Grapefruit Makes Cancer Drug More Potent
Adding grapefruit juice to cancer treatment make ease side effects.
Grapefruit juice may cut chemotherapy costs
People with cancer might be able to take less of a chemotherapy drug if they take it with grapefruit juice, a small new study suggests.
Grapefruit Juice Could Help Cancer Patients Save Money
Doctors have warned patients about drug interactions with grapefruit juice for years, but it turns out the tart drink might actually interact with certain drugs in a good way, reducing dosages and, therefore, costs and side effects, a new study shows. …
Grapefruit juice lets patients take lower dose of cancer drug
( University of Chicago Medical Center ) A glass a day of grapefruit juice lets patients derive the same benefits from an anti-cancer drug as they would get from more than three times as much of the drug by itself. The combination could help patients a…
Bauman Medical Group to Feature First Female NeoGraft Hair Transplant Live Webcast on August 8th for National Hair …
Internationally renowned hair loss expert Dr. Alan J. Bauman will also discuss new diagnostic tools and treatments to prevent and fight female hair loss.Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) August 07, 2012 Hair loss is typically thought of as a “man’s disease,
Drugs promise to make life easier for cystic fibrosis patients
Shelly Weiner Maguire’s lung capacity is at 59 percent and dropping. Below 30 percent, she will need a lung transplant to survive.
Donna R. Cryer, JD, Liver Transplant Survivor, Named President And Chief Executive Officer Of American Liver Foundation
NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Board of Directors of the American Liver Foundation has named Donna R. Cryer, JD, as President and CEO. Cryer is the first patient to head the national organization and has vowed to use both her p…
Equity Briefing: Pluristem's PLX Cell Therapy in Failed Bone Marrow Transplant Proven Successful a Second Time
Last month we examined emerging biotech Pluristem Therapeutics (NASDAQ:PSTI), whose cell therapy treats vascular disease with a novel intramuscular injection that restores patency to damaged arteries. …
Does second ‘saved’ patient bolster Pluristem’s hopes of orphan drug application?
Pluristem Therapeutics said another patient suffering from bone marrow failure was saved using its placenta-based stem cell treatment. This is the second time in three months that a patient suffering from bone marrow failure was successfully treated wi…
James West, pioneer in rehab, organ transplant, dies at 98
Dr. James W. West stood on the cutting edge of medicine in the middle of the 20th century and recognized that "it sounded bizarre to remove an organ from a dead person and expect it to work."