Could the Zika threat in Latin America be over in 1-2 years?
(By Helen Branswell for STAT) The Zika outbreak in Latin America may blow through like a nasty storm, moving off in
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Unspent Dollars
On Thursday, six leading republicans in Congress wrote to President Obama questioning why the White House has not released the
Read MoreLISTEN: The superbugs are winning the battle against us
(By Meg Tirrell and Luke Timmerman for STAT) This is totally sleeper phase right now … you want to get
Read MoreDo all Melanoma respond to Immunotherapy?
In a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, which was funded by the National Cancer
Read MoreFDA lets cancer trial resume after three patient deaths
(By Damian Garde for STAT) Federal regulators on Tuesday gave Juno Therapeutics the all-clear to resume testing an experimental cancer treatment, just
Read MoreRepublicans embrace the ‘Right to Try’ to get experimental medicines
(By Ed Silverman for STAT) The “Right to Try” movement may be embedded in the Republican Party platform. Amid the
Read MoreAnother case of Superbug confirmed in US
On Monday, researchers confirmed preliminary findings that E. coli carrying the same mcr-1 gene –that thwarts the last-resort antibiotic- was
Read MoreNIH’s Fauci On Combating Zika: ‘You Have To Have The Resources To Act Quickly’
(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News) Every day there are headlines about the Zika virus. The number of
Read MoreIs CAR-T a Bust?
The Food and Drug Administration put a temporary hold to Juno Therapeutics’ clinical trials for CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)
Read MoreZika Traveling Tips: Some Issues To Consider
(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News) In a span of 13 months, a relatively unknown virus morphed into
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