The case for increasing control of tobacco to save more lives was further strengthened by a recent US study that showed that smoking is linked to most male deaths from all forms of cancer, not just lung cancer, reinforcing suggestions made by other studies. The epidemiological study of [...]
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(University of Pennsylvania) Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by a team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The results have significant implications for the maintenance of male fertility in wildlife, livestock [...]
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how a whole class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs can block cancer growth. Their findings, reported online this week at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, suggest that a subgroup of cancer patients might particularly benefit [...]
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(Harvard University) Bioengineers at Harvard University have shown that small plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin can reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors. The research — which ridded 90 percent of mice of an aggressive form of melanoma that would usually kill the rodents within 25 days — [...]
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(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The proposed federal expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program should help improve disabled children’s access to services, but more needs to be done at the state level to meet their needs, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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In the third Comment which accompanies The Lancet Series on Trade and Health, former Thailand health minister Mongkol Na Songkhla looks back on his nation’s issuing of compulsory drug licences so that its poorest HIV sufferers could have access to vital antiretroviral drugs.
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(Brown University) Brown University researchers Stephen Helfand, Nicola Neretti and others have identified a cellular mechanism in mutated “Indy” fruit flies that appears to reduce significantly the production of free radicals, which are blamed for contributing to the aging process. The research builds on Helfand’s earlier work.
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(Society for the Study of Reproduction) In a paper posted on Biology of Reproduction: Papers in Press, researchers report that the reproductive life span of male mice is dramatically extended when they are housed with females.
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(University of Chicago Press Journals) Using high-speed photography and electromyography, scientists uncover the mechanics of a cobra “spit.”
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(Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation) The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced today that four young scientists with novel approaches to fighting cancer have won the 2009 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards. The prize of $450,000 over three years is awarded each year to three projects by early career scientists that have the potential to [...]
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