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Americans want to trust doctors and not bureaucrats
06/07/2009
The problem is the new board, the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, already has been appointed by the federal government and it is composed entirely of government employees.
A Strategy for Health Care Reform
06/06/2009
Despite many waves of debate and piecemeal reforms, the U.S. health care system remains largely the same as it was decades ago. We have seen no convincing approach to changing the unsustainable trajectory of the system, much less to offsetting the rising costs of an aging population and new medical advances.
Help refine questionnaire about treatment preferences for RCC
06/05/2009
Earn $50 while helping edit questionnaire about RCC treatment preferences
Learn How We Can Fix Health Care
06/05/2009
Please join Congressman Paul Ryan (WI), a national leader on health care reform, and Heritages Bob Moffit for a special tele-town hall on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 7pm ET.
Lpath Receives $3 Million Grant From NCI
06/05/2009
ASONEP, as a single agent in naïve mice, significantly delays the progression of disease in a mouse model of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The delay in disease progression was about 60% longer than the delay typically seen in this same model with VEGF-Receptor-Tyrosine-Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs).
Pazopanib Delayed Tumor Progression In Avanced Kidney Cancer
06/05/2009
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced the results of a Phase III study demonstrating that pazopanib reduced the risk of tumor progression or death by 54%.
Antigenics shares soar on positive cancer drug data
06/05/2009
Antigenics said patients with kidney cancer at intermediate risk of disease recurrence showed about 46 percent lower risk of death when treated with the cancer vaccine, Oncophage.
New cancer drug caused death
06/05/2009
John Powis, who suffered from kidney cancer, died at Yeovil District Hospital on 18 July last year when his heart failed due to the side-effects of Sunitinib.
A Public Health Disaster in the Making
06/04/2009
Congress is poised to pass one of the worst public health laws ever conceived.
Fake medicines threaten your health
06/02/2009
Its happening all the time. Nearly every day, there are new reports of counterfeit drugs flooding the worlds prescription drug market.
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