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Some foods can interfere with your meds
Premium Health News ServiceMedication, whether over-the-counter or prescription, can deliver lifesaving therapy or pain relief. But pills also can interact with common foods in your diet, from dairy products to leafy green vegetables, and produce undesirable results, such as...Tags: Chemicals, Penicillin (drug), Health and Medical Professionals, Coumadin (drug), Acetaminophen (drug)
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What is a fatty liver?
It's not enough that we simply have to worry about the fat that's increasingly growing around our bellies. Americans should also be concerned about the fat that they can't see: the stuff that's filling up their livers, more commonly known as Nonalcoholic...
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Help bring a little sunshine to pediatric cancer patients like Sam
HealthThe 3rd annual Run to Live 8K Run/ 5K Walk and 1/2-Mile Kid's Run for Childhood Cancer, sponsored by the Pediatric Cancer Foundation of the Lehigh Valley on March 24, 2012, will raise funds to send local pediatric cancer patients and their families to... -
Cancer Drug Shortage: How the American Cancer Society is Working to Ensure Shortages Don't Happen
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterThe shortage of the cancer drug Methotrexate has many of you asking the question: "How could this ever be allowed to happen?" The American Cancer Society is concerned too. "If it affects patient care and patient health, then American Cancer Society...Tags: Health Organizations, Leukemia, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Drugs and Medicines
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St. Jude Doctors Discuss Shortage Of Key Drug To Treat Childhood Leukemia
St. Jude Doctors Discuss Shortage Of Key Drug To Treat Childhood LeukemiaFAST FACTS: - Shortage Of Important Drug Used To Treat Childhood Leukemia - St. Jude Doctors Call It A Growing Health Crisis - Doctors Discuss How Long St. Jude Will Be Adequately Stocked (Memphis 02/16/2012) At St. Jude Children's Research...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Leukemia, Food and Drug Administration, Health, Family
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New Supply Of Cancer Drug For Kids Found
There is a little good news for cancer patients facing severe shortages of a life-saving drug.
Some new supplies of the intravenous drug Methotrexate have been located and distribution began today.
The drug company that makes it was shut down in Ohio...Tags: Cancer, Drugs and Medicines, Health
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Cancer Treatment In Jeopardy For Local Family
FOX 17 NewsIt's a drug used to treat cancer and keep it in remission but across the nation supplies of the injectable form of Methotrexate are dwindling. That has at least one family from Grand Rapids worried about trying to keep their five year old son healthy and...Tags: Politics, Hospitals and Clinics, Leukemia, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration
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Health Notes: Is there an infusion drug shortage?
The last few weeks media have been full of stories about a severe shortage of a chemotherapy drug -- preservative-free methotrexate -- used to treat childhood leukemia.
Does that hold true locally in Hampton Roads?
Calls to local health systems found...Tags: Hampton Roads, Food and Drug Administration, Drugs and Medicines, Health, Health Insurance
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FDA takes steps increase supply of cancer drugs
A host of prescription drugs have been in low supply around the United States for some time, but doctors have been warning about a particularly acute shortage of a set of life-saving cancer drugs. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that...Tags: Leukemia, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Drugs and Medicines, Ovarian Cancer
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Hospitals Waiting for Supplies of Life Saving Cancer Drug to Arrive
CW33 News8 year old Ian Lemus loves to read. He's feeling better because of the cancer drug Methotrexate. Last March he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The drug made his hair fall out--but it's kept him alive and is near the end of his...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Leukemia, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Lymphoma
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Drug shortages: FDA fights problem, OKs sources of 2 cancer drugs
Los Angeles TimesThe Food and Drug Administration has moved to increase the supplies of two needed cancer-treatment drugs and on Tuesday issued a draft guidance on how to cope with the problem of drug shortages. The federal agency announced that it will temporarily allow...Tags: Chemicals, Leukemia, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Barack Obama
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For Frese, it's all about being positive
The Washington PostThere's a problem with little Tyler tonight, and Mommy is just about beside herself. Tyler just turned 4. He has leukemia — but this has nothing to do with that. Tyler is extroverted and lovey-dovey, a world-class hugger, a chatterbox. And until...Tags: The Washington Post, Biotechnology, Miami Hurricanes, Science and Technology, Virginia Cavaliers
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