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Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs online pharmacy is adding the oral contraceptive Yaz from Bayer to its list of discounted medicines. studiostockart/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption studiostockart/Getty Images Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs online pharmacy is adding the oral contraceptive Yaz from Bayer to its list of discounted medicines. studiostockart/Getty Images Bayer is the latest name-brand drugmaker to dip its toe into the world of Mark Cuban’s online pharmacy, Cost Plus Drugs. The website offers drugs at steep discounts bypassing middlemen called pharmacy benefit managers. It mostly sells generics, but has been slowly adding brand name products as well.…
President Joe Biden‘s great-great grandfather got released from a southern island prison during the Civil War after an intervention by a sympathetic senator and a presidential pardon by Abraham Lincoln, newly uncovered records reveal.Moses J. Robinette, Biden’s relative on his father’s side, grew up in western Maryland and got hired by the Army as a veterinary surgeon in 1862 or 1863, despite lacking specific schooling in the trade, according to newly unearthed records from the National Archives, scholar David Gerleman wrote in the Washington Post. His qualifications for the role were ‘unstated,’ Gerleman wrote, but that was unexceptional during a time…
The online pharmacy of entrepreneur Mark Cuban is adding two brand new Bayer drugs to its disruptor model, which relies on a radical transparency compared to the rest of the industry.
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Each year in the UK there are more than 55,000 new cases, and the disease claims the lives of 11,500 women. In the US, it strikes 266,000 each year and kills 40,000. But what causes it and how can it be treated?What is breast cancer?It comes from a cancerous cell which develops in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts.When the breast cancer has spread into surrounding tissue it is called ‘invasive’. Some people are diagnosed with ‘carcinoma in situ’, where no cancer cells…
Dame Esther Rantzen has revealed her dream final supper after admitting she is considering assisted suicide.The Childline founder, 83, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer last year, and has since revealed she has joined the assisted-dying clinic Dignitas in Switzerland. She has now told how she would love to enjoy some caviar and drink champagne as a final meal.Dame Esther added that despite it making her feel sick in the past as she is allergic to champagne, she would love to consume both as there would be no worry over the consequences. She told LBC Radio on Monday: ‘I’d like to fly off…
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Each year in the UK there are more than 55,000 new cases, and the disease claims the lives of 11,500 women. In the US, it strikes 266,000 each year and kills 40,000. But what causes it and how can it be treated?What is breast cancer?It comes from a cancerous cell which develops in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts.When the breast cancer has spread into surrounding tissue it is called ‘invasive’. Some people are diagnosed with ‘carcinoma in situ’, where no cancer cells…
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Trisha Goddard has been inundated with support from fans since she revealed to the world that her incurable breast cancer has returned.The TV host, 66, disclosed that her cancer returned on Sunday and shared she is undergoing life-prolonging treatment as there is no cure.Trisha was first diagnosed with the disease in 2008 and now has secondary breast cancer – also known as metastatic or stage 4 breast cancer – after cells were found in her hip following a fall.Following her ‘heartbreaking’ admission, fans have flooded the TV personality with support on X, formerly known as Twitter, urging the star to ‘stay strong…
The King has encouraged Prince William to spend more time with his wife and young children – because he has ‘years and years of royal duties’ ahead, a royal expert has said.Speaking to HELLO!, author Ingrid Seward, who has just penned a book on the monarch’s upbringing – called My Mother and I – explained that Charles, 75, has likely urged his heir, 42, to focus on his duties as a father while he still has the chance to.‘Charles always put duty first because that’s what his mother did. And that’s what Diana decided she wouldn’t do,’ she told the…
For years, a cancer-preventing vaccine reached vulnerable teens at rates that exceeded the baseline. Since the pandemic, researchers have seen a worrying drop in coverage among Medicaid recipients.