News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 2, 2016
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Researchers say they have discovered a way to predict which children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are at the highest...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 1, 2016
Researchers have created a computer model that shows how tiny slits in the spleen prevent old, diseased, or misshapen red blood cells from re-entering...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 1, 2016
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Results of a phase 1 study suggest that chimeric antigen receptor T cells specific for the κ light chain (κ.CAR T cells) ca...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 1, 2016
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Research published in PLOS Pathogens suggests that emetine, a drug once used to treat amebiasis and induce vomiting in cases of ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 1, 2016
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Health Canada has granted conditional approval, or a Notice of Compliance with Conditions (NOC/c), for daratumumab (Darza...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 30, 2016
Results of a phase 2 trial suggest the multikinase inhibitor midostaurin can repair organ damage in patients with advanced systemic mastocytosis (SM)....
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 30, 2016
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The risk of death from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) may be influenced by where a patient lives, according to a study published ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 30, 2016
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough therapy designation for ibrutinib (Imbruvica), a Bruto...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 30, 2016
The mTOR inhibitor everolimus may provide an additional benefit when combined with R-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 29, 2016
Small studies have suggested that early cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation may protect against leukemia relapse and even death after hematopoietic ste...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 29, 2016
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Results of a large, retrospective study suggest that neurological diseases are not transmitted via blood transfusion.
Pr...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 29, 2016
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 29, 2016
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Publication agreements between industry and academic investigators involved in clinical trials are not ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 28, 2016
Researchers say they have performed the first large-scale analysis of the chromatin landscape in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
And, in doing ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: June 28, 2016
among uninfected cells (blue)
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A cytotoxic T-lymphocyte product that targets Epstein-Barr virus (EBV-...