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SUNDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers are launching a phase I clinical trial to test an engineered measles virus against the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma.
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A mass inoculation drive for 115,000 children in tsunami relief camps in southern India is underway to avoid an outbreak of measles, the United Nation's Children Fund said.
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The company faces a pivotal clinical trial.
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A new national clinical trial will probe genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by studying 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease that is the second-leading cancer killer of women.
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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A harmless version of a major killer, the HIV virus, is being used to hunt down malignant melanoma cancer cells in mice, researchers say.
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Scientists launched a trial on Monday to test whether a new drug works as an initial treatment against the most common form of lung cancer.
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A gene therapy trial starts which scientists hope will extend the lives of patients with muscular dystrophy.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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British researchers have identified the cancer stem cells that spawn tumors in the most common form of childhood leukemia, and said on Thursday it provided a "bull's eye" target for new drugs.
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Umbilical-cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two big studies indicate.
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Umbilical cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two large studies indicate.
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Researchers in Dundee are set to trial a new treatment for children struck with a deadly skin condition.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A laboratory-engineered virus can successfully slow the growth of two types of hard-to-treat pediatric tumors without harming healthy tissue, a new study shows.
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The case before the US federal court of claims in Washington will reignite the controversy over the triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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A randomised trial in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET shows how a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection could potentially reduce the global incidence of cervical cancer.
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The kidney cancer pill Nexavar has shown promise in treating a small number of people with a type of blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia or AML, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Scientists have developed a treatment which may be effective against the most common and deadly form of brain cancer.