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UK considers preventative drugs for breast cancer (Update)

Britain's National Health Service may soon offer women at high risk of developing breast cancer drugs normally used to treat the disease as a prevention strategy.

Cancer created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug trials in India 'causing havoc to human life'

India's Supreme Court said Thursday that unregulated clinical trials of new drugs were causing "havoc" in the country as it ordered the health ministry to monitor any new applications for tests.

Medications created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New push for most in US to get at least one HIV test

There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks.

HIV & AIDS created Nov 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UK may allow IVF for older women, same-sex couples

(AP) -- A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, recommendations likely to be followed by many of the U.K.'s medical centers.

Obstetrics & gynaecology created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US issues guidelines to avoid heparin contamination

Four years after US drug-maker Baxter International's blood thinner heparin was contaminated in China, causing dozens of deaths, US regulators on Friday issued draft guidelines for safe production.

Medications created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA outlines path for lower-priced biotech drugs

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications which have never before faced generic competition.

Medications created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

American Cancer Society revises cancer screening guideline process

The American Cancer Society has revised its guideline formation process to achieve greater transparency, consistency, and rigor in creating guidance about cancer screening. The new methods align with new principles from the ...

Cancer created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Too posh to push? More C-sections on demand in UK

(AP) -- Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a rule change that critics describe as the health system caving ...

Health created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0