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Myanmar : Big Issues With HIV & TB

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MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar, released a report today highlighting the urgency of treating HIV and multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in their country – Myanmar used to be called Burma. As many as 85,000 people are going without retroviral treatments and another 9,300 are infected with MDR-TB each year, while as few as 300 get any treatment…
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Clinical Trials Network Aims to Strengthen Cancer Immunotherapy Pipeline

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Later this year, the first clinical trials will be launched under a new NCI-funded initiative to spur the development of cancer treatments that work by revving up the immune system’s response to tumors. The Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network (CITN) includes the foremost researchers in cancer immunotherapy from 27 top U.S. cancer centers and universities who are working collectively to identify promising agents and to formulate and run the trials in which they will be tested.
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NCI Cancer Bulletin for February 21, 2012

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NCI Cancer Bulletin

FDA Efforts Reversal of Critical Cancer Drug Shortage – ABC News

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FDA Efforts Reversal of Critical Cancer Drug Shortage
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The US Food and Drug Administration approved new suppliers for two cancer drugs today in an effort to curb the largest nationwide drug shortage in nearly a decade. The FDA said its approval of a new supply method would increase production of the …
To Ease Shortage, FDA Lets 2 Cancer Drugs Be ImportedNew York Times
Cancer-Drug Suppliers ApprovedWall Street Journal
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Drug Combo Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:02:38 +0000

Combining gemcitabine with MRK003, an experimental drug, triggers a chain of events leading to pancreatic cancer cell death, researchers from Cambridge reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The researchers explained that when the two drugs are combined, the effect of each one is multiplied, thus intensifying the destruction of pancreatic cancer cells…
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Link Between Infants’ Colic And Mothers’ Migraines

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:09:54 +0000

A study of mothers and their young babies by neurologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has shown that mothers who suffer migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to have babies with colic than mothers without a history of migraines. The work raises the question of whether colic may be an early symptom of migraine and therefore whether reducing stimulation may help just as reducing light and noise can alleviate migraine pain…
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Cancer Society releases 2012 cancer outlook and statistics – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:06:20 +0000

The print version of Cancer Facts & Figures 2012 has been released by the American Cancer Society. It’s the same version as the online edition which is free and can be downloaded. Highlights of the report say that Cancer rates have declined by 1.8 percent …
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Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL), Burkitt, B-Cell, Lymphoblastic Lymphoma: Pediatric Cancer Guide to Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis, Clinical Trials (DVD-ROM)
This up-to-date and comprehensive DVD-ROM disc provides a superb collection of authoritative documents from the nation’s cancer ex…

The Official Patient’s Sourcebook on Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age
This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process….

Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): Pediatric Cancer Guide to Causes, Signs and Symptoms, Testing and Diagnosis, Treatment Options, Prognosis, Clinical Trials and Research (DVD-ROM)
This up-to-date and comprehensive DVD-ROM disc provides a superb collection of authoritative documents from the nation’s cancer ex…

Less Addictive Cigarettes Preferred By Smokers

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:04:43 +0000

Results from an International Tobacco Control (ITC) United States Supplemental Survey, published recently in the journal BMC Public Health , reveal that smokers strongly favor decreasing the addictiveness of cigarettes. Lead investigator Andrew Hyland, PhD, Chair of the Department of Health Behavior at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), and his team, surveyed 678 smokers between November 2009 and January 2010 on their attitudes and beliefs about the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA). In 2009, the Act was signed into law, authorizing the U.S…
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Substituting with smokeless tobacco saves lives, research suggests

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:02:37 +0000

Substituting smokeless tobacco products can save smokers’ lives, and there is a scientific foundation that proves it, according to one researcher whose work shows that smokers can greatly reduce their risk of disease and death by replacing smoking products with e-cigarettes or modern, spit-free smokeless tobacco.
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Myriad Genetics’ Australia Cancer Gene Patents Face Sydney Court Challenge – Bloomberg

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:07:53 +0000

Myriad Genetics Inc. (MYGN) and other biotechnology companies can’t monopolize treatment for diseases by patenting human genetic material, an Australian trial is to be told today in the first challenge in the country over the ownership of DNA …
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Why God Gave Me Pain (Campion Book)

Can We Cure the Common Leukemias?

Central Nervous System Leukemia: Prevention and Treatment (Developments in Oncology)