The future of personalized cancer drugs could be determined in a crucial debate Tuesday at the Food and Drug Administration.
An FDA advisory panel is set to debate what standards need to be applied before gene tests are recommended with cancer drugs to select which subset of patients are likely to benefit. At issue is what should be done when a drug is first approved for everyone, and only later researchers figure out that it only works in patients Read the rest of this entry »
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Innovotech, Inc. (IOT.V:
) said Wednesday that the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, has approved its quality system for medical device manufacture. This means that it meets the exceptionally high international standards of ISO 13485:2003.
The company noted that this accreditation will augment the safety and operational infrastructure that it is building to support its first medical Read the rest of this entry »
LAKE PARK, Iowa – The State Fire Marshall is set to begin
an investigation into a fire that destroyed three downtown
buildings in Lake Park.
Fire fighters were called to the blaze just before 10 a.m. on
Sunday. It took 12 fire departments nearly six hours to put out the
fire in the town, which is about 10 miles northwest of Okoboji,
near the
border.
The building’s destroyed included the Hemphill Family Care
Clinic.
Denise Hemphill, who ran Read the rest of this entry »
Editor’s Note: Family health issues recently forced freelance writer, Kay Crites, to take a strong look at her couch potato lifestyle and admit that changes were needed. She is chronicling her journey to (hopefully) better health.
OK, so in my last article I mentioned that I’m on the downhill stretch. There’s just over a month left until TD (test day), which means it’s time to take inventory and gear up. During the past 4 1/2 months, I’ve talked Read the rest of this entry »
) and Jobs about his health, the lack of disclosure, and the way it may have affected investors.The stock, which rises and falls with news about Jobs, rose when Jobs’ said his health issues wouldn’t keep him from work and dropped nine days later when
. Adding to the mix, this isn’t the first time issues have been raised; the company kept Jobs’ pancreatic cancer secret in 2004. At issue: when do companies owe investors information about the health Read the rest of this entry »
An armed man is holed up in a car at the emergency entrance to Conway Medical Center and has been there since around 7 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 9:10 a.m.
, WPDE Newschannel 15
A SWAT standoff at Conway Medical Center continued into Wednesday morning. Police say a man is in his a blue Chevy Camaro, holding a long-barreled gun.
It all began Tuesday around 8 p.m.
Police say the man rode around the parking lot before positioning Read the rest of this entry »
The controversial rule empowers federal health officials to cut off federal funding for any state or local government, hospital, clinic, health plan, doctors’ office or other entity if they do not accommodate employees who exercise their “right of conscience.” It would apply to more than 584,000 health care facilities.
“Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience,” Read the rest of this entry »
Once again, the media and even Democratic candidate Barack Obama, have failed to follow-up on McCain’s stated opposition to abortion by questioning his equal opposition to contraception – the primary means to reduce the rate of abortion.
services, including birth control.
“During his twenty-five years in office, Sen. McCain has consistently voted to block low-income women’s access to birth control, to deny our teens accurate information about Read the rest of this entry »
Do they work?
Yes. If you’re
, following a
every day can help you lose weight.
can help you make changes to the way you eat and exercise. It gives you a greater chance of losing weight than just dieting.
. You’re also likely to feel happier and more comfortable.
But it’s not easy to keep the weight off. You’ll need to carry on eating healthily and exercising to stay at your new weight. Seeing your doctor or another health professional Read the rest of this entry »
But Chittenden said that the FDA this past week “came back and said eight places may have gotten some of the peanut butter . . . and they are investigating those establishments.”
Chittenden said she didn’t know exactly what kind of establishments the FDA was investigating but she believed they were “processors, distributors, those kinds of things.” A FDA spokeswoman would not comment except to say the investigation was ongoing.
Chittenden said Read the rest of this entry »