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Male Circumcision May Prevent Two Common STDs
Male circumcision appears to offer more protection to men than previously estimated, according to...
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Get Rid of Extra Pounds! They Shorten Your Life!
British researchers at the University of Oxford, through a new study, have warned once again...
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Healthy Men Should Take Finasteride to Prevent Prostate Cancer
Healthy men who want to prevent prostate cancer should begin taking finasteride, a drug used to...
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Pfizer Ends Phase III Trial Of Pancreatic Cancer Drug Axitinib
Pfizer Inc. halted a Phase III study of its experimental drug axitinib designed to cure advanced...
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Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise In MS Trial
People suffering from multiple sclerosis have given hope once again thanks to a clinical...
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FDA: Pozen Arthritis Drug Has Good Results On Late-Stage Trial
The Food and Drug Administration accepted the results of a late-stage clinical trial on PN...
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FDA Approves Gelnique, the First Gel to Treat Overactive Bladder
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Gelnique, the first topical gel used to treat an...
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Human Genome Sciences Has Big Plans For 2009
Biopharmaceutical company Human Genome Sciences Inc. announced its priority goals for 2009,...
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Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer Recurrence, Key Issues at the Breast Cancer Symposium
A hormone therapy for breast cancer can
reduce the chances of the disease spreading by a...
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Vitamins C, E Fail To Cut Prostate Cancer Risk
Two large trials revealed that selenium, vitamin E and C didn’t reduce the risk of developing...
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Chemical In Our Stomach Might Help Us Fight Obesity
As more and more people suffer from obesity and,
consequently, obesity-related diseases,...
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Ginkgo Biloba, A Pseudo Drug Against Dementia
According to a clinical trial reported Tuesday, the elixir of eternal mental acuity, the herbal...
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Herbal Supplement Gingko Biloba Fails In Preventing, Slowing Dementia
Millions of seniors take ginkgo biloba, hoping that the herbal supplement will prevent or slow the...
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Gardasil Might Get Clearance For Preventing Genital Warts In Boys
Gardasil can also be given to men as a way to prevent genital warts, a study presented Thursday at...
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Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts In Males, Study Reveals
In 2006, Merck & Co.’s Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug...
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Crestor Can Detect Risks Of Heart Attack
A cholesterol-lowering statin drug administered to people who have normal cholesterol can cut their...
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Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Crestor Benefic for Healthy People As Well
Statins of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been known to
reduce heart risk in people with...
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AstraZeneca’s Seroquel XR Gets FDA Clearance for Bipolar Disorder
SEROQUEL XL, AstraZeneca Plc’s schizophrenia drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
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World’s First Double Arm Transplant Proves Successful
After an accident that left him without both arms, Karl Merk
feels like “a whole man again,”...
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First Recipient Of Double Arm Transplant Can Use His Hands Again
Karl Merk, who this summer became the world’s first double arm transplant recipient, can now use...
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FDA Probes J&J Anemia Drug over Clinical Trial Deaths
Results of a study undergone by German scientists revealed
that stroke patients given Amgen and...
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COPD Drugs Questioned for Increased Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack
Spiriva and Atrovent, two drugs widely prescribed in chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),...
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Botox Could Help Chronic Migraines
Who would have thought that the popular Botox injection
usually used for beauty purposes might...
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AIDS Vaccine Trial Suspended
Plans for a large-scale human trial of a prospecting HIV
vaccine in the United States
were...
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Immunotherapy Proved Efficient in Melanoma Patient
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes
how immunotherapy helped a 52-year-old...
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Ibuprofen Found to Decrease Alzheimer’s Risk
Taking ibuprofen for more than five years may decrease the
risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,...
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Novartis says its new oral MS drug prevents relapses
Geneva - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Wednesday that 80 to 83 per cent of patients in a year-long...
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Nexavar Fails in Melanoma Phase III Trial
German drug maker Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced they ended a Phase III...
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Experimental Prostate Cancer Drug Is Promising in Early Testing
An experimental drug showed promise in treating advanced prostate cancer in early trial,...
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Elan, Wyeth Stop Trial Using the Highest Dose of Alzheimer’s Drug
Drugmaker Elan and US partner Wyeth announced Thursday they have stopped part of a Phase III...
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Pfizer Halts Late-Stage Trial of Sutent for Advanced Breast Cancer
Giant drugmaker Pfizer Inc. announced Thursday that it stopped a Phase III clinical trial testing...
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US Panel Backs Roche’s Avastin for Brain Cancer
A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Tuesday in favor of Roche...
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Polypill Could Dramatically Reduce Heart Disease Risk One Day
A new five-in-one “polypil” could reduce the risk of heart attack one day, according...
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Ventricular Reconstruction No Better Than Bypass Alone in Heart Failure
Ventricular reconstruction to improve symptoms in people with heart failure, a procedure often...
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Cholesterol Drug Crestor Reduces Risk of Vein Clots As Well
Besides reducing the incidence of heart attacks and stroke, AstraZeneca’s cholesterol drug...
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New Device Shows Promise in Treating Atrial Fibrillation
A new device implanted in the heart to stop blood clots from triggering strokes (from the rhythm...
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Lose Weight! Live Longer!
We know for a fact that obese people have a high risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and...
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Pfizer’s Sutent Trial Results Good News for Pancreatic Cancer Sufferers
Good news for people suffering from pancreatic cancer.
Giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer...
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Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB
Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
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Older Men Should Consider Drugs That Prevent Prostate Cancer
Recently, medical groups have issued guidelines recommending healthy older men to consider...
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Baldness Drug May Help Healthy Men Prevent Prostate Cancer
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Urological Association on Tuesday...
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FDA Approves Gout-Fighting Drug for First Time in 4 Decades
The Federal Drug Agency has approved the first gout drug in 40 years. Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co....
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Gel against HIV Infection Found Effective
Researchers present at the Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections held in Montreal...
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Sanofi-Aventis Waits for FDA’s Decision on Multaq (Dronedarone) Heart Drug
The FDA is expected to take a decision regarding an experimental drug from Sanofi-Aventis which is...
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Experimental HIV Gel Proves Effective in Trials
An experimental vaginal gel made by Indevus Pharmaceuticals Inc. was effective in preventing HIV...
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Revolutionary Gel That Protects Women From AIDS Virus
A microbicide gel intended to prevent HIV infection in women, called PRO 2000 (0.5% dose), was 30%...
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Hormone Therapy – Breast Cancer Link Once Again Confirmed
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms once again the link between hormone...
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Pfizer Stops the Development of Pancreatic Drug
An independent monitoring board has recently detected the fact that axitinib drug, which had been...
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Approval of Lilly Blood Thinner Is About To Happen
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the drug, called prasugrel (also known as Effient),...
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FDA To Approve Eli Lilly’s Anti-Clotting Drug Prasugrel
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve Eli Lilly and Co.’s and Daiichi...
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FDA Finally Approves Geron’s stem cells therapy
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just tapped a Northern Californian biotech company to...
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FDA Approves First Phase Of Stem Cells Treatment
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the first clinical trial using human...
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Merck’s Erbitux, Again On Trial
Drug companies are always holding clinical trials in order to test the efficiency of their...
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FDA Wants Additional Data on Schering’s Saphris
The Food and Drug Administration declined to clear Schering-Plough Corp’s experimental drug...
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Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Brain Shrinkage
Estrogen hormone therapy, a treatment given to alleviate some symptoms of menopause, may shrink...
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Medtronic May Help Millions With its Complete SE Stent
Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. announced it began to enroll patients in a trial of its...
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