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FDA: New suppliers to ease 2 cancer drug shortages
AP Business WriterTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal regulators said Tuesday that they've approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages — at least for the time being — that have left patients and parents frightened about missing...Tags: Chemical Industry, Health, Hospira, Inc., Chemotherapy, Health Treatments
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Celgene arthritis drug maintains efficacy at 52 weeks-study
ReutersBy Bill Berkrot June 11 (Reuters) - Celgene Corp's experimental drug for psoriatic arthritis maintained its ability to significantly reduce painful symptoms through 52 weeks of treatment, according to data from a late stage study being presented this...Tags: Chemical Industry, Trials, Celgene Corporation, Symptoms, Skin Conditions
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Gut check
How are your microbes doing today? Yes, your personalized, bazillion little bacteria working their magic in your stomach and intestines and -- if you're to believe many recent reports -- may be causing you problems with auto-immune issues. What's an...Tags: Lupus, Salt, The New York Times, Multiple Sclerosis, Celiac Disease
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Northwestern study suggests weight component to psoriasis
When Graham Crawford was 11, he was a bit overweight and had to battle psoriasis, a skin disease that left red scaly patches on his nose and fingers. His skin cleared up after he started using ointment designed to fight psoriasis. But when he stopped...
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The gift, the girl and the firefighter
The girl and the firefighter lived in the same part of town, the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the Far Southwest Side of Chicago, a neighborhood of cops, firefighters and city workers. The Mayoskis live there. And so do the Beazleys, and although there...Tags: Lymphatic System, Roman Catholicism, Mike Ditka, Christianity, Chemotherapy
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FDA takes steps increase supply of cancer drugs
A host of prescription drugs have been in low supply around the United States for some time, but doctors have been warning about a particularly acute shortage of a set of life-saving cancer drugs. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Cancer, Prescription Drugs, Ovarian Cancer, Health
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What is a fatty liver?
It's not enough that we simply have to worry about the fat that's increasingly growing around our bellies. Americans should also be concerned about the fat that they can't see: the stuff that's filling up their livers, more commonly known as Nonalcoholic...Tags: Diabetes, Chemical Industry, Obesity, Abdominal Pain, Liver Disease
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Health Notes: Is there an infusion drug shortage?
The last few weeks media have been full of stories about a severe shortage of a chemotherapy drug -- preservative-free methotrexate -- used to treat childhood leukemia.
Does that hold true locally in Hampton Roads?
Calls to local health systems found...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, The New York Times, Health, Hampton Roads, Drugs and Medicines
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Hospitals Waiting for Supplies of Life Saving Cancer Drug to Arrive
CW33 News8 year old Ian Lemus loves to read. He's feeling better because of the cancer drug Methotrexate. Last March he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The drug made his hair fall out--but it's kept him alive and is near the end of his...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Cancer, Health, Drugs and Medicines, Oncology
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Drug shortages: FDA fights problem, OKs sources of 2 cancer drugs
Los Angeles TimesThe Food and Drug Administration has moved to increase the supplies of two needed cancer-treatment drugs and on Tuesday issued a draft guidance on how to cope with the problem of drug shortages. The federal agency announced that it will temporarily allow...Tags: Chemical Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Cancer, Barack Obama, Health
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For Frese, it's all about being positive
The Washington PostThere's a problem with little Tyler tonight, and Mommy is just about beside herself. Tyler just turned 4. He has leukemia — but this has nothing to do with that. Tyler is extroverted and lovey-dovey, a world-class hugger, a chatterbox. And until...Tags: Miami Hurricanes, Health, Ear Infection, Steroids, Atlantic Coast Conference
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