Rosario: Once a migrant worker, he’s revolutionizing brain surgery, cancer fight
Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, pictured here during a TED presentation Thursday in Rochester, MN, is chair of Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic complex in Jacksonville, Fl. His journey from undocumented migrant worker to Harvard graduate and brain surgeon is being made into a movie. (Courtesy...
Last update: 2017-06-07
Advancing Cancer Control Through International Innovation Grants
Yanin Chávarri Guerra, MD, MSc, of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, in Mexico, was the principal investigator of a study funded by a 2015 International Innovation Grant. Mexican women with breast cancer present with more advanced...
Last update: 2017-06-01
Mexico approves prostate cancer treatment recently developed in Israel
Mexico’s COFEPRIS health authority has authorized the use of an early-stage prostate cancer drug and laser therapy developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, (about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tel Aviv) in collaboration with Luxembourg’s Steba Biotech.
Last update: 2017-05-26