Pfizer Inc. must pay more than $45 million in damages to two women who blamed the company’s menopause drugs for their breast cancers, an appeals court has ruled. Connie Barton and Donna Kendall, two Illinois women who sued Pfizer units Wyeth and Pharmacia & Upjohn over their menopause medications, deserved ...
SAN ANTONIO — Breast cancer experts are cheering what could be some of the biggest advances in more than a decade: two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse. In a large international study, an experimental drug from Genentech called pertuzumab held ...
Forty years ago, my mother-in-law learned from a mammogram at age 57 that she had breast cancer. We immediately sought the best available treatment. She lived for many happy years and enjoyed precious time with her grandchildren. Would she have died sooner without the mammogram? I don’t know. But here’s ...
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When beginning a journey on the path to good health, the typical roadblocks to be avoided are heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and diabetes. However, osteoporosis, the disease that leaves bones thin, weak and more prone to fracture, is also a serious condition that bears attention. Bones reach peak ...
Volunteers age 55 and older are being sought to become lay leaders for RSVP Bone Builders, a free osteoporosis exercise and education program that has sites in Hancock, Penobscot and Washington counties, reports Paula Burnett. Burnett is RSVP program director for the University of Maine Center on Aging in Orono. ...
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