| OSI's anti-cancer drug Tarceva launches in Japan next week
The anti-cancer drug Tarceva will be launched and covered under Japan's National Health Insurance starting Tuesday, the Melville-based drug maker OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced Friday. The drug is now available in 83 countries, including the United States and European Union.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved Tarceva in October for patients with some forms of lung cancer where chemotherapy has failed. "We are pleased that lung cancer patients in Japan will now have access to Tarceva, which has been proven to offer a survival benefit with a well-described side-effect profile," said Gabriel Leung, president for oncology at OSI.
OSI manufactures and distributes Tarceva through partnerships with Genentech and Roche. The drug will be marketed in Japan by Roche affiliate Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
Some question Steenland's role if Delta and NWA merge
Doug Steenland led Northwest Airlines through wrenching changes including a strike and bankruptcy, some of the toughest years in the airline's 82-year history. That may be one reason his role in a joined Delta and Northwest has been reported as a hang-up in talks between the two airlines. To understand why, go back to Oct. 1, 2004. Northwest CEO Richard Anderson had been pressuring workers for pay cuts during the airline downturn that began after Sept. 11, 2001. But on Oct. 1, Anderson left Northwest to take an executive job at UnitedHealth Group, bailing out of a struggling airline for a health insurance giant and Wall Street darling. He later got the CEO's job at Delta Air Lines Inc. Steenland, meanwhile, had taken Anderson's old job as Northwest CEO.
Perry Brown: Sali's vote shows lack of compassion for uninsured ...
Congress recently once again failed to stand up for children. On Jan. 23, U.S. Rep. Bill Sali joined with 151 other U.S. representatives to uphold President Bush's veto of legislation that would have provided health care coverage for millions of children across the United States, including 12,479 children in our own state (2005 census), who have no health insurance at all. For these million-plus families across the United States, the new year doesn't bring new opportunities. For them, 2008 is beginning to look a lot like 2007. Sali's vote to uphold the veto, means these families - our neighbors, our children's friends - will continue to hope daily that their children won't become ill or get injured, and that even a minor illness won't spiral their family into financial disaster.Just today, I cared for an uninsured child whose family could not afford asthma medications that cost $100 per month; as a result of not having these medications, the child is now hospitalized, at the cost of several thousand dollars.
SPORTS TRIBUNE
On the whole, it has been a typically dismal year for India so far. The team lost 1-3 to Pakistan in a six-match home-and-away Test series. The then coach Rajinder tried a new-look forward line, including Didar Singh, Rajpal Singh, Tushar Khandekar and Arjun Halappa, but the strikers rarely delivered when it mattered the most. The Commonwealth Games in Melbourne saw the Indians finishing a poor sixth. This flop show precipitated Rajinders sack, even though he claimed later that he had himself stepped down. History repeated itself farcically as yet another Indian hockey coach left on a bitter note, lambasting the powers that be for the sorry state of affairs. Bhaskaran has been in the hot seat before. He was the coach when India won the Azlan Shah Cup in 1995. This time, the team can at best finish fourth or fifth.
For Jerry, comedy still the bee's knees
Your 50s is probably the best you'll ever be, because you still have a little youthful energy and you're smarter," he said. "You just get smarter as you get older, and then the 60s, there'll be the physical decline." Not that his visage, etched on our memories from an era of television has aged. "I'm feeling it," he said, smiling. "I may not look it but I'm feeling it." .
Clinton camp accuses Obama of plagiarizing lines
He added that he and Patrick agreed not only on many issues but on the language to describe them. "Sen. Obama and I are longtime friends and allies. We often share ideas about politics, policy and language," Patrick said in a statement. "The argument in question, on the value of words in the public square, is one about which he and I have spoken frequently before. Given the recent attacks from Sen. Clinton, I applaud him responding in just the way he did." Obama said Patrick was aware of his use of the governor's verbiage. "I was on the stump. He had suggested that we use these lines, and I thought they were good lines," Obama told reporters Monday on a trip to Ohio before returning to Wisconsin. Further, Obama added, the senator from New York has borrowed from him also, including a couple of his signature phrases.
BEIJING, Jan. 18 -- American actress Kate Bosworth admits that her ...
Now, in an interview with fashion magazine Vogue, she admits that she was heartbroken at the time, and that she regrets that their relationship was too intense for both. "Orlando and I met when we were kids. 'Blue Crush' hadn't come out. 'Lord of the Rings' hadn't come out. ... He was the first big heartbreak. ... First love: You feel like it's the be-all and end-all. ... To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important. I regret that it was too intense for both of us," The New York Post quoted her, as saying. However, the 25-year-old actress still manages to be friends with Bloom and is quite proud of the bond she shares with him now. "The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on.
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