Keyword: cancer

Markets & Companies

Leaving the Patent Cliff Behind

07.10.2015 - The pharmaceutical industry is entering a period of sustained growth. Prescription drug sales are set to advance at almost 5% a year until 2020, while worldwide prescription drug...

Markets & Companies

The Future Lies in the Genome

07.10.2015 - Kemal Malik, board member for innovation at the German Bayer Group, sees many similarities in the genetic system of humans, animals and plants. This opens the door for synergies in...

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Bind and Pfizer in Tumor License Deal

28.09.2015 - US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has exercised its option under the companies’ global collaboration agreement to take an exclusive license from Bind Therapeutics for the purpose of...

Sites & Services

GE Healthcare invests at the MaRS facility in Toronto

31.08.2015 - Technological Transformation — In this digital era, it comes as a shock to discover that critical diagnoses of life-threatening diseases such as cancer still depend on what a...

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Prenatal DDT Exposure Linked To Breast Cancer

17.06.2015 - Women exposed to higher levels of the pesticide DDT while in utero face increased risk of breast cancer later in life than those exposed to lower levels, according to new research...

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French Minister Will Ask Garden Shops not to Sell Roundup

14.06.2015 - French Environment and Energy Minister Segolène Royal has told the French television network France 3 she plans to ask garden shops to stop selling Monsanto's glyphosate weed...

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WHO Scientists Analyzing 2,4-D Cancer Links

08.06.2015 - At a meeting in Lyon, France, this week 24 scientists representing the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will analyze scientific...

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New Drug Combination Said to Hold Promise for Melanoma

08.06.2015 - In a new international clinical trial, two cancer drugs developed by US drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb are reported to have shrunk tumors in nearly 60% of people with advanced...