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Tweet   • Some southern states show almost no improvement. • Study points to increased need for screening. • Poverty and uninsured rates are higher in southern states. PHILADELPHIA — Improvements in colorectal cancer mortality rates are concentrated...

Dietary advice alone isn't likely to cut it as a means of permanently lowering salt intake and improving health outcomes.

Tweet   • Agent lowered key biomarkers in lung cancer development. • Study confirms earlier research in Cancer Prevention Research. • Experts estimate former U.S. smoker population at 45 million. PHILADELPHIA — Celecoxib may emerge as a potent chemopreventive...

Do you believe your physician is giving you better care when they are using technology? I certainly do. Here’s a few stats from a survey by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion: 78% of patients whose doctors used an EHR believe the computer system helps...

I just finished reading Assessing the Impact of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) Requirements on the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain by the Center For Healthcare Supply Chain Research. If you don’t know what REMS is, here is the FDA...

For those of you that are interested, here’s a link for a $30 discount on the AIS webinar that I’m doing with Sean Brandle from Segal Company on drug copay cards. As a teaser, here’s results from one of the survey questions that I posed...

Tweet   • Flu vaccine could be used to test immune response. • Patients presented with metastatic renal cell cancer. • Implications beyond quality of life and patient management. PHILADELPHIA — Patients treated with sunitinib and sorafenib responded...

Justice Stephen Breyer's dissenting opinion includes an extensive bibliography of academic literature on the topic.