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Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, Inc. Launched by Memorial

Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, Inc. Launched by Memorial

Filed under: Houston Drug Treatment Centers

Newswise — NEW YORK, October 1, 2013 ? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that they have formed the pioneering Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, Inc …
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Counterfeit Stem Cell Treatments Sold to Vulnerable Patients Willing to Try

Counterfeit Stem Cell Treatments Sold To Vulnerable Patients Willing To Try

Filed under: Texas Drug Rehab Centers

According to the New York Times, legitimate doctors, such as Dr. Hesham Sadek of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, worries people cannot tell which treatments in the area… Continue reading

Drug Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk but Has No Impact on Survival

Drug reduces prostate cancer risk but has no impact on survival

Filed under: Texas Drug Treatment Centers

The agent is used in the treatment of male- pattern baldness and benign prostatic hypertrophy. In the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT), … With up to 18 years of follow-up data from the… Continue reading

Mirati Therapeutics Appoints Isan Chen as Chief Medical and Development

Mirati Therapeutics Appoints Isan Chen as Chief Medical and Development

Filed under: Texas Drug Treatment Centers

… indication in which the drug secured FDA approval in 2006. Before joining Pfizer, Dr. Chen practiced medicine as a staff physician at City of Hope Medical Center and later as an assistant… Continue reading

The Will Herndon Fund's HOPE Under the Stars Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

The Will Herndon Fund's HOPE Under the Stars celebrates fifth anniversary

Filed under: Houston Drug Treatment Centers

HOPE Under the Stars began as a grassroots event for The Will Herndon Fund for Juvenile Batten Disease Research at Beyond Batten Disease Foundation in the Rob Fleming Park five years ago with… Continue reading

Report: Scammers Are Taking Advantage of America's Marijuana Boom

Report: Scammers Are Taking Advantage Of America's Marijuana Boom

Filed under: Drug Treatment Centers Texas

Michael Mayes is the CEO of the Chicago-based marijuana consulting and technology company Quantum 9, who also operates two marijuana cultivation centers and three dispensaries in Colorado. He said several potential investors he … Though… Continue reading

UT Health Science Center Scientists Discover New Molecular Mechanism

UT Health Science Center Scientists Discover New Molecular Mechanism

Filed under: Houston Drug Treatment Centers

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that is involved with the spread of pancreatic malignant tumors. This… Continue reading

Pharmacists Feeling Pain Over Restrictive AMA Resolution

Pharmacists Feeling Pain Over Restrictive AMA Resolution

Filed under: drug treatment centers in massachusetts

It stated that the AMA “deem[s] inappropriate inquiries from pharmacies to verify the medical rationale behind prescriptions, diagnoses and treatment plans to be an interference with the practice of medicine and unwarranted. … Richard Pieters, MD,… Continue reading

EMRs Lower Odds of Heart Failure Readmission

EMRs Lower Odds of Heart Failure Readmission

Filed under: Texas Drug Treatment Centers

The proportion of 30-day readmissions from the pre- to post-intervention period fell from 26.2% to 21.2% (P=0.01), which was associated with a number needed to treat ratio of 20.29, "suggesting a fairly robust treatment effect," the authors… Continue reading

Pharmacists Feeling Pain Over AMA Resolution

Pharmacists Feeling Pain Over AMA Resolution

Filed under: Drug Abuse Texas

Scott Strassels, PharmD, PhD, a pain management specialist who spent more than seven years as an assistant professor and a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, told Pharmacy Practice News that such a policy… Continue reading