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Cardiovascular disease in breast cancer is a real risk. As our population is aging, and breast cancer is one of the most comon cancers, it is up to us to minimize risks of treatment related morbidity.
While the data between avastin and lucentis is pending, it's interesting to see Genetch trying to defending profits at the expense of patients. Genetech has impeded this trial, so that they could defend sales of Lucentis. Before lucentis was approved, avastin was used for macular degeneration...
Glioblastoma multiforme are one of the worst tumors one can have - period. Even with aggressive surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, most of these patients succumb to their disease within 1 year. Initial results of Avastin + Irinotecan look promising as a second line regimen. ...
Exubera is a great product. However, the delivery system was difficult to use and educate the patients how to use. Hopefully, the next generation of the product will be in a smaller more user friendly cannister.
Another factor potentially impacting food cost inflation is the shift in percentage of food dollars spent on food prepared away from home. In the early 70s consumers spent about 28% of there food dollars on meals prepared away from home and by 2000 that percentage had grown to, and leveled at, 50% of...
I know that Pfizer finally came out with the inhaled insulin after many years of hype. Unfortunately its launch and the product has been a flop, primarily because of the size if the inhaler. It is large and looks like a can of tennis balls. It is difficult for the patient to understand the dosing and...
Hypercholesterolemia has an established link with a risk of cardiac events and there has been a push to screen high risk population for early intervention in an effort to reduce the incidence of heart attacks and strokes, for example. However to suggest any benefit from screening babies is to...
Recently there has been a rash of takeover of publicly owned nursing homes by private equity firms flush with cash. There is a concomitant suspicion now that quality is being compromised systematically in these institutions in order to maximize profits. It's important to ascertain if this is so. If...
Many lower income families depend on the SCHIP program administered by individual states to pay for healthcare. Republicans see this as just another entitlement program while Democrats see it as an essential way of making sure children have access to the basics in healthcare. This veto might be based...