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Merck Cancer Drug Shines Against Skin, Lung Cancer Merck's immune-boosting cancer drug, Keytruda, bested the standard of care in advanced melanoma, the deadly skin cancer, and showed promising results in non-small cell lung cancer.
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Elmo Encourages Kids to Get Vaccinated in Hilarious New Video Elmo teamed up with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to encourage kids to get vaccinated. In two PSAs, the lovable puppet learns more about the importance of vaccines, and relies on a famous pop star's tune to smile through the shot.
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Merck files for FDA approval of Keytruda in lung cancer April 19 (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc said on Sunday it has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its drug Keytruda as a treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of the disease.
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'Rosehip' enhance the power of certain medicine against ER+ type of breast ... 'Rosehip' enhance the power of certain medicine against ER+ type of breast cancer. A new study indicates that some herbal extracts can enhance the power of certain medicines.
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ACCR states poorer outcome for ER+ breast cancer sufferer African-American ... American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) - Researchers may have found the actual reason for poorer outcomes of an African-American woman suffering from ER+ cancer was compared with the European American patients.
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California measles outbreak over A measles outbreak that affected more than 130 Californians since December is over, the California Department of Public Health declared Friday.
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ER+ Breast Cancer Treatment Boosted by Rosehip Extract, Study finds Herbal medicine has played a role on the health and wellbeing of the human race pretty much since the very dawn of humanity. Throughout the 20th century however, homeopathic treatments have not only took a backseat to modern medicine, but in many ...
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Rosehip extracts said to reduce growth of triple negative breast cancer Triple negative breast cancer is an aggressive form of cancer that doesn't respond to most available treatments, but a new research pegs extract from rosehips - the fruit of the rose plant - as one of the potential candidates for drugs as it significantly reduced ...
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Hel news – No Wonder Teens Are Huffing Nicotine Kevin had a post on Thursday about the soaring numbers of kids who've tried e-cigs. On Friday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially announced the results of a new CDC study in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Control.
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Study Indicates Rosehips May Improve Certain Breast Cancer Treatments While naturopathy and homeopathic remedies have existed for thousands of years their benefits have only recently come to light in the United States.
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California Authorities declare Disneyland Measles Outbreak Over California health authorities declared that the large measles outbreak in Disneyland is now over due to the fact that no new infections were reported in the last 42 days.
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Merck's Keytruda Shows Improved Survival Odds for Melanoma Patients Merck MRK -1.66 % & Co.'s new cancer drug Keytruda improved the survival odds of patients with the skin cancer melanoma compared with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
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Dog Rabies Kills Over 160 People a Day Worldwide, 1/3 of Deaths in India A global study has found that there are 160 people who die every day from dog-transmitted rabies and India has the highest number of fatalities from the disease.
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Vaccinate dogs to save lives Have not got your dog vaccinated yet? Go ahead as your little effort may save many lives. Some 160 people a day die from preventable canine rabies, a majority in India and other developing countries where hospitals do little to provide care and death is ...
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Zoloft Continues To Face Major Birth Defect Accusations The big pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc was recently cleared of liability in one US trial alleging that its popular antidepressant Zoloft can cause birth defects in the children born to mothers who used the drug while they were pregnant.
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Pfizer wins first U.S. trial over Zoloft birth-defect Case One down! Pfizer Inc. was cleared of any liability in the first of more than 1,000 U.S. trial over antidepressant Zoloft which was once the U.S.
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Court Favors Pfizer In Zoloft-Birth Defect Case Pfizer is cleared of liability concerning allegations that its antidepressant Zoloft had caused birth defects in a boy in California, according to a St. Louis court.
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Pfizer Cleared of Liability in US trial claiming Zoloft can Cause Birth Defects On Friday, Pfizer was given a clean chit in the first US trial claiming that its antidepressant Zoloft can cause birth defects in children who are born to women who take the drug during pregnancy.
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Slippery Slope: $$ in, Diet Drugs Out, How Five Drugs Came to Market savesaved. by Coulter Jones, MedPage Today Staff; John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today; Kristina Fiore Staff Writer, MedPage Today.
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After 13 years of wariness, FDA approves five potentially harmful new diet drugs After 13 years of rejecting new diet drugs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has allowed five potentially harmful products on the market in the last three years - including two in the last four months.
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Vaccinate dogs to save lives London: Have not got your dog vaccinated yet? Go ahead as your little effort may save many lives. Some 160 people a day die from preventable canine rabies, a majority in India and other developing countries where hospitals do little to provide care and ...
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HIV Outbreak In Southeastern Indiana Hits 130 Cases As the short-term needle exchange established to contain the Scott County HIV outbreak nears its end, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence may seek to extend the program.
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Over a 3rd of global rabies deaths take place in India NEW DELHI: A global report on rabies has found India accounts for more than one-third of all deaths due to dog bite worldwide. Worse, the report says, most victims die at home because hospitalization provides little palliative care and death is inevitable.
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Bird flu confirmed on second farm in Ontario, Canada TORONTO (Reuters) - Preliminary testing has confirmed the presence of H5 avian influenza on a second Ontario farm, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Saturday.
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Bird flu confirmed on second farm in Ontario, Canada TORONTO, April 18 (Reuters) - Preliminary testing has confirmed the presence of H5 avian influenza on a second Ontario farm, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Saturday.
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Study: Happy Sweat Can 'Infuse' Positivity in Those Smelling It Next time that overly smug jogger makes you feel a little inadequate, it might be in your interest to get a good long smell of his sweatiness as he breezes past you.
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Your Happy Sweat has Power to Make Others Happy: Study says A new research says that if we are happy and in that state we sweat then that sweat is not an ordinary one. It makes others feel happier.
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Smell of Sweat Makes us Happy, New Study Suggests Contrary to what most probably believe, sweat smells very good. OK, so it might not be the most attractive odor in the world, but a new study suggests that smell of sweat makes us happy.
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Merck files for FDA approval of Keytruda in lung cancer (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc said on Sunday it has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its drug Keytruda as a treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of the disease.
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How Do You Spread Happiness? Work Up a Sweat. Are you feeling happy and you want to spread that feeling to family, friends, and maybe even strangers? Well then you may want to go grab a good workout first.
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Happiness can be spread through the smell of sweat, study finds Pharrell Williams should probably watch out - the "Happy" hitmaker might get an influx of fans trying to sniff him if the results of this latest study are anything to go by.
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Study finds, Happiness can be spread through the smell of sweat These chemosignals trigger a "contagion of the emotional state," according to senior study author Gün Semin, of Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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H5 avian influenza confirmed on 2nd farm in Ontario Preliminary testing has confirmed the presence of H5 avian influenza on a second Ontario farm, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Saturday.
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More Than 120 ER Visits Linked To Synthetic Marijuana In NYC Over Past Week According to the Health Department in New York City, over 120 persons made trips to the emergency department over the past week as a result of adverse effects or reactions after using synthetic marijuana.
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Indiana Says HIV Outbreak Is Worsening INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana county at the heart of an H.I.V. outbreak has seen a "significant increase" in the number of cases more than two weeks into a short-term needle exchange program, state health officials said.
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Synthetic Pot Sends Scores to New York Hospitals NEW YORK—Synthetic marijuana has sent 160 people to hospitals in New York state in a little over a week, a spike that prompted authorities to warn Friday that the drug is dangerous and illegal.
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Spice: Deadly Synthetic Cannabis Lands in NYC, 160 Hospitalized in One Week There's a new designer drug doing the rounds in the United States which seems to be triggering little more than a widespread stampeded to the ER.
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CFIA to cull 27000 chickens after avian flu confirmed at Ont. farm The Canadian Food Inspection agency will be euthanizing 27,000 chickens on a southern Ontario farm after confirming the presence of H5 avian influenza, the second case this month.
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Canada: Bird flu confirmed on second Oxford County farm Preliminary testing by the Province of Ontario has confirmed the presence of H5 avian influenza on a second farm in Oxford County, Ontario.
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Hundreds of people flock to ten-year-old girl's birthday party after classmates ... Strangers from around Minnesota flocked to a ten-year-old girl's birthday party, after several of her classmates didn't respond to their invitations, in hopes of giving her a celebration she'll never forget.
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HIV Still Spreading in Indiana, Scott County Confirms 120 Cases Indiana is currently in the midst of the state's worst HIV outbreak in history. Efforts to slow the spread of the virus have so far had modest impact at best, with state officials having suggested that things are likely to get worse before eventually getting better.
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Bird flu detected at second farm near Woodstock Avian influenza has been detected at a second farm near Woodstock, prompting food safety officials to place it in quarantine. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says preliminary testing has confirmed the presence of avian flu at the chicken farm in Oxford ...
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Are local Indiana authorities sabotaging efforts to halt HIV outbreak? The tracks on Kevin Polly's arms tell the story of his long struggle with intravenous drug abuse. "Most of this is Oxycontin track marks," he says, his fingers tracing the scars.
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Watch Elmo Of Sesame Street Bang Anti-Vaxxers In New Video Try not to listen to people who tell you not to vaccinate your children - Elmo of Sesame Street has collaborated with the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy in a new video that urges children to stay up to date with vaccinations.
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Indiana Reports More HIV Cases in Outbreak INDIANAPOLIS—An Indiana county at the heart of an HIV outbreak has seen a "significant increase" in the number of cases more than two weeks into a short-term needle exchange program approved by Gov.
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Medical Marijuana Comes to Georgia On Thursday, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed a law that legalizes the possession of a low-potency form of cannabis oil for medicinal uses.
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E-Cigarette Use In Youngsters Alarmingly Up: What Are The Dangers Of E ... E-cigarette usage, or vaping, among middle and high school students in the U.S. has tripled from 2013 to 2014, the CDC says. Vaping may get people addicted or lead them to smoking regular cigarettes.
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E-Cigarette use triples over a year among teens, says CDC Study E-Cigarettes have evoked strong reactions among health experts. While debates are raging about the safety profile of the e-cigarettes another debate is also raging about the easy availability among the young people in the United States.
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Man hits Cornelius drive-thru, comes home with a parakeet A parakeet, though not this one, made himself at home when Bill Detrick made a food run at a Taco Bell in Cornelius. Not Detrick hopes he can find the bird's owner.
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Elmo and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy team up to promote vaccination High-pitched and furry friend of children everywhere, Elmo, has turned health campaigner after espousing the healthy benefits of vaccinations.
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