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Government website steers patients to unproven medical treatments – Sun Sentinel

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2017-07-23 NEWS

Sun Sentinel

Government website steers patients to unproven medical treatments
Sun Sentinel
ClinicalTrials.gov, the federal government’s public listing of medical trials, is providing false comfort to consumers and free advertising to for-profit stem cell clinics offering unproven and loosely regulated treatments, a Sun Sentinel investigation

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2017-07-22 NEWS

COX-2 Inhibitors May Improve Cancer Immunotherapy Response
Immuno-Oncology News
“Our studies provide a clear rationale to test, in the clinics, combinations of anti-PD1 immunotherapy and COX-2 inhibitors,” Van den Eynde said. “This should be straightforward given the fact that both anti-PD1 and COX-2 inhibitors are already

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2017-07-22 NEWS

Daily Mail

Groom, 51, who donated his stem cells eight years ago chooses the person whose life he saved as his best man
Daily Mail
The transplant would involve stem cells being extracted from the donor’s bone marrow and then infused into Brett, to grow into healthy new blood cells and replace his failing immune system. Brett and his wife Janice, 61, were told that if a suitable

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2017-07-22 NEWS

Markets Insider

A former biotech executive who’s living with terminal cancer wants to reset expectations about new cancer treatments
Markets Insider
In 2016, for instance, former President Jimmy Carter announced he was cancer-free after using the immunotherapy Keytruda as part of his treatment for melanoma. There’s been a surge of investment in cancer therapies in the past few years as well, with …

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2017-07-21 NEWS

Medgadget (blog)

Global Cancer Gene Therapy Market is expected to Witness a Steady Growth by 2022
Medgadget (blog)
Gene therapy is the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acid polymers into a patient’s cells as a drug to treat disease. Gene therapy holds promise for treating a wide range of diseases, such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia
Gene Therapy Market Trends, Growth, Type and Application, Manufacturers, Regions & forecast to 2022Green Mountain Outlook

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2017-07-21 NEWS

Chorkborty-Hoque: London could have new ‘building’ boom
London Free Press
“I want London to be the innovation hub of synthetic biology in Ontario and potentially Canada,” says Karas, the conference organizer. After earning a doctorate in bio-technology from Western, he went to San Diego, but returned in 2015. “This city has