Erectile dysfunction drugs allowed more chemotherapy to reach brain tumors in laboratory study
LOS ANGELES (July 28, 2008) In a study using laboratory animals, researchers found that medications commonly prescribed for erectile dysfunction opened a mechanism called the blood-brain tumor barrier and increased delivery of cancer-fighting drugs to malignant brain tumors. The experiments w...Illegal Immigrants Allowed To Stay A Year More To Care For Their Child
A 17-month old girl who underwent a heart operation for a rare birth defect has more than one share of good news. Not only has she fully recovered, her parents, illegal immigrants in the U.S, have also been granted a year more to stay there and care for their U.S citizen daughter. Hazelle Roa...Parents Boycott India School After HIV Kids Allowed Back
A group of HIV-positive children trying to attend school in southern India have faced a fresh setback with parents of their classmates pulling their kids out of class, officials said Monday. The move was the latest twist in a six-month battle that has highlighted the stigma suffered in Ind...Overseas Trained Nurses To Be Allowed To Retrain For Scottish Jobs
Overseas-trained nurses will be given £5,000 to retrain themselves to work in the NHS in Scotland. Health minister Andy Kerr said that the Scottish Executive had put aside £1.25 million over two years on this plan.// This plan will be directed at nurses who are trained outside Europe and are n...Mercy Attempt Allowed for 12 KGMU Students
12 students from the King George's Medical University have been granted a 'mercy attempt', following five earlier unsuccessful attempts, to clear their respective// examinations. The Faculty Board took this decision in a meeting held at the medical university on Friday. Rules so far have allowe...Project Zero Delay Accelerates Drug's Path to Clinical Trial
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...ent them from living a normal life, according to Dr. Eidelberg. The puzzle was why. In the latest study, the new advances in diffusion imaging allowed them to see something for the first time. They saw that there were two places along the motor pathway that seemed to stop the flow of neural signals f...Scary ancient spiders revealed in 3-D models, thanks to new imaging technique
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...f the most important is an uncommon technique known as operando XAFS, which allowed them to take X-ray snapshots of the catalyst in action. Most researchers ex... chemical nature of the structure, along with additional experimental data, allowed the team to outline the chemical reaction occurring between the catalyst an...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Provides Clinical Studies Update
...Executive Officer and President of GeoVax Labs, Inc. "The results of the early Phase 1 clinical work for the preventative version of the vaccine have allowed the company to move up to another level of analysis, Phase 2a human clinical trial. This trial was initiated by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)...Cord Blood America Retires $2.53M Obligation
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