- Chugai to launch cancer drug Avastin on Monday - Forbes - Avastin was approved as colon cancer treatment in April, and has now been added to the list of treatments the country's National Health Insurance (NHI) is reimbursing. andrew.ge.thompson@thomson.com at/ejp COPYRIGHT Copyright AFX News Limited 2007. All ...
- South Carolina Affiliates Of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Former ... - Forbes - Many Americans - racial and ethnic minorities, low income women and those with little or no health insurance - are less likely to receive quality cancer care and are more likely to die from the disease. In South Carolina, breast cancer is the most ...
- New genetic tests era raises insurance fear - Guardian Unlimited - Despite the hype about new gene discoveries for heart disease and cancer, most genetic tests are not very good at predicting who will actually get ill. This means the insurance industry will not lose out financially if they are banned from seeking ...
- Cancer patients' other battle - Newsday - The group plans to release findings next week that conclude that the uninsured, underinsured and Medicaid recipients are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cases of cancer than those with private insurance. The organization has also ...
- Road to recovery starts at Race for the Cure - Quad Cities Onlines - Purchasing a cancer policy from an insurance company is another option. For someone like Mrs. Landstrom with a long family history of cancer, a policy is an inexpensive way of finding a safety net. She said she checked around and learned policies can ...
- Expert backs gene test disclosure - BBC News - He gave the example of the BRCA1 gene in breast cancer, which actually makes little difference to the life expectancy of the woman. "A naive insurance salesperson might think she represented a poor risk for life insurance," he said. There is ...
- National Cancer Database Reveals Disparities in Access to Thyroid ... - PR Newswire - CHICAGO, June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a study released earlier this year from the National Cancer Database (NCDB ... surgical treatment -- like tumor size and lymph node status -- that patients from certain ethnic/racial groups, insurance ...
- Bill Curbing Health Insurance Practice Goes To Rell - Hartford Courant - They repeatedly denied claims of Connecticut consumers for serious illnesses, such as cancer, by finding issues in people's medical records that the company said they should have disclosed when applying for a policy. The Connecticut Insurance ...
- States Balk at Cancer Vaccine Mandate - Associated Press - ... causes cervical cancer. A powerful state Republican lawmaker proposed making the vaccine mandatory for girls entering sixth grade, and the governor included $4.3 million in his budget to make it available to some 13,000 girls whose family's insurance ...
- Prosthetic keeps up with athlete - Detroit News - Even with health insurance, she couldn't afford the $52,000 appliance. Meanwhile, nurses she knew at Advantage Health asked her to talk to one of their cancer patients, Tami Vander Wall, who would be having her leg amputated. They talked for more than ...
- Study: Vitamin D reduces cancer risk - Boston Online - OMAHA, Neb. -- Building hope for one pill to prevent many cancers, vitamin D cut the risk of several types of cancer by 60 percent overall for older women in the most rigorous study yet. The new research strengthens the case made by some specialists ...
- Mass. won't force cancer vaccine - Boston Online - Massachusetts health authorities said yesterday that they have no plans to require adolescent girls to receive the recently introduced vaccine against cervical cancer, a mandate that has generated controversy in other states. Instead, Massachusetts ...
- Chugai to launch cancer drug Avastin on Monday - Forbes - ZURICH (Thomson Financial) - Chugai Pharmaceutical Co, a Roche Holding AG unit, announced it will launch cancer treatment Avastin in Japan next Monday. Avastin was approved as colon cancer treatment in April, and has now been added to the list of ...
- Exact laments delayed cancer guidelines - Boston Globe - MARLBOROUGH, Mass -- Exact Sciences, which develops cancer tests, said Thursday a leading medical society has delayed publishing new cancer screening guidelines, which the company hopes will eventually include its technology. Exact Sciences hopes the ...
- ApoCell's Cancer Predictive Index Helps Oncologists Select the Most ... - Forbes - ApoCell, Inc. presented the results of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and ApoCell at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held in Chicago in early June. The study showed that ...
- EXACT Sciences Announces Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines Will ... - Forbes - EXACT Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: EXAS) announced today that the Company has been informed by officials of the American Cancer Society (ACS) that the release of updated colorectal cancer (CRC) screening guidelines, which are being drafted by the ...
- Representatives of Karmanos Cancer Institute and DMC Meet - Forbes - DETROIT, June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representatives from the Karmanos Cancer Institute and The Detroit Medical Center met today to continue discussions related to Karmanos' planned move to Riverview. Both parties agreed that there was not a ...
- National Cancer Database Reveals Disparities in Access to Thyroid ... - PR Newswire - CHICAGO, June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a study released earlier this year from the National Cancer Database (NCDB), the removal of the entire thyroid -- total thyroidectomy -- was shown to reduce papillary thyroid cancer recurrence rates and ...
- South Carolina Affiliates Of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Former ... - Forbes - South Carolina Joins Nationwide Campaign Challenging U.S. to Close the Gaps in Breast Cancer Care, Survival COLUMBIA, S.C., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 11 and 12, the Upstate South Carolina and Lowcountry Affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure ...
- Riverside adds to cancer treatment - Hampton Roads Daily Press - NEWPORT NEWS -- Riverside Health System announced today that its radiosurgery center, a joint venture with the University of Virginia and located at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, now has the capability to treat cancer tumors on ...
- Island Insurance gets credit rating - MSN MoneyCentral - A.M. Best Co., a rating agency that specializes in the insurance industry, has reaffirmed its "A" financial strength rating, and added another high rating on credit, for Island Insurance Co. Ltd. Privately held Honolulu-based Island Insurance, in ...
- Gene Tests 'To Make Insurance Pricier' - Sky.com - But a professor of biomedical ethics at the University of London has said the information may be misunderstood by firms who then drove up prices as a result. Writing in the British Medical Journal, Richard Ashcroft said: "It is important to note how ...
- Regulation of Rising Health Insurance Rates Passes Assembly - Forbes - Bill By Asm. Dave Jones is 'The Proposition 103 of Health Care' SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Assembly today approved a bill that would bring health insurers in line with other kinds of insurance in California ...
- Insurance can make sick travelers feel better - USA Today - He could have bought travel insurance. That's the bottom line in the case of Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis-infected Atlanta lawyer whose scramble to get home from Europe last month touched off a global health scare. Higher-end travel insurance ...
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- Farmers Insurance Raises More Than $2.6 Million in One Day for the ... - Forbes - Called "Be a Hero for Babies Day," this is the second year Farmers Insurance called on everyday people to become a "hero" for healthy babies. "This is one of the proudest days for me personally and for this entire organization," said Paul Hopkins ...
- Court Hears Hurricane Insurance Case - Forbes - An insurance company lawyer argued to the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday that his client should not have to pay full policy limits for wind damage to a home destroyed mainly by flooding during Hurricane Ivan. Florida Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance ...
- Report: Mich. auto insurers pile up profits, surpluses - Detroit News - Detroiters have long complained that they are forced to pay excessively high auto insurance bills. Insurance industry representatives say the higher rates are justified because there is more crime and more traffic in the city. Here's a look at the ...
- New genetic tests era raises insurance fear - Guardian Unlimited - A new era of genetic testing would leave those who test positive for common serious illnesses open to discrimination from insurers, academics are warning. A catalogue of genetic markers for common illnesses have been revealed in recent weeks after a ...
- King County man charged with killing young girl for insurance - Seattle Post Intelligencer - SEATTLE -- The firefighters who tried to save 3-year-old Ashley McLellan, unconscious after being pulled from a pool on a cold winter night in 2003, noticed something strange about her stepfather. He was calm, mostly dry, and never once asked them if ...
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