Green Valley, South Dakota – A dangerous situation unfolded in the unincorporated Rapid City suburb of Green Valley this past weekend, when a garage fire triggered a propane explosion, creating chaos in the area. Despite the large emergency response that descended upon the neighborhood on Saturday afternoon, authorities were relieved to report that no injuries … Read more
Clarkesville, Georgia – Habersham County Emergency Services swiftly responded to a fire that engulfed nearly an acre of land in Clarkesville on Monday afternoon. The incident took place at 111 Wind Forest Court around 3 p.m. Battalion Chief Michael Alexander of HCES shared that the call initially reported a possible storage shed fire spreading to … Read more
Silver Spring, Maryland – FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee recently voted to support the approvals of CAR-T therapies – Johnson & Johnson and Legend Biotech’s Carvykti and Bristol Myers Squibb and 2seventyBio’s Abcema – as earlier lines of treatment for multiple myeloma. The committee’s decision came after discussing the risks of early death in the … Read more
Washington, D.C. – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has raised concerns over early deaths observed in clinical trials for CAR-T cell therapies by Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Legend’s Carvykti, and Bristol Myers’ Abecma targeting patients with myeloma. These groundbreaking treatments are designed to utilize a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer. CAR-T therapy … Read more
NEW YORK CITY, NY — A groundbreaking treatment for multiple myeloma cancer, known as CAR-T, has been found to be 90 percent effective, providing new hope and optimism for patients with this type of blood cancer. Patients like Judith Harding and Bill McHugh, who would have once been considered outliers, are now benefitting from treatment … Read more