ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) – Roche Holding AG and Genentech Inc said on Monday a study into the benefits of combining their Tarceva and Avastin drugs for lung cancer patients did not show an increase in overall survival.
Both drugs are targeted therapies — modern medicines which act as “smart bombs” by crippling cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. It had been hoped that adding them together would extend patients’ lives.
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“Here we go again. Abner Louima, Bell, and now add to that list Michael Mineo,” Mineo’s attorney,
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’s National Action Network in Harlem. Later, he and Sharpton visited Mineo in the hospital, where Sharpton gripped Mineo’s hand as Mineo spoke tearfully to reporters.
Mineo spent four days in The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center following the alleged attack on Oct. 15 and had been expected to appear Read the rest of this entry »
LOME, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Togo has extradited a suspected Colombian drug-trafficker to the United States after he was arrested along with accomplices trying to smuggle cocaine to Europe, the West African state’s government said on Friday.
Jorge Solano Cortes was detained by Togolese police in November in an anti-drugs operation backed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Seven other Colombians, a Costa Rican and a Mexican were also Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two television commercials for Bayer AG’s birth control pill Yaz give a misleading impression of its benefits, U.S. health regulators warned the company in a letter released on Tuesday.
The ads wrongly suggest the pills are approved for relieving premenstrual syndrome, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a letter dated October 3. The ads also minimize the drug’s risks, the agency said.
Bayer will stop running the Read the rest of this entry »
According to a recent study of over 30,000 women in the U.S. published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, over 40% of women report having some sort of sexual dysfunction, and 12% reported distress and that these problems affected their daily lives.
“These statistics are consistent with other reports of prevalence,” says Dr. Sheryl A. Kingsberg, clinical psychologist, author, and associate professor. “More than 40% of women have one or more Read the rest of this entry »
I say it’s our business where clients take their prescriptions. The BCVMA agrees. Also, the B.C. College of Pharmacists says we can put as much trust in online pharmacies as conventional pharmacies, as long as they are licensed. And, finally, there are substantial savings to be had. In my case, I could get Deramaxx from a licensed online pharmacy for 20 per cent less.
During the course of my inquiries, I learned that CBC Marketplace canvassed this Read the rest of this entry »
Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economist at Princeton. For previous posts in his series on why America pays so much for health care, click
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Medicare, the federal health-insurance program for America’s elderly, plays a major and highly controversial role in our health-care system. To many Americans it is a blessing. Others view it as a source of all that’s wrong with American health care. I propose to explore these views in this and the next two Read the rest of this entry »
They crisscross, double under, cancan and bell, often tripping over flip-flops or whipping themselves in the back.
Although the jumpers in Hancock Elementary School’s new jump rope club are just starting out, they are perfecting their tricks twice a week for a Halloween debut performance at school.
Earlier this year, as part of a fundraiser, a trick jump-rope team performed for the school. That, according to Hancock Principal Connie Hull, planted Read the rest of this entry »
About two months have passed since Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center stopped offering inpatient services, closing as an acute-care hospital after 131 years, but confusion remains about the availability of nearly a dozen major outpatient services that remain on the 17-acre campus.
With many residents unaware of the services entirely and others unaware of what they offer, access to them has been hindered by a simple lack of information, officials Read the rest of this entry »
For years, doctors routinely prescribed estrogen, as well as another female hormone, progesterone (used with estrogen if a woman still has her uterus), during and after menopause. Not only did hormone therapy decrease menopausal symptoms, doctors also prescribed it to protect against bone loss (osteoporosis) and heart disease.
But, in 2002, a large clinical trial called the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) found that women taking hormone therapy Read the rest of this entry »