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MD Anderson, Orionis launch Project Helios to advance new cancer medicines
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Therapeutics Discovery division and Orionis Biosciences today announced the launch of Project Helios, a research collaboration designed to unlock new drug development opportunities through genome-scale mapping of drug-target interactions.
Combining Orionis’ unique high-throughput drug discovery technologies with the Therapeutics Discovery division’s expertise in small-molecule therapies and translational biology, Project Helios aims to create an unparalleled collection of drug-target interaction data to enable rational drug discovery, optimization and repurposing. The project will focus initially on developing therapies for unmet needs in oncology, with the possibility of expanding to additional therapeutic areas in the future.
Close With just six days left in Kentucky s short legislative session, many health-related bills are near final passage; here s a roundup
By Melissa Patrick
Kentucky Health News Mar 9, 2021
Mar 9, 2021
With just six days left in the General Assembly s short, odd-year session, many health-related bills remain on the table, and only a few have become law. Here s a roundup of health-related legislation.
Abortion: The first health-related bill to become law this year was Senate Bill 9, sponsored by Sen. Whitney Westerfield, R-Crofton, which requires medical providers to give âmedically appropriate and reasonable life-saving and life-sustaining medical care and treatment to preserve the life and health of a born-alive infant,â including after a failed abortion. It also requires them to give any ânourishment, medical care, medical treatment and surgical care that is medically appropriate.â Gov. Andy Beshear declined
NEW YORK CITY (dpa-AFX) - Genome and Company said that it has expanded collaboration with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and Pfizer for further clinical combination study of GEN-001 in gastric
FILE - This March 28, 2019 photo shows cigarette butts in an ashtray in New York. On Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Lung cancer is the nationâs top cancer killer, causing more than 135,000 deaths each year. Smoking is the chief cause and quitting the best protection. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File) Jenny Kane
More Americans now qualify for yearly scans to detect lung cancer, according to guidelines released Tuesday that may help more Black smokers and women get screened.
Lung cancer is the nation s top cancer killer, causing more than 135,000 deaths each year. Smoking is the chief cause and quitting the best protection.
Usually, lung cancer is diagnosed too late for a good chance at survival. But some Americans who are at especially high risk get an annual low-dose CT scan, a type of X-ray, to improve those odds.
“Any specialty group that has a ratio of less than three full-time service equivalent per 100,000 population is currently considered to be in acute shortage and is automatically classified as DWS,” the Federal Health department states.
It is different to a Distribution Priority Area DPA for GPs, which is “based on gender and age demographics, and the socio-economic status of patients living in an area.”
A Federal Health Department spokeswoman said the DWS of the Gladstone region would be reassessed in July.
“The Districts of Workforce Shortage for specialists status is not related to or impacted by the DPA status of a region,” the spokeswoman said.