WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Data show Novartis AG’s
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work and causes few serious side effects, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration regulatory staff said in documents released on
Monday.
“The majority of AEs (adverse events) were of mild or
moderate intensity. Deaths … and SAEs (serious adverse
events) … were reported infrequently,” the staff wrote in
documents Read the rest of this entry »
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Australia’s immigration minister has granted permanent residency to a German family whose application was twice denied because their 13-year-old son has Down syndrome.
Immigration Minister Chris Evans overturned the decisions of his department Wednesday, saying Bernhard Moeller and his family were making a valuable contribution to their community. Moeller moved to rural Australia along with his family more than two Read the rest of this entry »
By LINDA A. JOHNSON –
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The first high-tech, long-acting treatment for hepatitis C in children, a two-drug combination from Schering-Plough Corp., has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Schering-Plough said Friday that FDA had approved sales of a treatment combining its antiviral pill, Rebetol, with its PEG-Intron, an advanced, genetically engineered version of the immune system protein interferon, Read the rest of this entry »
MADISON, Wis. – A national magazine has named Madison the
No. 1 place in American for men, while a second magazine names the
city No. 8 in the U.S. for women.
Men’s Health magazine ranked cities based on 38 factors,
including cancer rates, air quality and the number of gym
memberships. It ranked
’s capital No. 1 overall, and No. 7
for best quality of life for men.
Women’s Health magazine says Madison is No. 8 in America for
women, and ninth Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Doctors who put aside their
paper pads and prescribe medicines electronically may be more
likely to choose lower-cost drugs, saving money for patients
and insurers, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Only about 6 percent of U.S. doctors use “e-prescribing”
even though doing so may improve efficiency and reduce errors
such as a pharmacy misreading a doctor’s sloppy handwriting or
dispensing a different drug with a similar Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve long feared that the integrity of medical research is being eroded by conflicts of interest and manipulation of scientific data. Still, it was disheartening to learn that one of the nation’s most prominent psychiatrists has taken large, undisclosed payments from a drug company whose products he evaluated and that another company manipulated studies to make a drug look far more beneficial than it actually is.
As Gardiner Harris Read the rest of this entry »
Fri., Jan. 16, 2 p.m.
“Is God a Mathematician?” an
Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Mario
Livio, STScI. Kossiakoff Center. APL
Tues., Jan. 13, 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Human Language
Technology Center of Excellence Quarterly Technical
Exchange, with various speakers. Registration required; to
register, e-mail
. Stieff
Bldg, 810 Wyman Park Drive.
Fri., Jan. 16, 12:15 p.m.
“Transformation of Health
Systems,” Health Sciences Informatics Read the rest of this entry »
The US desperately needs to increase its numbers of family doctors to improve patients’ care and reduce their costs, particularly for those most vulnerable in society. Incentives must be given for medical students to specialise in general, primary care rather than the narrow specialties which earn them more money but do not meet the needs of the public. The call for action is made by four doctors from the American Academy of Family Physicians in a Read the rest of this entry »
SOMERSET, N.J., Jan. 6, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — inVentiv Health, Inc. (Nasdaq:VTIV), a leading provider of commercialization services to the global pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, today announced that Blane Walter, Chief Executive Officer, and David Bassin, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the 27th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, which will be held January 12-15, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
The presentation will Read the rest of this entry »
Senior health spending still heaviest U.S. debt
12:00 AM CST on Tuesday, January 13, 2009
WASHINGTON – The federal government has gone on a borrowing binge in an effort to save the economy, and it’s only going to get crazier in the months ahead.
The federal budget deficit for 2009 is already on pace to hit $1.2 trillion, even without the $775 billion or more President-elect Barack Obama wants to jump-start the economy.
Yet it’s not the Read the rest of this entry »