News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 24, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending a change to the policy that prevents men who have sex with men (M...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 23, 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the intravenous administration of asparaginase Erwinia chrysanthemi (Erwinaze).
The product ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 23, 2014
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of Georgia
A new study shows that, although age-adjusted D-dimer testing produces fewer false-positive results than conven...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 22, 2014
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) is recommending approval of continuous oral treatment with lenal...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 21, 2014
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of bortezomib (Velcade) in combinat...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 20, 2014
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After months of trying, Haruko Obokata, PhD, and a team of researchers at her institution, RIKEN, have failed to produce s...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 19, 2014
It is used to inactivate viruses, bacteria, spirochetes, parasites, and leukocytes in apheresis platelet components.
This can reduce the risk of tr...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 19, 2014
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The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a final guidance recommending the anticoagulant dabigat...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 19, 2014
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Two studies shed new light on the prevalence of transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and transfusion-associated cir...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 18, 2014
Researchers say they’ve identified novel prognostic markers for older patients with cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia (CN-AML).
The tea...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 18, 2014
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Long-term mortality is not affected by the amount of blood a patient receives following surgery, according to research publish...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 17, 2014
The system inactivates pathogens through a photochemical process involving controlled exposure to ultraviolet light and the chemical amotosalen.
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 17, 2014
A study of lymphoma patients receiving R-CHOP chemotherapy showed that use of the antiviral drug entecavir resulted in a lower incidence of hepatitis ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 17, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved marketing of the EnLite Neonatal TREC Kit, the first screening test ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: December 16, 2014
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and Eliza Hall Institute
of Medical Research
Donald Metcalf, MD, an Australian researcher who has been called “the f...
