Novartis to bolster its cancer-drug portfolio with $2.9 billion deal for MorphoSys

Under the deal, Switzerland-based Novartis would acquire pelabresib, a potential treatment for myelofibrosis, and the anti-tumor drug tulmimetostat ... Novartis spun off its generic drugs ... Read More

Medicine: Drug Revolution

New drugs for the mentally ill are causing a revolutionary change in NewYork’s 27 state hospitals. For years, admissions have been increasingat a rate of 3,000 annually. Now the department of ... Read More

Health & Medicine News

Apr. 17, 2024 — More than five million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the ... No Link Between Acetaminophen ... Read More

Personalized medicine: We’re not there yet

When Francis Collins, then-director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, testified before Congress in 2003 about the significance of sequencing the human genome that year, he ... Read More

Breast Cancer News

A Smart Molecule Beats the Mutation Behind Most Pancreatic Cancer Mar. 5, 2024 — Researchers have designed a candidate drug that could ... 20 per cent of all cases of the most severe form ... Read More

Hospital Medicine

Life After Cancer: A New Outlook on Survivorship: Transitioning Care Experts from Stanford Medicine discuss the integration of cancer survivorship care into primary care medicine and how it can ... Read More

Family Medicine News

Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2023 Procedures May Ease Postmenopausal Pain Better Than Drugs Postmenopausal women report more significant improvements in chronic pain after procedural ... Read More

Medicine News and Research

Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a DNA repair mechanism that advances understanding of how human cells stay healthy, and which could lead to new treatments for cancer and ... Read More

I’m a doctor — here’s what to know about rising cancer rates in young people

“Multiple cancer types are becoming increasingly common among younger adults in the United States and globally,” study author Ruiyi Tian, a graduate student at Washington University School of Medicine ... Read More

Oncology & Cancer news

Researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of Edinburgh have found evidence that shows that people with cancer face a higher risk of mortality from COVID-19 compared with ... Read More

The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine

Together, they provide a much needed account of how medicine in Western industrial societies acquired its distinctive power and authority through association with the laboratory. These historical ... Read More

The AI Revolution in Your Medicine Cabinet: What is DrugGPT?

According to Professor David Clifton, lead researcher at Oxford’s AI for Healthcare lab, DrugGPT’s effectiveness rivals that of human experts, as demonstrated by its performance in US medical ... Read More