The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it was revoking its approval of the drug Avastin for metastatic breast cancer after concluding that it has not been shown to be safe and effective for that use.
“The FDA recognizes how hard it is for patients and their families to cope with metastatic breast cancer and how great a need there is for more effective treatments. Get more…
We talk a lot about the many ways in which motherhood changes us. But how about guys? Does fatherhood change a man? Can becoming a father, in fact, make a bad boy mend his ways?
A new study suggests that – surprise, surprise — the answer is yes. According to researchers at Oregon State University and University of Houston, men’s tendency to commit crimes and smoke, drink, and partake of a certain illegal weed decreases when they become an adults – and most of those behaviors decline even further once those men have kids.
That’s certainly very nice, but it’s worth noting that, though some of study’s “bad boys” – whose behavior was tracked by researchers starting way back when they were students at a high-delinquency elementary school — did mend their ways once they had kids, others did not.
If the waiting area of Hartford Hospital’s emergency department looks smaller, it’s not your imagination. Hospital officials built up a wall dividing the area to create a new space for patients who no longer require medical care, but weren’t up to going home to a house with no heat or electricity.
“It was up in an hour and a half,” said Cheryl Ficara, vice president of patient care services. Get more…
Investigators from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Missouri’s health department were in St. Louis on Friday trying to determine the cause of an E. coli outbreak that sickened nearly two dozen people in the city and four surrounding counties.
No one has died but at least six people required hospital stays. Health officials weren’t certain when they’d be able to pinpoint the cause, or even if there was a single cause, said John Shelton, spokesman for the St. Louis County Health Department. The first cases were reported earlier this week.
“What we look for is a common link among the patients to determine if everyone got the illness from a single source,” Shelton said. Get more…
There’s nothing quite as heartbreaking as the sudden, unexplained death of an infant. When I heard about the 4-month-old baby who was found dead this week after being put down for a nap at a daycare center in Levittown, Long Island, I literally felt physically ill. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the anguish those parents are experiencing.
But there’s another reason why this death was tragic.
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