Immunotherapy is a novel type of treatment that utilizes the body’s own immune system to fight against disease. Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells (CAR-T) therapies are a sub-type of immunotherapy, in which a patient’s own T cells are removed from the body, genetically modified and reprogrammed to target and attack specific cancer cells, and then […]

As we observe World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10, suicide statistics in the United States continue to worsen. The U.S. suicide rate is now 33% higher than it was in 1999, in stark contrast with a downward trend globally. This disturbing trajectory comes into even greater focus as we also mark the 18th anniversary […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a Breakthrough Device designation to a Liquid Biopsy Liver Cancer Detection Test being developed by Laboratory for Advanced Medicine (LAM), a commercial-stage medical technology company. The blood-based liquid biopsy test analyzes the DNA methylation pattern of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) indicating the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC; liver cancer) as early as Stage I.