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New cancer drug cocktails set to reach the market in the next few years will test the limits of premium pricing for life-saving medicines, forcing…fresh market strategies…reluctance …to fund very expensive drugs – even remarkably effective ones – points to a showdown as manufacturers mix and match therapies that harness the immune system to fight tumors.

Pennsylvania hospital employee has been indicted on charges he performed flawed genetic tests on 124 late-stage cancer patients and then lied about it...Federal prosecutors...said ,,that 60-year-old Floyd Benko,...has been charged with health care fraud and making false statements.

Ten years after the levees and floodwalls broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded New Orleans, the Big Easy finally has a full-scale hospital again — a new Charity hospital…the new 2.3 million-square-foot University Medical Center New Orleans… built with $1.1 billion of federal, state and private rebuilding money...

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vaccine against the Ebola virus has led to 100% protection and could transform the way Ebola is tackled, preliminary results suggest…. trial centred on the VSV-EBOV vaccine, which was started by the Public Health Agency of Canada and then developed by…Merck...

new, cutting-edge substance making its way to athletes looking for performance-enhancement: FG-4592 (Roxadustat), an experimental drug that increases production of red blood cells …Athletes have long found surreptitious means of obtaining banned performance-enhancing drugs, but with FG-4592, there actually may be a far more straightforward way — simply by ordering it from chemical-supply companies online.

China will expand medical insurance to cover all critical illnesses...State Council said 50 percent of the medical costs will be covered by insurance…healthcare … struggles with a scarcity of doctors, attacks by patients on medical staff and a fragmented drug distribution...

Las Vegas developer plans to break ground in August on a $4 million, 24-bed center to care for those with dementia and Alzheimer's…. Victor Hecker,…said the 16,000 square-foot facility is expected to open next spring…It will be the first of six such centers in the all areas of the valley...

Ghanaians shop for pills in open-air markets, where the fake may be indistinguishable from the real…Drug Lane runs through a market in the heart of Accra,..as one in three medicines sold…could be counterfeit…to address the problem…Ghanaian entrepreneur…has an answer.. creation of ...MPedigree Network …random 12-digit code hidden under a scratch-off panel on the packaging…text the code…get an instant reply telling… whether the product is authentic.

Columbia University Medical Center have developed a computer algorithm to greatly accelerate the drug production process…Detecting Mechanism of Action by Network Dysregulation uses a computational model of the human body's protein networks, and how they react with each other…able to perform experiments as different drugs enter the body, and can accurately track gene expression changes.