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The FINANCIAL -- The successful results of a University of Liverpool led drug trial aimed at developing new therapeutic approaches to cancer have been presented at two American medical conferences.

The FINANCIAL -- An extra 13 percent of pancreatic cancer patients will live for at least five years when given a combination of chemotherapy drugs compared with standard treatment, according to the results of a Cancer Research UK trial led by the

The FINANCIAL -- Doctors of optometry will soon have another treatment option for patients with hemianopia, a condition that affects 1 million Americans.

The FINANCIAL -- The Ministry of Health and Sports and the World Bank launched the E-Health project to improve the reach and effectiveness of healthcare service delivery.

The FINANCIAL -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered that muscle cells affected by muscular dystrophy contain high levels of an enzyme that impairs muscle repair. This finding provides a new target for potential drug treatments for the disease, which

The FINANCIAL -- Recent moves to introduce plain (standardized) packaging of tobacco products can save lives by reducing demand for tobacco products, according to WHO and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Secretariat (WHO FCTC).

The FINANCIAL -- If smokers needed another image to help stub out the habit long-associated with multiple chronic diseases, a speculum-splayed eye socket emblazoned with the words "smoking causes blindness" might do the trick.

The FINANCIAL -- Americans are becoming more informed about the Zika virus, but there are still some large gaps in their knowledge of the mosquito-borne illness that can cause devastating birth defects, a new HealthDay/Harris Poll finds.

The FINANCIAL -- Bayer and TransferTech Sherbrooke, the corporate entity responsible for commercializing the innovations emerging from the Université de Sherbrooke and its affiliated institutions, have signed a global license agreement to advance a novel vaccine candidate discovered at Université de Sherbrooke

The FINANCIAL -- The economic crisis of 2008-10, and the rise in unemployment that accompanied it, was associated with more than 260,000 excess cancer-related deaths—including many considered treatable—within the Organization for Economic Development (OECD), according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan