The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has awarded two Get With the Guidelines Annual Performance Achievement Awards to Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester Medical Center for meeting its high standards for coronary artery disease and stroke care.
GlaxoSmithKline plc [LSE and NYSE: GSK] announced long-term efficacy data from a Phase II trial of a single one-week course of frontline treatment with the BEXXAR? Therapeutic Regimen (Tositumomab and Iodine I-131 Tositumomab) in 76 patients with newly diagnosed advanced follicular non-Hodgkin?s lymphoma (NHL).
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced final results of a Phase II proof-of-concept clinical trial of its investigational MAGE-A3 Antigen-Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic (ASCI) in MAGE-A3 positive patients with stage IB or II Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).
Your spring cleaning is done. Or is it? Did you clean out your medicine cabinet? Before you flush old or unused medication, precautions need to be taken.
Most Americans and others are not taking enough vitamin D, a fact that may put them at significant risk for developing cancer, according to a landmark study conducted by Creighton University School of Medicine.
Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to take normal tissue cells and reprogram them into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells, the cells that are able to give rise to every cell type found in the body.
Embryonic stem cells are unique because they can develop into virtually any kind of tissue type, an attribute called pluripotency. Somatic cell nuclear transfer (?therapeutic cloning?) offers the hope of one day creating customized embryonic stem cells with a patient?s own DNA. Here, an individual?s DNA would be placed into an egg, resulting in a blastocyst that houses a supply of stem cells. But to access these cells, researchers must destroy a viable embryo.
The Food and Drug Administration has given approval for a Kalamazoo, MI-based company to begin marketing a one-of-a-kind device that allows physicians to more accurately place a stent in selected coronary and renal procedures.
News that scientists have derived cells that behave like stem cells from the skin of a mouse is a major scientific breakthrough that underscores the need to continue human embryonic stem cell research, The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said.
Patients visiting chiropractors and other holistically-oriented physicianswho serve as primary care physicians (PCPs) have lower utilization costs and higher patient satisfactionlevels than patients treated by conventional medical doctors, according to a study published in the Mayissue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics that tracked data from a uniqueIndependent Physicians Association (IPA) where chiropractors serve as first-contact, primary carephysicians.