Aetna to End Payment for a Drug in Colonoscopies
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Aetna is the latest insurer to clamp down on the use of a powerful anesthetic during an increasingly common form of colon cancer screening.
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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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Medicare payment cuts will leave more than half of clinics and doctors' offices that provide cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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Cytyc Corp. of Marlborough said it will pay $160 million for Proxima Therapeutics Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., the maker of MammoSite, a device that treats breast-cancer tumors with radiation targeting the lumpectomy site. Cytyc will pay an additional fee based on sales growth over two years. Cytyc said the acquisition boosts the company's role as a major supplier of products ...
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The Food and Drug Administration has given a Seattle company permission to resume its human tests of an experimental, gene-based arthritis treatment whose safety came into question this summer after a 36-year-old study participant died.
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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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Drugmaker Perdue Pharma has agreed to give the West Virginia Attorney Generalâs office $10 million to end a lawsuit accusing the company of dishonestly marketing the painkiller OxyContin.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- The U.S. government announced Friday that it was halting the use of the painkiller Celebrex in a clinical trial on colorectal cancer patients after a study found an apparent increase in the risk of heart attack among those taking the drug.
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People affected by Thalidomide are to receive an extra compensation payment from drug company Diageo.
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG said Tuesday it is temporarily withdrawing an application for European Union approval of its painkiller Prexige, but added that it will present new data this week to prove the safety and effectiveness of the drug.
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The drug company will settle claims it overcharged government health programs and improperly enticed doctors to prescribe its drugs.
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Kaiser Permanente has stopped dispensing Bextra, an arthritis and pain drug made by Pfizer that may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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Medicare payment cuts will leave  more than half of clinics and doctors' offices that provide  cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key  drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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Under a plan recently passed by Merck &amp; Co. Inc.âs board of directors, members of the firmâs management committee and the companyâs vice president-level managers may be compensated with severance packages
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The editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) are calling for an end to the US Food and Drug Administration&#39;s (FDA) role in post-market monitoring of the safety of drugs it approves.
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Medicare payment cuts will leave more than half of clinics and doctors&#39; offices that provide cancer-fighting chemotherapy unable to cover costs of some key drugs, oncologists said on Wednesday.
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The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug to treat patients with advanced lung cancer. It&#39;s called Alimta. Patients receive ten minute infusions of the drug every three weeks on an outpatient basis.