Promising Protons: A New Provision For Prostate Cancer Treatment Perils

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As a result, many health insurers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield in Tennessee, won't cover it (although proton therapy is recognized to be preferable and is covered for a number of much less frequently occurring cancers, including head and neck …
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Five relapses reported in fungal meningitis outbreak

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It is not clear whether those five cases include Joan Peay, a Nashville victim of the original outbreak who is now under treatment for another bout of fungal meningitis at Saint Thomas West Hospital. Peay's son, Trent Johnson of Franklin, said Friday …
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Getting Around “Undruggable” Proto-Oncogenes

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Constellation's approach to epigenetics also includes programs in the enzymes that modify the architecture of chromatin, for example by the methylation or demethylation of histone proteins (writers and erasers, respectively). Even though our first drug …
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