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HARMONY: Innovative Medicines Initiative approves € 40 million project for better care of patients with hematologic malignancies
HARMONY will capture, integrate, analyze and harmonize anonymous patient data from high-quality multidisciplinary sources to unlock valuable knowledge on multiple myeloma (MM), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL), myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)…
Read moreHARMONY: Better care of patients with hematologic malignancies kicked off!
“Combining data available from clinical trials as well as real world patients allows us to do more advanced analyses on possible treatment options that could be effective for individual patient or categories of patients”, said Jesús María Hernandez Rivas, Project…
Read moreYoung researchers to benefit from EHA training and mentoring
Participation in EHA-CRTH will allow these researchers to fine-tune the skills and knowledge required to successfully design, run and complete clinical trials.
Read moreEHA-funded study in The Lancet Haematology: Economic Burden of Blood Disorders in EU is €23 billion
In Europe blood disorders affect around 80 million people. The total cost of blood disorders consists of healthcare expenditure (€15. 6 billion), productivity loss due to illness and mortality (€5. 6 billion), and the costs of informal care (€1.
Read moreEuropean Reference Networks, a unique opportunity to take collaboration and patient care in hematology to the next level, was a core topic at EHA 2016
On Saturday 11 June, a session in the Patient Advocacy Track focused on the emerging European Reference Networks (ERNs).
Read morePress Release: Economic burden of blood disorders in EU is €23 billion
The economic burden of blood disorders across the European Union, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland amounts to €23 billion per year.
Read moreGenome sequencing of thousands of patients with rare blood disorders
Approximately 3M people have a rare bleeding disorder or disease of platelets, which are the cell fragments that help blood clot. The genetic causes of dozens of such disorders are known (e. g.
Read moreDaratumumab Shows Remarkable Benefit in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma in the POLLUX Study
Daratumumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody that binds to a novel target on myeloma cells.
Read moreThe root of evil: pre-leukemic clones that survive chemotherapy are linked to a higher risk of leukemia recurrence
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. Treatment with intensive chemotherapy often leads to a period of freedom from overt disease called a remission. However, recurrence of the disease is common.
Read moreEHA Award winners put in the spotlight in Copenhagen
The EHA-José Carreras Non-Clinical Junior Fellowship is made possible with the support of the German José Carreras Foundation.
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