This blog is designed to educate and inform you about recent news and how it may impact your legal case in New York. I have provided commentary and opinion and welcome your comments to keep the conversation going.
If you have urgent legal questions or need a lawyer, please pick up the phone and call me at 516-487-8207 today.
- Page 19
-
What Medicine Should You be Taking This Flu Season, If Any?Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice; Looked at the effectiveness of phenylephrine hydrochloride, widely used in over-the-counter treatments
-
New Mammogram Guidelines- What you Need to KnowThe American Cancer Society’s new recommendations suggest women with an average risk start yearly mammograms at age 45 instead of 40. They also said at 55
-
Racial Gap in Diagnosing & Treating Breast CancerBreast cancer has been less common in black women than in white woman for decades. However, the death rate for black women is much higher.
-
First Virus Approved to Treat CancerOncologists inject a dose of herpes virus directly into the skin tumor. Herpes virus prefers to infect cancer cells, bursting them into bits. Once the immune
-
Genetic Chances of CancerAll cancer is caused by genetic mutations. A mix of lifestyle and environmental factors are responsible for many harmful changes to DNA causing cells to grow
-
What are the Odds of a Cancer Drug Actually Being a Breakthrough?Oncologist searched internet for recent news articles about cancer treatment and found that half of drugs dubbed with superlatives hadn’t been approved by FDA
-
Constipation Drug Could Improve Survival of Cancer PatientsNew research asserts that methylnaltrexone appears to extend survival in people receiving opioid for advanced cancer pain. Methylnaltrexone is approved for
-
Possible Cancer Causing Chemicals in Every Day ItemsNew study found that a group of chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and other personal-care products may stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells at doses
-
Cancer Diagnosis Creates Income Loss for FamiliesThe average United States adult diagnosed with cancer will miss five weeks of work in the first year and see total family income decline by 20%.
-
Why Immunotherapies Still Don’t Work for Most PatientsImmunotherapy harnesses the body’s immune system to fight off certain cancers.Breakthrough treatments for melanoma and other cancers have shown startling