The federal government plans to give the exclusive license for a new liver cancer drug to a pharmaceutical company owned by Chinaâs 63rd-richest man, HuffPost has learned. The National Institutes of Health proposes to grant Salubris Biotherapeutics, Inc. exclusive worldwide rights to a portfolio of patents on antibody drugs used to treat liver cancer, according to a notice published Monday on the Federal Register.
Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness and is critical to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4:2 to reduce child mortality.revalence of vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a lack of vitamin A in humans. It is common in poorer countries but rarely seen in more developed countries. Nyctalopia (night blindness) is one of the first signs of VAD.
A cause is found in approximately 80 percent of elderly patients. The most common causes of anemia in the elderly are chronic disease and iron deficiency. Vitamin B 12 deficiency, folate deficiency, gastrointestinal bleeding and myelodysplastic syndrome are among other causes of anemia in the elderly.Serum ferritin is the most useful test to differentiate iron deficiency anemia from anemia of chronic disease.hile studies suggest that vitamin B 12 (cobalamin) deficiency is the cause of anemia in 5 to 10 percent of elderly patients, the actual prevalence of vitamin B 12 deficiency is likely to be much higher in the elderly. 4, 23 Vitamin B 12 deficiency is difficult to detect in the elderly.