FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
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The illegal club drug Ecstasy can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?
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A drug used to treat advanced breast and  lung cancers has been found to prolong the lives of men with  advanced prostate cancer whose tumors don't respond to hormone  therapy, according to two studies published on Wednesday.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug for multiple sclerosis that in clinical trials got better results than existing drugs in protecting against relapses.
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding AG said Friday that the European Union's executive body had approved its cancer drug Avastin.
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NEW YORK  - A pre-existing defect in body temperature regulation may be a factor underlying some fatal reactions to the illegal "club drug" ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA), researchers from Canada propose.
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In what may be good news for cervical cancer patients, a new study suggests a bone cancer drug seems to shrink the size of these tumors in mice.
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FRIDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) -- A drug derived from the sea squirt showed anti-tumor activity in more than half of 51 patients with a type of cancer called advanced pretreated myxoid liposarcomas.
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A drug currently prescribed to combat advanced breast cancer can now be used to help prevent the disease from recurring in women who have been treated for early forms of the disease, the US Food and Drug Administration ruled Friday.
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. on  Monday said studies show that its drug Velcade is effective for  patients at all stages of the bone marrow cancer multiple  myeloma.
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The US Food and Drug Administration Friday said it had approved Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets for patients with metastatic lung cancer.
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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to allow broader application of a breast cancer drug. The drug (letrozole) is currently used against advanced breast cancer and the FDA will now allow
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Even small amounts of the illegal  drug ecstasy can be harmful to the brains of first time users, researchers say.
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A once-a-month drug for treating  multiple sclerosis that appears to cut relapses of the  autoimmune disorder was approved on Tuesday by the U.S. Food  and Drug Administration.
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GlaxoSmithKline won permission yesterday from the Food and Drug Administration to sell a tumor-growth inhibitor called Tykerb to treat breast cancer.
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A hospital here is taking part in a clinical trial designed to improve the sex drives of female cancer survivors.
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WASHINGTON -- Doctors can check patients&#39; DNA when choosing medication for them, using a test the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has approved.