News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 13, 2014
Experiments in zebrafish have shown that a 50-year-old antipsychotic medication called perphenazine can actively combat T-cell acute lymphoblastic leu...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 13, 2014
Credit: National Cancer
Institute-Mathews Media Group
Deaths from leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are on the decline in the UK, but these ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 12, 2014
attached to syncytiotrophoblast
Credit: Fabio T.M.
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 11, 2014
Genetic profiling has provided a clearer picture of follicular lymphoma (FL) development and progression, according to research published in Nature...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 10, 2014
Red blood cells (RBCs) take on a new shape and perform important functions in contracted blood clots, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that,...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 10, 2014
Credit: NIGMS
A scoring system that combines genetic and epigenetic changes could help guide therapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 10, 2014
Credit: Rhoda Baer
Drug shortages remain a serious problem for patient safety, according to a small survey of US pharmacy directors.
Of the near...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 10, 2014
a red blood cell; Credit: St Jude
Children’s Research Hospital
Researchers say they have developed a diagnostic technique that can rapidly detect ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 9, 2014
Credit: Andre E.X.
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 9, 2014
Credit: Heather Luis
Researchers say they have discovered compounds that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than known carcinogens.
These comp...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 9, 2014
receiving chemotherapy
Credit: Rhoda Baer
Leukemia is the leading cause of cancer death in the US for men under 40 and women aged 20 and younger, ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 9, 2014
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Results of preclinical research suggest the prosurvival protein MCL-1 is the BCL-2 family member most important for...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 8, 2014
Credit: Darren Baker
Women are underrepresented among speakers at scientific meetings, but a new study has revealed a way to address this deficit.
...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 8, 2014
Credit: CDC
When their share of prescription costs becomes too high, many patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) will skip doses of imatinib ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: January 8, 2014
Credit: CDC
A survey of general internists suggests a few obstacles may prevent these physicians from providing optimal care for childhood cancer s...
