The year may be winding down, but AstraZeneca and Merck’s Lynparza sure isn’t. It picked up a blockbuster new approval late Wednesday and followed up the act by posting positive phase 3 data Thursday morning. U.S. regulators green-lighted the fast-growing PARP inhibitor in BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer patients who’ve responded partially or completely to an initial… Read More »
Former Miss International reveals she desperately needs a ‘life-saving kidney transplant’ – and the beauty queen suspects a workout powder is to blame for her failing organs Bea Rose Santiago, 28, was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in August She has been on dialysis for the last three-and-a-half months but has been told she needs… Read More »
Ready or not, here they come! The holidays, with all their festivities, are just around the corner. Whether you’re hosting a family event or attending one, planning for the season can help make things much less stressful. Take hearing loss, for example. According to our survey of more than 200 individuals, half of the family… Read More »
Reflexologist Michele Stevens shows us how to use hand reflexology to help a headaches Reflexology – or zone therapy – has been used for centuries to help with aches and pains. It’s believed by some that each area of the hand and feet is linked with other areas of the body – meaning by adding… Read More »
Print this page WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19, 2018 — When researchers announced that a four-drug chemotherapy regimen can add years to the lives of some patients with earlier-stage pancreatic cancer, doctors didn’t wait. Trial results were released last spring, and were immediately “practice-changing,” said Dr. Hedy Kindler, an oncologist at the University of Chicago who was… Read More »
Anti-abortion advocates want President Trump to fire Dr. Francis Collins, the wildly popular, Obama-appointed head of the government’s medical research agency. The calls to oust the National Institutes of Health director are coming to a head amid White House and congressional scrutiny over government-funded experiments that use parts of aborted fetuses. The prospect that the… Read More »
Print this page WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19, 2018 — Car crashes and guns have been the two leading killers of kids in the United States for decades, and deaths from both causes are on the rise. More children have been dying from motor vehicle crashes and firearms injuries since 2013, a new report shows. Car crashes… Read More »