SALT LAKE CITY -- Merlin Olsen passed away Wednesday from mesothelioma, but a doctor has given tips on how to fight the lung disease that took the U.S.U. football star's lifeWhen a tumor invades, the lungs become unable to absorb fluid in the chest cavity. The fluid build-up causes pressure in th

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Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today the topline results of a phase III trial led by the US Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) and sponsored by the National Cancer Institute investigating the use of Avastin (bevacizumab) in combination with docetaxel chemotherapy and prednisone in T

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Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease characterized by a chronic inflammation often with ulcers in the large intestineThe symptoms of UC can differ between patients in terms of frequency and severity. The amount of the large intestine affected by UC also varies between pa

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WALTHAM, Mass. -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that Merck KGaA/Oncothyreon's Stimuvax vaccine earns Decision Resources' proprietary clinical gold standard status in 2013 and 2018 for the treatment of Avai

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WASHINGTON  -- When it comes to the documented 40 percent effectiveness of PSA testing in preventing death from prostate cancer, neither the American Cancer Society nor the discoverer of the PSA protein, Richard Ablin, are telling the public the complete story"The American Cancer Society is a

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Berlin -- Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, announced today that an orphan drug designation has been granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the ciprofloxacin dry powder inhaler (DPI) for the management of chronic pulmonary infections due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic A s

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South San Francisco, CA -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK) announced today that its fast skeletal muscle troponin activator, CK-2017357, has been granted orphan-drug designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the potential treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (C

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LAKE BLUFF, Ill. -- NeoPharm, Inc. (Other OTC: NEOL.PK), announced today that it has filed an orphan drug application with the Office of Orphan Products Development of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have Orphan Drug Designation granted to IL13-PE38QQR (IL13-PE) for the The

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DEAD SEA, Jordan -- Scientists may have uncovered a mechanism for resistance to paclitaxel in ovarian cancer, microRNA-31, suggesting a possible therapeutic target for overcoming chemotherapy resistanceMohamed K. Hassan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Hokkaido University in Japan, completed the r

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Current drugs used to treat heart failure and arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat) have limited effectiveness and have side effectsNew basic science findings from a University of Iowa study suggest a way that treatments could potentially be refined so that they work better and target only key heart-r

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