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There are currently more than a dozen compounds in development that hope to treat cancer through similar attempts at inhibition of angiogenesis, all used by different researchers across the country...
...tend to divorce? A devoutly Roman Catholic couple, for example, might skip living together and go straight into a long-running marriage, while a couple who at the outset are doubtful of marriage might live together first before trying a marriage that fails. "It is inappropriate and simplistic to treat cohabitation as the major factor affecting divorce," says Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "The trend in divorce stretches back over the last hundred years, so clearly it wasn't caused by cohabitation." Indeed, cohabitation may have helped stall the rising divorce rate by weeding out unstable...
...death or permanent disability from stroke if they give the victims a drug called TPA within three hours of the first symptoms. Last week investigators using another drug therapy proved that the treatment window can be stretched to six hours. Yet most emergency rooms aren't set up to treat a stroke that quickly. And most stroke patients wait an average of 13 hours before seeking medical attention...
...friend of mine saw an ad for a restaurant that said, "We treat you like family." My friend remarked, "That...
CANCER CATCH-22 In a report out last week, scientists found that drugs derived from platinum and used to treat ovarian cancer--the cornerstone of today's treatment--may quadruple a woman's risk of developing leukemia. That's not to say that chemotherapy should be avoided. The odds that an ovarian cancer patient will develop leukemia are still quite slim: only 71 among 10,000 women taking the highest doses for the longest periods became ill with leukemia...