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Music

Growth On James Levine’s Kidney Found To Be Malignant

Growth On James Levine’s Kidney Found To Be Malignant

Doctors found that the growth on a kidney removed from conductor James Levine was cancerous, but,...
» read full story July 23rd, 2008 - 12:13
Conductor J. Levine to Miss Tanglewood Due to Kidney Surgery

Conductor J. Levine to Miss Tanglewood Due to Kidney Surgery

James Levine, the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will reportedly miss the...
» read full story July 08th, 2008 - 21:41
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U.S.

Girl Living Without Heart For 4 Months Leaves Hospital

D’Zhana Simmons, a 14-year-old girl from South Carolina, was able to leave the hospital on...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 10:44
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Health

Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results

Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results

Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc announced on Monday that its experimental cancer treatment...
» read full story November 25th, 2008 - 17:00
Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients

Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients

A small study of patients with brain cancer showed that Antigenics Inc’s Oncophage vaccine helped...
» read full story November 24th, 2008 - 15:45
Girl, 14, Miraculously Survives Nearly 4 Months without Heart

Girl, 14, Miraculously Survives Nearly 4 Months without Heart

As incredible as it may sound, an American teenage girl has survived for nearly four months...
» read full story November 21st, 2008 - 14:00

Girl Living With No Heart For 4 Months Leaves Hospital

D’Zhana Simmons, a 14-year-old girl from South Carolina, was able to leave the hospital on...
» read full story November 20th, 2008 - 15:37

Contaminated Blood Thinner Heparin Seized

Federal agents announced Thursday they have seized some of an Ohio company's supplies of tainted...
» read full story November 07th, 2008 - 17:10
Tainted Blood Thinner Seized by US Marshals in Ohio

Tainted Blood Thinner Seized by US Marshals in Ohio

The scandal around tainted heparin is again in the spotlight, as federal officials said...
» read full story November 07th, 2008 - 14:00
Update: Bayer Warned over Aspirin Products

Update: Bayer Warned over Aspirin Products

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Bayer Health Care saying the...
» read full story October 29th, 2008 - 15:50
Child-Sized Heart Pump Useful Until Transplant

Child-Sized Heart Pump Useful Until Transplant

A miniaturized heart pump was able to help keep eight out of nine critically ill children alive...
» read full story September 30th, 2008 - 14:22
Face Transplants Feasible, New Study Reveals

Face Transplants Feasible, New Study Reveals

French transplant surgeon Dr. Laurent Lantieri and his colleagues have written a report on face...
» read full story August 22nd, 2008 - 22:27
Studies Say Face Transplants Can Be Successful

Studies Say Face Transplants Can Be Successful

Two studies published in the journal The Lancet suggest that face transplants are no longer...
» read full story August 22nd, 2008 - 13:30
Onyx and Bayer Preparing for Liver Cancer Trial of Nexavar

Onyx and Bayer Preparing for Liver Cancer Trial of Nexavar

Although already approved for treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, Nexavar will be the...
» read full story August 21st, 2008 - 22:25
Researchers Found A Substitute For Heparin

Researchers Found A Substitute For Heparin

A medical breakthrough is about to happen, as chemists announced the advanced work on the...
» read full story August 18th, 2008 - 13:13
Bayer’s Nexavar Gets China Clearance For Liver Cancer

Bayer’s Nexavar Gets China Clearance For Liver Cancer

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Onyx Pharmaceuticals announced that the State Food and Drug...
» read full story July 28th, 2008 - 13:54

“America’s Best Hospitals” for 2008

U.S. News & World Report comes to the aid of patients all over the US revealing its...
» read full story July 14th, 2008 - 10:27
Congressional Hearing on Heparin Deaths, Contaminant

Congressional Hearing on Heparin Deaths, Contaminant

The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has heard on Tuesday testimonies from both...
» read full story April 30th, 2008 - 20:14
FDA Blames Chinese Plant, China Says Problem May Have Been in US

FDA Blames Chinese Plant, China Says Problem May Have Been in US

The FDA has said that the Chinese supplier which provided heparin to Baxter, Changzhou SPL, did not...
» read full story April 21st, 2008 - 22:27
FDA: Heparin Deaths Triple to 62 from 19 Initially Reported

FDA: Heparin Deaths Triple to 62 from 19 Initially Reported

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the number of reported patients who died...
» read full story April 09th, 2008 - 11:33
China Steps Up Oversight of Heparin, 2nd US Company Recalls It

China Steps Up Oversight of Heparin, 2nd US Company Recalls It

While China’s top drug safety agency, the State Food and Drug Administration, has ordered a general...
» read full story March 22nd, 2008 - 19:41
Chemical Contaminating Heparin – No Longer a Secret for the FDA

Chemical Contaminating Heparin – No Longer a Secret for the FDA

U.S. health officials have identified the mysterious substance, which contaminated some batches...
» read full story March 20th, 2008 - 10:38
Storing Blood for Too Long Is Dangerous

Storing Blood for Too Long Is Dangerous

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that blood stored in...
» read full story March 20th, 2008 - 00:44
FDA Indentified Heparin Contaminant

FDA Indentified Heparin Contaminant

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it has identified the mysterious substance...
» read full story March 19th, 2008 - 20:39
Surgeon at Methodist Hospital Removes Healthy Kidney by Mistake

Surgeon at Methodist Hospital Removes Healthy Kidney by Mistake

Minnesota hospitals have struggled for years to eliminate wrong-site surgeries, but just as soon...
» read full story March 19th, 2008 - 14:50
A Story to Remain in the History of Starbucks

A Story to Remain in the History of Starbucks

Annamaries Ausnes had been visiting her local Starbucks for coffee and small talk with the barista...
» read full story March 13th, 2008 - 15:20
Report: Heparin Issue Moves to Germany

Report: Heparin Issue Moves to Germany

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it had received a report from German...
» read full story March 07th, 2008 - 10:59
Report: Baxter Recalls All of Its Remaining Heparin Products

Report: Baxter Recalls All of Its Remaining Heparin Products

Baxter International Inc. said yesterday that it was recalling all of its remaining heparin...
» read full story February 29th, 2008 - 11:37
End of the Road for Bayer’s Anti-Bleeding Drug, Trasylol

End of the Road for Bayer’s Anti-Bleeding Drug, Trasylol

Heart surgery patients given anti-bleeding drug Trasylol were more likely to die than patients...
» read full story February 21st, 2008 - 16:23
Baxter Halts Production of Blood Thinner Drug Heparin

Baxter Halts Production of Blood Thinner Drug Heparin

Baxter Healthcare has temporarily stopped making its multiple-dose vials of heparin sodium...
» read full story February 12th, 2008 - 15:11
New York Man Gets a Second-Chance to Live after Sister’s Death

New York Man Gets a Second-Chance to Live after Sister’s Death

The death of a New York woman saved the life of her brother who can now live a normal life only...
» read full story January 30th, 2008 - 13:56
Bayer’s Liver Cancer, Nexavar Raises Blood Pressure

Bayer’s Liver Cancer, Nexavar Raises Blood Pressure

A new study revealed that a kidney liver cancer drug called Nexavar has been shown to raise the...
» read full story January 24th, 2008 - 15:11
FDA Concerned about New Risks Posed by Anemia Drugs of Amgen and J&J

FDA Concerned about New Risks Posed by Anemia Drugs of Amgen and J&J

The Food and Drug Administration has stated that it is reviewing new data that provide further...
» read full story January 04th, 2008 - 12:40
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World

Columnist Robert Novak Retires Due to Cancer Diagnosis

Columnist Robert Novak Retires Due to Cancer Diagnosis

Columnist Robert D. Novak announced his immediate retirement from his professional career following...
» read full story August 04th, 2008 - 23:41

Piano Student Paralyzed By Bullet To Be Released From Hospital

The boy who remained paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by a man while taking piano...
» read full story March 07th, 2008 - 14:38
Man Shooting 10-Year-Old Oakland Boy, Paralyzing Him, Charged

Man Shooting 10-Year-Old Oakland Boy, Paralyzing Him, Charged

A man who allegedly fired shots during an Oakland gas station robbery, which seriously injured a...
» read full story January 15th, 2008 - 13:46
Girl with 8 Limbs Operated

Girl with 8 Limbs Operated

On Tuesday doctors in Bangalore began to operate a 2-year-old girl that was borne with four...
» read full story November 06th, 2007 - 17:08
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