are practice treats many patients with non hodgkin's leukemia a life-threatening but curable disease. cytarabine is a central component of treatment but that agent has been and remains intermittently in short supply. physicians have been forced to tell patients this potentially cure of drug is not immediately available. treatment delay can result in grave consequences in these critically ill patients. in other situations they're all of canada of drugs but waif more side effects or dramatically more expensive. standard treatment for non hodgkin's lymphoma is the top regimen which includes doxorubicin which is in shortage. a colleague shared the story of a young woman who was diagnosed with lymphoma during pregnancy. that is a situation that doesn't happen very often but involves potential risk for the mother and child. because of the shortage the woman had to be treated with a substitute for which the risk for the baby is not as well-known and may be less effective for her lymphoma. oncologist and patients should not have to make such difficult choices. i am treating a national firefig

>> fans of spartan cuss found out late last night that the series star had passed away from non-hodgkin'sears old and diagnosed 18 months ago. out pouring for fans about his death. his costar said he was a gentle man who never said a bad word about anyone. men wanted to be him and women wanted to marry him. how lucky he was to all of our lives. the costar said so sad he lost his fight. beautiful inspiring man. finally from the creator of spartan cuss, he said no words to express the death of such a loss. you will be missed depply, my brother. if you are wondering what's going on, they are filming season two with a different actor. >> on a lighter note. >> much lighter note. under the category of can't two good-looking people go to dinner and not call it a date? the answer is no when your name is breadly cooper and jennifer lopez. if are not familiar with this restaurant, let me bring you up to speed. the menu for two people costs about the equivalent of a month's rent in most parts of the country. >> j-lo is rich and it's probably her shoe allowance for the week. >> if only i can have tha

markets were 4000% for drugs that treat leukemia and hodgkin's lipoma.t helps cancer patients retain bone marrow. 45% were marked up a thousand% above the normal price and a quarter were marked up 2000%. where and how great market vendors are getting these medicines, no one knows. and how can the integrity of these drugs be ascertained? again become a question few know. premier's taken a position that pharmacy should avoid these vendors and stick to know if primary distributors. in times of shortage, pharmacies may need to look elsewhere and in these cases are developed to set of best practices. these practices include verifying custody, comparing licensure, verifying the sellers of the race to sell the product in confirming the settlers are fed a credit to wholesale distributor. interview the best way to stop price gouging is to fix the drug shortage crisis. we asked the committee and fda to consider the following. speed the approval process for medically necessary drugs that appear to be in shortage. encourage fda to engage stockholders and discussions

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the leukemia or hodgkin's disease in her life span might have increased 30 or 40 years.rt of the unpredictability of the buzz about the trajectory in the future is that we do not know the biological basis for the petro genevieve. we can all from for instance what makes pancreatic cancer or gallbladder cancer so different from the cml or the breast cancer. what is certain, however, that even the knowledge of cancer biology is unlikely to eradicate cancer fully from our lives. as richard suggests and as the tulsa epitomizes we might as well focus on prolonging life so that eliminating def. the war on cancer may not be won by redefining victory. so that is a second passage. how are we doing for chaim? is there time for one last passage or should we wrap up here? we will read the last passage in the book is a very short passage and i think it is the final summary of the book. this passage was probably the hardest for me to write and in fact goes back to the question john talked about why i have written this book and was written as an answer to a question that a woman had rai

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the standard treatment for non hodgkin's lymphoma known as the chop their paper in a colleague share of the story of a young woman diagnosed with lymphoma during pregnancy. that is a complex situation which does not happen very often. it involves the potential risk for the mother and child. the woman had to be treated with a substitute, one for which the risk to the baby is not as well-known and may be less effective treatment for her leg,. oncologist and patients should not have to make such difficult choices. i am currently tree in national firefighter who was responding b therapy. the price of such drugs can be up to 100 times more expensive than the drug normally chosen especially if the subject is a brand name drug. when the mainstay generic drug lucovorin went short, physicians had to treat with an alternative. one does is approximately $90. we're threatened by drug shortages because of a drug the course of the study becomes unavailable. we understand there are many causes of this problem and a number of them involve the manufacturing process. market factors appeared to be a ke