People with cancer and other illnesses or chronic pain syndromes often are prescribed patches that contain pain medication that release constant medication through the skin. I know them well…
In CA, a cancer journal for doctors, a recent article documents that women are not taking a drug known to prevent breast cancer. In Tamoxifen Infrequently Used by Women at Risk for Breast Cancer,…
A report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) questions why the FDA has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn’t extend…
The Los Angeles Times (10/23, Zajac) reports, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on Thursday strongly endorsed legislation that would give her agency new tools to improve…
In a front-page story, the New York Times (9/25, A1, Harris, Halbfinger) reports that the FDA released a report Thursday that said four New Jersey congressmen and its own former commissioner unduly…
USA Today (9/23, Rubin) reports that on Tuesday, the FDA banned the sale of candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes. The move was authorized by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control…
Make a note: zonulin _ a mysterious human protein _ is a molecule in the human body called haptoglobin 2 precursor. According to a science news story University of Maryland researchers have found…
Warfarin (also marketed as Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, and Waran) first hit the market in 1948. Back then, though, it was not an anticoagulant; it was rat poison. It didn’t take long…
My preference for cancer is to start with what we know. Knowing something is not hearing something or reading something. It is understanding. Here are the facts about the effect of HPV vaccination…
Bloomberg News (8/13, Randall) reports that new regulations posted on the FDA’s website Wednesday will grant seriously ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. The FDA said the rules let…
McGill University researchers in Canada have announced that _ in mice _ they may have found a way to treat and cure multiple sclerosis (MS). In animals they can reverse the devastating disease with…
The New York Times (8/6, B4, Shih) reports, Merck and Schering-Plough agreed Wednesday to pay $41.5 million to settle class-action lawsuits that accused them of withholding unfavorable results of a…