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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that malignant rhabdoid tumors, a rare pediatric cancer without effective treatments, may be sensitive to drugs that block the cancer cell's ability to dispose of misfolded proteins.
SXC Health Solutions Corp. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PTRx, Inc., a full-service PBM, and SaveDirectRx, Inc., its exclusive mail-order pharmacy provider, both based in San Antonio.
This year's recipients of the most important prize for early career researchers in Germany have been announced. The selection committee, appointed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has chosen ten researchers, three women and seven men, to receive the 2014 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes.
A new nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory therapy made from a human protein significantly decreases disease signs of asthma in mice, opening the possibility of a new asthma therapy for patients who do not respond to current steroid treatments. Results of this therapy in an animal model were presented at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego.
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