Alcohol Consumption And Male Erectile Dysfunction: An Unfounded Reputation For Risk? UroToday.com - The report, one of four published articles from a population-based cross-sectional study principally on male erectile dysfunction (ED), is based on the responses of 1,580 participants to questions on their alcohol drinking behaviour. To assess the effects of alcohol on erectile function was not the primary objective of the study.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPROTECT-1 Phase II/III Induction-Stage Results For ChemoCentryx's Traficet-EN(TM) Presented In Oral Session At DDW 2009 Conference ChemoCentryx, Inc.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWhy Some Prostate Cancer Returns The majority of men who receive one of the standard treatments for localized prostate cancer - surgery or radiation therapy - have an excellent outcome. But for the small group whose prostate cancer returns, a new study offers insight as to why treatment isn't effective.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAutomated reminders may improve medication adherence, study suggests. MedPage Today (5/21, Smith) reported, “Automated phone reminders may increase the likelihood patients will take medication for chronic conditions,” explained William Vollmer, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. For example, “asthma patients who received calls increased adherence to inhaled corticosteroids by about two percentage points compared with patients who weren’t nagged.” Notably, [...]
Source: feedproxy.google.comGTCbio Announces Its 4th Annual Assay Development And Screening Technologies Conference Taking Place On June 8-9, 2009 In San Francisco GTCbio Announces 4th Annual Assay Development and Screening Conference taking place June 8-9, 2009. As compounds derived from high throughput screening increasingly find their way into clinical trials, drug screening has become widely accepted as a critical step in the drug discovery process. After more than a decade of rapid growth, tremendous progress has been made in assay technology, laboratory automation, and informatics.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMeeting To Examine Human Behavior And The Threat Of Disease As swine flu spread from Mexico to Texas and then fanned out farther in the United States, Americans began to alter their behavior. Families kept children home from school, postponed trips to the mall, and stayed home instead of eating out. In so doing, the American population may have inadvertently altered the behavior of the pathogen itself.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMore Effective Tools For Detection Of Colorectal Cancer Identified By New Research The latest advances in polyp detection, assessment of colorectal cancer risk, and patient sedation during colonoscopy will be presented today at Digestive Disease Week® 2009 (DDW®). Research regarding the size and type of polyps detected during colonoscopy and the risk associated with developing colon cancer offers new insight into the recommended frequency of follow-up preventive colonoscopy.
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