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Tag: "immunotherapy" at medical news

Researchers Explore the Effect of Engineered Immune Cells on HIV

...cells to neutralize HIV, we may be able to develop immunotherapy for HIV-Infected people, as well as find ways to prevent it all together." Wang's research is part of the Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, which was launched in 2003 to create "deliverable health tools" that were "not...

A New Drug for Halting Metastatic Kidney Cancer

...progress in recent years. The usual treatment with immunotherapy had not shown clearly positive results in many patients. Sunitinib is one of the few pharmaceutical drugs that provide clear improvements in this type of cancer. The mechanism of functioning of sunitinib is in blocking the generation of new blood v...

Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads

The addition of immunotherapy to chemotherapy for malignant skin cancer that has...on. Researchers have hoped that a combination of immunotherapy — treatment that bolsters or stimulates patients’ immune systems — and chemotherapy might be an opti...

Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads

The addition of immunotherapy to chemotherapy for malignant skin cancer that has...ion. Researchers have hoped that a combination of immunotherapy — treatment that bolsters or stimulates patients’ immune systems — and chemotherapy might be an opti...

Implications of Statin Therapy in Bladder Cancer Patients

...t the discontinuation of statin therapy during BCG immunotherapy might improve the clinical outcome'. In the March issue of NEJM, Kamat and Wu reported on the outcomes of a cohort of 156 patients who received BCG treatment; 39 took statins during BCG, and 117 did not. After a median follow-up: 56 months, there w...

Sugary News for Diabetics – Cure Stems from Stem Cell Therap

... drug-free treatment," said Richard Burt, chief of immunotherapy at North-western University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and one of the senior authors of the research report. Type 1 diabetes, a notorious disease, could be the cause of serious health complications like blindness, kidney failure, he...

New Smallpox Vaccine Contract: Five Years in the Making

...ctive in a number of other fields including cancer immunotherapy with a subsidiary in California, BN Immunotherapeutics, Inc., to research and develop MVA-based vaccines against cancer....

AAAAI Offers Advice on Stinging Insect Allergies

...st might also suggest allergy shots, also known as immunotherapy treatment. Venom immunotherapy shots take effect within just a few months. Venom immunotherapy is the closest thing to a 'cure' for...

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

...llow-up data from a Phase 2 clinical trial of GVAX immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer which was conducted by the J... data reported today in this Phase 2 study of GVAX immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer in patients with operable disease," said Kristen Hege, M.D., vice president of...

Cord Blood may Hold Potential Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

...t giving these cells is essentially providing some immunotherapy and downregulating the autoimmunity these patients have," he added. The findings of the study were presented at the American Diabetes Association's 67th Scientific Sessions in Chicago....

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