Health News
Fight against brain cancer hits the pavement today
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today issued a new report, America's Seniors and Health Insurance Reform: Protecting Coverage and Strengthening Medicare. The report highlights the problems with the status quo that leave seniors paying escalating costs for their health care while outlining how health insurance reform will strengthen Medicare and protect coverage for seniors. The report is available at http://www.
Tosoh Bioscience was busy at last month's annual AACC meeting in Chicago as the company introduced its latest advancement in high throughput immunoassay testing - the AIA-2000 Automated Immunoassay Analyzer. Tosoh Bioscience also sponsored educational seminars at the AACC meeting by renowned Clinical Chemist David Plaut. (PRWeb Aug 28, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/clinicaldiagnostics/immunoassay/prweb2805514.htm
D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches President Rick Wolf presented a check worth $86,231 to the Jimmy Fund during the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund telethon today. From Monday, July 27 through Sunday, August 16, D'Angelo guests donated $1 to support The Jimmy Fund and The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In return, guests received coupon booklets filled with savings on D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches' most popular menu items, Jimmy Fund information and a detachable "End of Season Red Sox Schedule". (PRWeb Aug 28, 2009) Read the full story at
Spire Healthcare now offers Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine, at its Washington Hospital. (PRWeb Aug 29, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2802304.htm
Brand Thunder LLC (http://www.brandthunder.com), the custom browser specialists, announced today an agreement with racecar driver Emerson Newton-John’s “Full Speed 2 a Cure” motorsport cancer awareness campaign (http://www.fullspeed2acure.com) to deliver a custom browser Boom!. The launch of the Boom! coincides with a special auction for a keepsake Gladiator GarageWorks Workbench signed by all 33 drivers from the 2009 Indianapolis 500 and in order of their pole position. All proceeds from the auction benefit “Cure Breast Cancer” (www.curebreastcancer.org). (PRWeb Aug 29, 2009)
UH regents approve Carbone as director of cancer center
While many of you know that using your inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) is an essential part of your asthma treatment, many adults do not regularly take their medication as prescribed. A recent...
One of the earliest chemotherapy drugs appears to work against a genetic fault that triggers a form of bowel and other cancers.