Important Breakthrough In Origins Of Aggressive Breast Cancer
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in finding out how aggressive cancers originate, raising hope of novel targeted therapies for future breast cancer patients, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell…Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsNeed For Cancer Information And Support Expected To Double, UK
Macmillan Cancer Support and Boots UK today officially launched a groundbreaking new three-year partnership, which aims to help provide the two million people living with cancer, and their family and friends, increased access to the information and support they need - when they need it, where they need it…Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsCancer Drug Model Could Be A Potential Treatment For Alzheimer’s - Alzheimer’s Society Comment
Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease according to a study. Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease according to a study published in the journal Nature…Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsKPMG Achieves £1 Million Mark For Alzheimer’s Society Ahead Of Target, UK
KPMG has reached its fundraising target of £1 million for its staff selected people charity, Alzheimer’s Society over one month ahead of schedule with further events still to be held. In 2008, KPMG staff voted for Alzheimer’s Society to be the firm’s main charitable focus…Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsSelf Care’s Rheumatoid Arthritis Health Campaign Wins Top Award
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Self Care Program has won Australia’s leading health promotion award for its rheumatoid arthritis campaign. The Australian Journal of Pharmacy Award for the Best Health Promotion of the Year was last night presented to the Self Care campaign…Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsCelsion Receives SBIR Grant To Expand Its Technology Platform
Celsion Corporation (Nasdaq: CLSN), a biotechnology drug development company, announced that it has been awarded a competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support the proposal, “New Thermal Sensitive Carboplatin Liposomes for Cancer”…Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsDrug Discovery Tools To Fight Cancer, Blindness To Be Discussed At UB Symposium
Twenty-first-century pharmaceutical breakthroughs require 21st-century drug discovery tools, such as computational or in silico molecular design and high-throughput screening of effective, new compounds. That’s the theme of a University at Buffalo symposium to be held Sept…Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsStates And Firms Seek Health Reform Funds While Opposing Law
News outlets are reporting that some states and businesses who oppose parts or all of the health reform law are applying for the financial relief it provides…Original post by Lemonade Life
No commentsStudy: Health Overhaul’s Tax Credit For Small Business Could Affect Millions
A new Commonwealth Fund report estimates that “about 16.6 million workers are employed by small businesses that are eligible for health insurance tax credits” under the new health law but only 3.4 million of them are at companies that will take advantage of the credits, The Washington Post reports, adding that those businesses already offer their employees health insurance…Original post by Lemonade Life
No commentsUSA Today: Unprecedented Drop In Medical Spending
The growth rate of health spending is at its slowest in a half-century, “a sign that people are forgoing medical care during the recession,” according to an “analysis of government data” by USA Today. “Spending on doctors, hospitals, drugs and other medical care climbed at a 2…Original post by Lemonade Life
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