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When someone with a terminal illness decides to end his or her life by overdosing on barbiturates, they may hope the drugs will lull them into a peaceful and permanent sleep. But if the drugs have passed their expiration date or lack a sufficiently lethal concentration, the would-be suicide victim may actually survive - risking an array of complications including coma, reduced physical functioning and the opprobrium of disapproving friends and family. Now, in an effort to provide certainty to those contemplating suicide, one of the world's leading euthanasia advocates plans to sell barbiturate-testing kits to confirm that...
...hospital ties to the pharmaceutical industry. After over a year of controversy, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will now prohibit doctors from receiving gifts from pharmaceutical companies. The Partners Commission on Interactions with Industry policy will also require physicians to report their relationships with drug companies to patients. Further, executives of Partners HealthCare—the company that owns the two hospitals—will face strict limitations on their involvement with the industry and will no longer be allowed to own stock in any of the drug companies they help oversee. However, William...
...with the deck stacked against your protagonist, and then in the course of whatever you’re watching or hearing, you gain a greater, deeper understanding of who that person is.”Toback, like his subject, has something of a bad reputation. Associated in Hollywood with drug cults, hustlers, and gangsters, he makes no attempt to hide his own vices. His first feature film was called “The Gambler”; he penned the screenplay for “Bugsy”—the Oscar-winning 1991 film about celebrity gangster Bugsy Siegel?...
...reduction of brain swelling, rather than any effect on tumor growth. In these tumors, blood vessels can be leaky, which causes swelling in the brain known as edema. This, in turn, can cause drowsiness, loss of consciousness, and brain damage. A Phase II clinical trial with the experimental drug cediranib conducted several years ago showed that patients treated with the drug survived longer compared to historical controls. Researchers wanted to know why this occurred, said Tracy T. Batchelor, one of the authors of the study and a consultant to AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, which produces cediranib. “This...
...aspect to controlling medical expenses is managing the price of drugs. The government has announced it will set price controls on medicines deemed to be essential, likely based on a list of 300 to 400 drugs recommended by the World Health Organization, the state-run Xinhua news service reported. Since market reforms were introduced in the 1980s, hospitals began relying on advanced procedures and drug sales to make money. Individual spending on pharmaceuticals rose as a result, and experts argue that profits sometimes drive what doctors prescribe. "When drugs take up 50% of health expenditures - two times more than other...