DeSantes, a UW Carbone Cancer Center researcher and Medical Director for the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant and Cell Therapy program, said this phase I-II clinical trial uses a variation of an existing immunotherapy drug as part of a combination therapy for neuroblastoma patients who have advanced...
The COVID-19 pandemic opened the door for some significant and noteworthy changes to the way our industry could accomplish clinical trials with a forced mandate to decentralize access and services for the continuation of studies....
Bonnie Le Blanc’s faith has been a source of comfort and strength as she has endured life’s hardships, including two cancer diagnoses in the past eight years. Le Blanc was curatively treated for breast cancer and now is committed to fighting her stage IV melanoma...
As several retail pharmacy chains proclaim a rosy outlook for ongoing efforts to expand their services into the clinical trials arena in the wake of the pandemic, traditional study site personnel and patients interviewed on the topic offered more mixed and nuanced concerns about the...
The next deadline to submit proposals for non-oncology clinical trials to be conducted at UW and UW Health is Monday, November 27....
In a small study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the heart may identify people who will go on to develop Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia among those at-risk for these diseases....
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of transforming how physicians and scientists conduct biomedical research. From hunting for new treatments to running clinical trials, AI is starting to reshape every step of the scientific process. Some experts think we're headed for a world where...
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers said they were proud to publish a groundbreaking paper on a new MRI machine-learning network. They determined how brightly colored scans can help surgeons recognize, and accurately remove, an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), or bleeding in the brain....
The effectiveness of mRNA vaccines in reducing disease severity and hospitalization from COVID-19 is well established. Now, new research from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine advances our understanding of how these vaccines protect the lungs following breakthrough infections from emerging variants of...
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are investigating whether the drug leuprolide, which is approved for prostate cancer in men, can be used to treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in women....
