NEWTON, MA –June 10, 2021 – Acer Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ACER), a pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of therapies for serious rare and life-threatening diseases with significant unmet medical needs, today announced that following a recent Type B meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding Acer’s proposed Edsivo™
Not sure about how to establish a good skincare routine? With so many tips, treatments and products available these days, it can get quite overwhelming. Here, you’ll find effective skincare tips to help you put together a good routine, as well as how PROVEN Skincare, a DNA-based skincare line, can help you achieve the results you
Figures from The Body Shop’s Global Self Love Index reveals 40% of LGBTQ+ people are facing a self-love crisis Self-love is no easy thing. Many of us struggle with the concept and it’s been revealed that LGBTQ+ people may be struggling more than others. According to results from The Body Shop’s Global Self Love Index,
In this article GS BX MS Employees fully vaccinated against Covid should embrace a return to the office rather than run away from it, LaSalle Network CEO Tom Gimbel told CNBC on Wednesday. “The challenge that we have is a mindset challenge of the employee,” said Gimbel, also founder of the Chicago-based, national staffing and
Five months after her husband died of Covid-19, Valerie Villegas can see how grief has wounded her children. Nicholas, the baby, who was 1 and almost weaned when his father died, now wants to nurse at all hours and calls every tall, dark-haired man “Dada,” the only word he knows. Robert, 3, regularly collapses into
The following quiz tests one aspect from each article in a three-part MedPage Today Clinical Challenge series on leukemia: the association between body mass index and pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) incidence and prognosis, mortality risk in patients with hematologic malignancy and a diagnosis of COVID-19, and improving outcomes in pediatric relapsed acute myeloid leukemia
Oncologists predicted a grim future for independent cancer practices as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across America: there would be steep declines in patient visits, treatment and screening would be the last straw for many already struggling centers, and they would have to shut. But what actually happened? Medscape Medical News talked to oncologists at independent practices
June is National Cancer Survivors Month! To honor survivors, we will be sharing stories from folks with cancer and their caregivers. Today we hear from our old friend, Bob. There aren’t too many people who’ve had both breast cancer and prostate cancer, but I’m one of them. The breast cancer appeared some 25 years ago.
Sarah Kate Frey is no stranger to adversity. At just 12 years old, she returned home from horseback riding camp with a painful sore throat and a high fever. The horse she had been riding at camp died that same night. Frey was diagnosed with a staph infection, which took an unusually long time to
3D rendering of blood cancer Cancer Research UK is collaborating with Aleta Biotherapeutics (Aleta) to trial a new therapy that ‘reboots’ a treatment for some people with blood cancer whose cancer starts to come back. The new therapy, called ALETA-001, aims to boost a treatment called CAR T-cell therapy, which takes some of a patient’s
Editor’s Note: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration lifted the pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on April 23, 2021, but the labels and fact sheets given to patients will carry a warning about the exceedingly low risk of developing blood clots. Also, close monitoring of
From answering ‘awkward’ questions to encouraging curiosity and kindness, we explore how to approach conversations with children There are 14 million disabled people in the UK, yet talking about disability is still seen as a taboo topic. It can feel awkward for everyone involved, but it doesn’t have to be that way. As a disabled
Patients with schizophrenia and parkinsonism show distinctive patterns of cortical surface markers compared with their counterparts without parkinsonism and with healthy controls, results of a multimodal magnetic resonance imaging study suggest. Dr Robert Christian Wolf Sensorimotor abnormalities are common in schizophrenia patients, however, “the neurobiological mechanisms underlying parkinsonism in [schizophrenia], which in treated samples represents
Scientists are pursuing a new strategy in the protracted fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus by engineering nanobodies that can neutralize virus variants in two different ways. In lab studies, researchers identified two groups of molecules that were effective against virus variants. Using different mechanisms, nanobodies in each group bypassed mutations and disabled the virus’s ability
June 21, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) oral pellets to treat children 3 months to less than 12 years old with venous thromboembolism (a condition where blood clots form in the veins) directly after they have been treated with a blood thinner given by injection for at
Ever since COVID-19 hit last year, working out at home and eating healthier has become the new norm. With gyms closed and staying indoors enforced, people have shifted to using their living rooms as workout spaces. It has its own perks too. For one, you can work out whenever you want and you don’t have
Award-winning nutritionist, author, speaker and founder of Happy Hormones for Life Nicki Williams shares her thoughts on our ‘Feisty Four’ hormones Nicki Williams has significant professional experience as a nutritionist but it was her personal experiences around 10 years ago that lay the foundations for her business Happy Hormones for Life. Like so many women
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Leigh Vogel | Bloomberg | Getty Images White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday
In Finland, every fifth mother was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 2019. The condition increases the mother’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. However, the most significant consequence of gestational diabetes is fetal macrosomia, or excessive growth of the fetus. Macrosomia increases birth injuries for both the child and the mother, causes
Drug overdose deaths climbed 30% to more than 90,000 during the pandemic year, largely driven by synthetic opiates like fentanyl, government data showed. The statistic is devastating by itself, but made even more alarming by the fact that many providers of medication assisted treatment (MAT) say they’re bleeding cash, and struggling to attract and retain
In the future, a simple blood test could be added to the options for colorectal screening and could appeal to the people currently put off by the unpleasant necessities such as collecting a fecal sample, or the bowel prep before an invasive colonoscopy. The new test, known as LUNAR-2 (Guardant Health), is an assay that
Gillian Spence first noticed a suspicious lump in her chest at one of the most inconvenient possible times. She was just days away from her wedding day. She immediately scheduled an appointment to see her doctor. “In between fake tan and getting my nails done, I was fitting in MRIs and blood tests,” the 31-year-old
A workplace showdown may be brewing over mandating vaccinations. Employers would love the sense of certainty that comes with a vaccinated workforce. Workers can be brought back sooner than later, there’s no need for physical distancing in the office and there will be less worry about employees falling ill from COVID-19. And polls suggest many
Antihypertensive medications that cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may be linked with less memory decline, compared with other drugs for high blood pressure, suggest the findings of a meta-analysis. Over a 3-year period, cognitively normal older adults taking BBB-crossing antihypertensives demonstrated superior verbal memory, compared with similar individuals receiving non–BBB-crossing antihypertensives, reported lead author Jean K.
New vaccine based on the recombinant spike protein antigen (rS-B.1.351) from Beta (B.1.351) virus lineage highly immunogenic in mice and produced neutralizing antibodies Primates boosted with rS-B.1.351 vaccine induced strong neutralizing immune response to original SARS-CoV-2, Alpha (B.1.1.7) and Beta (B.1.351) variant strains Humans immunized with original NVX-CoV2373 vaccine demonstrated robust antibody responses to original
Yoga is typically associated with calming the mind, but there is more to it than that. If done with both discipline and dedication, yoga can also help you lose weight and stay fit. When’s a better time to try out yoga than on International Yoga Day 2021? Celebrated on June 21 every year, the day
A new project seeks to combine Minecraft play with counselling to support children’s mental health Tech for Good, an initiative launched by mental health charity North East Children, sees children and young people play video games, specifically Minecraft, as part of traditional counselling sessions. The sessions, facilitated by trained counsellors, run alongside talking therapy and
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday the highly transmissible delta Covid variant, first discovered in India, could present challenges to U.S. schools this fall given lower vaccination rates among children. “I think the reality is that kids are becoming more likely to be vectors of these new variants,” the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said