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Avastin, Genentech’s best-selling drug, increases the risk of people developing blood clots,...
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
Hannah Jones was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 4 years old. Chemotherapy put her into...
Lung cancer drug Tarceva jointly developed by OSI
Pharmaceuticals Inc., Genentech Inc. and Roche...
Scientists for the first time have been able to look at the entire set of genes from a cancer...
Patrick Swayze finally opened about the difficulties he went through as he struggled to battle...
An expert panel asked by the Food and Drug Administration to
review its way of handling of the...
Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
US
researchers have identified 26 genes that are frequently mutated in people who
develop...
Eli Lilly and Co. announced on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of...
He was 83, but we thought he would always be around. After half a century of acting, directing and...
Women suffering from breast cancer in its incipient stage
could benefit from a shorter, more...
A fatal case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML, in a patient treated with...
Actress Christina Applegate confessed Tuesday in an
interview on Good Morning America that she is...
It is sad to hear when people close to us are suffering from serious diseases, but the feeling...
Leroy Sievers, the journalist who worked at ABC News’
“Nightline” for 14 years and at CBS News for...
One day after undergoing brain surgery at Duke University
Medical Center
in Durham, N.C., Senator...
After undergoing a risky brain surgery on Monday at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.,...
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US Senator Edward Kennedy, who is undergoing treatment for
brain cancer, received hospital...
Leroy Sievers, the journalist who worked at ABC News’
“Nightline” for 14 years and at CBS News for...
US Sen.
Edward Kennedy checked out of the Duke
University Medical
Center in Durham, North...
Monday morning, Senator Edward Kennedy had brain surgery
in order to begin his treatment for his...
Monday morning, Senator Edward Kennedy was set to undergo
brain surgery in order to begin his...
The European Medicines Agency, based in London, has approved the use of Erbitux, produced by Merck...
The doctors from Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston announced today
that Senator Edward...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Monday that he has prostate cancer and that he will...
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is expected to hand in his resignation on Friday after more...
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow intends to leave his office by the end of 2007, according to...
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Shares of OSI Pharmaceutical rose $5.25, or 15 percent, to $40.65 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq...
The Japanese drug company Eisai Co. announced on Monday the acquisition of MGI Pharma Inc. (whose...
Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced the failure of its TOCOSOL® Paclitaxel breast cancer drug...
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Scientists for the first time have been able to look at the entire set of genes from a cancer...
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Research
conducted by United States scientists has revealed that the
Avastin cancer drug...
Ginkgo biloba has been used medicinally for thousands of
years. Today, it is one of the top...
Using DNA sequencing, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis were able to identify the...
For the
first time, a team of scientists managed to decode all the genes of a person
who suffered...
A vaccine against rotavirus, Rotateq, which causes diarrhea
and vomiting in thousands of children...
The tobacco plant could actually aid
patients with follicular B-cell lymphoma, US researchers...
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According to an international Phase III clinical trial, led by researchers at The University of...
An analysis of 15 clinical trials involving
Genentech’s cancer drug Avastin has found that the...
Research
conducted by United States scientists has revealed that the
Avastin cancer drug...
Genentech’s cancer drug Avastin was linked
to a significantly increased risk of blood clots in the...
Ginkgo biloba has been used medicinally for thousands of
years. Today, it is one of the top...
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
Scientists for the first time have been able to look at the entire set of genes from a cancer...
Tarceva’s manufacturers, Genetech Inc and OSI Pharmaceuticals, said the drug proved its...
The drug Tarceva, made by OSI Pharmaceuticals has been found to cause an increase in survival rates...
After a study disclosed that the drug Tarceva was efficient in prolonging lung cancer survival when...
Shares of OSI Pharmaceutical rose $5.25, or 15 percent, to $40.65 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq...
Cancer is one of the most destructive diseases of past and present centuries. Certain treatments...
Washington University researchers have decoded the complete
DNA of a patient suffering from...
By using cells donated by a woman in her 50s who died of leukemia, the scientists at the Washington...
A new medical study managed to find a connection between a probiotic bacterium called Lactobacillus...
A news study presented Monday at the joint annual meeting of
the Interscience Conference on...
Genentech has recently announced that the study of Avastin will continue as planned, reaching phase...
Breast Cancer Awareness Month appears to have echoes not
only in the United States
but also on...
Genentech Inc. and Biogen Idec Inc.
announced that their drug Rituxan combined with chemotherapy...
According to the results of a late-stage clinical
trial into the benefits of combining Genentech’s...
Genentech Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc., two leading biotechnology companies, announced Monday...
Cancer and ascorbic acid, Vitamin C, have a pretty
controversial relationship. In the 1970s, after...
It appears that vitamin C supplements don’t have beneficial effects on patients struggling with...
Wednesday, an United States study has revealed that higher
doses of vitamin C might reduce the...
According to researchers at the prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in Philadelphia,...
British
researchers have recently revealed that women who are both longer and heavier at
birth...
The drug maker Eli Lilly announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the...
Women suffering from breast cancer in its incipient stage
could benefit from a shorter, more...
During the 50th
annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and...
Results of
a study performed by Canadian researchers have been revealed to the
public on Monday,...
New research by the Stanford University School of Medicine
scientists gives children suffering...
Patients undergoing chemotherapy will soon be able to use a
medication patch to ease the nausea...
The Food and Drug Administration says that a woman passed away due to a brain infection with...
The labeling for cancer and rheumatoid arthritis drug Rituxan
is being revised after the US Food...
Friday, the
“Stand Up to Cancer” telethon, aimed at raising money to fund research that...
Although already approved for treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, Nexavar will be the...
A doctor specialized in treating cancer patients was charged on Friday with illegally imported...
Some very encouraging results have been found by a study conducted at the University of Chicago...
“Eat healthy!” and “Exercise as much as you can!” are the most
recommended pieces of advice we...
Women who survive breast cancer after having completed five
years of what specialists call...
A new study on breast cancer comes to reassure women that
their recurrence risk lowers in time,...
Conservative columnist Robert Novak has retired following the diagnosis of a brain tumor. The...
US FDA
ordered Amgen Inc on Wednesday to change the labels for Aranesp and similar
anemia drugs...
Who would have thought that plants which produce tobacco can
become a real help in the fight...
However strange this might sound, the tobacco plant, normally
associated with causing cancer...
The U.S.
regulators approved on Tuesday a genetic test that allows doctors to...
A study published in the July 3 issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine reveals that Amgen...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cautioning
consumers not to purchase fraudulent products...
People with a family history of colon cancer may now breathe
relieved, as scientific research...
Results of a long awaited clinical trial of ImClone Systems Inc's Erbitux, called Flex, give hopes...
Germany’s Merck KGaA announced Friday that Erbitux, which it licensed from ImClone System Inc and...
Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG announced Friday that new
data from a study with Herceptin showed...
In patients with anal cancer, experimental chemotherapy
treatment with the drug cisplatin failed...
GlaxoSmithKline Plc. said a new study into breast
cancer-causing stem cells showed its cancer drug...
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter released a statement on
Tuesday saying he was diagnosed with an...
New York-based biotechnology company Antigenics Inc.
announced Tuesday that it has won approval to...
There are many patients standing in line for a transplant hoping
their life will get better once...
Starvation prior to chemotherapy could make it more
effective, shielding healthy cells as it...
Brooke Zepp, a 63-year-old woman from South
Florida was diagnosed last May with leiomyosarcoma, a...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Cephalon
Inc.’s injectable drug, Treanda to...
The U.S. Food And Drug Administration approved today Treanda
(bendamustine hydrochloride) as a...
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