The National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) Working Group recently released its fourth report on hypertension in children and adolescents. The Group last revised its guidelines on this topic in 1996. The report was presented at the American Society of Hypertension?s (ASH) Nineteenth Annual Scientific Meeting, which was held recently in New York City. It is scheduled for publication in the August issue of the journal Pediatrics.
Targeted Drug Combination Reveals New Activity in Brain Tumors
December 28th 2021A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according to a clinical trial report by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.