In the wake of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health’s recently released report “The use of hormones for “anti-aging”: a review of efficacy and safety,” a leading medical authority has criticized the use of anti-aging hormones. Dr. Thomas T. Perls, an associate professor of medicine at [...]
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The Risks Of Anti-Aging Hormones With Little Or No Benefit
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No Comments »Patients Without Health Insurance, Or Those With Financial Concerns, More Likely To Delay Seeking Care For Heart Attack
Patients who do not have health care insurance, or those with insurance but financial concerns about accessing health care, are more likely to delay seeking emergency care for a heart attack, according to a study in the April 14 issue of JAMA.
Although health care insurance status has been shown to affect use [...]
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Enrolls 1st Subject In Phase 2 Trial For Therapy To Treat Clostridium Difficile-Associated Diarrhea, Or CDAD
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBST), a leading acute care therapeutics company, today announced the enrollment and dosing of the first subject in its Phase 2 trial with CB-183,315, an antibacterial drug candidate intended to treat patients with a severe and sometimes life-threatening diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile known as C. [...]
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No Comments »A Selection Of Today’s Opinions And Editorials
Health Care Law Is Good The Las Vegas Sun
States can’t on the one hand accept the benefits of federal health care spending and then legitimately claim that the federal government is playing too large a role in the health care sector (4/2).
On The Front Line The New York Times
If Dr. Berwick [...]
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No Comments »Tenn. Lawmakers Advance Bills On Abortion Clinic Anti-Coercion Signs, Abortion Coverage In Health Exchanges
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate voted 29-2 and the state House voted 87-8 in favor of bills (SB 3812, HB 3301) that would require abortion clinics to post signs alerting women of a Tennessee law that prohibits coercing a woman into having an abortion, the AP/Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
The legislation would [...]
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No Comments »International Federation Of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Pledges More Than $300 Million To Haiti’s Long-Term Recovery
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today pledged to extend the emergency phase of its work in Haiti for up to twelve months and committed more than $300 million towards Haiti’s long-term recovery and reconstruction following the devastating earthquake of January 12.
The announcement was made at [...]
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No Comments »ArQule Announces Results Of Phase 2 Trial With ARQ 197 In Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
ArQule, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQL) today announced that ARQ 197, when used in combination with erlotinib, demonstrated a 66% improvement in median Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in patients with advanced, refractory non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In the intent to treat (ITT) population (n = 167), median PFS was 16.1 weeks in the [...]
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No Comments »Genta Initiates Confirmatory Phase 2b Trial Of Tesetaxel In Gastric Cancer
Genta Incorporated (OTCBB: GETA) today announced that the Company has initiated a confirmatory Phase 2b trial of tesetaxel in patients with advanced gastric cancer. Tesetaxel is the Company’s newest clinical-stage small molecule. As a late Phase 2 oncology product, tesetaxel is the leading oral taxane currently in clinical development. The [...]
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