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Immune System Drugs Bring hope for Patients of advanced Melanoma

Apr 20, 2015

Drugs which augment the power of immune system have been found to give promising results in treating advanced melanoma. This has been revealed in a pair of clinical trials which was conducted under the aegis of...

FDA approves melanoma drug from Merck

Charles Omedo

Sep 5, 2014

Health

The sixth melanoma drug to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2011 is now in the market. This new melanoma drug was manufactured by Merck and it is called Keytruda – a drug that activat...

Surgeon General issues tanning warning, causes skin cancer

Platonium

Jul 29, 2014

Health

There has been a whopping 200 percent increase in diagnosed melanoma cases since 1973, the acting U.S. Surgeon General recently reported. As a result, he has asked people to give up or limit use of indoor tanni...

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