Major Insurers Drop Avastin for Breast Cancer Amid Concerns About Its Effectiveness
October 03, 2011
Breast Cancer:
Nobel Prize: The American immunologist Dr. Ralph M. Steinman is among three scientists who today won the Nobel Prize for medicine, but he died three days without knowing of the award, Lawrence K. Altman and Nicholas Wade report for the New York Times. Now, his prize has been called into question because the Nobel committee does not award prizes posthumously.
HPV/Gardasil: Yes, they went there. Last week's Saturday Night Live program featured this satirical commercial for "Li'l Poundcake," a doll can inject its young owners with the vaccine for human papillomavirus.
Medicare: Richard Wolf of USA Today outlines five possible ways Medicare could trim its $555 billion budget. None of them will appeal to anyone under 55.
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