Gene testing aids safer and personalized Chemotherapy
Researchers led by Christof Vulsteke, of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, have discovered a novel way of identifying breast cancer patients who are likely to suffer fatal side effects from chemotherapy. More...
Gas-filled Aspirin in the battle against cancer
As per reports from the Iranian Students News agency (ISNA), one of their scientists, Khosrow Kashfi, has developed a gas-filled aspirin that can boost the cancer-fighting ability of the drug. Khosrow, is an associate More...
Indian company acquires rights to copy generic cancer drug
Indian pharmaceutical company, Natco Pharma, has been authorized to manufacture an expensive anti-cancer drug originally developed by Bayer Corporation. This move, although undermining the Bayer’s patent, is expected More...
Developing better combination therapies for colorectal cancer
Scientists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, U.S.A, have shed new light on the molecular connection between chronic inflammation and DNA methylation, a process that shuts down cancer-fighting More...
GW Pharmaceuticals seeks FDA permission for Sativex
Sativex, is the world’s first marijuana based prescription drug, developed by GW Pharmaceuticals, a British pharmaceutical company. This drug, developed as a mouth spray, has two best known psychoactive ingredients More...
Cancer diagnosis seldom deters smokers
A research team led by Elyse R. Park, PhD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, in its recent report, suggested that a significant number of patients don’t quit smoking More...
What you should know about Human Papillomavirus
New Delhi, India: Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a virus associated with cervical cancer in women, has been suspected to cause head and neck cancer, upon being sexually transmitted. Recent studies and clinical findings More...
Gene Therapy Achieves Early Success Against Heredit
Symptoms improved significantly in adults with the bleeding disorder hemophilia B following a single treatment with gene therapy developed by researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis More...
New Jersey Opposes USPSTF PSA Testing Recommendation
TRENTON, N.J. (USA) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today signed legislation promoted by the New Jersey Patient Care and Access Coalition (NJPCAC) opposing an October 2011 U.S. Preventive Services Task More...
Breast cancer cure: A step ahead
A team of researchers at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, U.S.A, led by professor Costel Darie has identified one of the key proteins potentially involved in regulating development of breast cancer. Daries’s More...