News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 29, 2014
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Two studies comparing mosquito genomes have begun to provide answers to a century-old mystery: why only some Anopheles mosqui...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 28, 2014
A newly developed injectable material can prevent blood loss from serious internal injuries, according to research published in ACS Nano.
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 27, 2014
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New research suggests that 20% of recent drug approvals occurred without pharmaceutical companies and the US Food and Drug Administrati...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 26, 2014
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A large, international study has revealed sizable differences in cancer survival rates between countries.
In particular, in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 26, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough therapy designation for JCAR015, a chimeric antigen rece...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 26, 2014
in the bone marrow
Researchers say they have identified a protein that plays a key role in regulating hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) engraftment.
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 26, 2014
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved marketing of ponatinib (Iclusig) in Australia.
The drug is now approved to treat adults wit...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 25, 2014
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In a phase 2 study, the anticancer quinolone derivative vosaroxin produced responses in poor-risk, elderly patients with previously unt...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 25, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation for CCX168, an oral inhibitor targeting the r...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 25, 2014
Swissmedic, the regulatory authority for Switzerland, has granted
approval for lenalidomide (Revlimid) to treat patients with
relapsed or refractory...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 25, 2014
and a normal one
Credit: Betty Pace
Aggressive public health campaigns are needed to educate people in sub-Saharan Africa about sickle cell diseas...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 24, 2014
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A new study indicates that individuals exposed to hookah smoke have an increase in the uptake of benzene, a substance linked ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 24, 2014
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Researchers say they’ve created the largest-scale map of direct interactions between proteins encoded by the human gen...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 23, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a clinical protocol to make the INTERCEPT Blood System available t...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: November 22, 2014
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A newly identified class of compounds recognize a key target in the Ras signaling pathway and could therefore prove useful in treating ...
