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Adding Radiation Therapy To Chemotherapy Improves Survival In Patients With High-risk Breast Cancer
...otherapy after radical mastectomy in premenopausal women with lymph node–positive breast cancer. Between 1979 and 1986, 318 patients were randomly assigned to receive no radiation therapy or to receive radiation. A 15-year follow-up found that radiation therapy was associated with improved breast cancer su...Novel Asthma Study Shows Multiple Genetic Input Required; Single-gene Solution Shot Down
...otherapy after radical mastectomy in premenopausal women with lymph node–positive breast cancer. Between 1979 and 1986, 318 patients were randomly assigned to receive no radiation therapy or to receive radiation. A 15-year follow-up found that radiation therapy was associated with improved breast cancer su...Deficient DNA Repair Capacity Associated With Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer
...risk of breast cancer was three times higher among women with the poorest DNA repair capacity compared with those with the highest. "[T]hese data support the hypothesis that deficient DNA repair capacity is associated with susceptibility to breast cancer and may be a valuable in vitro biomarker to identif...Topical treatment shown to inhibit HIV and herpes simplex virus infection
... million people worldwide are living with HIV, and women account for nearly half of those infected. As stat...nd, placebo-controlled study among 20 HIV-infected women to assess the antiviral activity of PRO 2000 in cervicovaginal lavage (CVL) fluid collected before a...Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections
...teria to reach their bladder. Fifty percent of all women will experience at least one episode of UTIs during their lifetime. UTIs are typically treated with antibiotics. The researchers found that the E.coli causing the UTIs matched genetically with a sample of E.coli obtained from an animal source. They ...Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue
...nes. This is why doctors encourage post-menopausal women to take calcium supplements, so that the body doesn't raid their bones for the calcium it needs. The process works both ways, fortunately, as another set of cells, called osteoblasts, rebuilds the bone when the body has excess calcium. In an average ...Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases
...ays, is that if future studies can figure out that women too, like mice, are protected in primary exposure ...xually active adults is seropositive for HSV-2 and women are much more susceptible than men. "The results directly indicate that the hormonal conditions tha...BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route
...arian cancer is associated with ovulation, in that women who have regular menstrual cycles through their li...this finding so exciting." Dubeau points out that women with BRCA1 mutations are also predisposed to cancers of the fallopian tubes, and that the mice with ...Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects
...mly held belief was that God was punishing men and women for their sins. A more recent, scientific theory has been the "safety-in-numbers" idea -- that the small animals congregate periodically as a way of protecting themselves from predators such as birds and rodents. Now, a trio of insect experts has de...Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects
...mly held belief was that God was punishing men and women for their sins. A more recent, scientific theory has been the "safety-in-numbers" idea -- that the small animals congregate periodically as a way of protecting themselves from predators such as birds and rodents. Now, a trio of insect experts has de...Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage
...f cirrhosis since 1970 and a threefold increase in women of thesame age group. Liver failure is also rapidl...eople with the deaths in the UK of 500 men and 300 women aged 25-44,in 2003."Professor John Iredale of the University of Southampton said: "We arefacing a hu...New Breast Cancer Test Could Save Lives
...ge. If successful, this test will be effective for women of all ages; given that breast cancer is the largest killer of women between the ages of 35-55 in Europe, the test could have a dramatic effect on the number of deaths f...International trial of two microbicides begins
...de. "The majority of new cases of HIV infection in women result from heterosexual intercourse, but women may not always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission,"...MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs
...de. "The majority of new cases of HIV infection in women result from heterosexual intercourse, but women may not always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission,"...UF Researchers Map Bacterial Proteins That Cause Tooth Loss
... with diabetes. If that’s not bad enough, pregnant women with periodontal disease are seven times more likely to deliver low-birth-weight, preterm babies. Proteins are important to study because they are the foundation of the cellular structure of every living organism, Lamont said. They carry on the day-t...Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive
...itutes of Health. Previous studies had shown that women who use DMPA, marketed under the brand name Depo-P...the time they are using the contraceptive. Because women are developing a large amount of their bone mass from ages 15 to 19, researchers were concerned that...Breast-Cancer Risk Linked to Exposure to Traffic Emissions at Menarche, First Birth
...y increase the risk of developing breast cancer in women who are lifetime nonsmokers, a study by epidemiolo...uffalo has found. Their study was conducted among women who lived in Erie and Niagara counties of New York State between 1996 and 2001. They found that high...Variation in women's X chromosomes may explain differences among individuals, between sexes
...ve survey of gene activity in the X chromosomes of women has revealed an unexpected level of variation amon... for understanding the differences in traits among women and between males and females, in terms of both health and disease, said Huntington Willard, Ph.D., ...PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage
...h as administering synthetic narcotics to pregnant women following surgical procedures performed on fetuses in utero. "Following such surgeries, which are becoming more common to correct congenital malformations, the mother is treated with narcotics for pain--and anesthesiologists are relying on the mother...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
.... The volunteers were men who have sex with men or women at high risk for heterosexual transmission. The vaccine and placebo were given by injection seven times over 30 months and the participants were assessed for risk. At each visit the participants were tested for HIV infection, and for those who were p...Viral protein influences key cell-signaling pathway
...ty, by contact with infected blood and by infected women to children through breast milk. HTLV-1, like its cousin HIV, inserts its genetic information permanently into the DNA of a T lymphocyte and remains there for the life of the cell. HTLV-1 infection is also lifelong. A hallmark of HTLV-1 infection is...Increased risk of osteoporosis associated with gene that one in five people have
...hool of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrated that in women the variant gene speeds up the breakdown of estrog... of the CYP1A1 gene." The researchers studied 156 women with an average age of 63.5 years who were at least one year past menopause. They analyzed the genet...Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive
...e love responses in the brains of 17 young men and women who each described themselves as being newly and m...yourself or the other person. But rejected men and women in societies around the world sometimes kill themselves or someone else. In fact, studies indicate t...Harmful chemicals may reprogram gene response to estrogen
...ine tumors. DES is a drug that was prescribed for women from 1938 to 1971 to prevent miscarriages and premature deliveries. Daughters of women who used DES are at increased risk for reproductive tract abnormalities, pregnancy complications suc...First frozen egg baby born in Canada
...or a number of reasons. "The process enables young women diagnosed with cancer to preserve their fertility ...rozen at the MUHC. "Egg freezing also allows young women who wish to delay childbearing to do so safely," notes Dr. Tan. After 30 years of age, a woman's fer...Technique may allow cancer patients to freeze eggs, preserving fertility before starting treatment
A new technique might allow women diagnosed with cancer the opportunity to have chil... leave her unable to have children afterward. Some women may regain their reproductive function after their treatment ends and may be able to conceive on the...Canada approves marijuana-based pain spray
...s in Canada. Approximately 50,000 Canadian men and women have the disease and each day approximately three more people are diagnosed. MS is most often diagnosed in people between the ages of 20 to 40 years of age. ...Nanoparticle Breast Cancer Drug Approved by FDA
...metastatic breast cancer. "The approval means that women with metastatic breast cancer no longer need to endure the toxicities associated with solvents and will no longer need steroid premedication when they receive this albumin-bound form of paclitaxel," said principal clinical study investigator William ...The evolutionary triumph of flower power
...s basket and a large decorative candle. Of the 147 women tested, all those who received flowers responded w... study, florists delivered bouquets to 113 men and women in a retirement community ?an environment in which memory is often a personal concern. All 113 got f......and called for a prevention of the exploitation of women and adequate protection for human life in the application of life sciences. The Declaration has been welcomed by many as a clear expression of the ethical norms that should guide scientific research. South Africa abstained because it believes therap...Friendly bacteria in humans may protect against HIV
...can protect infants against HIV in breast milk and women against HIV upon sexual contact unobtrusively and ...ecause the beneficiary populations are infants and women in poor countries," says Tao. He is currently seeking sponsorship from charities or philanthropists ...Study reveals dramatic difference between breast cancers in US and Africa
... Nigeria, Senegal and North America has found that women of African ancestry are more likely to be diagnosed with a more virulent form of the disease than women of European ancestry. Researchers from the University of Chicago, working with colleagues at the Un......ng and death due to cancer.?/p> A total of 722 women with recurrent or metastatic breast cancer who had...tive in this setting.?/p> An estimated 211,240 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States in 2005. Breast cancer is the most commonl...Research shows smoking adds a decade to reproductive age of IVF patients
...ing or being overweight were strongest among those women who had no obvious cause for not conceiving, accor... is that they suggest that couples ?in particular, women with unexplained subfertility ?may be able to improve the success of IVF treatment by quitting smoki...Single-donor Islet Transplantation Procedure Shows Promise For Patients With Type 1 Diabetes
...d from July 2001 to August 2003 and enrolled eight women with type 1 diabetes. During the trial there were no serious, unexpected, or procedure- or immunosuppression-related adverse events. All eight recipients achieved insulin independence and freedom from hypoglycemia. Five remained insulin-independent ...Human Eggs Can Develop From Ovarian Surface Cells In Vitro
...lity to develop human eggs from OSE cells may help women with reduced fertility and premature menopause, who lack follicles in their ovaries, to have a better chance of conceiving through in vitro fertilization. Eventually, frozen OSE cells from younger females may be preserved for later production of fres...Alcohol consumption disrupts breastfeeding hormones
...sful breastfeeding." For centuries, breastfeeding women have been advised to drink alcohol as an aid to mi...mal lactation. Recent surveys indicate that 25% of women report being encouraged by their health professionals to drink alcohol while breastfeeding. But as M...Researchers Find New Technique To Identify Fetal Genetic Material From Amniotic Fluid
... samples of cell-free amniotic fluid from pregnant women between 20 and 32 weeks' gestation and who had cer...his study was 6 pooled amniotic fluid samples from women at 17 weeks' gestation who were undergoing amniocentesis (removal of amniotic fluid to test for here...Asymptomatic HIV babies could use earlier treatment
...dings emphasize the importance of testing pregnant women for HIV and watching for signs of infection in the newborns of women who have tested positive for HIV. The study was supported by funding from the Office of AIDS at the...Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen
...e effective than tamoxifen at preventing cancer in women at high risk. Equally important was learning how the very slight difference between tamoxifen and GW5638 altered the interactions between the estrogen receptor and other molecules that are regulated by the estrogen receptor. Estrogen, tamoxifen and...Major new UNC-based drinking water study suggests pregnancy fears may be overstated
...ater with chlorine boost the chances that pregnant women will miscarry were not supported by the results of...mber 2000 and April 2004, the team recruited 3,132 women in the three areas who were planning a pregnancy or who had been pregnant for fewer than 12 weeks. T...Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV
Eighty-eight percent of women rely on their healthcare providers to learn about ...se that can be better prevented, we're encouraging women to discuss with their healthcare provider their HPV risk, get regular screenings with the Pap test a...Antiretroviral Therapy May Prevent HIV Transmission From Breastfeeding Mothers To Infants
...milk. They measured these levels in two groups: 26 women who received nevirapine, lamivudine, and zidovudin...e beginning during pregnancy or postpartum, and 25 women from an earlier time period with comparable HIV disease, who did not receive antiretroviral therapy ...Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
.... However, more than 1.6 million people, primarily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide ...will cause about 10 million premature deaths among women and children in Africa. By 2050, according to the report, smoke from cooking fires will release abou...Moffitt-USF head toward first human trials of anti-cancer drug that targets protein AKT
...arian cancer, for instance, because "40 percent of women with ovarian cancer have tumors with high levels of active Akt," according to Sebti. "To our knowledge, this is the first Akt inhibitor headed toward clinical trials," said Jin Cheng, MD, PhD, USF Professor of Pathology and Interdisciplinary Oncolog...Any exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy is risky
..., we found similarly increased induced mutation in women who had quit smoking during pregnancy, usually whe...tical warnings, it would be appropriate to caution women to quit smoking if they are pregnant or likely to become pregnant. It is equally imperative that wor...One hit of crystal meth causes birth defects
...ding, given the increasing use of club drugs among women of childbearing age. It has clinical implications,...d," says Wells. Wells' next step will be to study women and their babies who have been exposed to drugs like methamphetamine that enhance free radical forma...Scripps research scientists identify infertility molecule
...t step in conception. This is significant because women also have these LPA receptors expressed in their w...ncies for some of the more than 6 million American women affected by infertility. Fertility and the Demographics of the Western World In the Western world,...Scientists succeed in cloning human embryos from eggs matured in the lab
...esearch because almost all that are retrieved from women seeking fertility treatment are used to treat the patient. Immature oocytes are not used routinely for treatment at present, and so any that are retrieved can be donated for research. These immature oocytes are arrested in the prophase I stage, befor...Invitrogen Launches i-Path -- A Unique Systems Biology Platform at BIO 2005
...esearch because almost all that are retrieved from women seeking fertility treatment are used to treat the patient. Immature oocytes are not used routinely for treatment at present, and so any that are retrieved can be donated for research. These immature oocytes are arrested in the prophase I stage, befor...Male Combat Veterans Rank High In Heart Disease Risk
... were not included in this analysis because so few women veterans were in the study population, Johnson said. In the future, the ongoing LCSES study will investigate the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and morbidity and mortality. ...Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage
...gun prescribing misoprostol in place of surgery to women who have experienced a miscarriage. Until the curr...other cases, a fetus may no longer be present, and women may carry a placenta and sac of amniotic fluid. In all of these cases, the standard treatment is a ...Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda
...gun prescribing misoprostol in place of surgery to women who have experienced a miscarriage. Until the curr...other cases, a fetus may no longer be present, and women may carry a placenta and sac of amniotic fluid. In all of these cases, the standard treatment is a ...Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to develop into eggs and sperm in the laboratory
...rocess may cause genetic changes. For some men and women this would be the only route for producing sperm and eggs. It would not be reproductive cloning as fertilisation would involve only one set of gametes produced in this way and therefore a unique embryo would form. "In addition, if we could produce e...Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health
...heat stress. In the effort to understand why young women are more susceptible to fainting than men, he also studies how estrogen and progesterone influence blood pressure regulation. Minson is the winner of a 2005 American Physiology Society's Outstanding Young Investigator Award (his second since 2000) a...Men Estimate Men's Risks Of Common Disorders Higher Than Women Do, And Vice Versa
...er differences in health reveals that both men and women believe health risks are higher for their own sex ... males think that men are fitter and females think women are more athletic. Professor Sally Macintyre in the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at t...OHSU research shows vitamin C counteracts some negative impacts of smoking on unborn babies
...this translates to about a half a million American women a year. Reflecting the highly addictive nature of smoking, these women continue to smoke despite the warnings of their physicians and despite a tremendous public awareness...High rates of sexually transmitted infections found in young drug users
... drug users in Baltimore, Md. The study found that women had significantly higher rates compared to their male counterparts, but did not find significant differences between injection drug users and non-injection drug users. Few of the infected study participants were aware of their sexually transmitted in......IV rises during pregnancy, according to a study of women in Uganda's Rakai District led by researchers at t...r investigators to verify our results. However, if women are at increased risk of HIV acquisition during pregnancy, our findings represent a public-health pr...Twelve women recently completed 60 days of voluntary bedrest in...gy (MEDES) in Toulouse. For two months, the twelve women hade been lying in beds inclined at an angle of 6°, with their feet slightly higher than their heads...Other ContentscontiguousconvergenceconvergenceconvergenceconvergencecontrolcontrolcontrolcontrolcontrolcontrolcontrolcontrolcontrolcontrolnumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbercopycopycopycopycopycopycopycopycopycorkcorkcorollacoronarycoronarycoronarycoronarycoronarycoronarycoronaryOther TagsILAILAILAILAILAILAILAILAGIAGIAGIAGIAGIAPROXIMATEPREMIUMOther Tagsastronauts 2climate 2climate 3climate 4climate 5climate 6climate 7rises 2section 2section 3section 4section 5choice 2choice 3choice 4choice 5
(Date:1/6/2009)...tem cells are the body,s primal cells, retaining t...ed types of cells over many cycles of cell divisio...nstitution have identified a gene, named scrawny, ...ty of stem cells in their undifferentiated state. ...y has implications both for our knowledge of basic...
(Date:1/6/2009)... 6, 2009 Scientists have discovered a new way for...terial species, a finding that raises the unsettli...nd other disease-aiding factors may be more common...riment, the scientists from NYU School of Medicine...s bacterium that causes toxic shock syndrome and m...
(Date:1/6/2009)...tation of a gene that helps proteins migrate in an...cleus puts some families at higher risk for the d...alopathy (ANE). , This is the conclusion of a gl... Journal of Human Genetics , and currently posted ...ti Children,s Hospital Medical Center. , Researc...
(Date:1/6/2009)...lack of technology needed to explore and monitor v...tical bottleneck for Earth scientists, conservatio...imited understanding of the composition and functi... clearing, invasive plants, climate change, and ot...negie Institution,s Department of Global Ecology r...
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