March 25, 2011 Comments Off on FDA clears first melanoma drug to extend survival
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a breakthrough cancer medication from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that researchers have heralded as the first drug to prolong the lives of patients with melanoma. The federal health agency approved the injectable ...
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Read More »February 23, 2011 Comments Off on New Agent Orange concerns raised at Fort Detrick
FREDERICK — Military records are shedding new light on Agent Orange testing decades ago at Maryland military installations and raising new concerns about health hazards from the Vietnam War-era chemical defoliant. Fort Detrick released fresh details Tuesday on outdoor experiments ...
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Read More »January 17, 2011 Comments Off on Apple CEO Jobs will take second medical leave of absence
SEATTLE — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is taking his second medical leave of absence in two years, raising serious questions about his health and the leadership of a company at the forefront of a personal computing revolution. Jobs, 55, ...
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Read More »January 2, 2011 Comments Off on Jury awards $2.4M in asbestos case
The sons and estate of a forklift driver who unloaded bags of raw asbestos for six years as part of his job have won a $2.2 million verdict against Union Carbide, which mined and sold the asbestos to his employer. ...
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Read More »December 7, 2010 Comments Off on Chewing tobacco maker agrees to $5M settlement
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what is believed to be the first wrongful-death settlement won ...
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Read More »December 7, 2010 Comments Off on Elizabeth Edwards dies at 61
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her own health and marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a six-year struggle with cancer. She ...
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Read More »November 23, 2010 Comments Off on Judge weighs Cangene closure against need for cancer treatment
A federal judge could decide as early as Wednesday whether a Baltimore drug manufacturer must cancel a long-planned winter shutdown to make hundreds of thousands of doses of a colorectal cancer treatment. But if the judge’s candid comments at the ...
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Read More »November 17, 2010 Comments Off on Anti-tobacco funding rated 34th in U.S.
ANNAPOLIS — A report released by several public health organizations Wednesday ranked Maryland’s funding of its anti-tobacco program 34th in the country. According to the report, Maryland currently puts $4.3 million a year toward tobacco prevention, a 78 percent decrease ...
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Read More »October 13, 2010 1 Comment
A private cancer treatment company is investing in a $200 million venture at the University of Maryland BioPark in West Baltimore, bringing 110 permanent jobs to the city. The 100,000-square-foot Maryland Proton Treatment Center is expected to break ground in ...
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