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| FDA cancer chief says 'escalating' drug prices can't continue CHICAGO (Reuters) - By law, Dr. Richard Pazdur, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's cancer drug czar, is not allowed to consider the cost of treatments his agency reviews, only whether they are safe and effective. But Pazdur is not blind to escalating ...
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ASCO: Lenvatinib Slows Resistant Thyroid Ca Meeting Coverage. ASCO: Lenvatinib Slows Resistant Thyroid Ca. Published: Jun 1, 2014. By Ed Susman , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete · Take Posttest. Action Points. Note that this study was published as an abstract ...
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Demand for expensive hepatitis C drug strains insurers When scientists envision breakthrough medicines of the future, they're thinking about drugs like Sovaldi. Since being approved for US sale in December, the hepatitis C pill has racked up a cure rate of more than 90 percent. It's a staggering, life-altering ...
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| Nasal spray for heroin antidote under development CINCINNATI -- A Lexington, Ky., doctor has struck a critical agreement to get a life-saving product in the hands of emergency room workers and paramedics across the country as they battle the nation's heroin epidemic. Dr. Daniel Wermeling, a professor of ...
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Mosquito-borne virus public health nuisance for Caribbean Emilio Jean-Paul could barely take it as he listened to his three-year-old's heart wrenching cries in the middle of the night. “ Papi, Papi, my feet hurt; my hands hurt,” little Emmanuel called out as his tiny body burned up with a severe fever. Jean-Paul, who lives ...
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California whooping cough cases so far this year have surpassed total number ... Whooping cough is on the rise in California again, with more cases being reported in the first five months of the year than in all of 2013. The latest figures concern state health department officials who say they expect cases of the persistent and sometimes ...
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How to help smokers quit? Three tools that could help Every May 31, the World Health Organization marks World No Tobacco Day by highlighting the toll that smoking is taking on people's health, reminding governments that smoking is the single most preventable cause of death around the world, killing up to half ...
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Six indicted in nursing home death The Suffolk County indictment accuses Medford Multicare Center for Living, its administrator, respiratory therapy director and several nurses of neglect that lead to the death of Aurelia Rios in October 2012. The Associated Press. Saturday, May 31, 2014, ...
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As Obesity Rates Skyrocket, So Should Employers' Concerns Obesity rates are escalating at an alarming rate. The percentage of obese Americans has tripled since 1960. Over half the country's population, 68.5 percent, is overweight or obese and the number of Americans who are morbidly obese, with a BMI (body ...
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F-M community helps to raise money for cancer at Relay for Life MANLIUS -- It doesn't matter if you're walking, running, or even just moving on the track. The goal is the same for everyone at Fayetteville-Manlius High School. Kelly Muller helped to bring Relay for Life back to her school with the rest of her high school's ...
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ASCO: Cyramza Boosts Survival in NSCLC Meeting Coverage. ASCO: Cyramza Boosts Survival in NSCLC. Published: May 31, 2014. This report is part of a 12-month Clinical Context series. By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete.
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Woman breeding rats in unit PUBLIC health officials in San Francisco exterminated thousands of rats in the SoMA neighbourhood after they became aware a 43-year-old woman was breeding them in her apartment. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the woman, identified only as ...
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Drug's 'spectacular success' offers new hope for bladder cancer patients with ... A new drug is showing 'spectacular' results in patients with bladder cancer, which kills 5,000 people in Britain a year. Doctors are hailing the immunotherapy drug - known as an 'anti-PDL1' - as potentially the biggest advance in the treatment of the disease in ...
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Sanofi rolls the dice again on Lemtrada after an FDA rejection Sanofi ($SNY) has resubmitted Lemtrada, its long-in-development multiple sclerosis treatment, for FDA approval, gambling that a new analysis of the same data will sway regulators in a second review. The agency has accepted Sanofi's supplemental ...
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New Lung Cancer Drug Can Extend Lives by 14 Percent A new lung cancer drug could extend lives of patients by 14 percent based on the results of a large clinical study. (Photo : Reuters). A new lung cancer drug could extend lives of patients by 14 percent based on the results of a large clinical study.
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Pharmacyclics' Leukemia Drug Beats Glaxo's in Clinical Trial Pharmacyclics Inc. (PCYC)'s Imbruvica, introduced this year for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, helped patients live longer without their disease worsening than GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK)'s treatment for the blood cancer. In a head-to-head comparison, 391 ...
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Medicare now covers sex change surgery, federal board rules Americans with Medicare may soon get coverage for sex-reassignment surgery provided they can show medical proof that such surgery is recommended. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons). Older Americans who want to undergo sex change surgery may soon ...
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How to get your children to eat their greens Parents should get their children to eat as many different vegetables as possible before they are two years old because they will not try anything new after that, a study has suggested. The University of Leeds found that small children were amenable to new ...
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Adding Prunes in Diet Helps Reduce Weight Including prunes in diet helps lower excess body weight and reduces the waistline, a new study reveals. Like Us on Facebook. Prunes, a good source of fiber, have been recognized as a nutrient rich fruit that offer various health benefits. It is rich in phenolics ...
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Inspiring stories fill the room at the Attleboro Elks Lodge during National Cancer ... Three-year cancer survivor and guest speaker Jean Lenk, right, is hugged and congratulated during Sturdy Memorial Hospital's 19th annual Cancers Survivors Day held at the Attleboro Elks Lodge Saturday. (Staff photo by Mark Stockwell) For a video go to ...
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Shinseki resigns over growing VA scandal President Obama announced Friday that embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki would take the fall for the rapidly growing scandal over veterans' health care, accepting his resignation under pressure from members of both parties.
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