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Scientific Advancements Create Legal Questions About Surrogacy, Parenthood, New York Times Opinion Piece States
New scientific advances in the field of assisted reproduction "could add a futuristic twist to an area where the law already is a mess: the question of who, in this age of artificial insemination and surrogacy, should be considered the legal parents of a baby," columnist Adam Cohen writes in the New York Times...
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The Importance Of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing Frequency In Assessing Biochemical And Clinical Failure After Prostate Cancer Treatment
UroToday.com - A research group under Dr. Eric Klein at the Cleveland Clinic evaluated how the frequency of PSA testing influences the determination that biochemical failure (bF) has occurred. In turn, those without a bF are less likely to undergo testing, such as a bone scan to find clinical failure (cF). The findings by Dr. Jay Ciezki and colleagues appear in the online version of Urology...
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The Relationship Between Age At Time Of Surgery And Risk Of Biochemical Failure After Radical Prostatectomy
UroToday.com - In the online edition of the British Journal of Urology International, a group from Columbia University Department of Urology report that older men undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer (CaP) do not have an increased risk of disease recurrence in the multivariate context that includes PSA level, Gleason score and clinical stage...
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Therapeutic Potential Of Adult Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells In Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis
UroToday.com - In the December 1, 2009 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, Dr. Diptiman Chandra and colleagues from the University of Alabama report on the use of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells to inhibit prostate cancer (CaP) metastasis in bone...
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Genetic Abnormalities Predict Prostate Cancer Survival
Researchers have discovered that the combination of three genetic abnormalities significantly impacts how long a prostate cancer patient is likely to survive with the disease, according to the latest edition of the British Journal of Cancer...
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Reduced Fertility Linked To Flame Retardant Exposure By Study
Women with higher blood levels of PBDEs, a type of flame retardant commonly found in household consumer products, took longer to become pregnant compared with women who have lower PBDE levels, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The study, to be published Jan...
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Targeted Oral Drug Pazopanib Slows Progression Of Advanced Kidney Cancer
A new study finds that the drug pazopanib (VOTRIENT) slows disease progression by 54 percent in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). This is the first publication of the full data used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the drug in October 2009 for the treatment of advanced RCC...
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IsoRay Announces It Has Provided Seeds To Canada For Research Initiatives To Expand The Use Of Cesium-131 For New Cancer Applications
IsoRay, Inc. (AMEX: ISR) announced today that it has successfully shipped the first set of Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds to a Canadian customer for the purpose of furthering research and development of Cesium-131 in Canada...
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Vaccine Approach Extends Life Of Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients
In a newly published clinical trial, patients with metastatic prostate cancer who received a vaccine of harmless poxviruses engineered to spur an immune system attack on prostate tumor cells lived substantially longer than patients who received a placebo vaccine, report researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and affiliated organizations...
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Re-appointments To The Advisory Board On The Registration Of Homeopathic Products
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Appointments Commission are pleased to announce the re-appointment of the Chair and one member to the Advisory Board on the Registration of Homeopathic Products (ABRHP). The ABRHP is an independent body that works closely with the MHRA, advising UK health ministers on the regulation of homeopathic products...
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Cancer Treatments Vary At County Vs. Private Hospitals
Researchers at Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and colleagues have found that prostate cancer treatments varied significantly between county hospitals and private providers. Patients treated in county hospitals are more likely to undergo surgery while patients treated in private facilities tend to receive radiation or hormone therapy...
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Higher Blood Vitamin D Levels Are Associated With Significantly Decreased Colon Cancer Risk In European Populations
Higher blood levels of vitamin D are associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer, according to a large, 1248-case study published today in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Participants with the highest levels of blood vitamin D concentration had a nearly 40% decrease in colorectal cancer risk compared to those with the lowest levels of vitamin D...
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Evolution Of Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy--how Have Open Surgeons Responded To The Challenge Of Minimally Invasive Surgery?
UroToday.com - Over the past seven to eight years there has been a proliferation of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques for the treatment of urologic malignancies. This is no better demonstrated than the radical prostatectomy procedure for patients with prostate cancer...
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Intelligence In Young Children Is Not Influenced By Omega 3 Fatty Acids
Infant intelligence is more likely to be shaped by family environment than by the amount of omega 3 fatty acids, called DHA, fed in breast milk or fortified formula, according to new research funded by the Medical Research Council and the Food Standards Agency...
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TOG Release: Shortage Of Sperm In UK Fertility Treatment
In a paper published in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG), Dr Allan Pacey, Senior Lecturer in Andrology at Sheffield University Medical School says that the sperm donation levels in the UK are so woefully low that clinics and women are resorting to other means to obtain donor sperm. A previous audit showed that 85% of applicants of sperm donation were rejected because of poor semen quality...
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Significant Risks Posed By Counterfeit Internet Drugs
Men who buy fake internet drugs for erection problems can face significant risks from potentially hazardous contents and bypassing healthcare systems could leave associated problems like diabetes and high blood pressure undiagnosed. That's the warning just published online by IJCP the International Journal of Clinical Practice...
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NERI Research Findings Show That Erectile Dysfunction May Be Early Warning Of Future Cardiovascular Disease
In the first study of its kind, New England Research Institutes, Inc...
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NexMed Updates On Canadian Aproval Process For Vitaros
NexMed, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEXM), a specialty CRO and a developer of products based on the NexACT® technology, announced today that it received a Notice of Non-Compliance ("Notice") as part of the review process from Health Canada for its New Drug Submission ("NDS") for the Vitaros erectile dysfunction treatment filed in February 2008...
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Med Students Say Conventional Medicine Would Benefit By Integrating Alternative Therapies
In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and found that three-quarters of them felt conventional Western medicine would benefit by integrating more CAM therapies and ideas...
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New Biological Models Of Homeopathy Published In Special Issues
The journal Homeopathy has published a two part special issue focusing on biological models of homeopathy. The special issue highlights experiments on homeopathic treatments in biological models, ranging from whole animals and plants to cell cultures and enzymes, showing a remarkable range of findings...
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