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The 31-year-old Erik Compton, who has had two heart transplants, earned a chance to play in the AT&T; National this week on the PGA Tour. “It means the world,” he said.
Erik Compton’s first transplanted heart, installed when he was 12, failed in 2008, and he had another transplant; he jokes now that “everybody knows I’m the guy with two hearts.”
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Breast Cancer Patients Plead for Avastin Approval
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With breast cancer patients imploring the Food and Drug Administration to change course, the agency’s staff argued that the drug Avastin should lose its approval as a treatment for that disease.
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In an extraordinary move, specialists repudiated other experts’ research that had backed a Medtronic product.
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Stereotyping Patients, and Their Ailments
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While it seems to make sense, research shows that exercising in this way doesn’t offer any benefit and may even work against you.
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Medicare Will Continue to Cover 2 Expensive Cancer Drugs
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A three-year program designed to get people into treatment turned up many adults who were unaware that they were infected.
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