This Black History Month I had planned to write a post about the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. He is inspiring a country to forgo the status quo, look past race, and consider the best person possible to run this country. Obama has supporters from around the world who are hoping for a major shift [...]
Google and the Cleveland Clinic have entered into an agreement to start a pilot program whereby Google will store patient medical records online. The experimental program will allow 1,500 to 10,000 of the Cleveland’s Clinics patients to have certain of their records stored in a password-protected file. Initially, the records will include prescriptions, allergies and [...]
On the close horizon is a new drug that will treat the many side effects of a hormone blockade (ADT). On Monday, positive results of a phase III clinical trial of toremifene citrate was released to the press. GTX Inc. (GTXI), the biopharmaceutical company that has been conducting the trial says that by this coming [...]
My son gave me a birthday card that his mother signed. This morning, however, he gave me a card that he signed all by himself and he even added "I love you," which he also penned alone with his novice hand. I could see the careful effort in each letter. It was the best birthday [...]
To many people’s surprise on Friday the FDA approved Avastan in combination with the chemotherapy drug Paclitaxel for the treatment of breast cancer. Why was this a surprise? The FDA’s advisory committee voted 5 to 4 against approving the drug. In the clinical trial Avastan did not demonstrate a statistically improved survival rate. However, it [...]