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...thinking about those people as I sat in on sessions at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Atlanta, where cancer researchers and doctors from all over the world come to report on their latest studies. It has been five years since the drug Gleevec, introduced at this conference, electrified doctors, grabbed headlines and changed the way doctors think about treating cancer. Because Gleevec was exquisitely targeted to interrupt a specific step in the cancer cell's growth process, it heralded a new era of kinder, gentler treatments that would pack all the anti-cancer wallop...
...turns out that Gleevec was a Cinderella story - a perfect matching of drug to cancer. The specific cancers for which Gleevec has wrought such miracles - chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) - rely pretty exclusively on a pathway that Gleevec targets, making these diseases ideal victims for a targeted therapy. But breast, lung, colon and prostate cancers, the leading types of cancer in the U.S., aren't as accommodating...
...share responsibility. During debate on the bill, thousands of people, from union workers to senior citizens, held rallies and meetings in support of broad reform. I can tell you firsthand that the resulting legislation reflected their input. By contrast, the federal government’s reform of Medicare prescription drug coverage in 2003 was far removed from those whom it actually affected...
...thousand and six may just turn out to be the year of reckoning for the carefree spending of the Bush administration, and federal education spending has assumed the part of the paschal lamb. As tax cuts, increased defense spending, and the enactment of Medicare prescription drug benefits legislation ballooned our national debt during President George W. Bush’s first term in office, it became increasingly clear that our spending habits were unsustainable. Four increases of the national debt ceiling could not stave off the reality that something had to be sacrificed. And with that in mind, the House...
...with smoking. “There’s going to be a huge market for it,” she said of the vaccine. All participants, who must be aged 18 or over, have already been selected for MGH’s yearlong study. The National Institute on Drug Abuse is coordinating the clinical trials, which are sponsored by Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the vaccine. Gharib said that she was unsure how a nicotine vaccine would affect college-age adults or teenagers. She said that younger people may be less interested in the vaccine because they tend...