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Radiation for Prostate Cancer may Not Lead to Continuous Sexual Decline
Mens Health News Font Size A new study has found that sexual function in prostate cancer patients on external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) decreases within the first two years post treatment but then stabilizes and does not continuously decline as was...
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Research: Lower Detection of Prostate Cancer With PSA Screening in US Than in a European Randomized Trial
A new brief communication published online February 8 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute says that fewer prostate cancers were detected by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in the U.S.than in a European randomized trial because of lower...
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Study Delves into Treatment of "non-specific" Chest Pain
Fewer than half of individuals who have "non-specific" chest pain (not explained by a well-known condition) experience relief from symptoms following standard medical care, according to a report in the February 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of...
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New Tool to Determine Need for CT Scans in Children With Minor Head Injury
General Health News Font Size A new tool may help standardize the use of computed tomography (CT scans) in children with minor head injury and help reduce the number of scans, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo...
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New Way to Suppress Prostate Tumor Development in Mice
A team of researchers, led by Pier Paolo Pandolfi, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, has identified a new type of cellular senescence (i.e., irreversible arrest of cell growth) and determined a way to enhance it to suppress prostate tumor...
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Understanding Ewing Sarcoma
Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is a bone tumor of unknown cellular origin that affects children and young adults.The protein CD99 is highly expressed in most cases of EWS, but its function in the disease is unknown. Now, Katia Scotlandi and colleagues, at SSN Emilia...
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Study Finds Metabolite Common in Cancers
A study published online on February 8 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (www.jem.org) reports that several distinct mutations found in a subset of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) result in excess production of the same metabolite.The...
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Chikungunya Human Vaccine Closer to Reality
Scientists in the U.S.Chikungunya Human Vaccine Closer to Reality.
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Infertility Transferred From Dads To Test-Tube Sons?
Mens Health News Font Size Fathers of test-tube babies may be passing on their infertility to their sons, scientists have discovered.In a new Anglo-German study, which compared 211 six-year-olds conceived through ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) with...
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Tiger Woods Finds Admirer In Fellow Sex-Scandal Victim, John Terry
England skipper John Terry had claimed in an interview that his favourite spor Tiger Woods Finds Admirer In Fellow Sex-Scandal Victim, John Terry.
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