José is a science news writer with a PhD in Neuroscience from Universidade of Porto, in Portugal. He has also studied Biochemistry at Universidade do Porto and was a postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, in New York, and at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His work has ranged from the association of central cardiovascular and pain control to the neurobiological basis of hypertension, and the molecular pathways driving Alzheimer’s disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of a device, called LiPlaCis DRP, that works to predict response to the next-generation investigational chemotherapy LiPlaCis in a planned Phase 3 ... Read more
The 2019 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award has been granted to scientists H. Michael Shepard, PhD, Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD, and Axel Ullrich, PhD, for their development of the breast cancer ... Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Rozlytrek (entrectinib) as an oral treatment for adult and adolescent patients whose breast cancer and other solid tumors have a specific ... Read more
Lynparza (olaparib) tablets have been approved by the European Commission as a standalone treatment for adults with a subset of locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. The decision follows a ... Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the use of Ibrance (palbociclib) capsules in combination with an aromatase inhibitor or Faslodex (fulvestrant) to men with a subset of advanced ... Read more
Long-term treatment with a combination of NeuVax (nelipepimut-S) and Herceptin (trastuzumab) is safe and extends the time without disease resurgence in women with triple-negative breast cancer, according to final results of a Phase 2b ... Read more
A Phase 1b/2 clinical trial testing rebastinib, in combination with the chemotherapy medication carboplatin, in adults with breast cancer and patients with other advanced or metastatic solid tumors has begun, ... Read more
Lymphedema, a common complication of breast cancer treatment, can be accurately detected with a machine learning approach that uses real-time symptom reports, according to researchers. Their study, “Machine learning for detection of ... Read more
Adding Tecentriq (atezolizumab) to the chemotherapy Abraxane (nab-paclitaxel) significantly delays the time to worsening disease or death in patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), a Phase 3 trial shows. The combination ... Read more
The combination of Imfinzi (durvalumab) with standard chemotherapy leads to high treatment effectiveness in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a Phase 2 trial shows. The research, “Randomized phase II ... Read more
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