A 2,000-calorie appetizer. A 2,000-calorie main course. Another 1,700 calories for dessert. Those aren?t typos. It?s more like par for the course at Ruby Tuesday, On the Border, the Cheesecake Factory, and countless other top table-service chain restaurants.
Everyone hopes that one day stem cell-based regenerative medicine will help repair diseased tissue. Before then, it may be necessary to decipher the epigenetic signals that give stem cells their unique ability to self-renew and transform them into different cell types.
Roche announced that it is temporarily suspending recruitment into its Phase II dose-finding study (NH19960) with the investigational drug C.E.R.A. in anaemic patients with advanced non small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy.
The American Heart Association and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, announce the launch of a new consumer magazine, Heart Insight, for heart patients, their families and caregivers.
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACOR) announced that it has received a letter from Third Point LLC dated February 22, 2007.
Roche announced that it is temporarily suspending recruitment into its Phase II dose-finding study (NH19960) with the investigational drug C.E.R.A. in anaemic patients with advanced non small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy.
Gauteng Health Department in partnership with African Musicians Against HIV and Aids (AMAHA) will host Ekasi S’ vukile concert at Soweto, Mofolo Park on February 24, 2007.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNAIDS Secretariat welcome the publication today in The Lancet of the detailed findings of two trials undertaken in Kenya and Uganda to determine whether male circumcision has a protective effect against acquiring HIV infection.
A study has found that African-American and Hispanic adults have twice the odds of reporting receiving counseling about alcohol use from a physician, compared with white adults.
Male circumcision significantly reduces the risk of acquiring HIV in young African men, according to a study led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor of epidemiology Robert Bailey.