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In a period of unprecedented changes, it is understandable that people may question what their lives may look like moving forward. COVID-19 has now spread to 196 countries and…
In a period of unprecedented changes, it is understandable that people may question what their lives may look like moving forward. COVID-19 has now spread to 196 countries and…
According to a story from LocalHealthGuide, COVID-19 has continued to spread through the US and the lackluster government response suggests that it isn't going to be contained any time soon.…
According to a story from Financial Buzz, the precision oncology company Notable has recently announced that it has opened enrollment for a new observational clinical trial that will focus on…
SELLAS has just announced that patient screening has begun for a Phase 3 trial for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The trial is examining the effects of GPS for patients who…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc. just announced that it has started screening participants for its phase 3 clinical trial. The trial…
The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) published excerpts from a presentation by Dr. Andrew Wei at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. The article stated…
Written by: Paul Pavao The most important thing I can tell you is that Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm (BPDCN) can be survived. As of 2019 survival requires a bone…
When the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) was founded in 1949 by a family in memory of their sixteen-year-old son, cancer was considered a hopeless condition. As noted recently…
According to a recent article in the ASH Clinical News patients are being encouraged to participate in shared decision-making (SDM) with their doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. The…
According to a story from curetoday.com, Betty Strommer had been a breast cancer survivor for years when, in 2013, she was suddenly diagnosed with cancer again. This time, it was…
According to a story from First World Pharma, the biopharmaceutical company Mustang Bio, Inc. recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved their investigational new drug…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Mustang Bio, Inc. has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently awarded the company Orphan Drug…
According to a story from BioPortfolio, the biopharmaceutical company CStone Pharmaceuticals has recently announced that China's National Medical Product Administration (NMPA) has issued approval for the company to conduct a…
Genomic studies and advances in technology have increased researchers’ knowledge of several genetic syndromes that put people at risk for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). An article that appeared in…
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has funded a study by a company called Forty Seven, Inc. The clinical trial is investigating the benefits of a drug therapy for two cancers…
According to a story from The ASCO Post, recent studies suggest that around 70,000 adolescents and young adults are diagnosed with some type of cancer in the US each year.…
According to a story from mdmag.com, a recent study that was presented at the 2019 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology has demonstrated the potential of a two…
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are two rare forms of blood cancer with a high unmet need. The majority of cases in these patient populations are…
A recent posting by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society references the Beat AML Master Trial. The trial evaluates targeted therapies to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and was launched…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Innovation Pharmaceuticals recently released a report in which recent studies and pre-clinical research has suggested that the company's experimental drug Kevetrin…
In a world that is just beginning to make space for the open discussion of transgender individual's life experiences, there's still a huge gap in the conversation regarding healthcare. This…
GT Biopharma has just announced that their Phase 1 clinical trial for Mastocytosis, Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), and Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) has been authorized to begin. Although this investigation had previously…
According to a story from BioPortfolio, the biopharmaceutical company AVEO Pharmaceuticals and the lung cancer diagnostic company Biodesix recently released the results from the Phase Ib clinical trial testing a…
The oral inhibitor drug gilteritinib (XOSPATA®) was recently approved by the FDA based on interim results of the clinical trial ADMIRAL, according to an article in EurekAlert for Science News. A…
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is a rare blood cancer whose prevalence increases with age. There are still extremely limited treatment options for AML and the five-year survival…