July 8, 2004

Study Signals Promise for New HIV Therapy

Yahoo! News: Researchers may finally be on track to fight the AIDS virus by blocking a long-elusive target, an HIV enzyme called integrase. An experimental drug that inhibits the enzyme helped to keep the infection in check in monkeys. Far...
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June 26, 2004

Cancer Survivorship in The U.S. Triples

RuggedElegantLiving.com: More and more Americans are surviving cancer, a disease that was previously perceived as a death sentence for those diagnosed with it. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease. The four top...
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June 23, 2004

Compound In Breast Milk Treats Warts

BBC News: A cream containing an ingredient of human breast milk appears to be an effective treatment for warts. The preparation, nicknamed Hamlet by is Swedish creators, has been shown to dramatically reduce, and often completely banish, stubborn warts. It...
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June 6, 2004

Drugs May Turn Cancer Into Manageable Disease

The New York Times: BAY 43-9006 [developed by Onyx Pharmaceuticals], which could reach the market in one to three years, is one of a new generation of "targeted" therapies that are transforming cancer treatment by attacking the underlying molecular mechanisms...
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Studies Suggest Statins Slash Cancer Risk

Yahoo! News: Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may prevent various forms of cancer, including prostate and colon cancer, two teams of researchers said on Sunday. Israelis who took statins had a 51 percent lower risk of developing colon cancer than those...
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May 31, 2004

Driven To Obesity?

CTV.ca | CTV News (Canada): You could be driving up your weight -- literally. According to a new study, the length of time spent driving translates into the size of the "spare tire" around your waist. Even more than income,...
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May 27, 2004

Breakthrough in Superbug Battle

HealthandAge: A new way of applying antibiotic treatment helps to keep superbugs away from critically ill patients. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a greatly feared bacterial infection, because it is resistant to most known antibiotics - including vancomycin. Researchers in...
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May 15, 2004

EU: Genetically Modified Food OK To Eat

San Jose Mercury News: The European Union's head office said Friday that it would approve a type of genetically modified corn for human consumption, ending a six-year biotech moratorium that the United States has challenged at the World Trade Organization....
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May 14, 2004

Stem Cells: Repairing The Engines Of Life

BusinessWeek Online: Ames's story captures the tragic collision of hope and promise that defines the nascent field known as "regenerative medicine." A growing cadre of scientists in academic and biotech labs across the world are pioneering a new approach to...
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May 10, 2004

Discoveries Show How Obesity Kills

Yahoo! News: Research into the biology of fat is turning up some surprising new insights about how obesity kills. The weight of the evidence: It's the toxic mischief of the flesh itself. Experts have realized for decades that large people...
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May 4, 2004

Abbott Labs Awaits Approval For Nonstop Glucose Monitor

Wall Street Journal: Measuring the level of glucose in the blood is a daily chore for the estimated 13 million people in the U.S. diagnosed with diabetes, one that involves pricking the skin and drawing blood. It's also a good-sized...
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May 3, 2004

Healthcare Cost Weigh On California

San Jose Mercury News: From care delivered through the mammoth Medi-Cal program to grants that subsidize university research, the burden of health care is woven into nearly every page of California's $99 billion budget. Last year, the state's medical bill...
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Key Stem Cell Mechanism Discovered

Medical News Today: Adult stem cell transplantation offers great therapeutic potential for a variety of diseases due to their ability to replenish diseased cells and tissue. While they are unique in this ability, it remains a challenge to effectively treat...
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Stems Cells: Making New Teeth

Medical News Today: Researchers in London have been awarded a grant of £500,000 ($820,000) to develop human teeth from stem cells. This could spell the end of dentures. The scientists who work at King's College London, UK, have set up...
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April 29, 2004

Key Breakthrough In Obesity Research

ScienceDaily: Saint Louis University researchers believe they've won a major skirmish in the battle of the bulge, and their findings are published in the May issue of Diabetes. "We figured out how obesity occurs," says William A. Banks, M.D., professor...
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April 28, 2004

DNA Computer Detects, Treats Disease in Test Tube

Yahoo! News: Scientists have come a step closer to creating a minuscule DNA computer that may one day be able to spot diseases like cancer from inside the body and release a drug to treat it. Professor Ehud Shapiro and...
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April 26, 2004

Diabetes Reportedly to Double Worldwide by 2030

Yahoo! News: Diabetes rates will double worldwide by 2030, to 366 million people with the disease, even if the obesity rate remains stable, an international team of researchers reported on Monday. But the rate will go up even higher if,...
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April 25, 2004

Life Expectancy: Now Only Death Is Certain After 100

New York Times: For nearly 150 years, people who lived past 100 could claim this accomplishment: They had outlived the point at which the life insurance industry technically predicted they would die. Now the industry is raising the bar, and...
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April 21, 2004

Mice Created With 2 Genetic Moms, No Dad

Yahoo! News: Just ahead of Mother's Day, scientists have found a way to cut dads out of the picture, at least among rodents: They have produced mice with two genetic moms -- and no father. It is the first time...
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Happy Mother's Day! Mice Created With 2 Genetic Moms, No Dad

Yahoo! News: Just ahead of Mother's Day, scientists have found a way to cut dads out of the picture, at least among rodents: They have produced mice with two genetic moms" and no father. It is the first time the...
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States' Interest in Stem Cell Research Up

KTOK-AM Oklahoma City: Growing U.S. interest in embryonic stem cell research has produced some 100 bills in 33 states, USA Today reported Wednesday. In California, for example, there is a voter initiative in November that could pump nearly $3 billion...
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April 19, 2004

Southern Arizona: Epicenter of Obesity Epidemic

The Arizona Daily Star: Americans are in grave danger of undoing the greatest achievement of medical science - the doubling of the human life span from four decades just a century ago to nearly 80 years today. The culprits are...
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April 17, 2004

Now Can We Talk About Health Care?

The New York Times: Twenty-first-century problems, like genetic mapping, an aging population and globalization, are combining with old problems like skyrocketing costs and skyrocketing numbers of uninsured, to overwhelm the 20th-century system we have inherited. The way we finance care...
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April 15, 2004

Genetic Breakthrough in Leukemia Treatment

Mercury News: Looking deep inside the genes of malignant cells, two teams of leukemia researchers have uncovered new ways to help identify the severity of a patient's cancer, the best treatments and how long a patient might live. While this...
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April 14, 2004

Genetic Link Between Cancer Cells and Stem Cells

Medical News Today: Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam have discovered a common link between cancer cells and stem cells. Together with colleagues from the University of Zurich, Merel Lingbeek and NWO pioneer Prof. Maarten van Lohuizen published...
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April 9, 2004

Has Obesity Met Its Match In Rimonabant?

BW Online: The French pharma Sanofi is getting positive results so far with a drug that suppresses appetite. And it may have cardiac benefits, too At the American College of Cardiology annual meeting last month, Paris-based Sanofi-Synthelabo caused a stir...
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April 6, 2004

The Altered Human Is Already Here

New York Times: Many people, however, have already made a different kind of leap into the posthuman future. Their jump is biochemical, mediated by proton-pump inhibitors, serotonin boosters and other drugs that have become permanent additives to many human bloodstreams....
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April 4, 2004

Fukuyama: Our Posthuman Future

Maybe we have a future after all: Our Posthuman Future is political historian Francis Fukuyama's reconsideration of his 1989 announcement that history had reached an end. He claims that science, particularly genome studies, offers radical changes, possibly more profound than...
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March 30, 2004

First Comprehensive Proteomic Analysis of Developing Animal

EurekAlert: Carnegie Mellon University scientists have performed the first comprehensive proteome analysis of protein changes that occur in a developing animal, making surprising findings that could require scientists to revise standard thinking about how proteins orchestrate critical steps in embryonic...
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Stem Cells Used to Grow Blood Vessels

Daily Yomiuri (Japan): A Japanese research team has become the first in the world to grow structurally complete capillary blood vessels from human embryonic stem cells, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Monday. The team, led by Prof. Kazuwa Nakao of Kyoto...
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Stem Cells Attack Cancer in Mice

Yahoo! News: Stem cells, immature cells already showing promise as tools to regenerate and replace damaged tissue, may also help target and destroy cancer, U.S. scientists said on Monday. Tests in mice showed [stem] cells could deliver powerful cancer-killing...
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March 24, 2004

Medicare Overseers Expect Soaring Costs

New York Times: Medicare's financial condition has significantly deteriorated, partly because of exploding health costs and partly because of the new Medicare law, the government reported on Tuesday. In its annual report to Congress, the Medicare board of trustees said...
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March 21, 2004

Pfizer's Pregabalin: $3 Billion Painkiller

WBBM (Chicago): Now awaiting final approval from European regulators and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, pregabalin is expected to generate sales of at least $3 billion a year for New York-based Pfizer. Sales could reach $6 billion "within 10...
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New Studies Question Value of Opening Arteries

New York Times: Researchers are also finding that plaque, and heart attack risk, can change very quickly -- "within a month, according to a recent study" -- by something as simple as intense cholesterol lowering. "The results are now snowballing,"...
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March 19, 2004

Genetically Modified Athletes

Yahoo! News - Back in the depths of time, athletes used ginseng, opium and steroids from sheep testicles to enhance their performance. Anabolic steroids made their debut in sports in the 1940s and 50s, and chemical agents followed. Now the...
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March 17, 2004

Health Savings Accounts

KXAN: There are some healthy benefits in the new Medicare law that could help you save money. Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, have been in effect since Jan. 1. Like Roth IRAs, they're a tax-free way for people to set...
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March 14, 2004

Is 'Good' Cholesterol Good?

New York Times: For years, doctors have been saying that to prevent heart disease, patients should pay attention to both the so-called bad cholesterol, or L.D.L., and the good cholesterol, or H.D.L. The good, they said, can counteract the bad....
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Biotech: A Risky Bet on Antibiotics?

BusinessWeek: Forget genomics. Forget original drug research. Many biotech companies have. Eager for reliable revenue streams, biotechs are increasingly looking to an area that the pharmaceutical industry has long overlooked -- antibacterial drugs, better knows as antibiotics. The trend of...
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Stem Cells May Cure Baldness

Yahoo! News: Research showing that bald mice can grow hair after being implanted with a type of stem cell could lead to a cure for baldness, a group of scientists says. The project marks the first time that "blank slate"...
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March 10, 2004

Scientists Defy Menopause

Telegraph (UK): Scientists have discovered a new way to defy the menopause which could change women's lives, they announce today. Their research raises the prospect of extending childbearing years and offers a more natural alternative to HRT to offset ageing...
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Rimonabant: Quit Smoking & Lose Weight

KansasCity.com: How's this for a salubrious daily double - a pill that helps you quit smoking and lose weight at the same time? An experimental drug shows significant promise of doing just that, according to two studies presented Tuesday at...
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A Breakthrough in Artificial Blood

The Herald (UK): Scientists may have solved the problem of creating artificial blood, a potential breakthrough that could relieve shortages and prevent patients from being infected by contaminated supplies. It could also stop the potential spread of the human form...
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March 9, 2004

Healthcare Technology: Saves Lives, Busts Budgets

Forbes: The cost of saving lives from heart disease just went through the roof. At a meeting of cardiologists, doctors today presented results of a giant, 2,500-person government study showing that heart failure patients implanted with pricey cardiac defibrillators were...
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Cholesterol Targets Should Be Set Far Lower

New York Times: The findings, cardiologists say, will greatly change how doctors treat patients with heart disease and will provide the impetus to re-evaluate how low cholesterol levels should be. The study compared high doses of one of the most...
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Striking Benefits Found In Ultra-Low Cholesterol

WashingtonPost.com: High doses of a popular cholesterol-lowering drug can sharply boost protection against getting or dying from a heart attack, according to new research that many experts said is likely to transform the treatment of the nation's leading killer. The...
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March 8, 2004

Bird Flu Is Found on Two More U.S. Farms

New York Times: Hundreds of thousands of chickens on two commercial farms in Maryland are being slaughtered after a case of avian influenza was found there, officials said Sunday. A total of 328,000 birds were ordered slaughtered, nearly four times...
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March 1, 2004

Greek Scientists Weaken Cancer Cells

Yahoo! News: Greek scientists said they have found a way to lower cancer cell resistance to medical treatment in what could be a major step in treating a disease that kills more than six million people every year. The procedure,...
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Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve?

New York Times: Biotechnology companies were once known for going boldly where the big pharmaceutical companies would not, developing genetically engineered medicines like Avastin, the Genentech drug, approved on Thursday, that attacks cancer by a new method and prolongs the...
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February 27, 2004

First Anti-Angiogenesis Drug Wins Approval

New York Times: The Genentech drug Avastin, which validated a decades-old theory about a new way to attack cancer while spurring investor enthusiasm for the biotechnology industry, won approval yesterday from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, approved for...
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February 24, 2004

Genetic Map Of Bird Flu Complete

China Daily: Chinese experts have completed the genetic map of the killer H5N1 bird flu virus and their next step will be looking at how the virus mutates. The mapping result was achieved by an avian disease research lab at...
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