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FDA approves Pfizer's treatment for certain lung cancer patients

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past Pfizer’s world headquarters in New York April 28, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its lung-cancer treatment for patients with a specific gene mutation who had been previously treated for an aggressive form of the disease.… Read More: FDA approves Pfizer's treatment for certain lung cancer patients »

What Makes Stepping Stones Helpful to Patients?

Stepping Stones is just one of people rehabilitations throughout the world that uses a sober residing community for equally girls and males recouping from liquor and drug misuse. It is a neighborhood that cultivates the really worth of flexibility and personalized obligation, as effectively as minimize regression to every content customer. The supreme objective of… Read More: What Makes Stepping Stones Helpful to Patients? »

Doctors 'need to start early conversation with patients about dying'

Doctors need to get better at having difficult conversations with dying patients and not just in their final days, according to a report from the Royal College of Physicians. It says doctors should talk to people who could die within 12 months, who may be frail or terminally ill, and give them choices over their… Read More: Doctors 'need to start early conversation with patients about dying' »

Apple Watch Leaves Patients Connected with No Where To Go

The highly anticipated unveiling of the Apple Watch Series 4 caused a news and social media sensation. Apple coined the iconic timepiece as the “guardian of your health”, with health tracking functionalities such as the ability to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) by a self-performed electrocardiogram (ECG). But from patients’ and carepartners’ perspectives, there is a long… Read More: Apple Watch Leaves Patients Connected with No Where To Go »