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- Combining Targeted Therapy Drugs May Treat Previously Resistant Tumors
- Doctors ditch drug samples to avoid influencing treatment
- Natural Medicine: High-fructose corn syrup and children
- Data Published in Nature Medicine Highlights Ability of Peregrine …
- Dr. J on the science of hope
- Efforts to properly dispose of medicine increase
Combining Targeted Therapy Drugs May Treat Previously Resistant Tumors
Science Daily (press release)
30 2008) — A team of cancer researchers from several Boston academic medical centers has discovered a potential treatment for a group of tumors that have resisted previous targeted therapy approaches. In their Nature Medicine report which is receiving early online release investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Cancer Center report that combining two different kinase inhibitors – drugs that interfere with specific cell-growth pathways – led to significant tumor shrinkage in mice with lung cancer driven by mutations in the K-Ras gene. See also: Health & MedicineLung CancerColon CancerBrain TumorCancerBreast CancerOvarian Cancer Reference.
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Doctors ditch drug samples to avoid influencing treatment
USA Today
Paradoxically Miller says “they are likely costing those patients more money down the road. Recognizing that health systems around the country are beginning to curtail the practice a major marketing tool. In January a study in the journal PLoS Medicine estimated that in 2004 drugmakers handed out free samples to U. doctors with a retail value of nearly $16 billion equal to more than a quarter of their marketing budgets that year. Samples widely used More than 90% of U.
Natural Medicine: High-fructose corn syrup and children
Seattle Post Intelligencer
– Stephanie Wells dietetic intern and Debra Boutin MS RD dietetic internship director and associate professor School of Nutrition and Exercise Science at Bastyr UniversityNonprofit accredited Bastyr University (. edu) offers multiple degrees in the natural health sciences and clinical training at Bastyr Center for Natural Health (. org) the region’s largest natural medicine clinic.
Data Published in Nature Medicine Highlights Ability of Peregrine …
MarketWatch
Bavituximab is in clinical trials for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and in preclinical development for the treatment of viral hemorrhagic fevers under a contract worth up to $44. 4 million with the bioterrorism program of the U. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
Dr. J on the science of hope
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News NV
In the long run it will prove more detrimental than beneficial because it will prevent actual change and true progress. That unfortunately is the true nature of hope. In the end hope will never improve our actual existence and we need all the help we can get!Medicine as Art and ScienceWhen I first forayed into medicine there was constant mention of the Art and Science of the field. Originally mostly art medicine has worked hard to become mostly science. Vast amounts of credible research have been done by dedicated doctors to advance the boundaries of medical knowledge. In the field of surgery I have personally seen tremendous improvements in treatment and technique. There is a problem however that arises in medicine involving the areas of what are we curing or even treating reasonably successfully and what are we unable to treat with much success.
Efforts to properly dispose of medicine increase
Detroit Free Press United States
At evening’s end the community-based effort sent 300 pounds of prescription and over-the-counter medicines to an incinerator rather than down a toilet the trash or a sink. Such campaigns are gaining momentum as trace amounts of drugs are being found in the water supply from what people drink to what they bathe in to what they and Michigan’s critters splash around in during the summers. “Although you think you are not exposed you are one way or another” said Chuanwu Xi a University of Michigan environmental health professor who studies how antibiotics find their way into water. He has found antibiotic resistance genes in sewage bacteria getting around wastewater treatment and sneaking into the environment. Some of it can’t easily be helped. Even digested pills contribute to the amount of antibiotics in wastewater he said and conventional wastewater treatment isn’t designed to completely remove these micropollutants. These sturdy chemicals even in small amounts can kill off natural bacteria in waterways encourage microbes to become drug-resistant and poison fish he said.
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