Medication Error : An Abuse For Patient Kamal Shah1*, Nagendra Singh2, Jiteendra Ku. Gupta1 and Pradeep Mishra3   Lecturer, GLA Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Mathura (U.P.)*,1 Research scholar, Dr. H.S. Gour University, Sagar (M.P.)2 Director, GLA...

The National Health Service (NHS) is something few of us would live without - a unique service that provides vital cover in case we struggle through ill health, accident or disease. However, when it comes to the crunch how many of us feel we can rely on the service in...

Sales of prescription medicines worldwide rose 7% to $602 billion, according to IMS health, a pharmaceutical information and consulting company. The United States still accounts for the lion's share of that, with $252 billion in annual sales, but sales in it and the o...

Sunlight is known to improve well-being. The vitamin D that sunlight offers is recognized as a mood booster and a key element in physical health. Vitamin D has also been identified as a regulator for several tissues, including breast and prostate tissue, and has been ...

Radiotherapy for breast cancer can be a bit of an ordeal.For me, the worst moment after being told I had cancer was being told I would need chemotherapy and radiotherapy as treatment to fight the disease. Having been there I know its shocking and I felt I just simply ...

There are several indications of a locally advanced breast cancer: a stage 3 cancer, with a size larger than two inches and lymph node metastasis; swelling of the skin, or a big, matted cluster of lymph nodes in the armpit; or it might be stuck to the chest muscle, or...

Inflammatory breast cancer is a special kind of advanced breast cancer and it's a serious one. Though we see an increasing number of cases, it is rare, accounting for only 1 to 4 percent of all breast cancers. Overall survival is worse in women with this kind of bre...

Siew (not real name), 44-year-old-female, is a radiographer in a hospital in Hong Kong. In July 2002, Siew faxed me this message:“I suffer from cancer of the breast – infiltrating ductal carcinoma in August 1993. Total right mastectomy was performed. Secondary to the ...

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Oral Presentation of Interim Analysis of Randomized, Head-to-Head Phase II Study of ABRAXANE Versus Taxotere( )In First-line Metastatic Breast CancerPoster Presentations Highlight Treatment of Breast Cancer with ABRAXANE in Various Settings and Dose RegimensLOS ANG...

GPC Biotech AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: GPC, NASDAQ: GPCB) has announced the presentation of the overall survival results from the double-blind, randomized satraplatin Phase 3 registrational trial, the SPARC trial (Satraplatin and Prednisone Against Refractory ...

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A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Z...

Taxol Tax·ol (tksôl) A trademark for the drug paclitaxel., a compound derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, may be a useful first chemical defense against tumors as well as a last-resort cancer treatment. Five studies conducted in recent years show that ta...

Interim Phase II Data Confirms Previous Phase I Results and Demonstrates Activity in Patients Refractory to Taxotere; Additional Interim Phase I Data Shows Evidence of Antitumor Activity in Patients Refractory to Treatment with Ketoconazole ketoconazole /ke·toÂ...

CHICAGO (AFP) — A treatment combining Avastin, which stems the blood supply to tumors, with cell division blocker Taxotere slows the progression of advanced breast cancer, said an international clinical study presented Saturday. ...

First Phase III study performed solely in high risk node-negative population to show significant improvement in Disease Free Survival (DFS) ...

GPC Biotech AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: GPC, NASDAQ: GPCB) has announced the presentation of the overall survival results from the double-blind, randomized satraplatin Phase 3 registrational trial, the SPARC trial (Satraplatin and Prednisone Against Refractory Cance...

Every October for the last 34 years, practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) have taken over the spa town of Baden-Baden for a huge conference called "Medicine Week." A central part of Medicine Week is the meeting of the German Society ...