News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 4, 2014
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Hospira, Inc., has announced a medical device correction for the GemStar Docking Station (list number 13075), used in conjunction with ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 3, 2014
of chemotherapy drugs
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Baxter Healthcare Corporation is recalling some of its infusion pumps after receiving more than 3500 re...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 2, 2014
Credit: Bill Branson
The antitumor agent bleomycin can treat a range of cancers, but its disease-fighting properties have been poorly understood.
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 2, 2014
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Understanding the interaction between 2 genes may be the key to better treatment of Fanconi anemia, according to a paper pu...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 2, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Complete Response Letter to The Medicines Company regarding its new ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 2, 2014
Chromatin conformation can guide the classification of leukemia, according to research published in Genome Biology.
Investigators mapped the confor...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 1, 2014
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New statistics suggest 10-year survival rates for cancer patients in England and Wales have more than doubled over a 40-year period.
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 1, 2014
in the bone marrow
The protein beta-catenin plays a critical role in promoting the recovery of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) after exposure to ra...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 1, 2014
In response to the ongoing shortage of normal saline (0.9% sodium chloride injection), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing a company...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: May 1, 2014
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Chemists say they have overcome one of the main obstacles in creating effective lab-on-a-chip devices, and the device they’ve in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 30, 2014
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News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 30, 2014
Cancer patients with higher levels of vitamin D at diagnosis tend to have better outcomes than patients who are vitamin D-deficient, a meta-analysis s...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 30, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an oral suspension of mercaptopurine (Purixan), a drug used in combinat...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 30, 2014
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New research indicates that loss of the Y chromosome in the peripheral blood may be associated with decreased survival—both high...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: April 29, 2014
Andrei Thomas Tikhonenko
Investigators have uncovered a novel role for the tumor suppressor p53, according to a paper published in Nature Cell Biol...
