B"compounding outsourcing facility"designation established under the recently passed Drug Quality and Security ...
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CROWN POINT,Ind.,Jan.23(UPI)--Noted oncologists call for a single-payer U.S.healthcare system--similar to Canada--because the current system is hurting cancer patients. Dr.Ray Drasga,a longtime community-based oncologist who founded a ...
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Male cancer survivors evaluated in a long-term study cut their risk of dying in half by exercising and burning 2,500 calories a week, U.S. researchers say. Study co-author Kathleen Y. Wolin of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of ...
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The Worldwide Innovative Network(WIN)Consortium in personalized cancer medicine is proud to announce that AstraZeneca,DKFZ and EORTC have joined the Consortium.WIN is a unique global network of leading academics,industries,payors and ...
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Refinements made to near-infrared spectroscopy during clinical MRI Dartmouth engineers and radiologists are developing new approaches for an emerging technique in diagnostic imaging for breast cancer-MRI with near-infrared ...
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers in Canada has found a way around the problem of large nanostructures that are used to combat tumors,remaining in the body after they are no longer needed.In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
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Nuvilex has announced that its subsidiary, Medical Marijuana Sciences, plans to use the proprietary cellulose-based live-cell encapsulation technology known as Cell-in-a-Box to develop treatments for serious and deadly forms of cancer. ...
A new study has found that adolescents and young adults undergoing cancer treatment gain coping skills and resilience-related outcomes when they participate in a therapeutic music process that includes writing song lyrics and producing ...