Archive for March, 2007



Cable Show Focuses on Cancer (RedNova)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 4:26 pm
By Blythe Bernhard, The Orange County Register, Calif. Mar. 29--Click. Diabetes. Click. Arthritis. Click. Cancer. Forget reality shows, game shows or dramedys. Surf through the cable channels and you might find television shows focused entirely on disease.



Drug advocates focus efforts on reforming laws (The Pantagraph)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 2:51 pm
NORMAL -- The war on drugs has failed and U.S. policies against illegal drug use cost taxpayers $60 billion annually, three activists told an Illinois State University audience Thursday.



Sheriff reviews EUP illegal drug trend (Marie Evening News)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 11:33 am
Story created Mar 29, 2007 - 11:19:30 EDT.



Analysts puzzle over plan to sell a Vioxx-like drug (Boston Globe)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 9:37 am
Some analysts are scratching their heads at the move Merck & Co. is planning : The drug maker wants to sell a new painkiller that is just like Vioxx , the blockbuster drug it pulled from the market in 2004 because the treatment doubled heart risks.



VA Gives Timetable on Care Problems: Hospice Patients Not Accepted for 8 Months After ‘04 Investigation (RedNova)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 8:15 am
By Stella M. Hopkins, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Mar. 30--The Asheville veterans hospital didn't fully resume accepting nursing home patients for about eight months after suspending admissions in 2004 when VA investigators found serious care problems.



Doctor charged in drug deaths (Honolulu Advertiser)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 8:08 am
A Honolulu doctor prescribed drugs for nonmedical reasons that resulted in the deaths of two people in 2003 and 2004, according to a federal grand jury indictment issued yesterday.



Building Boom Continues (Daily Northwestern)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 5:17 am
Tonight's groundbreaking for the Richard and Barbara Silverman Hall for Molecular Therapeutics & Diagnostics will start the biggest construction project of the season on the Evanston campus.



Progenics and Wyeth Announce Submission of New Drug Application for the Subcutaneous Formulation of Methylnaltrexone … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 5:00 am
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. & COLLEGEVILLE, Pa.----Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth , announced that Progenics is submitting a New Drug Application today for marketing approval to the U.S.



Snowden gets major capital (Home News Tribune)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 4:35 am
NEW BRUNSWICK — A PROMINENT RESEARCHER at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has received a $500,000 commitment from a venture capital firm for further research that could streamline the drug discovery process to bring drugs to treat cancer, pain and infectious diseases to the public more quickly.



Life not such a pain (Rapid City Journal)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 2:28 am
Kim Morris suffered her first migraine headache when she was 11 years old. Initially, she thought she had the stomach flu with a bad headache to boot.



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