Thursday, April 2, 2009

More Effective Antiseptics From A Combination Of Tea Tree Oil And Silver

More Effective Antiseptics From A Combination Of Tea Tree Oil And Silver
In the fight against infected skin wounds, mixing tea tree oil and silver or putting them in liposomes, (small spheres made from natural lipids), greatly increases their antimicrobial activity and may minimise any side effects.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Pathwork Tissue Of Origin Test Validation Study Published In Journal Of Clinical Oncology

Pathwork Tissue Of Origin Test Validation Study Published In Journal Of Clinical Oncology
Pathwork Diagnostics, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company focused on oncology, announced that the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) has published the results of the Pathwork(R) Tissue of Origin Test validation study in a paper entitled, "Multicenter Validation of a 1,550-Gene Expression Profile for Identification of Tumor Tissue of Origin.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Afinitor(R) Approved In US As First Treatment For Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer After Failure Of Either Sunitinib Or Sorafenib

Novartis announced that Afinitor(R) (everolimus) tablets has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after failure of treatment with Sutent(R) (sunitinib) or Nexavar(R) (sorafenib). Prior to Afinitor, no other therapy has been studied in a Phase III trial in this patient population where there is an important unmet medical need(1). Complete news at...