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Highland boy battling rare cancer
Up until a couple weeks ago, Christopher Cooper was a typical 10-year-old boy. A rough-and-tumble kid, he likes to spend his days playing football for the Milford Mustangs, messing around with his brothers, hanging out with friends, riding his bike.
'Change' will come in elections of 2010
I totally disagree with what the Senate and House are doing with health care. The federal government has no business being in the insurance business and it will cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars.
Oklahoma cancer study takes major step toward improved treatment
Cancer researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to turn ineffective new cancer drugs into cancer-fighters. By using their patented chemical compound, SHetA2, researchers tricked cancer cells into responding to new treatments and undergoing cell suicide.
With Antigenics back in the news after the EMEA officially recommended against approving the company's kidney cancer vaccine in Europe - followed by the subsequent withdrawal of the approval application by Antigenics - a few readers of VFC's Stock House have requested comment.
Cancer Kidney Cancer Therapy Area Pipeline Report - new report released
This report provides insight into the pipeline status of kidney cancer drugs by company and by stage as well as a summary of the latest news and developments in this area.
Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster
World War II Veteran Jack Tagg is losing vision in his right eye. He suffers from macular degeneration, a progressive illness that causes blindness.
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About.com Urology Blog: Less is more?
I'd happily set aside further discussion of cancer screening, if I could. But the story won't die.
Newly Approved mTOR Inhibitors for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
Diana Hey Cauley, PharmD, BCOP Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Division of Pharmacy, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas US Pharm.
Coralville Woman Ready to Fight Cancer a Third Time
Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for everything we have. This year, one eastern Iowa woman is thankful for a very simple thing.
Antigenics to withdraw its MAA for Oncophage following CHMP's negative opinion
Antigenics Inc. today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use , the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency , has formally adopted a negative opinion on the marketing authorization application for Oncophage as a treatment in earlier-stage, localized renal cell carcinoma .
Multidisciplinary meeting on urological cancers aims to benefit cancer patients
Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort.
AVEO's Triple VEGF Receptor Inhibitor Tivozanib in Combination with...
Nov 17, 2009 - AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today announced preliminary results from a Phase 1 clinical study evaluating its oral, triple VEGF receptor inhibitor tivozanib in combination with the mTOR inhibitor temsirolimus , a rapamycin pro-drug, ...
Facing death, you learn to live
Annette Bailey's mind races and her tears flow as she sits in her Ford Probe that raw and dreary November night.
terna Zentaris: Scientific Article Supports Perifosine's Development in Kidney Cancer
Quebec City, Canada, November 9, 2009 terna Zentaris Inc. , a global biopharmaceutical company focused on endocrine therapy and oncology, today announced publication of a scientific article in the renowned Journal of Urology, supporting the development of the Company's PI3K/Akt pathway inhibitor oral compound, perifosine, for the treatment of ...
Ill health forces out Devizes fundraiser
Ace fundraiser Doreen Stroud has had to give up raising money for the Royal United Hospital in Bath after 24 years because of ill health.
Over 880,000 African Americans died in just ten years in the 1990s because they lacked access to health insurance.
ABC 7 News - Redskins Super Bowl MVP Visits Walter Reed
He hoped to "bring a little light and a little bit of solace for these families." But it was a little girl, Emma, that caught his eye -- and ours.
ASCO Releases Annual Progress Report On Top Cancer Research Advances
The American Society of Clinical Oncology released its report, Clinical Cancer Advances 2009: Major Research Advances in Cancer Treatment, Prevention and Screening, an independent assessment of the most significant clinical cancer research studies of the past year, including 15 major advances.
1 in 7 men will get prostate cancer but 95% will survive
It is said that "knowledge is power." Purist that I am, I must contend that use of knowledge is power; otherwise it is just potential power.
Hanna has conflicted emotions in the case of a murdered drug dealer when he learns his Navy Seal comrades are involved.
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