- Jul 12, 2012
Scientists develop new strategy to overcome drug-resistant childhood cancer
A new drug combination could offer hope to children with neuroblastoma – one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer – by boosting the...
- Jul 9, 2012
Pharmaceutical firms to get incentives for child cancer drugs
When all else failed, the promise of corporate profits for pediatric cancer drugs did what cajoling to save children could not....
- Jun 25, 2012
Celebrex-Derived Drug Targets Common Childhood Bone Tumor
Newswise — Jiayuh Lin, PhD, and colleagues at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have developed a drug to target the most common cancerous...
- Jun 21, 2012
Potential drug targets identified in common childhood brain cancer
Researchers studying the genetic roots of the most common malignant childhood brain tumor have discovered missteps in three of the four...
- May 22, 2012
Experimental Drug Helps Fight Some Childhood Cancers, Study Finds
A new targeted drug therapy may help treat certain advanced cancers in children, a new preliminary study indicates. Read more:...
- May 2, 2012
Fertility drugs more than double childhood cancer risk, scientists say
Children born to women who took fertility drugs are more than twice as likely to develop leukemia, French scientists announced Tuesday....
- Feb 16, 2012
Children’s cancer drug shortage should ease, FDA says, but doctors, parents worry it’ll recur
TRENTON, N.J. — A severe shortage of a childhood cancer drug should ease before hospitals run out of it in a couple weeks, a top federal...
- Feb 13, 2012
Supply of a Cancer Drug May Run Out Within Weeks
A crucial medicine to treat childhood leukemia is in such short supply that hospitals across the country may exhaust their stores within...