Leukemia News

JUPITER, FL, June 19, 2013 - Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have been awarded more than $1.4 million from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to create a potential new drug to attack the malignant cells that cause chronic lymphocytic leukemia , which is the most common leukemia in ... (more)

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have been awarded more than $1.4 million from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to create a potential new drug to attack the malignant cells that cause chronic lymphocytic leukemia , which is the most common leukemia in the Western world.

The first person ever cured of HIV was in Seattle Tuesday, meeting with scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where they're in the midst of a $20 million project to defeat HIV for good, and working to recreate this cure for others.

Q. How successful are heart transplants? The survival rates for heart transplants have improved steadily since the first successful human heart transplants were done in the late 1960s.

A study by researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, shows that a protein called MCL-1, which promotes cell survival, is essential for normal heart function.

A St. Matthews family's second annual effort to raise money to fight childhood cancer has taken a new turn after a cancer diagnosis struck close to home.

As more and more people live past their harrowing battles with cancer, increased attention is being paid to certain side-effects of chemotherapy, such as the growing field of research into sexual function for women after cancer.

E nmark Stations Inc., has announced its customers helped raise $65,468 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light The Night Walk scheduled for Oct. 18 in Forsyth Park.

Her story is one any great playwrite would appreciate. Her life was a comedy and a tragedy, an adventure and a romance.

Last weekend's "Anything for a Friend, Riess Timothy" fundraiser brought together more than 500 Castle Country residents and an army of organizers united behind one Price family's battle against cancer.

Eight-year-old dancer and cancer survivor Kameryn VanWallengham accepts a cheque raised by her dance studio on behalf of the Northern Ontario Families of Children with Cancer.

Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc. was up 12 percent Tuesday as investors buy stock following what one analyst called an "overreaction" to data released earlier this month on the Cambridge biotech's potential treatment for blood cancer.

For most people, rowing the distance from Dover to Calais does not sound like the most exciting of ways to spend a Saturday.

Madisyn Tolfa is 7-year-old. She's in the second grade, lives in Niagara Falls, and has acute lympho-blastic leukemia.

The gene, SALL4, gives stem cells their ability to continue dividing as stem cells rather than becoming mature cells.

Harpist Eleanor Fell collected some Marquee signs from her days performing at the Rainbow Room in New York City.

A study by researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, shows that a protein called MCL-1, which promotes cell survival, is essential for normal heart function.

The healthcare industry is sick, but increasing numbers of startups are applying their tricks and treatments to nurse it back to heath.

Cowtown in Phoenix, Arizona is having everyone meet up at its downtown shop to Premiere the Sk8Mafia Video STEE .

Fans of Sunday's Daddy Dash in Wellington were all cheering for the same team, Team Dad.