This morning’s New York Times on-line carried an interesting story written by Gina Kolata about what could be the next wave of cancer research, cancerous stem cells (csc). Despite the common belief that cancerous cells can just continue to divide and divide forever, now some researchers believe that cancerous tumor cells are, just as normal [...]
As a person who has an arthritic condition I can tell you that when the cox-2 inhibitors first came on the market I thought they were a magical gift. Instead of always being in some level of discomfort or pain I found that most of the time I was pain free. The acute episodes that [...]
A top of the fold article in today's New York Times talks about the surge of counterfeit drugs that have flooded the European and American marketplace. It blames the recent establishment of Free Trade Zones that are characterized by little government oversight and regulations. Three months ago there was an announcement that authorities had seized [...]
One issue that many of us might have to deal and that gets very little discussion is edema. Edema is swelling caused by the build up of abnormal amounts of fluids in our body. Some people refer to edema as fluid retention. We often can see the fluid building up in our legs, arms, feet, [...]
Many of my prior posts about Provenge have discussed the issue of what appeared to be a conflict of interest of some of the members on the FDA advisory committee that reviewed the drug. When the committee voted to recommend that Provenge be approved, among those members who voted against the approval were Drs. Scher [...]