Medical history is dotted with stories of cancers vanishing without a trace and without any treatment, either. Once considered medical oddities, a new study suggests more cancers go away without treatment than would be expected. The theory, however, is quite difficult to prove conclusively because almost every cancer detected is treated aggressively, leaving no opportunity to explore spontaneous regressions.
Leading the study were Dr. Jan Maehlen, Read the rest of this entry »
Touchline Media requires a candidate in the position Advertising Executive (Gauteng) for Men’s Health, reporting directly to the National Advertising Manager, and based in Johannesburg.
1.Selling of advertising space against set targets on a monthly basis.
2.Sourcing of new business opportunities
3.Client liaison, customer service, networking and positive representation of the brand.
4. Support team in achieving high quality end product Read the rest of this entry »
As the Paisley and Area Health Clinic held its grand opening ceremony Friday afternoon, construction committee chair Dale Steinhoff kept his composure throughout most of the ceremony until the end of his remarks.
“I am very happy to stand here and say, health care has come home,” he said, as he became choked up at the prospect that the dream he and his committee shared is coming to fruition.
The nearly $400,000 project has been underway since Read the rest of this entry »
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) –
experimental blood
thinner prasugrel may face delays getting U.S. approval after
regulators said they made a “mistake” removing a critic of the
drug from an advisory panel at the company’s urging.
after Indianapolis-based Lilly complained about research
articles written by Kaul questioning prasugrel’s safety and
effectiveness, said
, director of the FDA’s Center
for Drug Evaluation and Research. The controversy Read the rest of this entry »
, the
star, is to marry her boyfriend and have her two sons christened as soon as possible after being told by doctors that her cancer is terminal. Goody’s boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, proposed to her in hospital after learning that she has just months to live. The couple are expected to sell the media rights to the wedding and christening to raise money for Goody’s children, Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie.
“They need to get married as soon Read the rest of this entry »
– Laurent Auclert, MD, Head, Risk Management Plan Unit, Global
Pharmacovigilance & Epidemiology, sanofi-aventis
— Cherif Benatti, MD, Vice President, Pharmacovigilance & Public
Health, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
— Carmen Bozic, Vice President, Drug Safety & Risk Management, Biogen
Idec
— John Ferguson, Vice President & Global Head, Pharmacovigilance &
Medical Safety, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics
— Read the rest of this entry »
Do Diabetes Drugs Affect Heart Health?
Oct. 27, 2008 — A review of 40 clinical drug trials failed to produce reliable conclusions about the effects of oral diabetes medicines on cardiovascular health, despite controversy over the drug Avandia.
However, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health did find that metformin seemed to be associated with a decrease in
and heart-related deaths.
The analysis of the trials, 27 Read the rest of this entry »
n the waning months of the Bush administration, the Food and Drug Administration is asking the courts to extend the Republican Party’s anti-regulatory zealotry well beyond the president’s last day in office. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a woman who lost an arm after being improperly injected with a drug could sue the company that manufactured it, and the administration was on exactly the wrong side of the issue.
The Read the rest of this entry »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts carried out one last spacewalk Monday to finish an unprecedented clean and lube job that they began a week ago at the international space station.
Spacewalkers Stephen Bowen and Shane Kimbrough hoped to wrap up work on a jammed solar-wing rotary joint and, as a precaution, squirt some extra grease on another joint that works fine.
Just before Monday’s spacewalk began, NASA added a 16th day to space Read the rest of this entry »
Breakthrough Breast Cancer said that if all the main cancer drugs currently
denied to patients were funded by the NHS, the costs would amount to less
than one per cent of the health service budget.
His intervention comes as the NHS cancer czar considers allowing patients to “top
up” their cancer care by paying privately for drugs which the NHS won’t
fund.
Under current rules, patients who pay for these drugs can be barred from any Read the rest of this entry »