Grant to aid breast cancer outreach

NEW BEDFORD — The YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts has been awarded more than $43,000 in a one-year grant from the Avon Breast Health Outreach Program to help teach local women about the importance of early detection of breast cancer.

Cancer: know your chances

World Cancer Day is commemorated on 4 February and the theme for this year’s celebration is: “Together it is possible”.

Merck Serono enters development agreement with Threshold for hypoxia-targeted drug

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced that a global agreement was signed with Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, to co-develop and commercialize TH-302, Threshold's small molecule hypoxia-targeted drug.

Party for a Cure is Jan. 29

Heather Weeks loved a good party. That’s why her mom, Frieda Weeks, thinks she would have appreciated Party for a Cure, the Jan. 29 fundraiser at Meghan MacMurphy’s designed to raise awareness for ovarian cancer. “Heather loved music and dancing and a good party,” Frieda Weeks said. “I think she would love it. Heather’s mission in life was to tell women about ovarian cancer and the color teal ...

FDA Accused of Spying on Whistleblowing Employees

Six former and current employees of the Food and Drug Administration say the federal agency spied on their private email correspondence after they attempted to blow the whistle on agency practices of approving medical devices that posed a risk to patients.