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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Cell Signaling Technology, Harvard Medical School and Merrimack Pharmaceuticals collaborated on the MM-121 research. Researchers looked at MM-121 in combination with Erbitux to study efficacy in preclinical cancer models resistant to other targeted therapies. (PRWeb Mar 16, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3733734.htm
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While inhaled corticosteroids like Flovent or Pulmicort are generally the first treatment recommended when your rescue inhaler does not sufficiently control your asthma symptoms, not everyone responds. Certain groups and risk factors increase your risk for not responding to inhaled steroids. Learn More
Hirsutism (from the Latin "hirsutus" meaning shaggy, hairy) is a condition of unwanted, male-pattern hair growth in women. It is excessive hairiness on female humans. It may arise from excess male hormones called androgens, the major hormone being testosterone, or it may be due to an ethnic or family trait. The amount of body hair is largely determined by genetic makeup...
An Indiana University School of Medicine study provides a better understanding of why sexually experienced girls resume sexual activity after periods of abstinence, information key to dealing with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancy in high school girls and beyond...
In an article published in the March 2010 Archives of Dermatology, researchers report that in the United States, melanoma treatment in late stages of the disease is of significant cost in the population 65 years and older. The incidence of melanoma has risen dramatically over the years, and older white men have the highest rate of mortality...
The emergence of multiple new brain imaging technologies and the combined application of these new approaches is helping to create new insights into aging and Alzheimer's disease. One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the deposition of amyloid beta protein in clumps or "plaques" within the brain...
UroToday.com - For years, bladder pain syndrome series have reported apparently high numbers of BPS patients with a history of hysterectomy and other pelvic surgeries. No study has compared cases with controls prior to onset of BPS symptoms...
GE Healthcare introduced MARS® Virtual Sleep Lab (VSL), the first device to provide a streamlined view of quantitative cardiac and sleep apnea analysis from any GE-monitored inpatient bed, helping enhance speed of diagnosis. MARS VSL is being featured at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 59th Annual Scientific Session, held March 14 to 16 in Atlanta...
A vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer also may protect females from post-surgical recurrence of the disease, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)...
Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse could be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research published by Elsevier in Biological Psychiatry. It's an easy fact to forget - the aging process begins at birth...
Although the recently released "Hotshot" condom in Switzerland "has already launched a thousand jokes," the condom designed specifically for sexually active boys ages 12 to 14 "could become part of the sex-education toolbox," Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes...
NPR's "All Things Considered" on Friday examined a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis showing that roughly 16% of U.S. residents ages 14 through 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the nation's most common sexually transmitted infections...