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California air quality rules to tighten after cancer risk estimate triples
2015-06-07 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Factories and oil refineries in southern California face a new crackdown on their emissions of air toxins, after experts in the state reported that breathing in pollution carries almost three times the risk of causing cancer than was previously thought, especially for children and babies. Air quality regulators covering almost 11,000 square miles that are inhabited by almost 17 million people, including residents of Los Angeles, have approved new rules designed to help protect the public from...
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Revlon Donates $1 Million To Cancer Research
2015-06-05 07:00:00| Happi Breaking News
First phase in new philanthropic platform of "bigger and more impactful donations" from beauty firm.
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Reprogramming bacteria to detect cancer
2015-06-04 18:24:36| Extremetech
Researchers at MIT and UCSD are programming bacteria to detect cancer using a gene found in fireflies. In the future, these same bacteria may be used to eliminate the cancer as well detecting it.
Humanetics Corporation Granted FDA Clearance To Proceed With Cancer Treatment Study
2015-06-03 05:59:54| drugdiscoveryonline Home Page
Minneapolis-based Humanetics Corporation (Humanetics) announced recently that its Investigational New Drug application for the proprietary compound BIO 300 has cleared U.S
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Apatorsen added to first-line chemotherapy benefits metastatic bladder cancer patients
2015-06-02 17:19:37| Logistics - Topix.net
OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that results from an exploratory analysis of the Phase 2 Borealis-1 trial showed that metastatic bladder cancer patients with poor prognostic features benefited from apatorsen 600mg added to first-line chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone. Patients in the trial with a Karnofsky Performance Status of 80 percent or less, a common indicator of poor prognosis, experienced a 50 percent reduction in risk of death with the addition of apatorsen therapy .
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