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...Jimmy Carter, America’s longest living former president, has decided to forego medical treatment and enter hospice treatment at home, the Carter Center said in a statement on Saturday....
...Patrick Moore, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, said: “The data itself is not strong, but it is certainly going in a direction that is supportive of this vote.”...
...Last year, J&J said it would stop selling talcum powder in North America after a wave of lawsuits claimed that the product caused cancer....
...Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, says we must remember there is still a chance we do not get a vaccine at all....
...The opioid epidemic has shaped America....
...It is fighting a string of lawsuits from parties who claim that its trademark talcum powder contained asbestos and caused cancer, with the US Department of Justice also probing the allegations....
...“This will have an immediate impact on the treatment of these women,” said Joseph Sparano, an oncologist at Albert Einstein Cancer Center in New York, who led the research....
...Poorer countries face high cost of treatment, social stigma and lack of care facilities....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...resources to run addiction treatment centres....
...Cancer treatment Despite the overexcitement of some newspaper reporting, there is still plenty of good news in cancer research....
...Ms Knowles, herself a patent lawyer, fears that the treatment that helped her combat breast cancer, a medicine known as Adriamycin, would not have been produced if the tighter patent regulations introduced...
...and John Wooden Ethics in Leadership award, the Creative Leadership Award by the Louise Blouin Foundation, the Egyptian Cancer Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his support of cancer treatment and...
...Both the US, the acknowledged global leader, and China are pursuing personalised treatments for diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis or Alzheimer’s....
...(NYT, Politico) Cancer in Africa The African Access Initiative brings oncology companies together with African governments and hospitals to improve healthcare, develop cancer research and increase the availability...
...New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, one of the leading US cancer hospitals, last year launched an online tool called DrugAbacus to help healthcare providers assess the value of cancer drugs...
...However, after a decade of radical advances in the treatment of HIV, the march of progress has slowed....
...Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, says Mr Shkreli’s aggressive approach is the natural consequence of a US system that...
...Walter White, protagonist of the US TV drama, would receive free treatment for cancer if he was from St Albans, not Albuquerque....
...While an ever more image conscious age ensured that the Miami physician became something of a celebrity himself, as a researcher he changed the way his profession administers cosmetic treatments such as...
...America can no longer be solely responsible for all of pharma’s profits.”...
...Cancer-hunting army Developing countries too face a struggle to contain rising cancer costs. Already 60 per cent of new annual cases are in Asia, Africa and Latin America, according to the WHO....
...Pfizer, for example, wanted access to AstraZeneca’s pipeline of new cancer drugs....
...She lost a son in a fire that burnt the family house to the ground, and three of her adult children to cancer. Her eldest son died after he fell out of a tree he was trimming....
...“There’s a very important conversation going on about obesity and we want to be part of that,” says Stuart Kronauge, Coke’s head of sparkling beverages in North America....
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