| Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients To Benefit From Promising New Drug ...
Patients diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) will benefit from immediate access to a promising new drug therapy thanks to a funding commitment from the Ministry of Health, Provincial Health Services Authority and the BC Cancer Agency.
"Cancer is a horrible disease for patients and those who care for them as it touches entire families," said Health Minister George Abbott. "British Columbia is taking advantage of every opportunity in our fight for a cancer-free society. Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia will benefit from access to the latest drug therapy."
Sprycel (dasatinib), recently approved by Health Canada, is for the treatment of patients with CML who are no longer responding to Gleevec (imatinib) therapy.
"While Gleevec has been a very effective therapy for the majority of patients diagnosed with CML, a small number of patients do not respond to this drug," explains Dr.
Panacea Pharmaceuticals Initiates GMP Manufacturing Of Prostate Cancer ...
Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has initiated manufacturing of PC Detect(SM) kits, the Company's diagnostic test for prostate cancer, under GMP conditions. Data on the performance of the PC Detect(SM) kit will be included in a Premarket Approval (PMA) application for this diagnostic test to be filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in early 2008. To date, PC Detect(SM) has demonstrated sensitivity and specificity of greater than 90 percent in identifying men with prostate cancer. PC Detect(SM) was initially launched in May 2007 as a laboratory service by Panacea Laboratories, a division of Panacea Pharmaceuticals; Panacea Laboratories is regulated under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) to perform high-complexity testing. FDA approval of a PC Detect(SM) kit will facilitate the wider distribution and availability of this diagnostic test through clinical laboratories and hospitals across the U.S.
Created Equal
Trans fats cause ADHD and herpes. (For Human Nature's take on banning trans fats, click here.) Nicotine output increased every year in every cigarette category over seven years, according to a Harvard analysis of Massachusetts government data. During this period as a whole, nicotine yield from every major tobacco company increased. Tobacco companies' spin: It's random variation, since some individual brands didn't increase. Researchers' rebuttal: When yields from every category and every producer go up, that's not random. Outraged reaction: The nicotine infusion violates the industry's legal agreement to discourage youth smoking. Casual reaction: Who cares, since cigarette sales steadily declined during this period. (For recent updates on banning smoking in cars, click here, here, and here.) .
Bipolar disorder: More than a punchline
That's not truth in labeling, the comedian said, turning the package around. On that side the brand name was "Bipolar." At least people who have bipolar disorder weren't laughing. A powerful stigma is attached to being bipolar. "The stigma is that everybody who's bipolar could go wild," said Sue Floyd, a board member of the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance in Cape Gir?ardeau. Many people don't understand the disorder and its varying severity. Their first impulse is to stay away from someone who's bipolar. People who have the disorder fear that reaction. That's one of the problems with Leno's joke. "If people are laughed at, it's just going to drive them back in their shell," said Dr. Kishore Khot, a psychiatrist at the Community Counseling Center in Cape Girardeau.
Panacea Pharmaceuticals Announces The Availability Of CC Detect(SM), A ...
Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that CC Detect(SM), the Company's serum- based colon cancer diagnostic test, is now available from Panacea Laboratories. CC Detect(SM) is a simple blood test that should facilitate the identification of individuals with cancer of the colon and rectum when used in conjunction with standard screening methods. Panacea Laboratories, a division of Panacea Pharmaceuticals, is certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). The blood sample can be ordered by any physician and sent to Panacea for testing; sample and shipping requirements are available at http://www.panacea-labs.com.
Colorectal cancer -- cancer of the colon or rectum -- is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed in the US. 153,760 new colorectal cancer cases and 52,180 deaths due to colorectal cancer are expected in 2007.
Ricky Williams reinstated, Dolphins get 2-week roster exemption
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- Ricky Williams' suspension ended after more than 18 months when he was reinstated Wednesday by the NFL, and the winless Miami Dolphins might welcome him back.The 2002 league rushing champion was scheduled to fly to South Florida for a physical Thursday and meet with coach Cam Cameron, said Williams' agent, Leigh Steinberg.The first-year Miami coach, whose team is 0-9, said he talked with Williams by phone for "five or six minutes" Wednesday, but hadn't made a decision about activating him."I want to see where he is, and also let him know where we're headed, and we'll go from there," Cameron said.Cameron has been mum for months regarding whether he would want Williams back. But Steinberg said he was encouraged by a phone conversation Wednesday with Matt Thomas, Dolphins general counsel-football administration."His indication was they were interested in Ricky," Steinberg said.
Canada slips in gender equality
A woman still has to work much harder and smarter than a man in any corporate setting if she wants to get ahead. Even then, she'll most likely be excluded from the top ranks, just because she's a woman.
Music orchestra? Same thing. Until certain orchestras started doing blind auditions, they were 90% men, and woman only had minor roles. When they started doing blind auditions, women were suddenly winning first-trumpet and first-violin positions in the orchestra. That is 100% proof that there was discrimination.
Unfortunately, at the corporate level they still don't do blind interviews and auditions for senior positions. Until then, woman will continue to be excluded.
So to answer your question: men aren't counted because men still form the dominant group.
Smith column: Young people steering clear of steroids
They have spent much of 2007 watching the sports world's doping dragnet catch cheaters, big and small. They've witnessed American sports' kings and queens squirming beneath suspicions of anabolic steroids use and facing federal perjury charges for covering up their syringe-stuck success. They've seen stars getting booed and humiliated and stripped of Olympic medals, a Tour de France leader's yellow jersey, a home-run record's untainted glory and their reputations as "clean" sportsmen. When about 50 former and active players are expected to be revealed today in George J. Mitchell's report on performance-enhancing drug use in major-league baseball, America's youth will get more characters to add their already well cast cautionary tale about drug-cheating in sports.
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