Topic: Health and Human Services Sector
Vanguard Health plans to buy Mich. hospital system
AP News
Privately held Vanguard Health plans to buy nonprofit, 8-hospital Detroit Medical CenterDetroit Medical Center officials said Friday that plans for the nonprofit hospital system to be purchased by the privately held Vanguard Health Systems Inc. will allow it to maintain its commitment to charitable care and boost investment in its ...
FDA warns of greater muscle risk from Zocor
AP Features
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday the highest available dose of Zocor, a component in cholesterol drugs, can cause muscle damage as well as severe and potentially lethal kidney damage. The agency said statin drugs like Zocor are known to cause muscle damage in some patients, but the risk ...
Will a fresh look at pain overcome drug barriers?
Reuters US Online Report Health News
LONDON (Reuters) - Barriers to understanding pain are starting to fall and scientists and drug firms say a fresh approach is producing potential new drugs to hit where it hurts. Millions of people across the world suffer chronic pain -- such as nerve, joint or muscle pain that lasts weeks, months or ...
Many Avandia defenders have drug co. ties: study
Reuters US Online Report Health News
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Virtually all of the experts who wrote favorably about GlaxoSmithKline Plc's troubled diabetes drug Avandia had financial ties to drug makers, a finding that shows the need for reform of such relationships, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. A team at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota ...
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