by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA Approved Drugs – Treatment with pazopanib nearly tripled progression-free survival (PFS), compared with placebo, among patients with metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA Approved Drugs – A hormone-depleting drug approved in 2011 for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer appears to help eliminate… read more.
A meta-analysis confirms that statin therapy lowers the risk of major vascular events by about a fifth among subjects with no history of vascular disease, male and female,… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), or radiosurgery, is effective in treating hepatocellular cancer (HCC) tumours that are unresectable and it can act as… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Injection of regulatory T cells could prove to be a powerful method of inducing tolerance among liver transplantation patients,
by Bruce Sylvester – Women with breast pain who undergo extra-routine mammograms, MRIs or ultrasounds as part of breast pain evaluation derive no diagnostic or therapeutic benefit, researchers… read more.
Paper presented on 5th June at ASCO – by Bruce Sylvester – The antidepressant duloxetine (Cymbalta ®), relieves neuropathic pain caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that, in the last quarter of the 20th century, changes in smoking behaviors have led to a significant drop in lung cancer… read more.
Emerging uses of FDA Approved Drugs – by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers from a phase 2 study published on March 27 in The Lancet Oncology report that ipilimumab,… read more.
Emerging uses of FDA Approved Drugs – by Bruce Sylvester – Results from the largest study yet of the treatment of urinary incontinence with botulinum toxin suggests that… read more.
Taken from The Lancet – by Bruce Sylvester – Two papers published in March, 2012 in The Lancet suggest that daily aspirin use can be protective against cancer.
World Health Matters (U.S.A.) – by Gary Finnegan – The United States is paying far more for health services than 12 comparable industrialised nations but the quality of… read more.
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