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Newly approved cancer drug targets aggressive form of ‘deadly disease’

Newly approved cancer drug targets aggressive form of ‘deadly disease’A new drug regimen for certain types of pancreatic cancer recently received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — the first new medication in nearly a decade.Onivyde (irinotecan liposome), an injectable medication made by Ipsen, has been approved for use along with oxaliplatin, fluorouracil and leucovorin as a regimen for patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma (mPDAC).This type of cancer is an aggressive malignancy with an average life expectancy of between eight and 11 months, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MARCH 6, 2019, ALEX TREBEK SHARES CANCER DIAGNOSIS WITH THE WORLDThe approval was based on a randomized, controlled trial that included 770 patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who had not previously received chemotherapy, according to an FDA press release.The group of patients who received the new regimen via IV infusion showed “significant…


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Katie Britt’s Strange Speech

Katie Britt’s Strange SpeechYou might not have known it from Katie Britt’s State of the Union rebuttal last night—a performance derided by members of her own party as “bizarre” and “confusing”—but up until then, Britt had distinguished herself in the Senate with a reputation for being startlingly, well, normal.As in, she wasn’t obsessed with Twitter (or X, as it’s now called). She evinced more than a passing interest in policy. For her, conservatism seemed to mean things other than simply “supporting Trump.”It was just five days ago that Newt Gingrich was imagining the possibilities for Britt’s future, framing the freshman senator from Alabama’s coming rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address as her “big audition.” “It will be interesting to see if Britt rises to the occasion,” the former House speaker had mused to a New York talk-radio host. “If she does, it will be a major…


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There’s Actually a Good Reason Nikki Haley Hasn’t Dropped Out Yet

There’s Actually a Good Reason Nikki Haley Hasn’t Dropped Out YetNikki Haley’s presidential campaign started as an excellent adventure, but it now appears to many Republicans to be a bogus journey. Why is she still in the race after six consecutive stinging defeats? I have a theory: The answer might be buried in the Republican National Committee’s rules and their potential effect on her voice at the July convention. Haley will arrive in Milwaukee in possession of a cache of delegates — how many is unclear; at the moment, she has 20. The rules don’t simply give power to a candidate based on the number of delegates they possess. Candidates cannot have their names placed into nomination, and thereby get television airtime at the convention, unless they have a plurality of delegates in at least five states. That threshold makes a big difference for Haley in terms of her clout…


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The Supreme Court Is Shaming Itself

The Supreme Court Is Shaming ItselfDonald Trump is determined to avoid accountability before the general election, and, so far, the U.S. Supreme Court is helping him.Trump has no legal ground whatsoever to delay a ruling in his plea for presidential immunity. The reason Trump has nevertheless sought to slow down the immunity appeals process is obvious: to postpone the trial date, hopefully pushing it into a time when, as president, he would control the Department of Justice and thus could squash the prosecution altogether. The Supreme Court has shamed itself by being a party to this, when the sole issue before the Court is presidential immunity. By contrast, Special Counsel Jack Smith has both law and policy on his side in seeking a prompt determination on immunity and a speedy trial soon thereafter. Yet the Court has ignored all that.[David A. Graham: The cases against Trump–a guide]The Supreme Court’s lollygagging…


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Why Biden’s Pro-worker Stance Isn’t Working

Why Biden’s Pro-worker Stance Isn’t WorkingJoe Biden courted the leaders of the Teamsters this week, looking for the endorsement of the 1.3-million-member union. He will probably get it. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, calls him “the most pro-union president in history.” He’s already won the endorsement of many of the country’s most important unions, including the United Auto Workers, the AFSCME public employees’ union, the Service Employees International Union, and the main umbrella organization, the AFL-CIO.Biden’s real concern in November, though, isn’t getting the support of union leaders; it’s winning the support of union members. Labor’s rank and file were a valuable part of his winning coalition in 2020, when, according to AP VoteCast, he got 56 percent of the union vote. Today, things on this front are looking a little shakier, particularly in key electoral battlegrounds. A New York Times/Siena survey of swing states late…


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Supreme Court throws a curve ball in hearing on legality of abortion pills

Supreme Court throws a curve ball in hearing on legality of abortion pillsThe pro-choice movement had every reason to be nervous about the Supreme Court hearing.After all, this was the same high court that overturned 50 years of precedent by overturning Roe, and by a 6-3 conservative majority.Now, two years later, the same court was getting a crack at an increasingly popular form of medical abortions with the pill called mifepristone.HOW THE MEDIA DOWNPLAYED TRUMP’S MAJOR VICTORY ON THE MASSIVE BOND BUT PLAYED UP HIS NEW YORK TRIAL DATEWho could stop the justices if they decided to ban these pills, which are especially important in states where abortion has been banned or severely restricted?With a single ruling, the court could tip the scales in favor of the pro-life movement by cutting off this lifeline for millions of women.But it didn’t turn out that way.Based on the audio of Tuesday’s oral…


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