Nerve Disease of Eye Halted with Rituxan

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Among a group of 30 patients who had maintenance courses of rituximab when needed, the annualized relapse rate before treatment was 2.4, which fell to 0.3 during the subsequent 5 years (P<0.001) — a "marked reduction," according to Ho Jin Kim, MD …
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Legal group requests IRS investigation into organization promoting Obamacare

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A government watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service calling for an investigation into the tax status of a group responsible for promoting Obamacare. Enroll America is a nonprofit, with ties to the Obama administration …
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How Americans Said No To Cocaine After Years-Long Addiction

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"The drug went out of vogue a long time ago," says Reuter, a professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. "Lots of people experiment with it, but very few of the people that experiment with it in the last 20 …. We're seeing some …
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Cancer Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment a National Problem

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"No doctor wants to overtreat a patient," said Ian M. Thompson Jr., M.D., director of the CTRC at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. "But in our eagerness to detect and fight cancer … A leader in developing new drugs to treat cancer, the …
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