Inside the effort to bring life-saving cell therapies to the masses
Doctors knew long before Owen Webb was born that they were racing against the clock to save his life.
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Archive: 12/12/2016
Aromatase inhibitors associated with reduced endothelial function in postmenopausal breast cancer patients
Postmenopausal women with breast cancer who took aromatase inhibitors demonstrated endothelial dysfunction, a predictor of cardiovascular disease, according to study results presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer ...
Dec 12, 2016
Fighting the stigma of medical treatment for opioid addiction in the U.S.
Methadone, the first pharmacological treatment for heroin addiction, was pioneered 50 years ago by Rockefeller University's Mary Jeanne Kreek and her colleagues. Since then the drug, which is widely used in treatment programs ...
Dec 12, 2016
Expert says economic stress played role in increasing U.S. death rate
Greater stress and anxiety resulting from economic insecurity may be at least partly to blame for the U.S. death rate that the government announced Dec. 8 has increased for the first time in a decade, says an expert on poverty ...
Dec 12, 2016
Massage gives infants breath of life in Ivory Coast
A mother from a working-class district of Abidjan watches fearfully while the physiotherapist presses down on the thorax and abdomen of her crying, struggling baby to help him breathe.
Dec 12, 2016
Drinking 'settings' tied to college sexual assault
Although alcohol is believed to play a role in college sexual assaults, a new study finds no evidence that male students' binge drinking per se boosts their odds of becoming a perpetrator.
Dec 12, 2016
