During the first three years of Augenstein’s lung cancer journey, he’s been happy to be able to share things he has been learning along the way. WTOP’s Neal…
Read more WTOP’s Neal Augenstein: 3 years after Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis, what’s next – WTOP NewsTHE BLUEPRINT: 6,000 sq. ft. Clinical Trials Unit now open at Commack Features 12 exam rooms, infusion bays, and specialized testing labs Supports trials for all ages Stony…
Read more Stony Brook Medicine launches clinical trials unit in Commack | Long Island Business NewsOur immune system has a dark side: It’s supposed to fight off invaders to keep us healthy. But sometimes it turns traitor and attacks our own cells and…
Read more There are more than 100 autoimmune diseases, and they mostly strike women. Here’s what to knowNew Hyde Park is now home to a $14 million, 21,000-square-foot cancer center for women. Northwell Cancer Institute’s Center for Women’s Cancer at the R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Center…
Read more Northwell opens a $14M women’s cancer center in New Hyde Park | Long Island Business NewsWhen President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would repurpose an old, generic drug as a new treatment for autism, it came as a surprise to many experts —…
Read more Trump’s touting of an unproven autism drug surprised many, including the doctor who proposed itNorthwell Health has signed a memorandum of understanding with Enterprise Singapore, a government agency that supports the growth of Singaporean companies and their expansion into international markets. The…
Read more Northwell signs strategic agreement with Enterprise Singapore to advance healthcare | Long Island Business NewsWASHINGTON (AP) — A California biotechnology company that helps doctors detect genetic causes for cancer is among those that could be cut out of the U.S. market over…
Read more Congress targets Chinese influence in health tech. It could come with tradeoffsFor years, doctors, public health experts and researchers have known the risk of dying from cancer is substantially higher if a patient lives in a rural area, compared…
Read more With higher cancer death rates in rural areas, U.Va. seeks to improve prevention, access to clinical trials – WTOP NewsImagine an older man goes in to see his doctor. He’s 72 years old and moderately overweight: 5-foot-10, 190 pounds. His blood tests show high levels of triglycerides.…
Read more Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of WeightListen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration. In Arnold Monto’s ideal vision of this fall, the United States’ flu vaccines…
Read more Flu Shots Need to Stop Fighting ‘Something That Doesn’t Exist’BYLINE: Meg Dickinson Newswise — The Speech Accessibility Project has begun recruiting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults who have had a stroke. Those interested can sign up online. Funded…
Read more Speech Accessibility Project begins recruiting people who have had a strokeSubcutaneous formula slashes treatment time to under 5 minutes Broad impact seen for greater access to and experience with treatment Study has implications for treatment of many cancer…
Read more Subcutaneous Nivolumab as Effective as IV for Renal Cell Carcinoma — With Much Faster Treatment TimeIn the weeks after she caught COVID, in May 2022, Lauren Shoemaker couldn’t wait to return to her usual routine of skiing, backpacking, and pregaming her family’s eight-mile…
Read more ‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’The latest weight-loss drugs are rightly hailed as game changers for obesity, but in an important way, they are just like every other method of managing weight: They…
Read more The Ozempic PlateauNewswise — Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St.…
Read more Some mosquitoes like it hotNewswise — SAN DIEGO – Early results from a Phase I clinical trial of AT101, a new CAR T cell therapy that uses a distinct binding mechanism to…
Read more First-in-human clinical trial of CAR T cell therapy with new binding mechanism shows promising early responsesPfizer on Friday said it would stop developing the twice-daily version of its experimental weight loss pill after obese patients taking the drug lost significant weight but had…
Read more Pfizer to discontinue twice-daily weight loss pill due to high rates of adverse side effectsA traditional Chinese medicine has been shown to be effective at reducing complications following a heart attack after a large-scale, clinical trial. The medicine, known as tongxinluo, is…
Read more Traditional Chinese medicine proves effective in modern clinical trialBYLINE: Meg Dickinson Newswise — The Speech Accessibility Project is now recruiting U.S. adults with Down syndrome. The project aims to make voice recognition technology more useful for…
Read more Speech Accessibility Project now recruiting adults with Down syndromeNewswise — HOUSTON ― The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced the launch of its Institute for Data Science in Oncology (IDSO), which integrates the…
Read more MD Anderson announces Institute for Data Science in Oncology to advance mission to end cancer
