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FDA approves AstraZeneca PLC’s Tagrisso cancer drug

United States Food and Drug Administration has approved a potential $33 billion cancer drug Tagrisso developed by AstraZeneca PLC (NASDAQ:AZN) under the FDA’s accelerated approval process based on tumor response rate and duration of response (DoR), along with the approval of an accompanying diagnostic. In 2 clinical trials that were conducted, partial or whole decrease was experienced by 57 percent ...

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Doctors develop a breakthrough technique to deliver drugs across Blood Brain Barrier

Canada’s medical researchers have found a breakthrough method to deliver chemotherapy drugs using a new ultrasound technique to breach the brain’s protective membrane and sneak past the stubborn blood-brain barrier. According to a report from CTV News, a team of Canadian doctors has successfully injected chemotherapy drugs and a mixture of gas in the form of smaller bubbles to breach the ...

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Surgeons used a breakthrough technique to treat brain tumor/cancer and Alzheimer’s

Canada’s medical researchers have found a breakthrough method to deliver chemotherapy drugs using a new ultrasound technique to breach the brain’s protective membrane and sneak past the stubborn blood-brain barrier. According to a report from CTV News, a team of Canadian doctors has successfully injected chemotherapy drugs and a mixture of gas in the form of smaller bubbles to breach the ...

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Ryan White HIV/AIDS awareness program awarded $2.2B in grants

U.S Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program has been awarded $2.2 billion dollars in grants. The donation aims to ensure that the affected people in the United States are getting proper healthcare, necessary medication and treatment on time. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, is an act to make changes ...

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Researchers finally solve the riddle why Elephants rarely get Cancer

Dr. Joshua Schiffman, a paediatric oncologist and research investigator at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, was often puzzled by the fact that large animals like Elephant and Whales have considerably less incidence of cancer as compared to smaller animals. Now researchers at the University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute believe that a pachyderm gene could be helping the elephants ward ...

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