Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX - News) announced initial results from multi-center Phase 1 clinical trials of its cancer vaccine candidate, CDX-1307, combined with GM-CSF, at the International Society for the Biologic Therapy of Cancer (iSBTc) annual meeting in San Diego. These data provide the basis for the ongoing assessment of CDX-1307 combined with more [...]

AVAX Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AVXT - News; the “Company”) today announced that on October 24, 2008, it closed a bridge loan financing pursuant to a Convertible Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement, as amended by the Amendment to Convertible Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement (collectively the “Agreement”). Pursuant to the Agreement, the Company sold [...]

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL - News) today announced that members of Rigel’s senior management team will host a conference call with simultaneous webcast to provide a company update on November 3, 2008 at 5:30 a.m. PST/8:30 a.m. EST.
To access the live call, please dial 800-265-0241 (domestic) or 617-847-8704 (international) 10 minutes prior to the [...]

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced a video contest called “Get Screened” — a creative challenge to movie makers to help shine a spotlight on the importance of colorectal-cancer screening. The contest is part of the Hutchinson Center’s ongoing awareness campaign — “Your colon. Your life. Your call.” — to increase colon-cancer screening rates [...]

More than 62,000 viewers have viewed the http://www.DressLikePalin.com website this week, scores offering their views on other uses that could have been made for the $150,000 the Republican National Committee famously spent on the wardrobe for Gov. Sarah Palin.
The internet game sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, presents its suggestions on alternatives [...]

To celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of the game of SCRABBLE, Hasbro Inc. is auctioning off a one-of-a-kind SCRABBLE: Swarovski Encrusted Board Edition, featuring more than 30,000 sparkling Swarovski crystals to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The winning bidder will get the game — and a brush with fame. The board was the centerpiece of [...]

Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it will present at the 3rd annual BIOCOM Investor Conference on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. PDT at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla in San Diego, California.
Steve Worland, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Anadys, will present an overview of Anadys and its three clinical programs: [...]

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

ohn S. Kovach, M.D., Chair, Board of Directors and CEO of Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. announces the appointment of Mel Sorensen, M.D. to the company’s Board of Directors.
Dr. Sorensen is currently Board Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascenta Therapeutics. He is a highly experienced leader and administrator in cancer therapeutics and cancer drug [...]

When Christy Jones, now 35, was a sophomore at Western Kentucky University in 1992, she witnessed a bad accident at a friend’s house.
“I felt helpless and powerless,” she said, sitting at a table in the nurses’ lounge at Greenview Regional Hospital. “And that’s when I decided to become a nurse.
“It fits me.”
While the Allen County [...]