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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society awarded $13.8 million in new pediatric research grants designed to identify more effective and precise treatments for children with blood cancer.

Although there have been significant advances in treatment since the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, pregnant women have about half as many treatment options as other adults with HIV, Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, from the University of California, San Francisco, reported at CROI 2019.

Infectious Disease News Chief Medical Editor Paul A. Volberding, MD, spoke with Healio about which types of cancer patients with HIV are more likely to develop, how HIV treatments have changed that risk, how cancer affects HIV treatment and how to increase cancer treatment among these patients.

Marc Benioff, chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce, and his wife, Lynne Benioff, are donating $35 million to the University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University to launch new research initiatives to develop microbe-based diagnostics and precision therapies, according to a press release.

Approximately 42% of cancer cases are linked to modifiable risk factors that are well-known to the general public, according to the American Cancer Society.

Research published in Pediatrics suggests that infants aged 60 days and younger with bacteremic UTI could receive shorter courses of parenteral antibiotics without the risk for readmission or recurrent infection.

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, or BCG, is highly effective at treating and preventing recurrence of early-stage bladder cancer.

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, in collaboration with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Helmsley Charitable Trust, have formed a cancer and diabetes research initiative to better understand the association between immunotherapy treatment and subsequent risk for type 1 diabetes.

PHILADELPHIA —Women with migraine were more likely to have an infant who is colicky, while fathers with migraine were not, according to study findings presented at the American Headache Society Scientific Meeting.

CHICAGO — The Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO presented ASCO Annual Meeting Merit Awards to more than 100 oncology professionals.