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Poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, compared with European-American patients, appears to be due, in part, to a strong survival mechanism within the cancer cells...

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Pfizer is cleared of liability concerning allegations that its antidepressant Zoloft had caused birth defects in a boy in California, according to a St. Louis court.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab, a cancer immunotherapy drug, shrank or halted growth of tumors in 76 percent of patients with pleural mesothelioma, a rare and deadly form...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Broccoli sprout extract protects against oral cancer in mice and proved tolerable in a small group of healthy human volunteers, the University of Pittsburgh Cance...

(The Lancet) Leading doctors today warn that medical and public recognition of sepsis -- thought to contribute to between a third and a half of all hospital deaths -- must improve if the number of deaths from this common...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Identifying molecular changes that occur in tissue after chemotherapy could be crucial in advancing treatments for ovarian cancer, according to research from Mage...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Genetically modified versions of patients' own immune cells successfully traveled to tumors they were designed to attack in an early-stage trial for mesothelioma and pancre...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Once again, researchers at Penn's Abramson Cancer Center have extended the reach of the immune system in the fight against metastatic melanoma, this time by combining the c...