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Targeted treatment with the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitor erdafitinib improved responses and overall survival compared to standard chemotherapy for patients with metastatic urothelial cancers with FGFR alterations. Results from the Phase III THOR trial were reported. Genetic changes in FGFR are present in approximately 20% of patients with metastatic bladder cancer and up to 35% of patients with other urothelial cancers, including renal pelvis and ureter cancers. In 2019, erdafitinib was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The ongoing randomized THOR trial, conducted at 121 sites in 23 countries, evaluated the efficacy and safety of erdafitinib in...

Scientists reported new evidence on the effectiveness of that old folk remedy — cranberry juice — for urinary tract infections at the ACS' 240th National Meeting. "A number of controlled clinical trials — these are carefully designed and conducted scientific studies done in humans — have concluded that cranberry juice really is effective for preventing urinary tract infections," said Terri Anne Camesano, Ph.D., who led the study. "That has important implications, considering the size of the problem and the health care costs involved." Estimates suggest that urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for about 8 million medical visits each year, at...

Judge rules gospel tracts aren't counterfeit money A judge ruled in favor of a Denton ministry who sued the federal government over the illegal seizure of "million-dollar bill" gospel tracts. In 2006, the U.S. Secret Service confiscated 83 packs of the gospel tracts, which resemble million-dollar bills. The ministry's tracts feature a "million-dollar question" and asks readers, "Will you go to heaven?" The tracts also include a brief test and Bible excerpts. Darrel Rundus, president of the Great News Network ministry, said the Secret Service made the seizure illegally without a search warrant and threatened to arrest a GNN member...

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070417/NEWS03/704170351/1028/NEWS12 NEW CITY - Local Muslims outraged that the Rockland county jail chaplain distributed anti-Islam tracts to inmates at the jail are calling for her dismissal. Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister, was suspended Thursday for passing out religious cartoon booklets that condemned Islam and contained derogatory depictions and descriptions of Allah and the prophet Muhammad, including characterizing Allah as an "idol" and devil and Muhammad as a criminal and a "religious dictator." "Our congregation was very shaken. We are very upset about these false allegations against our religion," Azra Fasihuddin, a West Nyack resident and member of the...

Bogus $1 million bills handed out by ministry seizedDenton: Group's leader says Secret Service overzealous05:33 AM CDT on Tuesday, June 6, 2006By DONNA FIELDER / Denton Record-Chronicle DENTON – The U.S. Secret Service has seized bogus $1 million bills printed as religious tracts from a Denton ministry, saying the bills too closely resemble real money. *snip* Federal statutes govern production of anything that resembles currency, said Bill Flowers, assistant agent in charge of the Dallas office of the U.S. Secret Service. *snip* It is not necessary to intend to defraud someone to run afoul of federal law when making currency...

Secret Service Agents Seize Ray Comfort Tracts Press Release On June 1st, 2006, Secret Service agents showed up at the office of Great News Network in Dallas, Texas and demanded their entire stock of $1 million dollar gospel tracts that are produced by Ray Comfort’s ministry, Living Waters. The tracts are used by Ray Comfort and his co-host Kirk Cameron and have been promoted on their national television program. Reports were that the Secret Service was going to pay a visit to Comfort’s national offices in Bellflower, California and confiscate their entire stock. Apparently someone in North Carolina took one...

Jack Chick does a September 11th tract.... interesting - no matter what you think of his theology.