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/PRNewswire/ -- Novasenta Inc., a startup biotechnology company focused on the discovery and validation of novel targets to develop cancer therapies, today...

Bicyclists sometimes use the verb ‘crush’ to describe riding particularly well or fast — as in ‘crushing a ride.’ As of Tuesday, many will also use the word to describe stamping out a deadly disease. UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is teaming up with P3R, organizers of events like the Pittsburgh

Marlys Mae Ferris was called home to be with her Lord and Savior on June 3, 2022, at the age of 90. Marlys was born on December 17, 1931, to Everett and Cora (Johnson) Reddick in Osakis, Minnesota. She went to Osakis Public School where she met Robert Ferris, who became the love of her life. They joined in marriage on September 1, 1952 and lived on the Ferris Family Dairy Farm in Osakis for 66 years together where they raised their two sons, David and Bruce. After Bob’s passing on September 10...

Police in British Columbia say they have arrested several people associated with what they call a “prominent and violent” gang following a three-year-long probe into the group known as the “Brothers Keepers.”

Cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, pistol and $50,000 in cash seized as part of a three-year investigation by the Brothers Keepers Task Force.

The RCMP's gang suppression unit in British Columbia says it has charged several people involved in what it calls a "prominent and violent" gang after a three-year investigation into a group known as the Brothers Keepers.

A total of nine counties participated in a gun buyback program across the Garden State on Saturday.

Called Novasenta, the company is focused on the tumor microenvironment and will leverage its machine-learning platform to pinpoint targets for drug development. It aims to launch its first clinical trial by the end of 2023.

Date Time UPMC Hillman Names New Hematology Oncology Chief PITTSBURGH – Taofeek K. Owonikoko, M.D., Ph.D., will join the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh as chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology. Owonikoko, a physician-scientist board-certified in medical oncology, hematology and internal medicine, also will serve as associate director for translational research and co-leader of the Cancer Therapeutics Program at Hillman. He will hol...

Date Time Breast Cancer Treatment in Those Over 70 Can Be Reduced Oncologists faced with treating older women with breast cancer often must decide if the treatment may be more detrimental than the cancer. A study published today in JAMA Network Open by researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine sheds new light on this choice and suggests the rate of cancer recurrence or survival may be no different in treated vs. untreated elderly patients diag...