CVS 'Minute Clinics' Open Across Peninsula
CVS 'Minute Clinics' open across Peninsula
… is accepted. For patients paying out-of-pocket, treatment prices are posted at each clinic and on http://www.minuteclinic.com. … The first CVS clinic in Virginia opened in 2007 and there are now 39 spread among Richmond, Roanoke and Northern …
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Local patients in clinical trials cured of Hepatitis C
Douglas Gray, executive director of the Virginia Association of Health Plans, said drugs such as the hep C treatment are going to be a challenge for both private and government insurers. At a time when the Affordable Care Act is … Dr. Mitchell …
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San Francisco Drug Users Bring Harm Reduction to the Streets
San Francisco drug users bring harm reduction to the streets
Used syringes can spread infectious diseases like HIV or Hepatitis C. New syringes eliminate that risk, so needle exchanges have drawn the support of organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and the American Medical Association. In San …
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biOasis Discovers the Keys to Transcend to Advance Its Program for the …
Transcend offers the creation of a new class of drugs that can cross the blood-brain barrier to address unmet medical needs in the treatment of brain metastatic cancer and other brain disorders, such as neurodegeneration and metabolic disease. The …
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Post Liver Transplant Consultation?
Question by Nidz: Post Liver Transplant Consultation?
My father in law had his liver transplant in in 1998, in Leeds, UK. Since then he has been taking immuno-suppressant drug called ‘Neoral’. He has overall been in good health during all these years. During the last four years his kidneys have been weakened due to his intake of ‘Neoral’, but lately due to reduction in intake of Neoral his kidneys’ condition has become stable. Please note that he still has positive Hepatitis C in his body.
Sales Soar for Pricey Hepatitis Drug Sovaldi
Sales Soar for Pricey Hepatitis Drug Sovaldi
Some 3.2 million people in the U.S. are believed to carry hepatitis C—many of whom contracted it through intravenous drug use. Chronic infections that go untreated kill 15,000 Americans each year, and are a leading reason for liver transplants in the …
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Irsay's troubles could go beyond March arrest
The source familiar with NFL operations told The Star the league would likely want to look at anything that could shed further light on Irsay's drug use and associations: How long has he been abusing prescription drugs? Is he using other illegal drugs?
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Hepatitis C Treatment Viable in Primary Care
Hepatitis C Treatment Viable in Primary Care
The primary care clinic is composed of physicians, nurse practitioners, and patient navigators. This is a treatment that can be delivered in primary care, but the system does require a bit of extra … Also, patients who were treated and achieved …
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Former Inuvik nurse who stole drugs vows to kick addiction
A nurse who was caught stealing and using drugs from Inuvik, N.W.T.'s hospital in 2011 says he's still fighting his addictions. Ben Cox left his home in Nova Scotia to work as an emergency room nurse at the Inuvik hospital in 2008. Between 2009 and …
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InterMune Lung Drug Is Successful in New Trial
InterMune Lung Drug Is Successful in New Trial
A drug being developed to treat a fatal scarring of the lungs has succeeded in an important clinical trial and could become the first medicine to be approved for that disease, known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The drug, pirfenidone, slowed the …
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Progress Against Hepatitis C, a Sneaky Virus
The new drugs, sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) and simeprevir (Olysio), are each approved for use with interferon and ribavirin for treatment of genotype 1 infection. Sovaldi already can be used without injected interferon to treat people infected with genotypes …
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