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West Nile Virus Screening and Diagnostics Technology Emerges In Step with North American Outbreak

...dental hosts. The virus was first isolated from a febrile patient in the West Nile region of Uganda in 1937. It remained a little-understood cause of febrile illness and sporadic encephalitis in parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia until the late summer of 1999...

Pixantrone Combination Therapy for First-line Treatment of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Results in Reduction in Severe Toxicities Including Heart Damage When Compared to Doxorubicin-based Therapy

...bocytopenia. In addition asignificant reduction in febrile neutropenia was also observed.Febrile neutropenia is a life-threatening complication ofchemotherapy which often requires hospitalization and antibiotictherapy and may lead to death from infection while the patient'sinfection-fighting white blood cell...

Clinical Data Reported on Vidaza in Hematologic Malignancies and Advanced Solid Tumors

...ons included dizziness(18.6%), chest pain (16.4%), febrile neutropenia (16.4%), myalgia(15.9%), injection sit...ons includeddizziness (18.6%), chest pain (16.4%), febrile neutropenia(16.4%),myalgia (15.9%), injection site reaction (13.6%), aggravatedfatigue (12.7%) and m...

Data Published in The Lancet Show Gardasil was 100 Percent Effective in Preventing High-Grade Vulvar and Vaginal Lesions Caused by HPV Types 16 and 18

...or delay vaccination because of acurrent or recent febrile illness depends largely on the severity ofthe symptoms and their etiology. Low-grade fever itself and mild upperrespiratory infection are not generally contraindications tovaccination. Individuals with impaired immune responsiveness, whether due t...

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes New Data on Gardasil, Merck's Cervical Cancer Vaccine

...or delay vaccination because of acurrent or recent febrile illness depends largely on the severity ofthe symptoms and their etiology. Low-grade fever itself and mild upperrespiratory infection are not generally contraindications tovaccination. Individuals with impaired immune responsiveness, whether due t...

OncoGenex Technologies Announces Phase II Data of OGX-011 in Metastatic Breast Cancer at American Association for Cancer Research 2007 Annual Meeting

...and dyspnea(13 percent). Five patients experienced febrile neutropenia.Investigators concluded that OGX-011 is well tolerated incombination with docetaxel. Women with measurable metastatic breast cancer and no more thanone previous chemotherapy regimen for MBC were eligible for thisstudy. OGX-011 was delive...