Gleevec a Cost-Effective Treatment
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MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- The high price of the leukemia drug Gleevec is offset by the expected increase in survival rates among patients who take it, say two Duke University studies in the December issue of Cancer.
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A next-generation leukemia pill designed to help patients not cured by the successful drug Gleevec works even better than doctors had hoped, researchers said Sunday.
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Two experimental drugs are showing strong early results in treating patients with a blood cancer that has grown resistant to the most commonly prescribed medicine, doctors reported here on Sunday.
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Trial results for a drug that controls bleeding include a favorable comparison with a similar product.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.
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CHICAGO/NEW YORK  - When it comes to the price tag  for the newest biotechology drugs for cancer and other  hard-to-treat diseases, the sky is likely to remain the limit,  insurers, drugmakers and industry watchers say.
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(12/06/04)âThe excitement that surrounded the approval in 2001 of Novartisâ rationally designed drug Gleevec, for the treatment chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), was tinged by observations
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FRIDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of the drug bevacizumab (brand name Avastin) and the standard chemotherapy agent irinotecan may benefit patients with a type of deadly brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), says a Duke University pilot study.
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Cancer patients treated with Genentech Inc.&#39;s colon cancer drug bevacizumab (Avastin) along with the chemotherapy regimen FOLFOX4 lived longer than patients treated with the chemotherapy alone in a late-stage clinical
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Misaligned incentives are leading two potentially life-saving drugs for treating lymphoma to go underused.
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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An experimental drug under development by Bristol-Myers Squibb is showing early promise in reversing the signs and symptoms of patients whose chronic myeloid leukemia failed to respond to Gleevec, which is considered the standard of treatment for the
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Scientists have developed a treatment which may be effective against the most common and deadly form of brain cancer.
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Medicare, the U.S. insurance program for elderly and disabled Americans, should lump the price of anemia drugs with overall payments for kidney dialysis services to improve efficiency and contain costs, according to a government report released on Tuesday.
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More than a quarter of patients with advanced kidney cancer saw their tumors shrink after treatment with GlaxoSmithKline Plc's pazopanib, a new pill designed to rival Genentech's blockbuster drug Avastin, researchers said on Saturday.
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THE REGION Idera Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge signed a drug-development deal with Merck &amp; Co. in which the New Jersey drug giant will pay $20 million cash and buy $10 million in stock for the rights to use Idera's immune-boosting technology in potential Merck vaccines. If the vaccines succeed, the deal could be worth up to $425 million in additional ...
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THE REGION Study: Uninsured pay highest drug prices