BREAST CANCER

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Will Genentech's Perjeta Be The Next Blockbuster For Roche?

Combatants on the front lines in the war on cancer have a new weapon in the arsenal, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday OK'd Perjeta -- flanked by Herceptin and docetaxel -- for deployment in a three-pronged attack on the enemy cells in people with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Hospitals Fight Drug Scarcity, Fear Patients Harmed

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The growing scarcity of sterile, injectable drugs is one of the biggest issues confronting hospitals across the country, and will be a key issue at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago this weekend.
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Student Loan Rate Vote In House

The student loan debate continues in Washington as the House plans to vote on a bill Friday that would keep interest rates at 3.4 percent for subsidized Stafford loans, instead of increasing to 6.8 percent on July 1.
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Inside Giuliana Rancic's Surprise Baby Shower [PHOTOS]

Giuliana and Bill Rancic just announced that they arexpecting their first child via gestational carrier in the late summer and the gifts are already rolling in. Yesterday the E! News host was treated to a surprise baby shower by her coworkers.
Antidepressants For Hot Flashes: Mixed Messages

Antidepressants For Hot Flashes: Mixed Messages

New findings suggest that the antidepressant Lexapro might make hot flashes a little less of a nuisance to women -- adding to the mixed bag of results regarding that drug's effect on menopause symptoms.
Mitt & Ann Romney, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 in Boston

Who Is Ann Romney: 15 Things To Know

With Rick Santorum abandoning his GOP bid on April 10, Mitt Romney has become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Recent polls show that Romney and President Obama are neck in neck in the eyes of the nation. But does Romney have a secret weapon? It's becoming more apparent that Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney is becoming an effective political weapon.
Holly Warlick: 10 Things To Know About Pat Summitt's Successor

Holly Warlick: 10 Things To Know About Pat Summitt's Successor

The Pat Summitt era has come to an end at the University of Tennessee after the legendary women's basketball coach stepped down after 38 seasons. Summitt passes the torch to new head coach Holly Warlick, a longtime Lady Vols assistant who handled the main coaching duties last season after Summitt was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian Cancer Screening: Why It May Harm More Than It Helps

Health experts said this week that women with no unusual risk for ovarian cancer should not undergo regular screening for the disease. Testing methods are simply not effective enough, and may lead women to undergo unnecessary procedures at risk to their health.
Metformin Cancer

Cheap Diabetes Drug May Be Newest Weapon Against Cancer

One of the most promising new cancer drugs isn't new at all -- it's metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1994. It may be able to suppress tumors, according to new research.
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In Cancer Science, Many 'Discoveries' Don't Hold up

A former researcher at Amgen Inc has found that many basic studies on cancer -- a high proportion of them from university labs -- are unreliable, with grim consequences for producing new medicines in the future.

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