News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 22, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the leukocyte growth factor Nivestym™ (filgrastim-aafi), a biosimilar to Neupogen (filgrastim)....
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 21, 2018
A new tool can help patients with myelofibrosis (MF) decide when to pursue stem cell transplant (SCT), according to the MPN Research Foundation.
Th...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 20, 2018
A review of data from more than 19 million people indicates that diabetes significantly raises a person’s risk of developing cancer.
When researche...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 19, 2018
Results of a phase 3 trial showed that L-glutamine can reduce complications of sickle cell disease (SCD).
SCD patients who received pharmaceutical-...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 19, 2018
Researchers believe they have solved the mystery of how acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) infiltrates the central nervous system (CNS).
Experiment...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2018
New research suggests dasatinib could treat certain patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) or acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
The stud...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to NiCord for hematopoietic stem cell transplant. NiCord is created b...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to dilanubicel (NLA101) for the reduction of morbidity and mortality ass...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2018
New research helps explain enasidenib resistance among patients with IDH2-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Researchers found that leukemic cell...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2018
Researchers are questioning the clinical usefulness of the serum free light chain assay (SFLCA) for patients with monoclonal gammopathies.
The inve...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2018
An RNA replicon-based vaccine can fight malaria infection in mice, according to research published in Nature Communications.
The vaccine targets a ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 16, 2018
Turbulence promotes large-scale production of functional platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), according to research published...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 12, 2018
A new study has revealed a previously unknown link between gastrointestinal flora and transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI).
“We observed t...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 12, 2018
Preclinical research has revealed a potential therapeutic target for MLL-rearranged acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
The target—F-box protein S-phase ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 12, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released several draft guidance documents on gene therapy.
Three are disease-specific guidances—for h...
