Spider Bites: While many spider bites might just appear to be the work of a mosquito, if you look close you may notice distinctive, red fang marks accompanied by redness, tenderness and shooting pain. That may mean you've encountered a black widow, the most common harmful spider in California.
The most significant cost increase occurred in treatment for people with melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer. The study found that the cost of treatment jumped 106 percent, rising from $2,320 annually to $4,789 annually.
He then gave the alarming example of a drug that would cost more than $1 million. The latest immunotherapy, pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp), was approved at the end of 2014 for use at a dose of 2 mg/kg for the treatment of melanoma. For this, it costs around $14,500 per month.HICAGO â One of the new immunotherapies would cost more than $1 million per patient per year at the higher dose currently being studied in many different cancer types, an expert has warned. This is unsustainable....