Posts Tagged ‘clinical trial’
Drug combination may become new standard treatment for advanced kidney cancer
A combination of two drugs – one of them an immunotherapy agent – could become a new standard, first-line treatment for patients with metastatic kidney cancer, …
Read Full ArticleNew ‘Trojan horse’ cancer treatment shows early promise in multiple tumor types
A brand new type of cancer drug that acts as a ‘Trojan horse’ to get inside tumor cells has shown promise in patients with six different cancer types. …
Read Full ArticleInjection improves vision in a form of childhood blindness
A new treatment for patients with a form of congenital retinal blindness has shown success in improving vision, according to results published today in Nature Medicine …
Read Full ArticleGlobal trial shows CAR T-cell therapy can lead to durable remissions in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
In an update to a global clinical trial stretching from Philadelphia to four continents, the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy Kymriah® …
Read Full ArticleSickle cell anemia treatment safely lowers disease burden in African children
A daily hydroxyurea pill may finally bring some relief for young children living with the painful and deadly blood disease sickle cell anemia (SCA) in resource-challenged sub-Saharan Africa …
Read Full Article91 percent response rate for venetoclax against newly diagnosed AML in older adults
Clinical trial results show 91 percent response rate to the combination of venetoclax with azacitidine in older adults newly diagnosed with AML. …
Read Full ArticleResearchers find promise in new treatment for peanut allergy
Controlled ingestion of peanut protein could help build tolerance in peanut allergy sufferers. Authors of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine say an oral immunotherapy drug they tested …
Read Full ArticleDrug reduces chances of second heart attack or stroke
In a clinical trial involving 18,924 patients from 57 countries who had suffered a recent heart attack or threatened heart attack, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and fellow scientists around the world …
Read Full ArticleResearchers find wheat oral immunotherapy to be therapeutic for allergic patients
In a major step towards understanding the safety and efficacy of wheat oral immunotherapy, Mount Sinai researchers report promising results from the first …
Read Full ArticleImmunotherapy effective as first-line treatment for advanced head and neck cancer
Immunotherapy on its own is better than aggressive chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for advanced head and neck cancer, according to surprising new data from a major phase III clinical trial. …
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