Brooklyn, NY: Russian Immigrants Seek Culturally Appropriate Substance Abuse Treatment

Brooklyn, NY: Russian immigrants seek culturally appropriate substance abuse treatment – Personal stories of Russian speaking immigrants who initiated drug use in the United States

Study: Aspirin may help treat some colon cancers

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NEW YORK — Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role in the disease. Among patients with the mutations, those who …
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Pfizer: Cancer drug narrowly misses study goal

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NEW YORK (AP) — Pfizer Inc.'s advanced kidney cancer treatment Inlyta missed its main late-stage study goal when compared to another drug in patients who had not been treated for the disease. The New York drugmaker said Wednesday that patients …
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Despite Anti-Fungal Treatment, More Woes For Some Meningitis Patients

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The New York Times reports that about a third of 53 meningitis patients treated at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., have developed epidural abscesses. … Surgery is not usually an option, if ever, and the success of drug therapy is …
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