Oct 1 2018SaveHealth10/1/18Health10/1/18Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Researchers Who Harnessed the Immune System to Fight CancerGeorge Dvorsky3SaveThe 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to a pair of immunologists for devising an…
Dec 29 2016Save12/29/16New Cancer Therapy Shows Promise in Treating Aggressive Brain TumorsGeorge Dvorsky11SaveBy boosting the power of a patient’s immune cells, researchers from the City of Hope Beckman Research Institute have…
Jul 13 2016Save7/13/16Feds Allow Experimental Cancer Trial to Resume Despite Recent DeathsGeorge Dvorsky6SaveJust days after shutting down tests of a groundbreaking new cancer therapy in the wake of three patient deaths, the…
Jul 8 2016Save7/8/16New Cancer Therapy Leaves Three DeadGeorge Dvorsky96SaveClinical trials of a promising new therapy, in which white blood cells are reprogrammed to attack cancer cells, has…
Feb 16 2016Save2/16/16Revolutionary Cancer Therapy Shows Promise in Terminally Ill PatientsGeorge Dvorsky40SaveA groundbreaking new therapy in which white blood cells were reprogrammed to attack cancer cells is showing great…
Nov 6 2015Save11/6/15Pioneering Gene-Editing Therapy Reverses Cancer in Baby GirlGeorge Dvorsky50SaveA one-year-old girl diagnosed with incurable aggressive leukemia is now in remission after receiving “designer…