News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 26, 2014
However, patients also experienced significant acute toxicities, including fever, low blood pressure, focal neurological deficits, and delirium.
Ja...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 26, 2014
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Researchers say they’ve discovered “an intimate link” between RUNX genes and Fanconi anemia, a finding that also has implic...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 25, 2014
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The risk of premature menopause among survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) may vary greatly, according to a study of more than 2000 women...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 25, 2014
Plasmodium falciparum
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A semi-automated system may allow healthcare professionals to diagnose malaria infection with more t...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 24, 2014
A recombinant factor VIII (rFVIII) product known as BAX 855 can prevent bleeding in hemophilia A patients, according to Baxter International, the comp...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 23, 2014
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and Margaret Shear
Researchers say they’ve developed a new computational method to predict the function of disease-causing gen...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 22, 2014
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In vitro experiments have revealed new insight into tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) resistance among patients with chronic mye...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 22, 2014
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An analysis of university discoveries licensed to biotechnology firms has revealed early bottlenecks in the drug development pro...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 22, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved apixaban (Eliquis) to treat venous thromboembolism (VTE) and prevent...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 22, 2014
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Researchers say they have developed a pipette that can transfer a single cell at a time.
The device, called the handheld sing...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 21, 2014
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Research Hospital
Monthly blood transfusions can reduce the risk of silent or overt stroke among children with sickle c...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 21, 2014
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A new study suggests the use of novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) has surpassed warfarin use in the last few years, but the cost burden...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 21, 2014
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Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) may be nearly twice as common as we thought, new research suggests.
The study is...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 21, 2014
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued a final draft guidance recommending lenalidomide (Revlimid) as an option ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: August 20, 2014
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is closing its investigation of PLATO, a clinical trial of the antiplatelet agent ticagrelor...
