Side Effects in Cancer Drugs can be very frustrating. If you are suffering from side effects from your cancer medication, chances are, you are not alone. Tamoxifen is known to give hot flashes, night sweats and joint pain. After a difficult time during menopause, it is hard to differentiate the side effects of these drugs [...]
Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a variety of new drugs, including the new drug for patients with metastatic melanoma. Dr. Art Mollen explained to Scott Pasmore that “Yervoy” can extend a patients life with metastatic melanoma. As far as FDA is concerned, melanoma is the leading cause of death from skin disease. [...]
The entire world could use leadership in healthcare. Healthcare has become more complex than ever and the demands in the healthcare system are growing tremendously. There are many opportunities for those that have advanced degrees in the healthcare fields. People whom have obtained PhDs will find many lucrative and challenging positions available if they seek [...]
Job ads for helathcare practitioners, support staff, and tech workers has tapered off in February, completely cutting off the demand gains for the healthcare industry in January. The labor demand for healthcare workers has dropped 4300 in February to 600,000 owing largely to decreases in advertised vacancies. The conference board in January reported 78,000 new [...]
A group of researchers followed 15,000 initially healthy Canadians for more than 10 years to see if universal access to health care meant that the rich and poor were both likely to stay healthy. The results are astonishing. The researchers ran this data two different ways in the study. High Income patients vs. Low Income [...]
In London, experts have found that the cancer drug used for breast cancer patients could keep new tumors away for more than four years. The found that patients who have received Herceptin – the ‘wonderdrug’ in 2005, are still less likely to have the tumors recur. Usually breast cancer patients have the surgery to remove [...]
Breaking new study finds that drugs that are given to prevent bone loss may actually also prevent COLON CANCER. Recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, some particular bone loss drugs may reduce colon cancer indeed. The bone lost drugs such as Boniva shows to help reduce the cause of colon cancer by nearly [...]
Within the past months, cancer centers across the country have experienced a significant shortage in chemotherapy supplies. Drug shortages have occurred in the past, but nothing such as this. Many chemotherapy drugs that are short in supply this year are widely used generics, so this has had a huge impact on cancer care providers. The [...]
A popular company that markets products to help cancer sufferers is being sold to a Japanese rival for 292 million. Marketed products such as painkillers for cancer sufferers and patients undergoing chemotherapy in Europe and the US Scottish bio-tech firm ProStrakan has agreed to a takeover by Japan’s Kyowa Hakko Kirin. Shares sky rocket 20% [...]
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