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Traditional chemotherapy compounds are like blunderbusses that kill both malignant and healthy cells indiscriminately--by bombarding tumors with as much cell-destroying chemical as the patient can handle. Angiogenesis inhibitors, by contrast, are smart missiles. Like Gleevec, they belong to a new breed of cancer-fighting agents that grow out of a deep understanding--at the molecular level--of how cancers grow, and are designed to block a particular step along...
...patient. Because science has a way of burying every new answer in a hundred new questions, and the backlash has already begun...
Waiting times are particularly long for non-emergencies, where the same patient would likely get seen immediately...
...challenge is to match up hospital capability and EMT capability with patient needs,” says Brad Prenney, deputy director of the Bureau of Health Quality Management. “The current law is in place because EMTs are trained to assess, not diagnose patients. There’s considerable variation in emergency situations, and a seemingly benign situation could have serious underlying causes...
...Generic copies of the anti-retroviral "cocktail" therapies essential to staying the onset of full-blown AIDS can be acquired on the world market for as little as $250 a year per patient, as compared with a patent-protected price tag in the U.S. of $10,000 a year. But in a country with 4.7 million mostly deeply impoverished HIV patients, even the discounted drugs would require the government to lay out $1.2 billion a year - and to put in place the infrastructure to ensure the proper diagnosis and usage and create a healthy environment to protect those patients from...