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Atherosclerosis – Tooth Loss Linked To Heart Disease
According to a new study published in the August issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, it is […]
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HPV vaccine may lose efficacy during ovulation
Specific anti-human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 antibodies induced by vaccination with HPV16 virus-like particles (VLP) decline during ovulation to...
T cell elevation linked with fatigue in breast cancer survivors
Nearly one third of breast cancer survivors will develop persistent fatigue of unknown origin. Now, new study findings suggest that […]
Coronary Artery Disease – MRI May Detect Heart Disease
German researchers have found that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used to examine blood flow through the heart (myocardial perfusion) can […]
Hepatitis B virus reactivation common during breast cancer chemotherapy
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation may complicate cytotoxic chemotherapy used in the treatment of breast cancer, according to a report […]
Tissue-engineered colon looks and acts like real intestine
Tissue-engineered colon (TEC) can be produced from neonatal syngeneic tissue, adult tissue, and TEC itself, and its architecture and physiology...
Study affirms safety of Oxaliplatin (Eloxatin) in advanced colorectal cancer
Results of a study confirm that heavily pretreated advanced colorectal cancer patients can safely receive oxaliplatin alone or in combination...
Heart Failure – Encouraging Phase II Results From GLP-1 Program
Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced encouraging results from a Phase 2 dose-titration study of drug candidate AC2592, which utilizes...
Ice Cream Takes a Calorie-Loaded and Artery-Clogging Licking
Summer and ice cream may go together like vanilla and chocolate, but a new report shows some frozen confections served […]
Minister jeered at S Africa AIDS meeting
Activists have jeered South Africa’s Health Minister at the opening of a national AIDS conference in Durban. Activists have jeered […]
Hospital SARS Outbreak Shows Masks Not Enough
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Early in the SARS outbreak, many of the Hong Kong hospital workers who developed the […]
China HIV couple weds
China’s official media has reported what is believed to be the first approved marriage between two HIV positive people. China’s […]
SARS could make an unwelcome return
SARS, the deadly pneumonia-like respiratory disease, could make an unwelcome return to Asia during the northern winter later this year, […]
S African lobby group meets ahead of AIDS meeting
A South African AIDS lobby group, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), will elect a new leadership at its national congress in […]
Supply of analgesics – Australian pain sufferers disadvantaged
A shortage in the supply of analgesics has lead to an Australia wide problem for the treatment of pain with […]
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