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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new rules for hospitals that would protect patients’ rights to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including visitors who are same-sex domestic partners. The new proposed rules implement an April 15, 2010, Presidential memorandum, in which the President tasked HHS with developing proposed standards [...]

Made popular for its ability to smooth wrinkles when injected into the face, Botox – a toxin known to weaken or paralyze certain nerves and muscles – may have another use that goes beyond the cosmetic. Johns Hopkins researchers have found that patients with a painful and debilitating nerve compression disorder called thoracic outlet syndrome [...]

An extremely promising experimental drug, called crizotinib for lung cancer patients with a specific gene has shrunk tumors in 90% of patients in a clinical study within two months, researchers from Pfizer. Inc. said. With expectations of just a 10% response rate to this new medication – which would have been good news anyway – [...]

An extract of green tea appears to have clinical activity with low toxicity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients who used it in a phase II clinical trial, say researchers at Mayo Clinic. The findings, to be presented Monday, June 7, during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), are the [...]