Get sick in Scotland, not England (for now, anyway)
Times Online - If you are ill, old, infirm and English, you will ask, in vain, for the following benefits: free prescriptions for the chronically ill, free personal care for the elderly, free access to drugs that treat advanced lung cancer, multiple myeloma
Roche And OSI Pharma Receives Approval For Tarceva For Lung Cancer
RTT News - 10/22/2007 2:33:24 AM Roche and OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OSIP) revealed that Tarceva has been approved in Japan for the treatment of patients with nonresectable, recurrent and advanced non-small cell lung cancer, or NSCLC, which is aggravated
Earnings Preview: Bristol-Myers
Boston Globe - Meanwhile, shortly after cancer treatment Erbitux failed to meet its main target in a late-stage lung cancer trial in July, Bristol-Myers and partner ImClone Systems Inc. said they would invest an additional several hundred million dollars in an
Roche’s lung cancer treatment Tarceva approved for use in Japan UPDATE
Forbes - ZURICH (Thomson Financial) - Roche Holdings AG said its lung cancer drug Tarceva has been approved in Japan to treat a form of lung cancer which is aggravated following chemotherapy. The drug will be launched in Japan by early 2008. The approval was
Laughing off the Big C
Boston Globe - When Boston comedian Cathe B found out her aunt had been diagnosed with lung cancer, she decided to do something about it. So tonight she brings together some of her funniest friends for Comed-o-Therapy , a show that benefits the Jimmy Fund and The
Contraceptive pill reduces the risk of cancer for women, says report
Scotsman - They’ve also said for years that smoking causes lung cancer YET FULLY 20% OF THE PEOPLE WHO GET LUNG CANCER NEVER SMOKED. Quitting smoking or not starting does not help those people at all. Heck, if they didn’t smoke because they were afraid they’d
Cancer survivor’s passion for life
New York Daily News - Robert Downey, a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, told him he had lung cancer and that he had a very hard choice to make. Go for the dangerous operation or sail off into the sunset and call it a life. But Jack Moran, out of