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The Use Of Immunofluorescence In Microdissection Testicular Sperm Extraction (TESE)
07.07.2008 05:14
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Various techniques have been described to increase the success of retrieving sperm from testicular tissue in men with Non obstructive azoospermia. The authors describe a novel approach utilizing immunoflurescent labelled antibodies (fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugated mouse anti-Human acrosomal IgM antibody (HS-14)). This antibody was injected into exposed seminiferous tubules of an animals.
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Urology
First In-Vivo Data Shows Resolvins Suppress IL-23 And IL-17, Key Mediators Of Inflammatory Disease
07.07.2008 05:13
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Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the leading resolvin therapeutics company, today announced that a research team led by a Resolvyx scientific advisor and a company co-founder has demonstrated that the resolvin E1 (RvE1) effectively suppresses IL-23 and IL-17, two key inflammatory mediators of chronic inflammatory disease, in a preclinical model of asthma. RvE1 is the active ingredient in RX-10001, one of Resolvyx's leading clinical candidates.
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Asthma
UK Government Vision For Primary And Community Care Lays Down Challenge To Health Professionals - The King's Fund
07.07.2008 05:13
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Responding to 'Our vision for Primary and Community Care', published by the Department of Health as part of the Next Stage Review of the NHS, chief executive of The King's Fund Niall Dickson said: ' We welcome this strategy - patients place enormous value on the care they receive from family doctors and community staff but a step change in these services is needed - not least because the reforms to the rest of health system rely crucially upon them.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
Scottish Politicians Need To Act Now To Protect Children From The Allure Of Smoking, Say Doctors
07.07.2008 05:13
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Scotland's doctors have called on MSPs to exert pressure on their Westminster counterparts to take a stand against smoking imagery in the media. The call comes as the BMA published "Forever cool" a new report1 which sets out recommendations for a range of tough measures aimed at reducing young people's exposure to positive images of smoking.
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Children Diseases
Families With Children Without A Genetic Or Gestational Link To Their Parents Are Functioning Well
07.07.2008 05:13
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The emotional well-being of families where children lack a genetic or gestational link to one or both of their parents - where the children have been conceived through surrogacy, egg donation or donor insemination - has long been a subject of debate.
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Children Diseases
Adolor Provides Update On Entereg® (alvimopan) OBD Program - FDA Lifts Clinical Hold On OBD IND
07.07.2008 05:13
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Adolor Corporation (Nasdaq: ADLR) today issued an update on the Entereg® (alvimopan) Program for chronic opioid bowel dysfunction (OBD), under development in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK). The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded that clinical investigations relating to alvimopan in OBD may now proceed, and has therefore lifted the clinical hold on the OBD Investigational New Drug Application.
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Gastroenterology
Early Childhood Caries Prevented By Topical Oral Syrup
07.07.2008 05:12
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Dental researchers at the University of Washington have reported a significant reduction of tooth decay in toddlers who were treated with the topical syrup xylitol, a naturally occurring non-cavity-causing sweetener. Their results were presented today during the 86th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research.
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Dentistry
Curt Meyer Memorial Prize For Dr. Stephan Mathas And Dr. Martin Janz -Camouflage Mechanism Of Cancer Cells In Hodgkin's Lymphoma Decoded
07.07.2008 05:12
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Cancer researchers Dr. Martin Janz and Dr. Stephan Mathas of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany, have been honored with the Curt Meyer Memorial Prize for their research on Hodgkin's lymphoma. They received the prize, worth 10,000 euros, on July 4, 2008 in Berlin for their findings published in Nature Immunology* from Professor Peter Schlag, president of the Berlin Cancer Society (Charité, MDC).
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Cancer
Risk Of Persistent Local Disease In Bladder Cancer Patients Found To Be Pathologic Stage T0 At Radical Cystectomy
07.07.2008 05:12
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Pathologic stage T0 (pT0) rates following radical cystectomy (RC) alone range from 10-15%. The pT0 rate increases in patients that have received neoadjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy. Survival in patients that achieve pT0 status is significantly improved compared to patients with residual invasive disease. Increasingly clinicians are questioning the necessity for RC in patients that can be identified as pT0 in the bladder after chemotherapy.
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Cancer
Treatment Delays Result In Poor Outcomes For Men With Breast Cancer
07.07.2008 05:12
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Men who develop breast cancer are often not treated until the disease has spread to the point that treatment becomes difficult, new results show. Although most breast cancer patients are women, men make up roughly 1% of cases, Dr. Marina Garassino from the Orion Collaborative Group reported at the ESMO Conference Lugano (ECLU), organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology.
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Cancer
Evotec's EVT 101 Well Tolerated In Four Week Higher Repeat Dose Safety Study
07.07.2008 05:12
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Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT; NASDAQ: EVTC) announced top-line results of a double-blind, 4-week Phase Ib study with EVT 101, an orally active NR2B-subtype selective antagonist of NMDA receptors with potential in Alzheimer's disease, neuropathic pain and other indications. The study showed in both young and elderly subjects that the drug was well tolerated up to the highest dose tested.
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Alzheimer's Disease
Urinary Diversion - Reported From The Annual Meeting Of The American Urological Association
07.07.2008 04:18
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Analysis of SEER data suggests that few patients receive an orthotopic diversion. In 1997, 5% of patients had an orthotopic diversion and this only increased to 11% in 2005. Younger male patients with private insurance were most likely to have an orthotopic diversion. Elevated BMI leads to more complications, but no difference in major complications.
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Urology
Trauma And Reconstructive Surgery Reported From The Annual Meeting Of The American Urological Association
07.07.2008 04:18
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Abstract 71 reported that cadaveric acellular matrix graft was effective during urethroplasty with a 50% success rate. Abstracts 22 and 23 reported the keys to treating a recto-vesical fistula is urinary and fecal diversion and tissue interposition. By doing this urinary and fecal continence should be restored.
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Urology
Join The Organ Donor Register When Picking Up Your Prescription, Wales
07.07.2008 04:18
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People in Wales will now be able to join the Organ Donor Register when they visit their local pharmacy as part of the Donate Wales - Tell a Loved One campaign. Registration leaflets and dispensers have been delivered to all 719 pharmacies in Wales including high street retailers and independent stores.
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Transplantation
No Scope For Gentlemen's Agreements With Existing Rules - Medical Protection Society, UK
07.07.2008 04:18
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MPS (Medical Protecion Society) responds to Health Minister, Ben Bradshaw's suggestion that some GP practices have made agreements with other GP practices not to take on each others patients. This was widely reported in yesterdays press. MPS regularly advises GPs on the rules and regulations surrounding the acceptance and removal of patients to their practice lists.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
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