U.S. to speed up release of cancer drugs to public Move is expected to cut...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 30, 1996 ;     363 words ......up release of promising experimental cancer drugs to the public, a move expected to shave...unnecessarily costly. Clinton, noting that cancer drugs often took years to reach the market...Kelley, died of breast cancer. Some 300 cancer drugs are currently in various stages of testing...

Expert calls for Italian-style approach to cancer drugs.(Features)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  December 10, 2007 ;     557 words ......access to breakthrough and expensive cancer drugs. The Italian government has signed an...conference in Cardiff that to fund all new cancer drugs would cost Velindre NHS Trust upwards...patients' treatments. Currently, new cancer drugs are only available to all patients on...

Britain accused of delaying new cancer drugs.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 3, 2005 ;     292 words ......the European league for giving out new cancer drugs, a damning report reveals. Patients...being below average adopters of new cancer drugs.' The report, to be presented to the...at availability of a whole range of cancer drugs, including Herceptin which boosts women...

Cancer care is improving; National Cancer Director announces better access...

M2 Presswire;  September 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ......announces better access to NICE approved cancer drugs(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...of his report Review of NHS usage of cancer drugs approved by NICE which shows there has...variation in access to NICE approved cancer drugs across the country However, he warned...

VENTURE TO SELL LOWER-COST CANCER DRUGS

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 10, 1993 ;     259 words ......09-10-1993 VENTURE TO SELL LOWER-COST CANCER DRUGS Date: 09-10-1993, Friday Section: BUSINESS...community-based cancer specialists with lower-cost cancer drugs and services. The alliance will market cancer drugs and related services to the fast-growing...

U.S. backs off on plan for cancer drugs

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 9, 2000 ;     255 words ...U.S. backs off on plan for cancer drugs New York Times Saturday, September 9...a plan to cut Medicare payments for cancer drugs given to hundreds of thousands of patients...believed that Medicare paid too much for cancer drugs. But, she said, the government will...

Call for cancer drugs charity.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  May 25, 2006 ;     180 words ......to be set up to help people refused cancer drugs on the NHS. The Gateshead East and Washington...has called for greater access to new cancer drugs and has asked the Government to fund...inspired to campaign for fairer access to cancer drugs after two of her constituents were ...

Cancer drugs need coverage

Oakland Tribune;  August 22, 2004 ;     676 words ......that it will slash reimbursement for cancer drugs has caused dismay among physicians who...office -- many people do not realize that cancer drugs available exclusively in oral form...FDA data reveals that 30 percent of cancer drugs approved since 1995 are available only...

FDA streamlines approval process for new cancer drugs

The Boston Globe;  June 5, 1991 ;     332 words ......simplifying its process for approving new cancer drugs to get them to patients more quickly...Products now have authority to approve new cancer drugs without getting approval from higher-u...other regulatory actions related to cancer drugs without getting approval from above...

NZ 'missed out on' best cancer drugs

The Press;  May 11, 2002 ;     412 words ......have been denied access to the best cancer drugs for the last decade because of funding...Cancer Society, said the haphazard way cancer drugs had been funded for the last 10 years...be reluctant to prioritise expensive cancer drugs. "I think the concern is that if expensive...

MEDICARE SHOULD COVER ORAL CANCER DRUGS.(LOCAL)(Editorial)

The Virginian Pilot;  May 13, 2002 ;     389 words ......to allow Medicare coverage for oral cancer drugs. Medicare, the federal health insurance...disabled, pays for chemotherapy and cancer drugs injected or infused in a doctor's office...the market, however, only seven oral cancer drugs are covered by Medicare. The new proposal...

30-year term for diluting cancer drugs

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 6, 2002 ;     604 words ...00-00-0000 30-year term for diluting cancer drugs -- Pharmacist sentenced to maximum By...February to 20 counts of altering the cancer drugs Taxol and Gemzar. Those counts stem...said that while the diluting of the cancer drugs probably hastened some deaths, proving...

Costly cancer drugs 'will crush the NHS'.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 9, 2008 ;     585 words ...Byline: Jenny Hope THE high cost of cancer drugs could lead the Health Service into meltdown...month to ban four life-extending kidney cancer drugs. There are growing calls for reform...arrangements being made to try to get new cancer drugs into the NHS. Last month he said they...

End wait on cancer drugs, say doctors.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 15, 2005 ;     192 words ......Australia chairman Ian Olver says adding cancer drugs to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme...that the existing regulations governing cancer drugs should be changed to shift the focus...believes that it takes too long to approve cancer drugs for the PBS. Publication Date: 16 ...

Deaths in trials of cancer drugs fall

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 3, 2004 ;     311 words ......NJ) 11-03-2004 Deaths in trials of cancer drugs fall -- Study suggests rise in research...CHICAGO - Patient deaths from experimental cancer drugs during initial human studies declined...increasingly ineffective. Some of the newest cancer drugs employ a more targeted approach than...