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Potentially harmful effects of blood product sterilization
Jun 17, 2014
Certain processes used to sterilize blood products could potentially cause serious health issues in transfusion recipients, according to an international study published in the journal Platelets and... Read More
ABT-199: Novel Bcl-2 specific inhibitor updated results confirm substantial activity and durable responses in high-risk CLL
Jun 16, 2014
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in adults in the Western world and is diagnosed in approximately 5 persons per 100,000 population per year. Read More
Phase III results announced of PETIT2 study of eltrombopag (Promacta™/Revolade™) in paediatric patients with chronic immune thrombocytopen
Jun 16, 2014
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc has announced the results from the Phase III PETIT2 study evaluating the efficacy of eltrombopag vs. Read More
Nicotine in e-cigarettes and smoking cessation devices 'carcinogenic'
Jun 16, 2014
Research into the carcinogenic properties of nicotine may have severe implications for popular smoking cessation devices such as e-cigarettes and nicotine patches. Read More
Levels of vascular-protective gene, KLF2 boosted by cancer drug
Jun 15, 2014
Case Western Reserve University researchers have discovered that an existing drug used to help cancer patients has the potential to protect thousands of others from the often-deadly impact of... Read More
Immune system selectively disarmed by gum disease bacteria
Jun 14, 2014
The human body is comprised of roughly 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells. Read More
Researchers have confirmed how the body regulates high levels of CO2 in the blood
Jun 14, 2014
In a recently published study in the journal Experimental Physiology, Brazilian researchers have confirmed the importance of a specific group of neurons found in a region of the brain known as the... Read More
New test detects toxic prions in blood
Jun 12, 2014
The first cases of Mad Cow disease in humans (properly called variant Creutzfeld Jakob Disease, or vCJD) occurred in the late 1990s and are thought to be the consequence of eating contaminated beef... Read More
Paradigm shift in new short-term, highly targeted leukaemia therapy
Jun 12, 2014
Researchers from the University of Adelaide's Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) have established a new, short-term... Read More
EKOS initiates a pivotal new study in patients with chronic Deep Vein Thrombosis and Post-Thrombotic Syndrome
Jun 12, 2014
EKOS Corporation, a BTG International group company, has announced the start of patient enrollment for the ACCelerated ThrombolySiS for Post-Thrombotic Syndrome using the EKOS® System (ACCESS... Read More
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