The drug Herceptin cuts the risk of tumours returning in women with early stage breast cancer by 50%, a US study has shown.
A second study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed Herceptin can also reduce cancer recurrence when combined with a chemotherapy drug.
BBC.
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A stay from Thomas kept the inmate from having the abortion on Saturday. However, on Monday, he joined the other eight justices in rejecting the state’s emergency appeal. That suggests that Thomas’ stay was only a procedural maneuver to give the full court time to review arguments in the case.
San Francisco Gate.
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I remember reading about a study in Madrid around 1999 or 2000 in which THC was found to kill brain tumors in mice. It was on Yahoo! News and the story was removed after a week or two, and I’ve never been able to find anything else about it… until now:

Dr Melamede said whereas nicotine […]

The Human Security Report found a decline in every form of political violence except terrorism since 1992.
“A lot of the data we have in this report is extraordinary,” its director, former UN official Andrew Mack, said.
It found the number of armed conflicts had fallen by more than 40% in the past 13 years, […]

STEM cells have for the first time been harvested from embryos without killing them, using a technique that could eventually provide children with a personal store of spare part tissue for treating diseases later in life. The successful experiment in the United States paves the way for scientists to create and “bank” master cells that […]

Biotechnology company Vical Inc. said on Tuesday the National Institutes of Health has started a midstage trial of an experimental vaccine for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Reuters.
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While initial testing of an avian flu vaccine shows promise and trials should be completed by the end of the year, questions remain about the vaccine’s ability to protect large numbers of people, U.S. researchers say.
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The initial trial, done on healthy adults, produced a strong immune response in 113 of the 452 participants in the […]

A vaccine shown to be 100% effective against two virus strains that cause most cervical cancer could be available within a year, say manufacturers.
Gardasil worked against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV).
Some 12,167 women aged 16 to 23 from 13 countries, including the UK, took part in the drug company study.
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Letting your baby suck on a pacifier before bed may help reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
That’s the conclusion of a review of studies done on pacifier use. And the evidence was compelling enough for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to include a recommendation about pacifier use in its updated […]

“Almost two-thirds of women now diagnosed with breast cancer are likely to survive at least 20 years, experts have predicted.”
Telegraph.
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