Conclusions Medicaid expansion may have had a meaningful impact on the ability of lower‐income women to access effective hormonal therapies used to treat breast cancer.doi:10.1111/1475-6773.13289Johanna Catherine MacleanMichael T. HalpernSteven C. Hill...
Radiation therapyis the use of high energyX-raysto destroy cancer cells, typically consisting of several sessions of treatment. Radiation therapy cannot be used to treat widespread cancer because it can only destroy cancer cells directly in the path of the radiation beam. Radiation therapy can also...
Arimidex (Anastrozole) is an effective medicine used to treat hormone-dependent breast cancer in postmenopausal women. The drug belongs to the group of aromatase inhibitors and works by reducing the level of estrogen in the body, which helps to slow or stop the growth of cancer cells. On our...
"Because we know that breast-feeding has both developmental and health benefits for the mom and the baby, we are encouraging research in this area so physicians can make informed decisions about how best to treat their patients," said study author Dr. Hari Cheryl Sachs, a pediatrician and lea...
For over a month, doctors at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Cancer Center have struggled to get their hands on enough chemotherapy drugs to treat their patients. First, their shipments of carboplatin — typically used to treat breast, ovarian and several other cancers — ...
Corticosteroids may be used to treat autoimmune diseases or non-infectious meningitis caused by allergic reactions. Sometimes, the condition heals on its own, so there is no need for medication. Individual cancer therapy is used in meningitis caused by cancer. ...
The medications that are available now to treat bipolar disorder work well in many, less well in some, and not well in a few. Scientists are exploring the underlying brain and body changes that are part of bipolar disorder with a long-term goal of identifyin...
a hormone that constricts blood vessels throughout the body. Commonly used and very expensive drugs that block the actions of endothelin, which are called endothelin receptor antagonists, or ERAs, are now used throughout the world to treat PAH patients. However, the effects of these drugs in ...
Retinoids.Acitretin(Soriatane) is specifically used to treat all types of severepsoriasis. It reduces skin cell growth. It causes severebirth defectsand should not be used if you are planning to becomepregnant, are pregnant, orbreastfeeding. ...
Use of weight-promoting medications may contribute to postmenopausal abdominal weight gain in women, based on data from more than 76,000 individuals in the Women's Health Initiative. "Many of the medications prescribed to treat obesity-related comorbidities such ashypertension,type 2 diabetes, anddep...