Methotrexate (drug)

How are your microbes doing today? Yes, your personalized, bazillion little bacteria working their magic in your stomach and intestines and -- if you're to believe many recent reports -- may be causing you problems with auto-immune issues. What's an...

When Graham Crawford was 11, he was a bit overweight and had to battle psoriasis, a skin disease that left red scaly patches on his nose and fingers. His skin cleared up after he started using ointment designed to fight psoriasis. But when he stopped...

The girl and the firefighter lived in the same part of town, the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the Far Southwest Side of Chicago, a neighborhood of cops, firefighters and city workers. The Mayoskis live there. And so do the Beazleys, and although there...

A host of prescription drugs have been in low supply around the United States for some time, but doctors have been warning about a particularly acute shortage of a set of life-saving cancer drugs. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that...

It's not enough that we simply have to worry about the fat that's increasingly growing around our bellies. Americans should also be concerned about the fat that they can't see: the stuff that's filling up their livers, more commonly known as Nonalcoholic...

There's a problem with little Tyler tonight, and Mommy is just about beside herself. Tyler just turned 4. He has leukemia — but this has nothing to do with that. Tyler is extroverted and lovey-dovey, a world-class hugger, a chatterbox. And until...

8 year old Ian Lemus loves to read. He's feeling better because of the cancer drug Methotrexate. Last March he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The drug made his hair fall out--but it's kept him alive and is near the end of his...

The Food and Drug Administration has moved to increase the supplies of two needed cancer-treatment drugs and on Tuesday issued a draft guidance on how to cope with the problem of drug shortages. The federal agency announced that it will temporarily allow...

The last few weeks media have been full of stories about a severe shortage of a chemotherapy drug -- preservative-free methotrexate -- used to treat childhood leukemia. Does that hold true locally in Hampton Roads? Calls to local health systems found...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal regulators said Tuesday that they've approved new suppliers for two crucial cancer drugs, easing critical shortages — at least for the time being — that have left patients and parents frightened about missing...

It's a drug used to treat cancer and keep it in remission but across the nation supplies of the injectable form of Methotrexate are dwindling. That has at least one family from Grand Rapids worried about trying to keep their five year old son healthy and...

The shortage of the cancer drug Methotrexate has many of you asking the question: "How could this ever be allowed to happen?"   The American Cancer Society is concerned too. "If it affects patient care and patient health, then American Cancer Society...