Archive: 20/04/2015
Higher-than-expected pediatric cancer rates identified in two Florida areas
Higher-than-expected rates of pediatric cancers have been identified in the Miami metro area and an area west of the Everglades in a series of five statistical analyses conducted for Science and Public Policy, an open-access, ...
Apr 20, 2015
Falsified medicines taint global supply
When you take a medication for, say, high cholesterol, do you know that pill is really what the label says it is? Depending upon the type of medicine and where you live, the threat of falsified medications (also referred ...
Apr 20, 2015
New quality improvement system significantly reduces CT misadministration
A protocol developed by radiologists at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center reduced CT misadministration at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from 18 instances in 60,999 studies to zero in 36,608 in just 10 months. ...
Apr 20, 2015
Combining Chk1 inhibition with standard dose Gemcitabine may be safe and effective
Adding the investigational agent GDC-0425, which blocks the function of a protein called checkpoint kinase 1 (Chk1), to standard doses of the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine, was safe and yielded responses in patients with ...
Apr 20, 2015