Transvaginal ultrasound and the CA-125 blood test do not prevent females from dying of ovarian cancer - in fact the invasive medical procedures may be linked to health problems, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association…
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To eliminate HIV, there needs to be an end to laws and policies that punish drug users and HIV-positive individuals and that criminalize behavior between consenting same-sex couples. Medscape Medical News
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Physicians need more training in environmental medicine as well as economic incentives to apply what they learn, says a coalition with a plan to protect the public from harmful chemicals. Medscape Medical News
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The decision to yank the drug was made after a study requested by the drug regulatory authority, AFSSAPS, confirmed a small increase in bladder cancer among patients treated with the diabetes drug. Heartwire
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(MedPage Today) — Despite no positive findings of Escherichia coli on sampled produce, German officials have determined that bean sprouts are the source of the deadliest outbreak in recent European history.
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(MedPage Today) — People who insist on working while they are sick — including those in healthcare professions — are risking their future health and productivity, warned an editorial published online in BMJ.
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(MedPage Today) — Drug regulators in Germany and France have ordered doctors to stop prescribing the type 2 diabetes drug pioglitazone (Actos), following a French study suggesting a heightened risk of bladder cancer.
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated today announced the final results from its pivotal Phase 3 STRIVE study that evaluated VX-770, a medicine in development that targets the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis (CF).
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Data to be presented tomorrow at the 16th Annual Meeting of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in London, UK, show that Micromet’s blinatumomab produced a high complete remission rate in adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who had relapsed following treatment with standard therapy.
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ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc., a drug development company employing small molecule and synthetic biology approaches to cancer therapy, announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has accepted the Company’s investigational new drug application to begin clinical study of ZIN ATI-001, a novel DNA-based therapeutic candidate also known as Ad-RTS-IL-12 + AL, in oncology.
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