Celebrate Relay’s 26th Birthday- Join Parkland’s 2010 Relay For Life
A year-long celebration marking the 26th season for the world’s largest grassroots fundraising activity, the American Cancer Society Relay For Life, is underway.
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Abbott to Collaborate With GSK on Molecular Diagnostic Test to Select Candidate Patients for Future Skin Cancer [...]
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Get moving: Health and fitness events
Medicare coverage of CTC for seniors needed
President Obama, in his first routine physical exam as commander in chief, received a CT colonography (CTC), commonly known as a virtual colonoscopy, to screen him for colorectal cancer. However, Obama Administration officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) previously denied coverage of the same exam [...]
Endoscopy-based early enterostomy closure
How to evaluate hemodynamics of gastric varices effectively?
A research team from China investigated the afferent and efferent veins of different types of gastric varices (GV) according to their location, with multidetector computed tomography portal venography (MDCTPV). Their results indicated that MDCTPV could display the collateral circulation of GV. It could provide a valuable reference for [...]
Therapeutic effect of worm-derived proteins on experimental colitis
Treatment of portal hypertensive pulmonary lesions induced by schistosomiasis
( World Journal of Gastroenterology ) Calculus Bovis compound preparation can effectively prevent pulmonary complications of portal hypertensive rabbits with schistosomiasis. The successful development of Calculus Bovis and the preliminary study on portal hypertensive pulmonary lesions caused by schistosomiasis suggest that it is of great significance and [...]
Nektar Therapeutics Reports Year-End 2009 Financial Results
Doctor calls Obama ‘fit for duty’ into 2012
President Obama, 48, passed his physical exam Sunday, though the results show he should watch his diet and keep up his efforts to quit smoking.
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Nektar Therapeutics Reports Year-End 2009 Financial Results
Nektar Therapeutics today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended [...]
Æterna Zentaris Receives Positive Opinion for Orphan Medicinal Product Designation for Perifosine for the Treatment of …
Exhibit raises awareness of colorectal cancer screening
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Æterna Zentaris Receives Positive Opinion for Orphan Medicinal Product Designation for Perifosine for the Treatment of …
terna Zentaris Inc. , a late-stage drug development company specialized in oncology and endocrinology, today announced that it has received a positive opinion for orphan medicinal [...]
Study: Tri-county residents make too few healthy choices
Medical panel set to cover cancer issues
Doctors and other medical experts will gather for a panel and open forum Thursday night at the McKenna Events Center to discuss the most common forms of cancer.
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Study: Tri-county residents make too few healthy choices
If residents across the region don’t start making healthier [...]
Millions missing out on colonrectal screening
Roche, Genentech report Avastin study failure
Genentech said Tuesday the combination of its blockbuster cancer drug Avastin and Xeloda did not meet a late-stage study goal of extending the lives of advanced stomach cancer patients.
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Millions missing out on colonrectal screening
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General Assembly considers numerous bills this week
Get Fit: Staying healthy as you age
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General Assembly considers numerous bills this week
Tennessee state representatives and senators are maintaining a busy schedule this week with the review of several proposed pieces of legislation, as well as taking part in [...]
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University of Chicago’s Mitchell Posner Named President of the Society of Surgical Oncology
Mitchell Posner, MD, the Thomas D. Jones Professor and vice chairman of surgery and section chief of general and oncologic surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center, was sworn in as president of the Society of Surgical Oncology on March 6, 2010, [...]