Persisting drug shotages have hit the country. The drugs that are or have been in short supply range from antibiotics to cancer treatments to bags of sterile saline fluid.
A class of cancer drugs called checkpoint inhibitors boost the body’s immune system to fight cancer. New research may extend the use of these drugs to selected patients with colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, and other tumors where they currently do not see…
A group of researchers say that such gene panel testing may not be valid as yet and may not be useful for determining the care for a given patient who has these genes.
Many companies now offer genetic testing that is supposed to show an individual’s risk of developing certain diseases, but there is still a lot of varying opinions on those risks.
