Circumcision protects against HIV over long term
Tuesday, 27 July 2010- Male circumcision appears to be protective against HIV for at least four and a half years, a researcher said during the International AIDS Conference (IAC) held in Vienna, Austria.
The finding from an observational follow-up to a major randomised trial initially conducted...
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USC leads international programme aimed at identifying prostate cancer risk
Thursday, 22 July 2010- Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a $12 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant to lead a multi-institution international project aimed at identifying new biological pathways critical to the development and potential treatment of...
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Dutch study says finding cancer 'cold spots' can help reduce radiotherapy side-effects
Monday, 19 July 2010- Fine-tuning radiotherapy to take into account which parts of a patient's tumour are growing fastest could improve control of cancer while subjecting patients to lower doses of radiation, according to Dutch researchers.
"The only problem in radiotherapy is minimizing the...
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New research model of prostate cancer growth shows role of sex hormones
Monday, 5 July 2010- Progress toward understanding the role of sex hormones in the growth of prostate cancer has been hindered by the lack of a suitable laboratory research model. Now US researchers say they have developed the first model of hormone-induced human prostate cancer initiation and...
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Gout drug may decrease LVH in CKD patients
Thursday, 1 July 2010- Allopurinol, a drug long used to treat gout, can cause regression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and endothelial dysfunction in CKD patients, a study found.
The study is the first to show that allopurinol treatment is associated with these effects in CKD patients....
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Minor kidney damage in people with type 1 diabetes leads to increased mortality
Wednesday, 30 June 2010- People with type 1 diabetes who have early and asymptomatic kidney damage, as indicated by small amounts of protein in the urine, are six times more likely to die compared to the general population, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public...
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Metabolic syndrome in living kidney donors worsens function of remaining kidney
Thursday, 24 June 2010- People who donate one of their kidneys experience faster deterioration of their other kidney if they have the metabolic syndrome at the time of donation, according to a new study presented at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting held in San Diego, California,...
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Early-life exposure to BPA linked to testis disorder in adulthood
Wednesday, 23 June 2010- Exposure to environmental levels of the industrial chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in the womb and early life may cause long-lasting harm to testicular function, according to a new study conducted in animals. The results were presented at the Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual...
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Protein could heal erectile dysfunction after prostate cancer surgery
Tuesday, 15 June 2010- After men have surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland, up to 80% of them will lose the ability to have an erection because of damage to a critical nerve that runs along the prostate.
New research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows the...
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No significant survival gain in chemo plus bevacizumab in resistant PCa
Friday, 11 June 2010- Adding bevacizumab (Avastin) to chemotherapy in treating metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer fell short of providing a survival benefit to patients, according to US researchers.
Patients who received the antiangiogenesis target agent bevacizumab, along with standard...
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