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Patient Perspective: Jamie Troil Goldfarb shares her clinical trial experience [video]

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Not only will patients be able to gain access to potential new treatments, but they will also be directly contributing to research that can save lives — something that Jamie Troil Goldfarb has experienced firsthand. Jamie received a diagnosis of stage IV melanoma in 2011, only 11 weeks after giving birth to her child.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

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By Allessandra DiCorato October 11, 2023 In 2011, Robert Manguso was working in a cell biology lab when his mother was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer. The researchers soon partnered with Calico Life Sciences , which in collaboration with AbbVie , discovered drug candidates that block the PTPN2 protein.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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Chinese researchers scoured ancient medical texts containing written records of malaria outbreaks and the plant-derived recipes that were used to treat them nearly two thousand years ago. Over the course of 12 years, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) screened more than 250,000 compounds in search of an efficacious treatment.

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Antibiotic Therapy Before Age 2 May Affect Child Health

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31, 2011, to examine the impact of antibiotic exposure in the first two years of life. Zaira Aversa, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues conducted a population-based cohort study involving children born in Olmsted County, Minnesota, between Jan. 1, 2003, and Dec. Abstract/Full Text. © 2020 HealthDay.

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‘Repeat After Me’ for Better Diabetes Care

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Doctors already learn the technique in medical school, noted Dr. Scott Isaacs, spokesman for the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology and medical director for Atlanta Endocrine Associates. Data came from the 2011-2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey administered by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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Maternal Use of Valproic Acid Linked to ASD, ADHD in Offspring

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Wiggs, from Indiana University in Bloomington, and colleagues used Swedish-registry data to examine the risks for ASD and ADHD in 14,614 children born from 1996 to 2011 to women with epilepsy. to 3.47] and 1.74 [95 percent confidence interval, 1.28 to 2.38], respectively). . One author disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Epilepsy Meds During Pregnancy May Raise Autism Risk in Child

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30, 2020 — Women who take the epilepsy medication valproic acid during pregnancy have more than twice the risk of having a child with autism , new research suggests. She’s a doctoral candidate in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington. FRIDAY, Oct.

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