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Should Surgeons Warm Up Before Performing Surgery? New Study Investigates
Basketball players, baseball pitchers, and athletes warm up before they perform, and now researchers in the US are investigating whether surgeons should do the same to ensure they are better prepared for when they have to perform...
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Everolimus Shows Potential In Tough-to-Treat Gastric Cancer
ORLANDO - Everolimus monotherapy shows promising activity and is generally well tolerated in patients with metastatic gastric cancer who have undergone prior anticancer therapy, according to phase 2 results reported by Japanese researchers at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2010 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI)...
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Palatin Technologies, Inc. Reports Positive Bremelanotide Study; Improved Safety Profile With Subcutaneous Administration
Palatin Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PTN) announced the completion of a Phase 1 clinical trial of subcutaneously administered bremelanotide, its melanocortin agonist drug candidate for treatment of male erectile dysfunction (ED) and female sexual dysfunction (FSD)...
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Potential Relationship Between Androgen Deficiency And Cardiovascular Disease
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with researchers from Lahey Clinic Northshore, Peabody, Mass., believe that androgen deficiency might be the underlying cause for a variety of common clinical conditions, including diabetes, erectile dysfunction, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease (CVD)...
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Pivotal Study For PSD502--The First Potential Treatment For Premature Ejaculation
At the annual meeting of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA), Inc. in San Diego, Sciele Pharma, Inc., a Shionogi Company and Plethora Solutions Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Plethora Solutions Holdings PLC ("Plethora" AIM:PLE)., today presented data from its second positive pivotal study of PSD502 for the treatment of premature ejaculation (PE)...
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Growing Animal Penile Erectile Tissue In Lab May Benefit Patients
In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine have used tissue engineering techniques to completely replace penile erectile tissue in animals. In the online early edition (Nov...
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Leukaemia Patients: Long-Term Outcome And Survival After Undergoing Stem-Cell Or Marrow Transplant
The largest randomised study comparing the effect of type of transplant on survival is published Online First in The Lancet Oncology. It reports that patients transplanted with peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) have no difference in survival compared with patients given bone marrow after ten years. Bone marrow transplants involve the collection of stem cells from the bone marrow...
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Topical Erectile Dysfunction Therapy Shows Promise
An innovative drug-delivery system nanoparticles encapsulating nitric oxide or prescription drugs shows promise for topical treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), according to a new study by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University...
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For Patients With Erectile Dysfunction (ED) , Treatment With Oral Medications Demonstrates Significant Improvements In Sexual Intercourse And ED
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued recommendations for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED)...
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