Health Blog
Category: Disease Management
Should you be taking a cholesterol-lowering statin?
Cholesterol used to be all about your number, but that’s changing. New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association could mean that you’ll leave your next doctor’s visit with a prescription for a cholesterol-lowering statin medication. To learn more about the new guidelines, we talked with George Rodgers, MD, FACC,... Read More
Pre-surgery drug may help women battle aggressive breast cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted fast track approval for the biologic, targeted cancer drug pertuzumab, known by the brand name PerjetaR, to treat HER2-positive breast cancer before surgery. The drug had previously been approved last year to treat late stage, HER2-positive breast cancer. Additional larger clinical trials to confirm the results... Read More