The following highlights recent news of state actions on women's health issues. Abortion Regulations Ohio: Gov. Bob Taft (R) on Thursday signed into law a bill (HB 239) that prohibits state funding from covering abortion services except for cases of rape, incest or when the pregnant women's li...
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BioMed Central, the leading open access publisher, has announced the launch of BMC Systems Biology, the first open access journal focussed solely on the entire emerging subject of systems biology. A peer-reviewed online journal, BMC Systems Biology has just published its first articles online at htt...
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An inexpensive tracing agent used in combination with ultrasound can pinpoint how effectively drugs targeting pancreatic cancer work, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have demonstrated for the first time.The study, involving human pancreatic tumor cells implanted in mice, opens a new av...
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The prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD) has increased strikingly in adults and children in a new population study, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.Severe CHD has risen in adults by 85 percent and 22 percent in children during the 15-year study ...
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Scientists from the United Kingdom, France and Italy have studied teeth from Neanderthals with X-rays from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). They found that the dental development of Neanderthals is very similar to modern humans. Their results are published in Nature.The ESRF revea...
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AstraZeneca today announced RECENTIN? as the global trademark for AZD2171, its oral, highly potent and selective vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signalling inhibitor. AZD2171 is currently in Phase II/III development for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and advanced colorectal ca...
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Nutrition 21, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXXI) has announced the results of a recent placebo controlled, double-blind, randomized, single center study that demonstrated that DiachromeŽ, a patented combination of chromium picolinate and biotin, safely improves blood glucose levels and cholesterol metabolism in pe...
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Hypertension and prehypertension in adolescents and young adults was associated with a higher risk of having an abnormally enlarged heart, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.In a study of American Indians, average age 26. [click link for full article]
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University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have identified a new way to predict when anti-estrogen drug therapies are inappropriate for patients with hormone-dependent breast cancer.The team's leader, Erik Knudsen, PhD, says the findings could help physicians more accurately predict which tumors will...
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