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Takeda fined $6bn damages over Actos cancer claims
Source: The Guardian – Julia Kollewe. Photo: Arnd Wiegmann/REUTERS Japanese pharmaceutical company ordered to pay billions of…
Genetic flaw may hold key to deadly childhood brain tumour
Cancer Research UK-funded scientists may have discovered a new way to treat a type of…
Scientists reveal potential link between brain development and BRCA1 gene
Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered details into a surprising—and crucial—link between brain development…
European clinical trials: clearer rules, better protection for patients
Pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers will be obliged to upload the results of all their…
Fighting cancer with lasers and nanoballoons that pop
New drug delivery method targets cancer cells – not the entire body – and limits…
Largest ever melanoma study demonstrates tolerability and efficacy of vemurafenib in most aggressive form of skin cancer
Open label safety study, published in The Lancet Oncology, shows impact of treatment in wide…
Study shows fertility drugs do not increase breast cancer risk
Women who took clomiphene citrate or gonadotropins as a part of fertility treatment did not…
World-first clinical trial launches for advanced bowel cancer
Patients with advanced bowel cancer are set to benefit from the launch of a revolutionary new clinical…
Sweden: Higher risk of death from skin cancer among single men
Single Swedish men who live alone less likely to survive malignant skin melanoma, according to…
Medication Does Not Help Prevent ED Following Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer
Among men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer, daily use of the erectile dysfunction (ED)…