News Posts List
An Evening of Reflection with Our Lady, Queen of Peace, and Visionary Ivan Dragicevic of Medjugorje
04/13/2010
Boyle was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma-a large tumor on his kidney . . . He was healed.
The Massachusetts Insurance Blackout
04/12/2010
This week it became impossible in Massachusetts for small businesses and individuals to buy health-care coverage after Governor Deval Patrick imposed price controls on premiums. Read on, because under ObamaCare this kind of political showdown will soon be coming to an insurance market near you.
Wall Street Journal: Medical Privacy and ObamaCare
04/12/2010
The Obama health law requires that nearly everyone enroll in a "qualified" plan, then says plans can pay only doctors who implement whatever regulations the Secretary of Health and Human Services imposes to improve health-care "quality" (Section 1311). That covers everything in medicine. Never has the federal government dictated how doctors treat privately insured patients . . .
Clear Cell Histology Predicts Worse Prognosis With Kidney Cancer
04/12/2010
The histological subtype of renal cell carcinoma predicts outcome, Mayo Clinic researchers say - but rather than settling the controversy over this issue, their assertion just adds to it.
Primary malignant non-Wilms' renal tumours in children
04/12/2010
Non-Wilms' tumours form a small heterogeneous group of clinically significant renal malignancies in children, including renal-cell carcinoma, clear-cell sarcoma, (congenital) mesoblastic nephroma, rhabdoid tumour, and renal medullary carcinoma.
Final Analysis of Overall Survival (AVOREN)
04/12/2010
A phase III trial of bevacizumab combined with interferon alfa-2a (IFN) showed significant improvements in progression-free survival (PFS) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). Here, we report overall survival (OS) data.
Cancer vaccines therapy
04/12/2010
A new study, 'Enhanced antitumor effects of an engineered measles virus Edmonston strain expressing the wild-type N, P, L genes on human renal cell carcinoma,' is now available.
St. Josephs Healthcare Hamilton launches kidney website
04/12/2010
The website is a resource for those who are experiencing kidney ailments and to help individuals easily navigate on a user-friendly website that offers an abundance of helpful information, including Your Kidney which anatomically displays and details the kidney.
Mother condemns NHS over cancer drug refusal
04/12/2010
A mother from Kent dying of a rare form of cancer has hit out at the NHS after she was refused the only drug that could help prolong her life.
Health insurance would cover drug trials under bill
04/12/2010
The trial that Cutright enrolled in through the institute - part of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine - pays for the medicine Cutright hopes will halt or slow the progression of her adrenal cancer, which has spread to both lungs.