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...patients or that some prostate cancers may mutate to the point where antiandrogen drugs are simply ineffective. "There could be changes that are preventing the drug from binding," he says. "It's a bit like trying to hit a moving target." But for now, MDV3100 offers some potential as better ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Experimental Prostate-Cancer Drug Shows Promise | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...been a clinical impression for a long time that in some patients with asthma, if you treated their reflux, their asthma got better," says Dr. John Mastronarde, an author of the new study and the director of the asthma center at Ohio State University, who has prescribed the medications known as proton pump inhibitors (PPI) to about a quarter of his asthma patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...surprised," says Mastronarde. "I actually expected people would get better if they had acid in their esophagus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Acid Reflux Drugs No Help for Asthma | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...donated to Harvard, three are gifts from actor and polo fan Tommy Lee Jones ’69; the rest are privately owned, typically older horses lent to the team for the season. Though a school like Cornell boasts a 30-horse string, Harvard’s 14 are better than nothing (what the team had last year), and if proper arrangements with outside interests are made, the team may see double the number of ponies next fall, according to Crocker...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grabbing the Reins | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...eastern European colleagues. When Klaus—an outspoken supporter and ally of George W. Bush, standing by his missile shield project against popular opinion—invited the American leader for dinner in Prague Castle, Obama wasn’t afraid to tell him that he had better plans. He knew where his priorities lay; dinner with Michelle at a top restaurant with a view of Prague was evidently a much more productive use of his time than appeasing the self-importance of a fellow president who had backed the wrong horse. (Of course, Obama expressed his refusal...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Prague-nosis: Excellent | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

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