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PSA TestingHow Much is Too Much?

...helpful for monitoring patients following prostate removal because it can indicate residual prostate cancer that has metastasized. As with many disease screens, PSA tests now range from assay reagents used in multi-function clinical laboratory analyzer systems to rapidly performed, self-contained kits suita...

Rapid Flu Tests May Prove Especially Helpful This Season

...rrent influenza season. In the wake of this sudden removal of nearly half of the anticipated American vaccine supply, medical officials and the general public have grown increasingly alarmed about the scarcity of vaccine and the risk of a looming epidemic. It remains to be seen if virulent new strains of fl...

Chi-Med Announces Positive Phase II Proof-of-Concept Data for HMPL-004 in Ulcerative Colitis

...n and blood loss. Thedisease can require surgical removal of sections of the gut and, inextreme cases, it may cause death. Crohn’s Disease displayssimilar but more severe laceration of the lining of the smallintestine. Current firstline treatments have effect on around 60% of patients. They cancaus...

Vical Interim Clinical Results Demonstrate Safety and Tolerability of Inovio Biomedical's Electroporation DNA Delivery Technology

...c or functional detrimentsoften caused by surgical removal of predominantly healthy tissuetypically treated around a tumor. Inovio's technology is protectedby an extensive patent portfolio covering in vivo electroporation.More information is available at www.inovio.com. This press release contains certain f...

Inovio Biomedical Highlights Enhanced DNA Vaccine Potency with Electroporation DNA Delivery Technology and New Devices at Gene Therapy Meeting

...c or functional detrimentsoften caused by surgical removal of predominantly healthy tissuetypically treated around a tumor. Inovio's technology is protectedby an extensive patent portfolio covering in vivo electroporation.More information is available at www.inovio.com. This press release contains certain f...

Santaris Pharma Presents Positive Clinical Data on SPC2996 in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

...erapeutic benefit by inducing cancercell death and removal without resorting to chemotherapy. About SPC2966 SPC2996 is the first of a portfolio of novel experimental drugsblocking harmful gene expression being designed and developed bySantaris Pharma. The drug belongs to a new class of drugs calledRNA Anta...

Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...arely diagnosed at an early stage leaving surgical removal of thetumor as a treatment option for only approximately 20 to 30 percentof pancreatic cancer patients. The median survival of patients withoperable cancer of the pancreas with currently available therapiesis approximately 17 to 22 months. Cell Gene...

Investigational Cancer Drug Pertuzumab Shows Promising Results in Advanced Breast Cancer When Combined with Herceptin

...ng its usein early breast cancer prior to surgical removal of thetumour." About the study This is a non-randomised Phase II study,conducted in two-stages: patients were assessed to ensure that thetherapy is tolerable and that there is a reasonable minimum levelof activity. Eligible patients must have measur...

Investigation Findings, Corroborated by Empirical Evidence of the Schisandra Berry as Cardio-Tonic in Traditional Chinese Medicine for Hundreds of Years, Support the Use of Schisandrin B in the Prevention and Treatment of IHD

...ath in mostindustrialized countries. Following the removal of blood clot inthe coronary artery, reperfusion of the previously blood-deprivedmyocardium can cause additional tissue damage. This phenomenon ofischemia-reperfusion (I-R) injury is an important cause of heartdysfunction and eventually death in pati...

Inovio Biomedical's DNA Delivery Technology Shows Safety and Enhances Gene Expression & Tumor Responses in Interim Melanoma Clinical Study Results

...c or functional detrimentsoften caused by surgical removal of predominantly healthy tissuetypically treated around a tumor. SECTA is advancing throughpre-marketing studies for head & neck and skin cancers inEurope, where it has CE Mark accreditation, a U.S. Phase IIIpivotal study for head and neck cancer...

PDL BioPharma Announces Long-Term Nuvion Data Presented at 2007 Digestive Disease Week

...ng or avoiding the need for colectomy, or surgical removal ofthe colon. An estimated 60,000 colectomy procedures are performedin the U.S. and Europe every year. In April, after review of thecurrent data from an external data monitoring committee, PDLannounced that it would advance the Nuvion antibody into a ...

DUSA Pharmaceuticals Receives Orphan Drug Desi gnation for Levulan PDT to Treat Esophage al Dysplasia

...s including severe scarring or theradical invasive removal of the esophagus. This option appears muchsafer an...sia, include highly invasiveesphagectomy (surgical removal of the esophagus) and endoscopictherapies, which carry the risk of severe scarring of theesophagus. ...

Oncophage Cancer Vaccine Significantly Prolongs Recurrence-Free Survival by 45 Percent in Patients With Intermediate-Risk Kidney Cancer

...cell carcinoma consists of a nephrectomy (surgical removal ofthe kidney) followed by observation. There is no treatment approvedby the US Food and Drug Administration for nonmetastatic renal cellcarcinoma at the present time. *Haas N. Update on targeted therapy adjuvant trials (ECOG/MRC).Paper presented at:...

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

...ma of the cervix,respectively. Their detection and removal has been shown to preventcancer; thus, they serve as surrogate markers for prevention ofcervical cancer. Efficacy was assessed in 4 placebo-controlled, double-blind,randomized Phase II and III clinical studies. The first Phase II studyevaluated th...

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

...ma of the cervix,respectively. Their detection and removal has been shown to preventcancer; thus, they serve as surrogate markers for prevention ofcervical cancer. Efficacy was assessed in 4 placebo-controlled, double-blind,randomized Phase II and III clinical studies. The first Phase II studyevaluated th...

Schepens Scientists Identify Key to Integrating Transplanted Nerve Cells Into Injured Tissue

...issue (whole retina).They found that MMP-2 induced removal of the scar barrier andallowed healthy donor cells (of the whole retina) to make newconnections with the damaged retinas in the mice. "These are very powerful results," says Young. "We are convincedthat the increase of this molecule is a major key t...

Santaris Pharma presents positive preclinical data on SPC2996 at the American Association for Cancer Research

...erapeutic benefit by inducing cancercell death and removal without resorting to chemotherapy. About SPC2966 SPC2996 is the first of a portfolio of novel experimental drugsblocking harmful gene expression being designed and developed bySantaris Pharma. The drug belongs to a new class of drugs calledRNA Anta...

Progen's Phase 2 Liver Cancer Trial Exceeds Efficacy Objective

...8 in patients who hadpreviously undergone surgical removal of liver cancer. The 48 weekdata demonstrated that...cer patients who had previously undergone surgical removal ofthe cancer. Patients in this stage of the Phase 2 trial wererandomly assigned to one of three grou...