Clinical Cases and Images (Free subscription) | yesterday
BMJ video: Alice Stewart: The woman who knew too much. "Alice Stewart was one of Britain's foremost epidemiologists. However her recognition came late in her career, having spent her life fighting the establishment's enshrined views. In the 1950s when she started her work, x-rays were routinely used in foetal monitoring. It was Stewart who first showed the link between the practice and childhood...
pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christmas has come early to Washington, as yuletide trees and lights keep popping up at homes long before Thanksgiving. Even the city itself soon will festoon itself in holiday decorations. But the effort involves no crass commercialism. Rather, the early displays embody the core of Christmas spirit: an outreach of love for one of the community's most delicate souls. Dax Locke is 28 months old. His...
internetmonk.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
This week: Ecumenism on the streets. Praising the Book of Common Prayer I’m concerned for my friend who is fighting for his life against Leukemia. Apologies for being a bit off my best game today. Real life and all that. Support the IM sponsors: New Reformation Press. Reformation theology for everyone. Rockbridge Seminary. Family, ministry and online [...]
The Many Thoughts of HarleyGirl (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Well now that the worst of it is hopefully over I feel better about writing about what is going on with me. I was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia called "Hairy Cell". Yes, that is really what it is called. Only 2 in 2 million women get this and I was the lucky one. I've been in the hospital since Oct 19th. I've had my chemotherapy. It was 7 days long, 24 hours a day. I'm waiting now...
Celebrity Gossip (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Talking about the role, Kelly said, “A few of the girls in the cast are more game than others to go nude.” The stage debut comes after a an intimate dinner at London restaurant J Sheekeys with boyfriend Danny Cipriani the previous evening. The cute couple recently moved in together, with Kelly telling, “It is only in the last few months that we have become an [official] couple and...
ForBidMe's Game Reviews & Impressions (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
This may not be a game review but i think its relevant information that i can share to the anonymous public so yup here goes. The Great Ridgeway Walk is going to be a charity event which is being organised by myself, and a few other friends and my delightful mother. She was a great help today in the planning stages and pointed things out that we had missed, you know the the simple things which you...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Urangoo Baatarkhuyag, a Mongolian immigrant who moved to the United States eight years ago, has been told she will die because she does not have health insurance, reports Jed Boal for local NBC affiliate KSL . Baatarkhuyag, 24, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in September,...
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Bethesda, MD-based Micromet has agreed to buy out MedImmune's North American rights to blinatumomab , a potential treatment for lymphoma and leukemia. As a result of the buyout, Micromet now controls global rights to develop and commercialize blinatumomab and any other BiTE antibodies for hematological cancers. The companies inked the blinatumomab agreement in 2003 and planned to create up to six...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Cephalon, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH) announced the journal Cancer has published a pivotal study demonstrating that TREANDA® (bendamustine HCl) for Injection induced durable responses in patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) whose disease had progressed during or within six months of treatment with rituximab.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNSS) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted voreloxin orphan drug designation for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Travel (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Ruth Huff With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site. The General's Daughter: This is a complex murder mystery starring John Travolta and James...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Stem Cell Therapy International Inc. (OTCBB: SCII) and its soon to be subsidiary, Histostem Ltd. of South Korea ("Histostem"), announced that they recently supplied hematopoietic stem cells to The Queen Mary Hospital of the University of Hong Kong, China, for treatment of Leukemia patients.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New data published today in the journal, Cancer, reveals that three quarters (75%) of patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (iNHL), responded to treatment with Bendamustine following a single-arm, multicentre study. Significantly, all patients participating in the study had become resistant or were unresponsive to rituximab (the standard treatment for the disease) when used either as...
Got2BeGreen (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A portion of proceeds from the holiday store will be donated to support children's charities, including DKMS Americas, whose mission is to save lives by recruiting bone marrow donors for leukemia patients "Everyone is so busy during the holidays and we want to help families take time out and create new holiday traditions that may last a lifetime." About ZABA About Jade's ToyBox
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Look for a spike in outsourcing at Genmab. The Danish antibody developer says it is reorganizing the company and turning to vendors to do more clinical development work after it axes 300 staff jobs and sells its U.S. manufacturing business. "The workload for Genmab's development employees, in particular, has decreased and is expected to remain low as partners take on increasing responsibility...
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