Doctor on the cusp of a cancer cure: Nobel Prize-winning oncologist whose discovery means killer disease could be treated with a vaccine in years to come
Dr Catherine Wu (pictured), now an oncologist at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has pioneered the research fueling a new frontier of 'personalized cancer vaccines.' (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA Fast Tracks UV1 Vaccine Combo for Mesothelioma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track designation to a new therapeutic cancer vaccine. The approval is for UV1 in combination with the immunotherapy drugs Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) to manage malignant pleural mesothelioma that can’t be managed with surgery.
Therapeutic cancer vaccines, unlike preventive vaccines, treat existing cancers. Fast Track expedites the development of drug reviews for severe conditions. This way, the FDA can bring essential new drugs to patients earlier. With this designation, UV1 drug-maker Ultimovacs ASA will interact more frequently with the FDA dur...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - February 21, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Travis Rodgers Tags: Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments Mesothelioma Source Type: news
South Africa: Parents Urged to Give Consent for HPV Vaccine
[SAnews.gov.za] Gauteng MEC for Health and Wellness, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, has appealed to parents, caregivers and legal guardians who have not yet signed the consent form to vaccinate young girls against cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine to do so. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 19, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Russia close to making cancer vaccines? What Putin said
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian scientists were close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available to patients. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - February 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Putin says Russia is close to creating cancer vaccines
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Man Has Died From Alaskapox. Here ’s What We Know About the Virus
Alaska’s health department reports that the first person in the state has died from a recently discovered virus called Alaskapox.
The elderly man—who was immunocompromised due to cancer treatments—first noticed an unusual lesion in his right armpit last September, according to Alaska health officials who spoke to TIME about the case. He was prescribed antibiotics at his local emergency room on the Kenai Peninsula, but after multiple visits and a worsening, painful infection, he was transferred to a hospital in Anchorage.
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Source: TIME: Health - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Commentary: The small-molecule 'penalty' is a threat to Mass. biotech sector
In Massachusetts, the convergence of brilliant minds and entrepreneurial spirit has given rise to transformative breakthroughs that are shaping the future of medicine: mRNA vaccines, targeted cancer therapies, gene-editing technology, and more. These advances are not an accident, but rather a product of an ecosystem of academic research institutions, venture funds, small biotech companies and large manufacturers.
This ecosystem is now adapting to new realities set in place by last year's Inflation… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 9, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Kendalle Burlin O'Connell, John Stanford Source Type: news
News at a glance: Weird early trees, CERN ’s next big collider, and protecting U.S. gray wolves
PALEONTOLOGY
Rare fossil reveals weird early tree
The earliest trees, from nearly 400 million years ago, are known mostly from fossils of their trunks; their leaves and canopy shapes have remained a mystery. A newly reported, 350-million-year-old tree found in Canada provides a vivid answer for one such primordial species: As if having a perpetual bad hair day,
a thick crown of spiky leaves stuck out perpendicularly from the trunk
. Scientists named the tree
Sanfordiacaulis densifolia
, after the owner of the New Brunswick quarry where they found five specimens. The fossils, amo...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Zero Cases Of Cervical Cancer In Those Who Received HPV Vaccine, Study.
Women who received the HPV vaccine prior to age 14 years had no cases of cervical cancer, according to a recent study. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Nina Shapiro, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
Zero Cases Of Cervical Cancer In Those Who Received HPV Vaccine, Study Finds
There are over 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer annually in the U.S., with nearly 4,000 cervical cancer deaths each year. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Nina Shapiro, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
Moderna cancer vaccine trial begins in UK, scientists hopeful of 'dawn of a new age of treatments'
Cancer patients in the UK are part of a global trial for the mRNA therapy mRNA-4359. The phase 1/2 clinical trial, sponsored by Moderna, aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the therapy in treating melanoma, lung cancer, and other solid tumor cancers. The therapy uses mRNA to train the immune system to recognize and combat cancer cells expressing common tumor markers. The trial is conducted in collaboration with Moderna-UK Strategic Partnership and aims to bring mRNA vaccine manufacturing to the UK. The first patient to receive mRNA-4359 was an 81-year-old man with treatment-resistant malignant melanoma. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - February 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Huge cancer breakthrough as new vaccine could cure illnesses in 'dawn of a new age'
Moderna, one of the providers of Covid vaccines, has developed a new jab that could cure cancer. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scottish Study On HPV Vaccine Shows Remarkable Reduction In Cervical Cancer Incidence
Scottish observational study on the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine shows that no cases of cervical cancer were recorded in women immunized at 12 or 13 years of age. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Joshua Cohen, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & standard Source Type: news
Kenya: Health Ministry Conducts Cancer Screening, Vaccination Ahead of World Cancer Day
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health conducted a cancer vaccination and screening campaign in Kirinyaga ahead of World Cancer Day on Sunday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 4, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Noncommunicable Diseases Source Type: news
Laying bedrock for development, growth: Dilip Shanghvi, MD, Sun Pharma
The interim budget exemplifies the government's dedication to Viksit Bharat. It focuses on fortifying the economy, boosting infrastructure, and promoting green growth through bio-manufacturing. The budget also expands universal health coverage and introduces the cervical cancer vaccination program. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - February 1, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
