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...central Rangoon compound after arriving unexpectedly from the lake complaining of cramps and exhaustion. He also faces prison time. A lawyer for Suu Kyi called Yettaw a "nutty fellow" and says she pleaded with him to leave. Some observers say the military is seizing on the incident to prolong Suu Kyi's detention and discourage pro-democracy forces ahead of next year's elections. (See pictures of Burma after Cyclone Nargis...
...main effect of the drug was to normalize the blood vessels and reduce swelling, allowing the animals to live longer with the tumor, said Kamoun. “This was the first preclinical study to show that normalization of vessels alone without chemotherapy and radiation can prolong life,” Jain said. Currently, clinical trials using cediranib to treat patients with both recurrent and newly-diagnosed glioblastoma are underway in Boston and internationally to further study the drug’s efficacy. In the future, the researchers hope the drug can be used in combination with traditional chemotherapy...
...battle to preserve and prolong women's fertility has become increasingly visible of late. While advances in techniques like cryopreservation (the freezing and storing of eggs and embryos, for example, and now also ovarian tissue for transplants) have increased many women's chances of pregnancy, IVF is still a time-consuming and expensive process - and one that holds no guarantees. Success rates with IVF parallel fertility rates in the general population, dramatically declining with age. After 40, success rates drop to as low as 23%, and after age 43, Silber says, pregnancy is very rare...
...Senate, which would bring them even closer to a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. "They're willing to let Minnesota have one Senator in order to delay my getting there," Franken recently told the Associated Press. For his part, Coleman has said he is "not in this to prolong it" but "to get it right" - though his decision to attend meetings with his former GOP colleagues in the Senate has struck some observers as presumptuous...
...Called John McCain a phony conservative during the 2008 Presidential campaign and promoted "Operation Chaos," in which Republicans would register as Democrats and vote for Hillary Clinton the primaries to prolong the Clinton-Obama infighting among liberals. (Read TIME's 2008 Q&A with Limbaugh about his feelings on John McCain...