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Researchers find low prevalence of tamoxifen use for prevention of breast cancer among women

Researchers with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have found that the prevalence of tamoxifen use for the prevention of breast cancer among women without a personal history of breast cancer is very low. Tamoxifen can reduce the...

HIV/AIDS Therapy: Studies from D.Harte and colleagues reveal new findings on HIV/AIDS therapy

A new study, ' Immunosuppression among HIV-1-positive patients attending for care: experience from two large HIV centers in the UK ' is revealed by D. Harte and Colleagues. "The aim of the study was to describe the...

Cancer Therapy: New hope for therapy in heartburn-related cancer

Cancer of the gullet, or oesophagus, is one of the ten most common cancers in the Western world, and there have been recent alarming increases in the number of cases each year in the US and UK. ...

Johannes Gutenberg University forms a Joint Venture with Nagasaki University

The University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Nagasaki University in Japan plan to cooperate more closely in the future. At the focus of the partnership funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)...

According to a study Sexual function does not continuously decline after radiation therapy treatment

According to a study in the January 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) says, Sexual function in prostate cancer patients receiving external beam radiation therapy...

The first robotic system has been named one of 2009’s top 10 scientific discoveries by Time Magazine

The scientists designed the robot, called Adam, to carry out each stage of the scientific process automatically without the need for further human intervention. The robot discovered simple but new scientific knowledge about the genomics of the baker's yeast...

PET plays critical role in supporting Parkinson’s Disease Research

A study conducted to measure the effectiveness of dopamine cell transplantation in Parkinson’s disease patients shows significant improvements in motor skills and brain function, according to research reported in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM)....

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