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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved new “black box” warnings on labels of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, which are drugs used to treat certain types of anemia. The warnings cover the drugs Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit, and detail their dangers to patients with cancer and patients with chronic kidney failure. Those dangers include heart attack, stroke, heart failure and cancer tumor growth and shortened survival.

Scientists Find Way to Track Stem Cells in Brain
The identification of a new marker is making it possible to track brain stem cells for the first time, U.S. researchers report. The achievement is already opening doors to new research into depression, early childhood development and multiple sclerosis, the team’s senior author said. “This is a way to detect these cells in the brain, so that you can track them in certain conditions where we suspect that these cells play a certain role,” explained Dr. Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, an assistant profess

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