'Statins prevent cancer in heart transplant patients'
Bern, May 20 (IANS) Statins prevent cancer and reduce death from all causes in heart transplant recipients, independently of cholesterol levels, says a new study.
Statins prevent cancer in heart transplant recipients
Statins prevent cancer and reduce death from all causes in heart transplant recipients. The findings were independent of cholesterol levels.
First stem cell drug approved for systemic disease treatment
Osiris Therapeutics Inc said on Thursday that Canadian health regulators have approved its treatment for acute graft-versus host disease in children, making it the first stem cell drug to be approved for a systemic disease anywhere in the world
Experimental Drug Helps Fight Some Childhood Cancers, Study Finds
WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — A new targeted drug therapy may help treat certain advanced cancers in children, a new preliminary study indicates.
Canada OKs Osiris drug; first stem cell therapy
BOSTON (Reuters) – Osiris Therapeutics Inc said on Thursday that Canadian health regulators have approved its treatment for acute graft-versus host disease in children, making it the first stem cell drug to be approved for a systemic disease anywhere i…
AP source: MLB fires arbitrator from Braun case
A person familiar with the decision tells The Associated Press that baseball management has fired Shyam Das, the arbitrator who overturned Ryan Braun's drug suspension in February.
Feds nab third man suspected in airport drug plot
Federal authorities have arrested the third Atlanta airport worker suspected of plotting to smuggle a bag filled with heroin and methamphetamines into the U.S.
Clinigen gains US FDA approval for Foscavir in HIV/AIDS-related cytomegalovirus infections and herpes
Clinigen Healthcare, the pharmaceutical products division of Clinigen Group, announced today that its supplemental new drug application for Foscavir , a tr
Drug-Defying Germs From India Speed Post-Antibiotic Era
Lill-Karin Skaret, a 67-year-old grandmother from Namsos, Norway, was traveling to a lakeside vacation villa near India’s port city of Kochi in March 2010 when her car collided with a truck. She was rushed to the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences,…
Love, family, drug addiction: Gregg Allman tells it all in new memoir 'My Cross to Bear'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Gregg Allman thinks about his late brother Duane every day. And once in a while, he can feel his presence.