Bevacizumab (drug)

Strategies for cutting the cost of prescription drugs

2013-04-19 20:47:00

When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it. The 59-year-...

Cancer drug may double as fat-busting treatment for obesity

2013-04-23 07:00:00

Way back in 2002, Dr. Judah Folkman hit upon a tantalizing weight-loss strategy for obese mice. When given daily injections of a drug designed to fight cancer, their fat melted away. The higer the dose they got, the more fat they lost. Some of the obese...

Remove Medicare's straitjacket

2013-03-29 00:00:00

Now that the budget "sequester" is in effect, Congress is shifting its attention to entitlement reform. There's simply no way to achieve long-term reductions in federal spending without touching the big health programs, particularly Medicare. Although...

For the record

2012-10-27 00:00:00

Medical study results: In the Oct. 24 Section A, an article about medical studies said that follow-up studies of the drug Avastin showed that it did not help breast cancer patients live longer with their disease without getting worse. Those studies did...

The New War on Cancer

2012-06-20 09:54:00

�It used to be that the cancer doctor’s toolbox contained three essential tools — a scalpel to cut out the disease, chemo to poison it and radiation to zap it. But today that toolbox is bulging with new and better weapons. “We’re...

New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer

2012-01-30 00:00:00

In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...

Caughlin fire: 20 structures destroyed, thousands evacuated in Reno

2011-11-18 16:36:40

New drilling could bring highway money, GOP leaders say

2011-11-18 16:36:40

Killer Paul Rhoades executed by lethal injection in Idaho

2011-11-18 16:36:38

Avastin: There's the truth and then there's the politics behind the cancer drug [The conversation]

2011-06-28 16:35:19

American Obesity

2010-07-23 14:01:50

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Fake medicine poses growing threat to consumers

2012-10-16 00:00:00

Consumers shopping for medicine on the Internet often are getting convenience, a good price and the cloak of privacy, but they may not be getting the real thing. A burgeoning multibillion-dollar industry of counterfeit drugs — ranging from AIDS...

A sign is displayed in front of the Genentech headquarters July 14, 2008 in South San Francisco, California. This company relied on the popularity of its cancer drug Avastin to boost profits.

2012-12-13 20:27:00

FDA withdraws approval of Avastin for breast cancer patients

2011-11-18 15:31:33

, saying studies have failed to prove the drug's effectiveness. The FDA is likely to follow the advisors' recommendation, which would give private insurance companies a reason to stop covering the drug's cost for breast cancer patients.

2011-07-01 12:16:58