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    Nov 18, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Caughlin fire: 20 structures destroyed, thousands evacuated in Reno

    Nation Now
    Caughlin Fire: The out-of-control Caughlin Fire in Reno has destroyed 20 homes and forced 9,500 people to evacuate....
    2. Nov 18, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. New drilling could bring highway money, GOP leaders say

    Nation Now
    Congressional Republican leaders are drafting legislation that would steer money from new offshore energy production into highway construction....
    3. Nov 18, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Killer Paul Rhoades executed by lethal injection in Idaho

    Nation Now
    Convicted killer Paul Ezra Rhoades executed in Idaho...
    4. Jun 28, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Avastin: There's the truth and then there's the politics behind the cancer drug [The conversation]

    Opinion L.A.
    Avastin: The FDA goes up against drug manufacturer Genentech with regards to the late-stage cancer drug....
    5. Oct 16, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Fake medicine poses growing threat to consumers

    Consumers shopping for medicine on the Internet often are getting convenience, a good price and the cloak of privacy, but they may not be getting the real thing.
    Consumers shopping for medicine on the Internet often are getting convenience, a good price and the cloak of privacy, but they may not be getting the real thing. A burgeoning multibillion-dollar industry of counterfeit drugs — ranging from AIDS...

    Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Services and Shopping, Health and Personal Care, Medicines, Crime, Law and Justice

    6. Apr 19, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Strategies for cutting the cost of prescription drugs

    When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it.
    When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it. The 59-year-...

    Tags: Prescription Drugs, Employment Opportunities, Oncology, Ovarian Cancer, Insurance

    7. Apr 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Cancer drug may double as fat-busting treatment for obesity

    Way back in 2002, Dr. Judah Folkman hit upon a tantalizing weight-loss strategy for obese mice. When given daily injections of a drug designed to fight cancer, their fat melted away. The higer the dose they got, the more fat they lost. Some of the obese mice shed so much weight that they wound up at &ldquo;near normal body weights,&rdquo; Folkman and his colleagues reported <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/99/16/10730.full.pdf">in this article</a> in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    Way back in 2002, Dr. Judah Folkman hit upon a tantalizing weight-loss strategy for obese mice. When given daily injections of a drug designed to fight cancer, their fat melted away. The higer the dose they got, the more fat they lost. Some of the obese...

    Tags: Weight, University of Mississippi, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Research

    8. Mar 29, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Remove Medicare's straitjacket

    Now that the budget "sequester" is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There's simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal spending without touching the big health programs, particularly Medicare. Although raising the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 appears off the table, at least for now, the budget plan that Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) is proposing would shift a greater share of the program's growing costs to beneficiaries in the years to come.
    Now that the budget "sequester" is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There's simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal spending without touching the big health programs, particularly Medicare. Although...

    Tags: Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Congress, Dialysis, Health Insurance Cost, Chemical Industry

    9. Oct 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. For the record

    Medical study results: In the Oct. 24 Section A, an article about medical studies said that follow-up studies of the drug Avastin showed that it did not help breast cancer patients live longer with their disease without getting worse. Those studies did...

    Tags: Football, Breast Cancer, Sports

    10. Oct 24, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. 89 Md. facilities bought drugs from firm linked to meningitis outbreak

    The federal Food and Drug Administration identified 89 medical facilities in Maryland that bought drugs from the Massachusetts manufacturer being investigated for a national fungal meningitis outbreak.
    The federal Food and Drug Administration identified 89 medical facilities in Maryland that bought drugs from the Massachusetts manufacturer being investigated for a national fungal meningitis outbreak. The facilities are among more than 3,000 in numerous...

    Tags: Takoma Park (Montgomery, Maryland), Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Glen Burnie, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland)

    11. Oct 8, 2012 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  11. Margie Gelber's story of survival

    It&rsquo;s been over 12 years since my cancer diagnosis. I prefer to think of myself as a &ldquo;thriver&rdquo; instead of a survivor.
    Sun Sentinel
    It’s been over 12 years since my cancer diagnosis. I prefer to think of myself as a “thriver” instead of a survivor. During my annual GYN check-up in March 2000, my physician felt a tiny lump in my left breast. Even though both of my...

    Tags: Chemotherapy, Cancer, Mastectomy, Herceptin (drug), Lymphatic System

    12. Sep 26, 2012 |Story| KWCH

  12. Teacher says Susan G. Komen helped save her life

    <span style="font-size: small;">Pleasant Valley Middle School teacher, Kelli Frazier, loves history.&nbsp; She even documents her own.</span>
    KWCH 12 Eyewitness News
    Pleasant Valley Middle School teacher, Kelli Frazier, loves history.  She even documents her own. "This was going from the chemo to the radiation treatments,” Kelli said. Kelli's scrapbook tells the story of her fight with breast cancer.  It...

    Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Bones and Joints, Chemotherapy, Cancer

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