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Research suggests that patients with leukemia sometimes relapse because standard chemotherapy fails to kill the self-renewing leukemia initiating cells, often referred to as cancer stem cells. In such cancers, the cells lie dormant for a...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Bristol-Myers Squibb will acquire Amylin for $31.00 per share in cash, pursuant to a cash tender offer and second step merger, or an aggregate purchase price of approximately $5.3...

Bayer HealthCare announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to the New Drug Application (NDA) filed end of April 2012 for the oral multi-kinase inhibitor regorafenib for the treatment of patients with...

Scientists at UCLA have identified a new compound that could treat certain types of genetic disorders in muscles. It is a big first step in what they hope will lead to human clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy....

Roche site in Nutley to be closed - respective R&D activities to be consolidated in Switzerland and Germany. The planned site consolidation and the streamlining of research activities within Roche's Pharma Research and Early Development unit to support...

A commonly prescribed diabetes drug, metformin, reduces the overall cancer risk in people with Type 2 diabetes, a large systematic review study finds. The results have been presented at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. ...

Roche announced that people with HER-2 positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC) lived significantly longer (overall survival) when treated with the combination of PerjetaTM (pertuzumab), Herceptin® (trastuzumab) and docetaxel chemotherapy, compared to Herceptin and docetaxel chemotherapy alone in the...