Loading the player… In hopes of taming a monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India opened vaccinations to all adults Saturday, launching a huge inoculation effort that was sure to tax the limits of the federal government, the country’s vaccine factories and the patience of its 1.4 billion people. The world’s largest maker of vaccines was… Read More »
With several new acute migraine treatments vying for market share, Eli Lilly is touting new data on Reyvow showing the med can provide patients “pain freedom” in as little as one hour, plus sustained relief for up to two days. In a phase 3 trial called Centurion, patients who took Lilly’s new drug at the 200mg dose were 4.6 times more likely to experience pain… Read More »
The cancer death rate declined by 29% from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported. The news comes from Cancer Statistics, 2020, the latest edition of the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer rates and trends. The steady 26-year decline in… Read More »