Oncology & Cancer
New immunotherapy drug for advanced melanoma
A new immunotherapy drug has been approved for NHS patients in England whose melanoma has stopped responding to previous treatments.
Sep 9, 2015
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Medications
FDA addresses concerns on approval of drugs to treat chronic hepatitis C
Treatment options for chronic hepatitis C, a serious and life-threatening infection, have improved substantially and several new regimens with shorter durations and improved efficacy and safety profiles are now available.
Jun 2, 2015
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Neuroscience
An electronic micropump to deliver treatments deep within the brain
Many potentially efficient drugs have been created to treat neurological disorders, but they cannot be used in practice. Typically, for a condition such as epilepsy, it is essential to act at exactly the right time and place ...
Apr 16, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Just keep your promises: Going above and beyond does not pay off
If you are sending Mother's Day flowers to your mom this weekend, chances are you opted for guaranteed delivery: the promise that they will arrive by a certain time. Should the flowers not arrive in time, you will likely ...
May 8, 2014
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Health
Obama apologizes to Americans losing coverage
President Barack Obama, who promised his health care overhaul would allow Americans to keep their health insurance plans, has apologized to the at least 3.5 million people who are losing their coverage because their plans ...
Nov 7, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
US panel backs drug for early stage breast cancer (Update)
A biotech drug from Roche moved one step closer Thursday to becoming the first medicine approved to treat breast cancer before surgery.
Sep 12, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
With early, obvious benefit of a targeted cancer drug, should expensive clinical testing continue?
Generally, FDA-approved clinical trials progress through three phases: the first shows safety, the second starts to explore effects and the third seeks to prove a drug's superiority over existing treatments. But when a drug's ...
Aug 8, 2013
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Medical research
Healing hormone provides hope for brain injury
If Don Stein were the kind of man who listened to what others said, he would have shut down his lab years ago. The Emory neuroscientist spent more than two decades investigating progesterone as a treatment for traumatic brain ...
Apr 24, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Different drug combinations work best for prevention versus treatment of colorectal tumors
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Once colorectal cancer has spread to other parts of the body, only 11 percent of patients will survive five years from the date ...
Apr 7, 2013
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Ophthalmology
New company applies regenerative medicine to corneal transplantation
Ocular Systems, Inc. (OSI), Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the North Carolina Eye Bank have formed a new company based on a promising new technology aimed at engineering replacement corneas in the lab for transplantation.
Jan 8, 2013
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