News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 16, 2014
patient and her father
Credit: Rhoda Baer
Feeling as though they play an active role in their treatment decisions increases satisfaction among can...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 16, 2014
Anemic cancer patients in the UK may soon have 6 erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) available through the National Health Service.
The Nation...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 15, 2014
with a cancer patient
NCI/Mathews Media Group
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has issued 3 practice guidelines for preventing and...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 15, 2014
and a normal one
Betty Pace
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new quality standard to improve care...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 15, 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved marketing of an expandable, multi-sponge wound dressing to control bleeding from certain types ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 14, 2014
used for T-cell force research,
with 3 glass micropipettes
shown under green light.
Georgia Tech/Rob Felt
Investigators say they’ve discovered h...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 13, 2014
Logan Tuttle
Factors other than cancer treatment or chronic health conditions can influence the risk of death among survivors of childhood cancers,...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 12, 2014
The Scripps Research Institute
Researchers have identified a protein that regulates cells’ volume to keep them from swelling excessively, according...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 11, 2014
Daniel Gay
A new system allows for accurate blood group typing at the DNA level, on a large scale and at a relatively low cost, according to a pape...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 11, 2014
the clotting power of KOD
Hartgerink Lab/Rice University
Researchers have synthesized a collagen mimetic that may help wounds heal by directing th...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 11, 2014
Associated Press
The scientist who led the research on STAP cells (stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cells) has apologized for the er...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 10, 2014
Credit: Bjorn Onfelt/Dan Davis
New research provides additional insight into how natural killer (NK) cells eliminate abnormal hematopoietic cells.
...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 10, 2014
Credit: Rhoda Baer
An experimental compound called TTT-3002 could be “one of the most potent FLT3 inhibitors to date,” according to researchers.
...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 10, 2014
Credit: NIH
In an effort to make the US healthcare system more transparent, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released data on...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 9, 2014
Credit: Andre E.X.
