A recent meta-analysis of five major breast cancer trials has confirmed that combination treatment with the antibody trastuzumab and chemotherapy improves survival in women with operable HER-2 positive breast cancer.
The 146 Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) decided unanimously this week to begin negotiating a protocol on illicit trade of tobacco products and adopt guidelines that stipulate 100% smoke-free public places and workplaces.
A virus that has been specifically designed by scientists to be safe to normal tissue but deadly to cancer is showing early promise in a preliminary study, researchers said at the ESMO Conference Lugano (ECLU), Switzerland.
TMC125 (etravirine, ETR), Tibotec’s investigational next-generation non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), demonstrated significant efficacy in patients with NNRTI resistance, according to the 24-week primary endpoint analysis from two ongoing, phase III studies published in the 7 July, 2007, issue of The Lancet.
The more complex the assisted reproduction procedure, the more likely the umbilical cord develops in an atypical place or have other abnormalities, a scientist told the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday, July 4). Mrs. Ilse Delbaere, from Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, said that the study, including over 4000 twin pregnancies, was the first to examine umbilical cord abnormalities in such a large population.
Exposing a developing female sheep fetus to low doses of chemicals commonly present in the environment can disturb the development of the ovary, a scientist told the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday, July 4). Dr. Paul Fowler, of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, said that this research would help to establish the importance of the effect of environmental chemicals for fertility.
Preimplantation genetic screening did not increase but instead significantly reduced the rates of ongoing pregnancies and live births after IVF in women of advanced maternal age.
On June_21, 2007, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of a $152 billion Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. An amendment to the bill would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research by changing a critical date relating to the eligibility of stem cell lines.
Complementary therapies in assisted reproduction may diminish the effectiveness of medical treatment for infertility in women, a scientist will tell the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France, Wednesday, July 4.
Although most psychosocial research into infertility is centered round the unhappiness it causes women, men suffer just as much, a scientist will tell the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Wednesday, July 4.