News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 18, 2014
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Researchers say they’ve discovered how a class of diabetes drugs known as biguanides exerts anticancer properties in certain malignanc...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 18, 2014
Heiser & Robert Ackland
Multiple mutations drive the development of angiosarcoma, according to a study published in Nature Genetics.
Researc...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 18, 2014
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The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has asked the manufacturer of eculizumab (Soliris) to explai...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 17, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved apixaban (Eliquis) as prophylaxis for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which may lead...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 16, 2014
(right) and a normal one
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The American Thoracic Society has developed clinical practice guidelines to help clinicians identify a...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 15, 2014
generated from STAP cells
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The Japanese research institute RIKEN has released early results of its investigation into allega...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 14, 2014
Scientists have created a mouse that expresses a fluorescing biosensor in every cell of its body, allowing diseased cells and drugs to be tracked and ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 14, 2014
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Researchers have found evidence suggesting that perivascular mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are a reservoir of human cytome...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 14, 2014
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Preclinical research in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has pointed to a relationship between cell adherence and treatment resi...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 13, 2014
of General Medical Sciences
There are significant challenges to overcome before whole-genome sequencing can be routinely used in the clinic, resear...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 13, 2014
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Mutations in the gene PTPN1 may drive the development of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL), ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 13, 2014
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The stress and lifestyle changes mothers experience after a child’s leukemia diagnosis do not disappear once the disease is in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 13, 2014
The hold temporarily suspends all ongoing clinical trials of imetelstat sponsored by the drug’s maker, Geron Corporation.
It’s possible that other ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 12, 2014
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New research has revealed discrepancies between information posted on the ClinicalTrials.gov website and information publ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: March 12, 2014
for use in a clinical trial
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Too many discontinued clinical trials go unreported to ethics committees and remain unpublished, ...
