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Kidney Cancer Patients Find Hope In Everolimus (Medical News Today)

24 Jul 2008

Everolimus, also called Certican, can stall progression of for patients with renal cell carcinoma who have experienced failure with other treatment regimens, according to an Article released on July 23, 3008 in The Lancet. Renal cell carcinoma, or metastatic kidney cancer, like other cancers, is believed to be caused by the abnormal functioning of signaling pathways in cells.

'Statins' linked to improved survival in kidney transplant recipients (PhysOrg)

24 Jul 2008

For patients receiving kidney transplants, treatment with cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs may lead to longer survival, reports a study in the November 2008 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

F.D.A. Urges Genetic Test Before Giving AIDS Drug (New York Times)

24 Jul 2008

The agency said patients with a variation in an immune system gene should not be given the drug abacavir because they are at a far higher risk of a severe allergic reaction.