Cancer Doctors Protest 'Astronomical' Drug Costs

With some new, potentially lifesaving cancer drugs costing up to $138,000 a year, about 120 leading cancer specialists have joined forces in an unusual protest aimed at getting pharmaceutical companies to cut prices.   Charging high prices for drugs cancer patients need to survive is like “profiteering” from a natural disaster by jacking up prices for food and other necessities, leading cancer doctors and researchers from around the world contend in a new paper published in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology.

Of 12 new cancer drugs that received FDA approval last year, 11 of them cost in excess of $100,000 a year—prices that the specialists attack as “astronomical,” “unsustainable,” and maybe even immoral. What’s more, only three of these drugs were found to improve patient survival rates and of these, two only increased it by less than two months, according to the Washington Post.  “Advocating for lower drug prices is a necessity to save the lives of patients,” say the specialists who wrote the paper, who specialize in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), but emphasize that sky-high drug costs affect patients with many types of cancer.  extract from Yahoo.com

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More than 65% parents feed their children in Wrong way

TT - This information is reported at the conference "Baby learning to eat" in april 20 in HCM by Viet Nam Dietetic Association in collaboration with Abbott.

Dr. Tu Ngu - general secretary Viet Nam Dietetic Association, surveyed 3,000 parents, more than 65% of parents not feeding properly.

Specifically, 13% of parents have no time to feed their child and they ask their parent's support, 14% of parents force children to eat all the food though crying child refuses to eat, 23% of parents have turned on TV or used toy while feeding ...

Feeding has influenced the development of physical, mental. It forms a good habit of not eating in children.

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