Novocure's Device Shown to Slow Cancer Progression in the Brain in Trial Novocure's Device Shown to Slow Cancer Progression in the Brain in Trial
Novocure ' s therapy met the main goal of a late-stage trial of slowing the progression of cancer to the brain in patients with a type of lung cancer, the company said on...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology Source Type: news
Novocure's Lung Cancer Device Slows Progression to Brain in Trial, Shares Rise Novocure's Lung Cancer Device Slows Progression to Brain in Trial, Shares Rise
Novocure said on Wednesday that its device met the main goal of a late-stage trial by slowing the progression of cancer to the brain in patients with a type of lung cancer,...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology Source Type: news
Clinical trial results show new Penn technology could be the key to fighting brain cancer
Financed in part by Kite Pharma, the study of a new cell therapy technique developed at Penn yielded positive early results in brain cancer patients. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 21, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John George Source Type: news
A data duel over U.S. maternal mortality
Experts agree that the U.S. maternal mortality rate is unacceptably high. And year after year of data show that disadvantaged groups, particularly Black and Native American women, die at even higher rates than women in the United States overall during pregnancy and childbirth.
But controversy broke out last week over just how bad the situation is, when a paper by academic epidemiologists published in the
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
(
AJOG
) provoked unusual pushback from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The paper suggested a widely reported tripling in t...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 19, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Brain cancer-stricken father, 40, dies just weeks after fulfilling last wish to marry his partner of 17 years
Paul Jeffries, from Birmingham , received a shock glioblastoma diagnosis in 2017 after suffering a series of seizures. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ozempic Gets the Oprah Treatment in a New TV Special
Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound are already extremely popular: by 2030, about 10% of the U.S. population will be on one of these drugs and the category’s sales will surpass $100 billion, according to some projections. On March 18, they got another major cultural boost from Oprah Winfrey, who shared her own experience with—and support for—these medications in an ABC special called “Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.”
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During the special, Winfrey talked about how using one of these weight-loss drugs (she did not say w...
Source: TIME: Health - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Reimagining rehabilitation for adults with brain tumours: a roadmap
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission - Developed in collaboration with health communications agency Costello Medical, this report sets out a roadmap of actionable and impactful recommendations that aim to improve rehabilitation for patients with brain tumours. Key recommendations were to: build the evidence base that quantifies patient need for rehabilitation by providing funding/infrastructure for allied health professional-led research; develop clinical consensus recommendations on rehabilitation to inform guidelines for adults with brain tumours; and raise awareness of the benefits of rehabilitation for adults with b...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 18, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: news
This Brain Cancer Breakthrough Should Excite You
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A selfie saved my life: Woman's photo taken near Times Square leads to brain TUMOR diagnosis - after she noticed her drooping eye
While browsing through her holiday photos, Megan Troutwine, now 33, noticed one of her eyes was drooping in a photo taken by a fountain not far from Times Square. Little did she know she had a tumor. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Immune-Focused Therapy, CAR T Cell Therapy, Shrinks Aggressive Brain Tumors
THURSDAY, March 14, 2024 -- Delivering dual-targeted, immune-focused CAR T cancer therapy via a patient ' s spinal fluid quickly shrank deadly brain tumors, researchers report.
CAR T therapy harnesses the power of the patient ' s immune system T-cells,... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Tumor Shrinkage in Brain Cancer Patients Renews Optimism for CAR-T in Solid Malignancies
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A new strategy to attack aggressive brain cancer shrank tumors in two early tests
Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Woman, 33, who thought she was tired and dehydrated diagnosed with incurable brain cancer
The 33-year-old, who moved from Pembrokeshire to Plymouth to join the navy aged 16, found out the true cause of the symptoms only nine weeks after marrying her partner Gabriella. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Biden ’s lean science budget could mean tough choices for agencies
President Joe Biden today sent the U.S. Congress a $7.3 trillion spending blueprint that includes his
priorities for research
. But in an era of flat budgets, being on the White House’s priority list—which ranges from promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence to finding a cure for cancer—may not mean getting more money.
That’s the hard reality facing U.S. scientists as they pore over Biden’s budget request for the 2025 fiscal year, which begins on 1 October. With the slice of the U.S. budget that funds domestic research essentially capped under an earlier budget agreement with Republica...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 12, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Cancer-stricken man, 41, given nine months to live astonishes doctors as world-first treatment rids him of brain tumour
Ben Trotman, 41, from West Sussex, signed up for a world-first treatment trial after his shock glioblastoma diagnosis in October 2022. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
