7. November 2009 02:15
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) will again be participating in Gap Inc.'s Give & Get program, which in its first two campaigns this past spring and summer, garnered more than $1 million to support LLS's blood cancer research funding and patient education and support services.
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2. November 2009 01:27
Brain tumors in childhood cast a long shadow on survivors. The first study of the lasting impact of these tumors -- the most common solid malignancies in childhood -- shows that survivors have ongoing cognitive problems.
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Posted in: Medical Condition News
Tags: Bone, Brain, Brain Tumor, Cancer, Cell, Cortex, Education, Hodgkin's Disease, Hospital, Leukemia, Nervous System, Paralysis, Psychology, Stroke
20. October 2009 05:35
Phase 3 data reported for the first time show that once every four week subcutaneous injections of SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) resulted in significantly greater inhibition of structural damage compared with placebo plus methotrexate in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and active psoriatic arthritis (PsA).
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Posted in: Drug Trial News | Medical Condition News
Tags: Abatacept, Allergy, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Antibody, Arthritis, Basal Cell Carcinoma, Blood Pressure, Bone, Breast Cancer, Bronchitis, Cancer, Cartilage, Cell, Cold Sores, Cough, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Education, Golimumab, Heart Failure, Hepatitis B, Hodgkin's Disease, Immunology, Inflammatory Disease, Lung Cancer, Lupus, Lymphoma, Methotrexate, Monoclonal Antibody, Multiple Sclerosis, Nausea, Nephrology, Nervous System, Oncology, Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatology, Rituximab, Sepsis, Skin Cancer, Squamous Cell Carcinoma, TNF Blockers, Tuberculosis, Vaccine, Virus, Vomiting, Weight Loss
15. October 2009 00:40
Relying on an independent study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki decided to establish a service-connection for Vietnam Veterans with three specific illnesses based on the latest evidence of an association with the herbicides referred to as Agent Orange.
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Posted in: Healthcare News
Tags: Cancer, Cell, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, Hairy Cell Leukemia, Hodgkin's Disease, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Kaposi's Sarcoma, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Mesothelioma, Multiple Myeloma, Neuropathy, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Osteosarcoma, Parkinson's Disease, Peripheral Neuropathy, Porphyria, Prostate Cancer, Soft Tissue Sarcoma, Veterans Affairs
7. October 2009 02:30
Cryo-Cell International, a global leader in stem cell innovation, is proud to be making progress in the fight against breast cancer through research and development using stem cells from menstrual blood.
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Posted in: Medical Science News | Women's Health News
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cell, Diabetes, Hodgkin's Disease, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Parkinson's Disease, Sickle Cell Disease, Spinal Cord Injury, Stem Cell, Stroke
25. September 2009 11:22
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Folotyn (pralatrexate), the first treatment for a form of cancer known as Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma (PTCL), an often aggressive type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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15. September 2009 04:48
The cure rates for many cancers have improved dramatically over the past decades, but the harsh reality is that too many cancer survivors suffer serious side-effects of their curative treatments. Toxic side-effects can occur months or years after the treatments are finished, sometimes as chronic conditions, sometimes life-threatening, but always unacceptably reducing a patient's quality of life.
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28. August 2009 02:22
Cardium Therapeutics today reported that a recent medical journal article highlights the challenges facing healthcare providers with respect to finding optimal treatments for patients with non-healing wounds.
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Posted in: Device / Technology News | Healthcare News
Tags: Angiogenesis, Bone, Burn, Cancer, Cell, Collagen, Diabetes, DNA, Edema, Gene Therapy, Hodgkin's Disease, Hospital, Investment, Oxygen Therapy, Trauma, Ulcer, Wound Healing
15. April 2009 05:59
Twenty two years after his sperm was frozen because he had leukaemia, a man has fathered a healthy baby girl.
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22. May 2008 14:16
HIV-positive people in the U.S., many of whom are living longer because of antiretroviral drugs, are at an increased risk for certain types of cancers, according to a study published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Reuters reports.
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Posted in: Drug Trial News
Tags: Anal Cancer, Antiretroviral, Cancer, CDC, Colorectal Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Hodgkin's Disease, Kaposi's Sarcoma, Liver Cancer, Lung Cancer, Lymphoma, Melanoma, Prostate Cancer, Skin Cancer, Testosterone
13. December 2007 02:34
PET/CT imaging exhibits significantly higher sensitivity, specificity and accuracy than conventional imaging when it comes to detecting malignant tumors in children, according to research published in the December issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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Posted in: Drug Trial News
Tags: Bone, Cancer, Hodgkin's Disease, Human Anatomy, Lymphoma, Nervous System, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Pediatrics, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Radiology
10. December 2007 23:01
Many primary care physicians may lack the necessary knowledge when it comes to recognizing the signs, symptoms and making proper diagnoses in cases of blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma, a recent survey indicates.
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4. July 2007 23:00
A team of cancer specialists from OncoLink.org, the award-winning cancer Web-based resource of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, has launched OncoLife, the first and only individualized plan-of-care based on the national Institute of Medicine's recommendations for adult cancer survivors.
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30. May 2007 22:17
More than 92 percent of Illinois dentists provide oral cancer examinations for their patients, but many are not performing the procedures thoroughly or at optimum intervals, according to a new University of Illinois at Chicago study.
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18. April 2007 22:01
Every day, people make assumptions, educated and not, about their risk for developing cancer.
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Posted in: Medical Research News
Tags: Biomarker, Brain, Breast Cancer, Breastfeeding, Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Chemotherapy, DNA, Estrogen, Genetics, Hodgkin's Disease, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Progesterone, Radiation Therapy, Radiotherapy, Skin Cancer, Smoking, Smoking Addiction
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