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First Ten-Year Follow-Up Shows That Treatment With AVONEX® Leads To Long-Term Benefits In Early Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced data results from the CHAMPIONS (Controlled High-Risk AVONEX® (interferon beta-1a) Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Prevention Study In Ongoing Neurologic Surveillance) study, an open label follow-up to CHAMPS (Controlled High Risk Subjects AVONEX MS Prevention Study). Based on the CHAMPS study, AVONEX was granted approval for use in patients who experienced their first clinical MS episode with MRI findings. The CHAMPIONS ten-year follow up showed that patients treated immediately after their first episode had significantly less chance of experiencing a second attack versus those patients with delayed treatment. These results at ten years also indicate that 80 percent of patients taking AVONEX were below an expanded disability status scale (EDSS) score of three. These data were presented as a poster at the Annual American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting.
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Brain Molecule Reduces Food Intake
Researchers at Imperial College London have identified a new appetite suppressant for promoting weight loss that they say works in rodents and may one day be used to develop an effective anti-obesity treatment. Results of the new study were presented at The Endocrine Society"s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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NYC Law Makes It Easier To Press Charges Against Antiabortion Protesters Outside Clinics
A New York City law that will go into effect in July could make it easier for antiabortion-rights protesters to be arrested for restricting access to abortion clinics or harassing people trying to enter the facilities, the New York Times reports. Current law allows authorities to make arrests only if the person directly affected, such as a woman entering a clinic, is willing to press charges. However, the new law would allow third parties, such as clinic workers, to press charges if they witnessed the activity, the Times reports. New York City"s Dr. Emily"s Women"s Health Center and NARAL Pro-Choice New York spearheaded efforts to pass the legislation in response to antiabortion-rights demonstrators who target women on their way to clinics and attempt to persuade them to carry their pregnancies to term. Clinic workers report that the protesters also have harassed women as they left the subway or surrounded them as they walked to the clinic. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed the law in April. Joan Malin, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said the group is "not against people demonstrating. But there is a line between freedom of speech and harassment and bullying" (Bosman, New York Times, 6/6).
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Health Activists Protest The Absence Of Single Payer To Foment Baucus And The Senate's Silence

On May 13, health care professionals and health care activists gathered on Capitol Hill to demonstrate their support for Senator John Conyer"s HR 676. The chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus, is one of the largest recipients of support from private insurance companies. At the Kaiser Family Foundation, Baucus reiterated that all options for health care reform are still on the table - save for single-payer. ""We are going to come up with a uniquely American solution, which is also going to be public and private," Baucus said to the press. "Not too far one side, and not too far the other." Everything is on the table, everything. All proposals, all ideas that groups may have are on the table and we"re going to discuss them." When confronted about the absence by single-payer on the discussion, he stuttered before saying, "it"s the only thing that is not [on the table] because it cannot pass. It just cannot pass. I don"t know if there are two or three members of Congress that can honestly say that it will pass." There are currently 77 cosponsors of Representative John Conyer"s HR 676, a bill that proposes national health insurance for all Americans. "We cannot squander this opportunity, can"t waste capital on something that is impossible," Baucus said of dismissing single payer from the Senate Finance schedule. On January 28, 2009, the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee presented the findings of a new study to Congressional workers, "Single Payer/Medicare for All: An Economic Stimulus Plan for the Nation." The study demonstrated that a "comprehensive Medicare-based Single Payer system can make significant contributions to access of quality care for all US residents," but it would also create 2.6 million new jobs, generate $317 billion in business and public revenue, and add another $100 billion to wages. Adding all Americans to a Medicare-based system would only cost an additional $63 billion dollars, half the government bailout for AIG. Russell Mokhiber, from SinglePayerAction.org, was one of the six people arrested in early May for speaking out at the Senate Finance hearing on health care reform. "The only thing that is going to work is," Mokhiber suggested to TRNN, "...[is if everyone] has a Medicare card when they are born and they can go to any doctor, any hospital, no bills, no co-pays, no deductibles, no private insurance companies, and it will relieve a lot of stress on the system and it will get rid of this business of more than half of bankruptcies being triggered by medical bills and no longer we will have 20,000 Americans a year die from lack of health insurance." The Real News Network


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