Companies refuse to deliver drugs as hospital debts soar

Reevaluating substantive due process as a source of protection for psychiatric patients to refuse drugs.

My medical regimen during my hospital stays usually didn't consist of much more than doses of drugs—usually Thorazine. When I took the prescribed amount, I was usually out of Bellevue in three or four days. But I hated the effect of the drug. It was like putting my head in a vise; it cut off the free flow of ideas; it stifled imagination; it literally killed inspiration.

Cells designed to deliver anticancer drugs by apoptosis.

We describe a new drug delivery strategy that uses genetically engineered endothelial cells (ECs) to deliver drugs to tumor cells by apoptosis. Immortalized ECs were genetically engineered to express a flk-1:fas fusion protein. When exposed to the flk-1 ligand, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which is overexpressed by many tumors, these cells underwent extensive apoptosis. These apop...

An Introduction to Soar as an Agent Architecture

Seeking value as cancer drug costs soar.

As significant increases in the costs of cancer drugs cause financial difficulties for many U.S. patients, some oncologists suggest that changes in pricing policies at the federal and state levels are inevitable.

Proposed Changes in Medicare Hospital Payments Would Affect Pharmacy and Beyond: Drug Companies Push to Rein in 340B Discount Drugs.

Drug companies push to rein in 340B discount drugs.