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2 hrs ago | MedicineNet

Medicare Cost-Saving Moves Can Backfire

After Medicare sweetened payments for simple office-based endoscopic procedures, doctors in one New York City practice performed many more in-office bladder biopsies, but the volume of hospital procedures stayed roughly the same, a new study finds.

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Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Medicaid, Medicine, bladder cancer, Urology

10 hrs ago | Seeking Alpha

Amgen Sees Positive Results from Osteoporosis Drug

Amgen Inc. received a boost recently when the company announced positive results from a pivotal head-to-head phase III study that was conducted with Amgen's main pipeline candidate, denosumab.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Amgen, Healthcare Industry, Osteoporosis, Health, Novartis, Prostate Cancer, Food and Drug Administration

16 hrs ago | MediLexicon

Denosumab Demonstrated Superiority Over Zometa(R) In Pivotal Phase 3...

Main Category: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Also Included In: Bones / Orthopaedics Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Amgen announced that a pivotal, Phase 3, head-to-head trial evaluating denosumab versus Zometa in the treatment of bone metastases in 1,901 men with advanced prostate cancer met its primary and secondary endpoints.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Prostate Cancer, Biotech, Amgen, Healthcare Industry

20 hrs ago | Kansas' CW

Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years. It might sound exotic, but odds are you know something about these therapies.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Acupuncture, Massage Therapy

Mon Feb 08, 2010

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Silence Therapeutics Receives Notice of Allowance for RNA...

Known as PKN-3, the target is a protein kinase C-related molecule that is believed to play an important role in the growth of cancer cells, as well as metastasis formation.

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Related Topix: Patent / Trademark Law, Law, Medicine, Cancer, Health

Sun Feb 07, 2010

MediLexicon

Progenics Presents Novel Multiplex PI3-Kinase Inhibitors At American...

Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the presentation of preclinical data on a series of novel compounds that simultaneously blocked two critical pathways involved in the growth and survival of cancer cells.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Cancer, Health, Coronado, CA

Sat Feb 06, 2010

Huliq.com

Breast Cancer Treatment Trastuzumab Increases Survival By Third

A recent breakthrough by Finnish researches has led to a new breast cancer treatment.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Herceptin, Trastuzumab (generic), Medication, Breast Cancer, Europe, Finland, World News,

The News

Cancer fight baseless without data

Experts call for integrating treatment centres for formulating national policy Friday, February 05, 2010 Our correspondent Islamabad Health experts have stressed on the need for integrating all cancer treatment centres and oncology, pathology and radiotherapy departments of hospitals to share cancer related data with one another, which could be ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, World News, Pakistan, Breast Cancer

EurekAlert!

ASTRO, ACR issue IGRT, SBRT guidelines

The American Society for Radiation Oncology and the American College of Radiology have released practice guidelines for image guided radiation therapy and stereotactic body radiation therapy in the February issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Physics, Science, New Hyde Park, NY, Hyde Park, NY

Fri Feb 05, 2010

24 Hours Vancouer

24 Hours Vancouver

Nine years ago this month, Allan Rock - then the federal health minister - was operated on for prostate cancer.

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Related Topix: Prostate Cancer, Health, Medicine

BioSpace

Pfizer Inc. and Qiagen N.V. Unit DxS Ltd Enter Into An Agreement To...

MANCHESTER, England & NEW YORK-- --Pfizer Inc. and DxS today announced that they have entered into an agreement to develop a companion diagnostic test kit for PF-04948568 , an immunotherapy vaccine in development for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme .

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Healthcare Industry, Biotech, Medicine, Greater Manchester County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Celldex Therapeutics, Sarcoma, Health

MediLexicon

CANLIV: The Hepatobiliary Cancers Foundation To Host 1st Annual...

CanLiv: The Hepatobiliary Cancers Foundation in partnership with The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation will host the 1st Annual Biliary Tract-Gallbladder Cancer Research Symposium on Friday, May 7, 2010 at the American Society of Clinical Oncologists headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Gallblader Cancer, Alexandria, VA

Science Blog

Promising results shown for kidney cancer drug

The drug pazopanib slowed the progression of advanced renal cell carcinoma , a form of kidney cancer, in patients by 54% percent, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Italy, World News, Non-Profit, Philadelphia, PA, Temple University

Thu Feb 04, 2010

The News

Quitting tobacco use 'can reduce mortality by 90 per cent'

Friday, February 05, 2010 Jamila Achakzai Islamabad Avoidance and cessation of tobacco use can potentially reduce the lung cancer incidence and mortality by around 90 per cent, said Shifa International Hospital's Medical Oncologist Dr Kamran Rasheed at a World Cancer Day function here Thursday.

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Related Topix: Health, Lung Cancer, Medicine, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Prostate Cancer

Pharmaceutical Online

Poniard Pharmaceuticals Announces Management Changes And...

Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative oncology therapies, today announced that Ronald A. Martell has been appointed to the position of chief executive officer, succeeding Jerry McMahon, Ph.D., who will remain as non-executive chairman of the Board of Directors.

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Related Topix: Startups, Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, NeoRx, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, Food and Drug Administration, Law

WNED.org

Medicare cuts damage U.S. cancer care, group finds

Changes to Medicare, the U.S. federal health plan for the elderly, may be damaging important aspects of cancer care in the United States, according to a study released on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Medicare, Family, Elderly, Mooresville, NC

New Delhi News.Net

Cancer treatment made easy with hi-tech facilities in India

For 54-year-old Sharda Sethi, who was detected with breast cancer last year, life couldn't be more unfair.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer

Wed Feb 03, 2010

ABC12.com

Using herpes to beat melanoma

A sexually-transmitted disease may be the miracle some cancer patients have been hoping for.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Skin Cancer, UC San Diego

PhysOrg Weblog

Prolactin blocks oncogene associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer

Researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found a mechanism by which a hormone responsible for milk production blocks an oncogene that makes breast cancer more aggressive.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Thomas Jefferson University

Drug Store News

FDA approves expanded use of breast cancer drug

PHILADELPHIA The Food and Drug Administration has given an additional approval to a breast cancer drug made by GlaxoSmithKline, GSK announced Friday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, GlaxoSmithKline, Femara, Letrozole (generic), Medication

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