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• Durbin goes to bat for SIUC coach

  
  The Platform — Authority: 560
  Dan Callahan Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., took to the Senate floor today to talk about Dan Callahan, the Southern Illinois University Carbondale baseball coach who has been denied coverage for the costly cancer drug Avastin. You can read the full blog…
  18 hours ago

• Costly new drugs: A crisis for one family, a quandry for U.S.

  
  The Platform — Authority: 560
  Dan Callahan It began with a little black spot on Dan Callahan’s lower lip. He didn’t think it was anything to worry about. His doctor thought it was cancer. The doctor was right. It was neurotropic melanoma, a very rare — and very…
  3 days ago

• Healthcare amendment would delay access to “generic” versions of life-saving biologics

  
  The eDrugSearch Blog — Authority: 110
  Healthcare reform isn’t just about the public option and paying for doctor’s visits — it’s also about equal, affordable access to life-saving medications for all Americans. That’s why many Big Pharma watchdogs are so disappointed with a recent amendment slipped into healthcare legislation that proposes ...
  1 week ago

• Happy Halloween!....

  
  ShoppingKharma: What comes around goes around — Authority: 114
  This will be a very short post; but the good news is that I am getting more and more energy. I think the antidepressant " Celexa " is making a difference. Im sorry its been a while since my last post. Ive been busy being busy! (having much fun with my honey and spending lots of quality time together) Well Im not ...
  1 week ago

• Medicare Appears to be Reversing Avastin Ruling

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 116
  In my October 12 Blog post I wrote about Medicares foolish decision to reimburse retinal specialists less than their costs for treating macular degeneration with the much- less expensive drug, Avastin.  This decision would cost our government millions of dollars annually.  I questioned how this system could ever ...
  1 week ago

• CMS Blinks Over Avastin Medicare Coding

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 589
  After pressure from Congress and concern from doctors, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid now plans to reverse recently enacted reimbursement coding for Avastin, which is used to treat wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness among seniors and the elderly. The drug, you may recall, is often used ...
  1 week ago

• Newest Trends in Eye Care From Annual AAO Meeting I

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 116
  This week is the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).  Over the next few days I will report on a few of the latest trends being presented at the meeting in San Francisco.  Many of these short synopsises will be taken from "Academy Live" an e-mail; alert from the AAO.  Each synopsis ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carboplatin and more fun to be had...

  
  ShoppingKharma: What comes around goes around — Authority: 114
  This weekend we went to 2 different events. One was just up the street in our next door town of Campbell; the Oktoberfest (Saturday). It was quite crowded so we didnt bring Miss Blue Belle with us for fear she might get stepped on in the crowd but our neighbors daughter begged us to bring her. It was more of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letters from Kohl: Avastin, Lucentis and CMS Coding Change

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 429
  Genentech Inc. has two biological agents that can treat Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD)   a leading cause of blindness in the elderly Avastin and Lucentis. The cost of each drug is significantly different and only one is approved by the FDA for that indication. While Avastin can run $60 per patient (off ...
  3 weeks ago

• Survival rate increased with Avastin in recurrent glioblastoma affected patients

  
  Anabolic Steroids Blog - iSteroids . com — Authority: 139
  According to a recent study that was conduced at 11 centers across the country and published in the early online version of the Journal of Clinical Oncology , survival rate gets increased with Avastin in recurrent glioblastoma affected patients. It was revealed during the study that the targeted therapy Avastin, ...
  3 weeks ago

• This is the Agency that is Going to Bend the Cost Curve?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  Writing in the New York Times , Andrew Pollack reports that Medicare is about to stop paying for Avastin as a treatment for eye diseases. He writes, “But the way the bureaucratic gears mesh in this case, the move could end up costing Medicare itself hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and individual patients ...
  3 weeks ago

• Six Tips on How to Spot a Winning Biotech, From Dendreon Co-Founder Chris Henney

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biotech , people , startups Luke Timmerman wrote: Investing in biotech can be scary. Only one out of 10 new drug candidates ever makes it through the gauntlet of clinical trials to become an FDA approved product, and it usually takes hundreds of millions of dollars and a decade or more of research to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Avastin vs Lucentis: Why our Govt Will Never Manage Healthcare Efficiently!

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 116
  There have been several articles in the New York Times discussing how the current health care proposals currently being debated will do little to control health care costs.  In my opinion government control of health care and health care cost control are mutually exclusive!  A case in point:  the Avastin vs ...
  4 weeks ago

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