Targeted therapy slows recurrent SCC in patient.
PALM BEACH, FLA. -- Patients with multiple recurrent skin cancers may do better with targeted medical therapy if surgical excision is inadequate, according to a dermatologist who treated a particularly difficult case. The patient was a 52-year-old man, a Florida native who had had a great deal...

Bioniche Reports Fiscal 2009 First Quarter.
- revenues increase by 37% over same quarter in Fiscal 2008 - (all figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted) BELLEVILLE, ON, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for the...

The role of estrogens and estrogen receptors in normal prostate growth and disease.
Estrogens have significant direct and indirect effects on prostate gland development and homeostasis and have been long suspected in playing a role in the etiology of prostatic diseases. Direct effects are mediated through prostatic estrogen receptors alpha (ERalpha) and beta (ERbeta) with expression levels changing over time and with...

Important functions of estrogens in men--breakthrough in contemporary medicine.
Estradiol (E2) is traditionally recognised as the female sex hormone. Since discovery of estrogens in the early forties of XX century it has been believed, that these hormones caused impairment of the gonadal function in men or didn't exert any influence. New studies are contradictory, but indicate also a...

Stubborn belief.
STUBBORN BELIEF: Twenty years ago, Gerald Britt, a pastor in Dallas, lost an 11-year-old son to scleroderma. Last year, another son was murdered. The week after that son's funeral, Britt found out that he has prostrate cancer. He has concluded that there is no theological explanation sufficient to make...

Geisinger uses medical home model to trim inpatient costs.
WASHINGTON -- Geisinger Health System has used a medical home model to slash inpatient costs in a demonstration program that it is now expanding to more of its practice sites, Dr. Glenn Steele Jr., CEO, said at a press briefing. The pilot was conducted at Geisinger's practice...

Dynavax Posts Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-7 November 2008-Dynavax Posts Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dynavax Technologies Corp. this week reported financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30. Dynavax's cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and investments held by Symphony...