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Glaxo’s Avodart Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk
GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s drug Avodart appears to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 23...
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Nexavar Fails in Melanoma Phase III Trial
German drug maker Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced they ended a Phase III...
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Dendreon’s Provenge Improved Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients
Dendreon Corp. announced Tuesday that the pivotal Phase 3 IMPACT study of its drug Provenge in men...
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Experimental Prostate Cancer Drug Is Promising in Early Testing
An experimental drug showed promise in treating advanced prostate cancer in early trial,...
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Pfizer Halts Late-Stage Trial of Sutent for Advanced Breast Cancer
Giant drugmaker Pfizer Inc. announced Thursday that it stopped a Phase III clinical trial testing...
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US Panel Backs Roche’s Avastin for Brain Cancer
A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Tuesday in favor of Roche...
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Novartis’ Afinitor Gets FDA Clearance for Advanced Kidney Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Novartis AG’s Afinitor for advanced...
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FDA Includes More Weight-Loss Products on Its Risk List
The Food and Drug Administration expanded its list of tainted weight loss products that consumers...
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Pfizer’s Sutent Trial Results Good News for Pancreatic Cancer Sufferers
Good news for people suffering from pancreatic cancer.
Giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer...
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FDA Wants Additional Data for Head and Neck Cancer Drug Erbitux
The Food and Drug Administration have declined to approve use of Erbitux as a first-line...
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Good News for Medical Marijuana Users
Recently, U.S Attorney General Eric Holder said his Justice Department would leave it to states...
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Medical Marijuana Supported By President Obama
President Barack Obama said as a candidate that states should decide their own medical marijuana...
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Older Men Should Consider Drugs That Prevent Prostate Cancer
Recently, medical groups have issued guidelines recommending healthy older men to consider...
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Baldness Drug May Help Healthy Men Prevent Prostate Cancer
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Urological Association on Tuesday...
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Fatal Psoriasis Drug Banned
The FDA issued a public health advisory February 19th regarding reports of a rare brain infection...
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Drug Treating Menopausal Symptoms Linked to Breast Cancer Recurrence
A drug commonly prescribed to treat menopausal symptoms appears to increase the risk of breast...
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Menopause Drug Strongly Linked to Breast Cancer Return
A large study of tibolone, a drug used to treat menopausal symptoms and to prevent osteoporosis,...
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Bone Drug Zometa May Help Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that by adding Zometa...
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FDA Seeks to Toughen Restrictions on Narcotics
Following new government figures showing a rise in nonmedical use of prescription painkillers...
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FDA Panel Backs Ely Lilly’s Blood Thinner Prasugrel
Blood thinner prasugrel, made by Eli Lilly and Co. in a joint with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., is...
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Pfizer Stops the Development of Pancreatic Drug
An independent monitoring board has recently detected the fact that axitinib drug, which had been...
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FDA Approves of Lilly, Daiichi Anti-Clot Drug
Friday, the Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead to Eli Lilly and Company’s...
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Approval of Lilly Blood Thinner Is About To Happen
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the drug, called prasugrel (also known as Effient),...
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FDA To Approve Eli Lilly’s Anti-Clotting Drug Prasugrel
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve Eli Lilly and Co.’s and Daiichi...
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Bisphenol A Stays in the Body Much Longer than Thought
The highly debated subject of the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is not over yet. A new study...
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Bisphenol A Remains In Our Body Long After Intake
There has been a long debate on whether bisphenol A, an organic compound used in many food and...
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Medicare Decides to Expand Coverage for Cancer Drugs
Doctors and patients who need Medicare reimbursement for certain experimental treatments...
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Genentech Will Have Its Efficiency Results In Mid-April
After Amgen Inc, Genentech is the world’s second-biggest biotechnology company and is mainly...
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Men Better Than Women In Resisting Food Temptations
When it comes to goodies, who in the world can resist temptations? Apparently, men are able...
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Merck’s Erbitux, Again On Trial
Drug companies are always holding clinical trials in order to test the efficiency of their...
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Drug Found to Lower Risk of Prostate Cancer
Avodart, a drug currently approved for the treatment of noncancerous enlarged prostate, also lowers...
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Dundreon Shares Soar on Prostate Cancer Vaccine Success
Shares of Seattle-based Dendreon Corp. soared Tuesday on the news that its experimental vaccine for...
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FDA Expands List of Risky Weight-Loss Products
Millions of people confront themselves with the No. 1 threat to their health, namely obesity....
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“Breaking Bad” Returns for Second Season Tonight
When “Breaking Bad,” the AMC show that is scheduled to return for a second...
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BPA-Containing Baby Bottles No Longer on the US Market
Bisphenol A or BPA widely used in plastics has long been a subject of controversy among...
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U.S. to Allow States to Make Their Own Rules on Marijuana
Recently, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has begun hinting at the fact that President...
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Healthy Men Should Take Finasteride to Prevent Prostate Cancer
Healthy men who want to prevent prostate cancer should begin taking finasteride, a drug used to...
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Aspirin Found to Reduce Colon Cancer Risk
Long-term use of aspirin or other similar nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce the risk...
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Pfizer Ends Phase III Trial Of Pancreatic Cancer Drug Axitinib
Pfizer Inc. halted a Phase III study of its experimental drug axitinib designed to cure advanced...
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Merck’s Gardasil Denied Approval Once Again
The Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve Gardasil for women 27 to 45 for the...
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Expanded Use of Merck’s Gardasil Postponed Once Again
The situation of Merck’s papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil is uncertain after the Food and...
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Merck’s Gardasil For Older Women, Put On Hold By The FDA
There has been talk in the medical world of allowing the administration of Merck & Co’s...
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Patrick Swayze May Live 2 Years Tops
Patrick Swayze admitted the fact that his pancreatic cancer will kill him in two years tops.
In...
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FDA: Weight Loss Products Are Hazardous to Our Health
The holiday season is almost here and I guess you are anxious to taste everything that...
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Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Recurrence, Key Issues at the Breast Cancer Symposium
A hormone therapy for breast cancer can
reduce the chances of the disease spreading by a...
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Study: Gene Mutation May Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
A small group of people carry a genetic mutation which helps protect their heart against the...
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Study: Cancer Drug Avastin Increases Blood Cloths Risk
Avastin, Genentech’s best-selling drug, increases the risk of people developing blood clots,...
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Gardasil Might Get Clearance For Preventing Genital Warts In Boys
Gardasil can also be given to men as a way to prevent genital warts, a study presented Thursday at...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Possibly Curing HIV
People suffering from the immunodeficiency virus may be soon
cured through a bone marrow...
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Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts In Males, Study Reveals
In 2006, Merck & Co.’s Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug...
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Study: Lung Cancer Drug Tarceva Slows Progression of the Disease
Lung cancer drug Tarceva jointly developed by OSI
Pharmaceuticals Inc., Genentech Inc. and Roche...
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Testosterone Patch Helps Postmenopausal Women Recover Their Libido
Postmenopausal women may often suffer from no or low libido. On average, studies have shown that...
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Panel Slashes FDA over Bisphenol Safety
A panel of environmental health, toxicology and statistics
experts from three major universities,...
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Update: Report Seriously Questions FDA Ruling On BPA Safety
An expert panel asked by the Food and Drug Administration to
review its way of handling of the...
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Gardasil Vaccination Rate Tops 25 Percent despite Initial Doubts
More girls in the United States are vaccinated with
Gardasil, the vaccine designed to prevent...
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25% Of U.S. Teen Girls Received Protection Against Cervical Cancer
An estimated 25 percent of American teenage girls received
at least one dose of the Gardasil...
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Another Cure for Cancer Approved by FDA
Eli Lilly and Co. announced on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of...
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Eprex Under Close Scrutiny After German Trial Study
A Johnson & Johnson anemia drug tested in Germany on a panel of stroke patients is...
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FDA Probes J&J Anemia Drug over Clinical Trial Deaths
Results of a study undergone by German scientists revealed
that stroke patients given Amgen and...
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FDA To Review Anemia Drug Eprex Following High Rate Of Deaths In Study
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that they are reviewing a higher rate of...
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Redmond O’ Neal Arrested Again For Drug Possession
Redmond O’ Neal, the troubled son of Ryan O’Neal and Farah Fawcett, was arrested on...
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Patrick Swayze Cancer Prognosis: Maybe Two More Years
It's hard to tell what actor Patrick Swayze has been going through over the past year since he was...
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Patrick Swayze Talks About His Fight With Cancer
It is a known fact that Patrick Swayze has been fighting with pancreatic cancer for quite some time...
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Britney Spears’ Father To Remain In Control Of Her Finances Indefinitely
Tuesday, Los
Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz granted Britney Spears’ father
Jamie...
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Amy Winehouse, Again Taken To Rehab
“They tried to make me go to rehab”...and they did. There’s no mystery as to where Amy Winehouse...
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Christina Applegate Has Breast Cancer
“Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of
breast cancer. Benefiting from early...
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Patrick Swayze Describes His Treatment As A “Miracle”
Patrick Swayze, the Dirty Dancing star, looked healthy
during his appearance at LAX airport in...
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Patrick Swayze Doesn’t Let Cancer Stand In The Way Of His Career
Someone as multitalented as Patrick Swayze does not allow
anything to cut down his enthusiasm when...
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Lindsay Lohan Has the Best Mom
Who would be
better suited to earn the best mom award than Dina Lohan, mother of drug-addict
and...
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Legendary Patients Rights Advocate Barbara Seaman Died
Female patients’ rights advocate Barbara Seaman, 72, has died of complications related to lung...
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Lindsay Lohan Serves Serious Time - 84 Minutes
Lindsay Lohan checked into the Lynwood Jail in Los Angeles Thursday to serve a court-ordered...
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Kylie Minogue Emerges Wiser from Her Illness
Pop princess Kylie Minogue has battled cancer and won and while Prince Charming is still to arrive,...
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Business
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Medicare Decides To Expand Coverage For Cancer Drugs
Doctors and patients who need Medicare reimbursement for certain experimental treatments...
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Wyeth Accused Of Paying Medical Ghostwriters For Medical Articles
Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid a medical writing company to ghostwrite articles about its...
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OSI Shares Gain After Study Shows Tarceva Meets Its Goal
Shares of OSI Pharmaceutical rose $5.25, or 15 percent, to $40.65 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq...
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Pfizer to Focus on More Profitable Areas than Heart Disease
Tuesday, the world’s largest drugmaker, Pfizer Incorporated,
has announced it would be...
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Gilead’s AIDS Drug Viread Gets FDA Clearance for Hepatitis B
Gilead Sciences Inc.’ AIDS drug Viread received the Food and
Drug Administration’ s approval on...
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Avant Shares Soar on Release of Brain Cancer Vaccine
A newly released cancer vaccine which reportedly doubles the survival time of people with brain...
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Retail Giant Wal-Mart Ditches BPA-Containing Baby Bottles
Retail giant Wal-Mart announced Wednesday that it was immediately halting sales of baby bottles,...
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals to Receive $40 M Milestone Payment
Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., the biotechnology company that conducts research in various...
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Eisai Closes $3.9 Billion Deal with MGI Pharma
The Japanese drug company Eisai Co. announced on Monday the acquisition of MGI Pharma Inc. (whose...
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Sonus-Bayer Cancer Drug Does More Harm than Good
Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced the failure of its TOCOSOL® Paclitaxel breast cancer drug...
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