ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
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...e polymer particles, they tried to see them with a standard electron microscope, but the particles were too small. They turned to colleague Tomasz Kowalewski, Ph.D., research assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University, a Polish native who is an expert in atomic force microscopy (AFM), and oper......rs recommended its useas part of a new therapeutic standard of care. The researchers' study andclinical recom... the intravenous introductionof tirofiban into the standard treatment protocol provides additional benefit topatients because tirofiban helps prevent the develo...Synthetic Detergent Found To Fight Multi-Drug Resistance
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...s, especially when administered incombination with standard chemotherapy. "We are excited about finally bringing new approaches like anti-angiogenesistherapies that make sense intellectually from the laboratory to the clinic,"says David Jablons, MD, UCSF assistant professor of surgery and principalinvestigato...Infants With Eye Problem Sought For NIH-Sponsored Study Of Congenital Esotropia
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...itionalChinese medicine, where effective, into the standard of care for breast cancerpatients, UCSF researcher... effective with those that we knoware effective in standard conventional therapy, such as chemotherapy," said DebuTripathy, MD, UCSF associate professor of medi...... with the name. The chart is handled according to standard confidentiality guidelines for medicalrecords. In anonymous testing, a unique identifying label (usually a number) rather thena patient's name is used to link the specimen and the result to the patient. Theresult is not recorded in a medical chart th...Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
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