News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 28, 2014
Credit: University of Ottawa
Heart Institute
VANCOUVER—In a large study, heart surgery patients who received recently donated blood had significan...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 28, 2014
Credit: CDC
A bacterium isolated from a mosquito’s gut could aid the fight against malaria and dengue, according to a study published in PLOS Patho...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 27, 2014
Credit: PLOS ONE
The proteasome inhibitor bortezomib can treat chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD), according to research published in Blood.
T...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 27, 2014
Credit: Robert Emilsson
Researchers have found they can engineer vascular grafts using autologous peripheral blood and successfully transplant them...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 26, 2014
Credit: CDC
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted its final opinion on ponatinib ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 25, 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a recombinant porcine factor VIII (FVIII) product known as Obizur to treat bleeding episodes in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 24, 2014
cancer patient and her father
Credit: Rhoda Baer
Despite having insurance, many US cancer patients may forgo medical care and change their lifesty...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 24, 2014
Credit: Esther Dyson
New research has shown that clinical trials carried out in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the second half of the 20th...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 24, 2014
Two cases of central nervous system (CNS) relapse in patients with primary cardiac lymphoma underline the importance of CNS evaluation in these patien...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 24, 2014
Credit: Andre E.X.
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 23, 2014
chemotherapy
Credit: Rhoda Baer
Many US cancer survivors may be experiencing financial or work-related hardship, a new survey suggests.
Twenty-...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 23, 2014
while another looks on
Credit: NCI
A “co-rounding” partnership between medical oncologists and palliative care specialists has shown improvements ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 23, 2014
Credit: FDA
Scientists have found they can use supercomputers to identify proteins that cause adverse drug reactions.
The team noted that, durin...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 23, 2014
Credit: Rhoda Baer
Searching a health service pricing website prior to receiving medical care can reduce patients’ payments, but it may have negati...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 22, 2014
Credit: William Weinert
SAN DIEGO—Age-related loss of the Y chromosome (LOY) from blood cells is associated with an elevated risk of cancer and mor...
