News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 16, 2014
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Making it more difficult for patients to sue physicians for medical malpractice may not reduce the amount of “defensive medicine” physi...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 16, 2014
Experiments in a soil-dwelling amoeba have provided insight that could help us treat cancers characterized by PTEN mutations, researchers have reporte...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 16, 2014
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The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued a preliminary draft guidance rejecting the use of pomalido...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 15, 2014
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BOSTON—Having dependent children may motivate advanced cancer patients to pursue more aggressive treatment, a pilot study i...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 15, 2014
The protein kinases Cdk4 and Cdk6 may determine the incidence and aggressiveness of leukemia, according to preclinical research.
The study showed t...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 15, 2014
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 15, 2014
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A new drug can safely target the NF-κB pathway in multiple myeloma (MM), according to research published in Cancer Cell.
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 14, 2014
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An anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy can elicit complete responses (CRs) in heavily pretreated patie...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 13, 2014
to form a blood clot
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Researchers have developed a coating that can prevent blood and bacteria from adhering to the surface of...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 12, 2014
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An early warning and response system can predict a patient’s likelihood of developing sepsis, according to research published in the Jo...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 11, 2014
Palonosetron prevents nausea and vomiting in the acute phase—within the first 24 hours of chemotherapy initiation.
Netupitant prevents nausea and v...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 10, 2014
During their approximately 100-day lifespan in the bloodstream, red blood cells (RBCs) lose membrane surface area, volume, and hemoglobin content.
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 10, 2014
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A fundamental theory about how the thymus “educates” T cells appears to be wrong, according to research published in Nature Communica...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 10, 2014
Staphylococcus infection
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New research suggests the antibiotic vancomycin is still effective in treating Staphylococcus aureus...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: October 10, 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved bortezomib (Velcade) for use in previously untreated patients with mantle cell
lymphoma (MCL)....
