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Cancer drug may double as fat-busting treatment for obesity
Way back in 2002, Dr. Judah Folkman hit upon a tantalizing weight-loss strategy for obese mice. When given daily injections of a drug designed to fight cancer, their fat melted away. The higer the dose they got, the more fat they lost. Some of the obese...
Tags: Obesity, University of Mississippi, Medical Research, Science and Technology, Weight
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Remove Medicare's straitjacket
Now that the budget "sequester" is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There's simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal spending without touching the big health programs, particularly Medicare. Although...
Tags: Amgen Inc., Macular Degeneration, Budget Control Act of 2011, Drugs and Medicines, Marketing
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Fake medicine poses growing threat to consumers
Consumers shopping for medicine on the Internet often are getting convenience, a good price and the cloak of privacy, but they may not be getting the real thing. A burgeoning multibillion-dollar industry of counterfeit drugs — ranging from AIDS...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Sales, Erectile Dysfunction, Business, Health Treatments
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For the record
Medical study results: In the Oct. 24 Section A, an article about medical studies said that follow-up studies of the drug Avastin showed that it did not help breast cancer patients live longer with their disease without getting worse. Those studies did...Tags: Sports, Breast Cancer, Football
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89 Md. facilities bought drugs from firm linked to meningitis outbreak
The federal Food and Drug Administration identified 89 medical facilities in Maryland that bought drugs from the Massachusetts manufacturer being investigated for a national fungal meningitis outbreak. The facilities are among more than 3,000 in numerous...
Tags: Diabetes, Hormones and Metabolism, Diseases and Illnesses, Cosmetic Procedures, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Margie Gelber's story of survival
Sun SentinelIt’s been over 12 years since my cancer diagnosis. I prefer to think of myself as a “thriver” instead of a survivor. During my annual GYN check-up in March 2000, my physician felt a tiny lump in my left breast. Even though both of my...Tags: Chemotherapy, Cancer, Mastectomy, Lymphatic System, Breast Cancer
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Teacher says Susan G. Komen helped save her life
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsPleasant Valley Middle School teacher, Kelli Frazier, loves history. She even documents her own. "This was going from the chemo to the radiation treatments,” Kelli said. Kelli's scrapbook tells the story of her fight with breast cancer. It...Tags: Chemotherapy, Cancer, Bones and Joints, Mastectomy, Food and Drug Administration
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New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer
In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...Tags: Chemotherapy, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Treatments, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Human Body
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Harsher penalties for counterfeit drug traffickers
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett released the following statement today:
"The U.S. Senate today passed with broad bipartisan support a bill cosponsored by Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, along with senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), to crack...Tags: Cancer, Drug Trafficking, Heparin (drug), Patrick Leahy, Food and Drug Administration
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Big promise is seen in 2 new breast cancer drugs
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse.
In a large international...Tags: Chemotherapy, Duke University, Washington Hospital Center, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Problems
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Avastin shown to slow ovarian cancer
A new international study shows that treating ovarian cancer with Avastin delays the disease progression and may improve survival. The drug, generically called bevacizumab, seemed to keep the disease from returning for two months. It was delayed five...Tags: Chemotherapy, Drugs and Medicines, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Treatments, Drugs and Medicines
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