Last Wednesday the House passed with a vote of 392 to 26, a medical innovation bill known as the 21st Century Cures Act, aimed at curing diseases, with the measure securing bipartisan support after months of negotiations. The bill’s goals are to speed up the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of new drugs while also investing [...]
There have been numerous studies examining the how hormone deprivation (ADT), in the treatment of prostate cancer, has on a man’s cognition. There have been contradictor studies about this issue, however having had the experience and the honor of dealing with so many men with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), as well [...]
It is deeply troubling to learn that Congress is considering not completing the fiscal year 2017 budget appropriations process. Because of the normal political fighting that we still see in Washington, Congress is now considering passing a short-term or even long-term budget continuing resolution instead of the negotiated budget resolution they have worked so hard [...]
It is well established that common drugs like Metformin and vitamin D? exhibit a strong anti-proliferative action in many cancer cell lines. Recent research confirms that this is also true in human prostate cancer cells. In a recent study it was demonstrated that the combination of the two drugs, metformin and vitamin D3, had a [...]
Sign pledge to boycott CVS here: http://bit.ly/2gAJlno CVS Pharmacy will hurt many cancer patients by removing dozens of cancer treatment drugs, like leukemia drug Tasigna, prostate cancer drug Xtandi and chemotherapy treatment drug Neupogen, from their formulary, starting in 2017. CVS claims these drugs cost too much. Go ahead and tell that to my insurance [...]