Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation

"The FDA indicated that either a positive interim or final analysis of survival...would address their request for the submission of additional clinical data in support of our efficacy claim"

Don't count Dendreon out just yet. The young biotech firm, which has weathered a roller-coaster ride since its prostate cancer drug, Provenge, was recommended by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel- ... via Forbes.com

"However, this underscores the interrelatedness of the global community. We can no longer escape things considered foreign"

SARS on a plane. Mumps on a plane. And now a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis, on at least two planes. Commercial air travel's potential for spreading infection continues to cause handwringing among public health officials, as news of a jet-setting man with a rare and deadly form of TB demonstrates.

'We always think of planes as a vehicle for spreading disease,' said Dr. Doug Hardy, an infectious disease specialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

In the latest case, a Georgia man with extensively drug-resistant TB ignored doctors' advice and took two trans-Atlantic flights, leading to the first U.S. government-ordered quarantine since 1963. Read more

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