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2nd-Generation B-Cell Therapy Slows Progression in PPMS savesaved. author name. by Kristina Fiore Staff Writer, MedPage Today. Action Points. The trial investigating ocrelizumab in primary progressive MS, for which there is currently no accepted therapies, was positive, with a 24% decrease in EDSS ...
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US FDA Gives Accelerated Approval For Merck Lung Cancer Treatment Keytruda The United States Food and Drug Administration has just granted accelerated approval to Merck for their new advanced (metastatic) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment Keytruda (generic: pembrolizumab) for patients whose disease has ...
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Whole Foods Recalls Cheese Over Listeria Fears Whole Foods is recalling a specific kind of cheese from stores nationwide after a dangerous form of bacteria that causes listeria infections was found by U.S.
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Study: Runner's high similar to effects of marijuana Researchers confirmed the increase in endocannabinoids in the system after running as the cause of runner's high, disproving the longtime theory that it is caused by endorphins.
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Breakthrough drug approval signals great advances in lung cancer treatment DENVER, Colo. - The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) says the move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant accelerated approval for a cutting-edge lung cancer treatment is a positive step forward that may ...
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Ocrelizumab Is The Promising New Drug For Multiple Sclerosis Patients Bay Area researchers released successful clinical trial results Thursday for a promising new drug that could become the first to treat a devastating progressive form of multiple sclerosis.
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This Free Online Tool Can Tell If You Should Seek Help For Depression Today is National Depression Screening Day, which means you have an opportunity to take a free online test that could help determine your risk of depression.
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Breast cancer: Know your health care rights October. For many of us, the 10th month of the year means cooler temperatures, a return to autumn comfort foods, and the brilliant color virtually everywhere we turn.
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Cancer awareness months: Are we missing an opportunity or missing the point? Coincidentally, I had e-mails from two research charities with an interest in hematologic malignancies, reminding me that September was Blood Cancer Awareness Month.
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Measles Vaccine Gaps Put US At Risk, Reports Show Nearly 9 million U.S. children are not fully vaccinated against measles and risk getting infected, researchers say in a new report.
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Young Women's Breast Cancer Foundation started by Peters Township woman Jennifer Kehm, left, and Roberta Szpara help lend support and inspiration to others who have had breast cancer. Image description.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Hits Home for Trio of Chargers John Pagano goes 1-on-1 with Mike Pomeranz to talk about the defensive improvements and the challenges of the Steelers offense. Watch.
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UK's first Ebola patient back in hospital in serious condition after complication London (CNN) The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United Kingdom is back in the hospital with a complication from the virus, and doctors say her condition is serious.
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Firstborn Kids More Likely To Be Nearsighted, And Here's Why? For instance, they might be spending more time completing home works and reading with their firstborn kids compared to the ones who were born later.
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Sientra Sends Letter to Plastic Surgeons Regarding Silimed-Manufactured Products Sientra, Inc. SIEN, -2.77% a medical aesthetics company, today announced that it has sent a letter to plastic surgeons regarding products manufactured by Silimed, one of Sientra's contract manufacturers.
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Sientra suspends sales of medical implants made by Brazilian contract partner Breast implant maker Sientra Inc said it has placed a temporary hold on sales of medical implants made by a Brazilian contract manufacturer, sending its shares down 11 percent in extended trading.
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Local advocates want 'Right to Die' law in NYS ALBANY -- 'Death with Dignity' advocates met in the Capital Region to talk about legislation that would allow a terminally ill person to decide whether to take medication and end their own life.
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Crisis-Oriented Mental Heathcare is Not the Answer to America's Mental Heath ... It sounds like the opening scenes of a certain wildly popular television drama: on Labor Day 2013 I found myself on a gurney in the ER of Beth Israel in Boston, a perfectly healthy 44-year-old victim of an epic panic attack, who would have a very ...
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Florida Woman Super Glues Her Eye Shut A Florida woman found herself in a sticky situation after a mixup caused her left eye to be glued shut. "Something blew into my eye and I screamed for someone else to get eye drops out of my purse, and they brought super glue and poured it in my eye," ...
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Experts Weigh In: Where Do People Want to Die? savesaved. by Joyce Frieden, News Editor, and Roger Sergel Senior Executive Editor, MedPage Today Video. A recent article in BMJ questioned the oft-held notion that most people prefer to die at home.
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Woman's Eye Sealed Shut After Friend Mistakes Glue For Eye Drops An unlucky woman who glued her eye shut after her friend mistook glue for eye drops is finally getting the medical treatment she needs.
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Florida Woman's Eye Glued Shut After Mix-Up Involving Super Glue and Eye Drops A woman unknowingly squirted glue instead of Visine into her eye after something got in it. Terri Parker reports. WPBF - West Palm Beach, FL.
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This Woman Accidentally Poured Superglue In Her Eye Instead Of Eye Drops If you're someone (like me) who cannot handle anything near, in, or around your eye, you're going to need to sit down for this one.
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Flu vaccine plentiful; flu mist isn't Want a flu vaccination but don't like needles? This might be a tough year for you. A shortage of the nasal vaccine called FluMist means some health providers in Northeastern Wisconsin and elsewhere in the nation have not received all the doses they ...
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Sounding Off: Plano-area readers discuss Turing Pharmaceuticals' pricing increase Activists hold signs containing the image of Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli in front the building that houses Turing's offices in New York on Oct. 1 during a protest against pharmaceutical drug pricing.
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Ashley VanPevenage, Woman Behind Cruel Viral Makeup Transformation Meme ... Ugh, we're sad this is even a thing. Ashley VanPevenage became the victim of a nasty viral meme that you may have seen floating around the Internet.
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Official count finds vaccine referendum fell short Opponents of a measure requiring nearly all California schoolchildren to be vaccinated gather at the Capitol in June. Their referendum on the bill fell short Thursday of the number of signatures needed to put it on the ballot.
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Price Gouging Pharma-Bro Martin Shkreli Returns to Twitter, Still an Asshole Martin Shkreli raised the price a lifesaving drug by 5,000%, while defending his actions on Twitter. Then he promised to lower the price.
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More than 800 get free flu shots in Madison County, prompting additional clinics The Madison County Health Department has had such a influx of people seeking free flu shots since the flu shot clinics began that officials are adding additional opportunities for residents.
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UPDATE 1-Bid to repeal California school vaccination law falls short (Adds quote from author of law opponents were trying to repeal, in paragraph 10). By Sharon Bernstein. SACRAMENTO, Calif. Oct 8 (Reuters) - A plan to ask voters to repeal a new California law tightening vaccination requirements for school-age children ...
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Man's encounter with shark helps him bite back fate On Tuesday, July 8, the hot sun shone in a clear blue sky. The sand bars at Huntington Beach were crowded with swimmers and surfers.
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MedPAC pivots on fairness of MA star rating system The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is holding off on recommending how Congress or the CMS should address a perceived disadvantage some Medicare Advantage plans say they face with the agency's star rating system.
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FDA Expands Approved Use of Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMY) Opdivo in Advanced ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Opdivo (nivolumab) to treat patients with advanced (metastatic) non-small cell lung cancer whose disease progressed during or after platinum-based chemotherapy.
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Author says his book will put your child to sleep (CNN) Bedtime is loathed by parents universally, a fact author Adam Mansbach capitalized on in his best-selling book "Go the F**k to Sleep".
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Bristol-Myers Drug Approved by FDA for Wider Lung Cancer Use Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s immune cancer therapy won approval from U.S. regulators for a broader population of lung cancer patients, a boost for a drug that's expected to become a blockbuster.
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Eighth Mass. resident infected with West Nile A Middlesex County woman in her 80s is the state's latest resident to be infected with the mosquito-borne illness West Nile virus, state health officials said Thursday.
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New test helps ER docs rule out a heart attack (Reuters Health) - A new blood test might help doctors figure out faster whether someone's having a heart attack. The test reliably told doctors which patients were not having heart attacks after only one blood sample, compared to the current method ...
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CIRM's New Stem Cell Bank Up, Running Nearly 11 years after California voters approved Proposition 71 -- the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, which created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine -- the institution is hitting the high point of its reason for ...
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Cheerios Recall: The Celiac Disease Community Is Constantly At-Risk General Mills recently announced that certain lots of Yellow Box and Honey Nut Cheerios produced at their Lodi, California facility and labeled gluten-free actually contained wheat flour, making them not gluten-free and thus unsafe for the celiac ...
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NIH's mental health chief on why he's leaving for Google: Technology may hold ... Thomas Insel, who has been director of the National Institute of Mental Health for 13 years, is leaving at the end of the month to join Google.
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Indoor Tanning, Skin Cancer Rates on Rise Among Gay, Bisexual Men A new study finds a growing number of gay and bisexual men are visiting tanning salons—and getting skin cancer. REUTERS/Nir Elias.
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