New Breast Cancer Drug Gets Woman Off Death Bed

New Breast Cancer Drug Gets Woman Off Death Bed

Filed under: Hawaii Drug Treatment Centers

Just four weeks ago, Celeste Mills was discussing arraignments for hospice with her doctor after treatment to control her metastatic breast cancer stopped working. "The end was very near, and the quality in her life was done," said Dr. John Glaspy, of …
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Celebrities With STDs: Stars Who Admitted They Have STDs Or Hepatitis C

Filed under: Hawaii Drug Treatment Centers

In 1998, the retired country singer claimed she was <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-07-06/news/9807070078_1_interferon-american-liver-foundation-catastrophic-illness" target="_blank">cured of the disease after treatment with a drug …
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For Black Parents, Anger at an ADHD Diagnosis Can Lead to Inaction

Filed under: Hawaii Drug Treatment Centers

I had a flashback to those days when I read a story in The New York Times on Monday that new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that one in five high school aged boys and 11 percent of school-age children have …
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Reduce Use of Antipsychotic Drugs in Elderly with Dementia – Newswise

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Antipsychotic medication is often used to treat patients when behavioral treatment to control or lessen these troubling symptoms hasn't proven effective. … “Based on FDA black box warnings about increased mortality in this patient population, the …
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