Health
FDA to delay rule requiring new nutrition facts panel
A revamped nutrition facts panel designed to make it easier to see how many calories and added sugars are in packaged foods and drinks is being delayed.
Jun 13, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Payments linked to higher odds of doctors prescribing certain cancer drugs
Physicians paid by pharmaceutical companies for meals, talks and travel had higher odds of prescribing those companies' drugs to treat two cancer types, a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center-led ...
Jun 1, 2017
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Health
Plan suggested for reducing health care costs
(HealthDay)—Health care costs can be reduced, with a nine-step plan suggested as a starting place, according to an article published in Medical Economics.
May 17, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How to rein in the widening disease definitions that label more healthy people as sick
In the early 1990s a small meeting of experts, part-funded by drug companies, decided on a new definition of the bone condition osteoporosis. Historically, the label was limited to people who had fractures, but with the coming ...
May 16, 2017
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Medications
US opioid crisis at epidemic proportions
Many US communities are facing an epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse that is straining resources from police, to jails, to emergency medical personnel and treatment centers.
May 4, 2017
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Medications
Doctors should question the value of most heavily promoted drugs
Top promoted drugs are less likely than top selling and top prescribed drugs to be effective, safe, affordable, novel, and represent a genuine advance in treating a disease, argue US researchers in The BMJ today.
May 2, 2017
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Medical research
Drug testing breakthrough sees side effects before they happen
Expensive large-scale trials on no-hoper drugs could become a thing of the past after a European research collaboration worked out how to tell if a medication is likely to cause side effects before they actually appear.
Apr 7, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
'Right-to-try' laws: A patient's best last chance or false hope?
(HealthDay)—The Trump administration may have failed in its initial effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but some activists hope White House support will prove valuable in changing another piece of federal health care ...
Apr 6, 2017
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Medications
Lawmakers question pricing of drug for genetic disease
Marathon Pharmaceuticals' pricing of a drug to treat genetic muscle deterioration in about 15,000 Americans, mostly boys, is raising concerns in Congress where lawmakers repeatedly have challenged drug companies.
Feb 13, 2017
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Medications
Why the U.S. 'free market' for drugs doesn't work and what we can do about it
The United States faces a major problem with prescription drug prices. Even as the prices of most goods and services have barely budged in recent years, the cost of drugs has surged.
Jan 19, 2017
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