The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued new rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals that protect patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner. […]
Malecare, America’s leading prostate cancer support and advocacy national nonprofit, led this years national Men's Health Night. Huge success. Thousand of people, like you and me, lit blue blubs in their windows to raise prostate cancer awareness. Thanks!
Although some people have called it intriguing, a new “On The Horizon” drug, XL-184, is still very early in its testing. What makes LX184 intriguing is the just released results from a conference in Berlin. In very early testing, 19 of 20 men in a phase I trial showed an improvement in their scans used [...]
Remember, tomorrow night is the first annual MEN'S HEALTH NIGHT. Light a blue bulb to honor a man in your life or to remember a man who had been important to you. Brooklyn Borough Hall (Brooklyn New York) will be lit blue in celebration. The Prostate Cancer Coalition of North Carolina has embraced Men's Health [...]
Finally, some good news as Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced their intention to start a Phase III clinical trial of TAK-700 in the U.S. for men with advanced prostate cancer. TAK-700, which I have been writing about under the heading of “On the Horizon,” is [...]