Michael Douglas Says He Has Stage Four Throat Cancer

September 2nd, 2010 by std
Michael Douglas told a US television audience on Tuesday night that he has been diagnosed with and is receiving treatment for stage four throat cancer. Speaking on David Letterman's "Late Show" to promote the release of his new film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps", the 65- year old American actor and producer said his doctors had told him he has an 80 per cent chance of survival...

Sexual activity of HIV patients

September 2nd, 2010 by std
Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s11845-010-0564-5Authors M. B. O’Connor, The School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, IrelandC. O’Connor, Department of GU/STD Medicine, Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, IrelandM. Horgan, The School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, IrelandA. Carr, HIV, Immunology and Infectious Diseases Clinical Services Unit, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, AustraliaD. A. Cooper, HIV, Immunology and Infectious Diseases Clinical Services Unit, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia Journal Irish Journal of Medical ScienceOnline ISSN 1863-4362Print ISSN 0021-1265 (Source: Irish Journal of Medical Science)

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Ovatech™ Reports Successful Completion Of Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of Ovaprene™ Non-Hormonal Intravaginal Contraceptive Ring

September 2nd, 2010 by std
Ovatech, an emerging women's health-focused company, announced that the Company's Phase 2 clinical study of its non-hormonal, intravaginal contraceptive ring, Ovaprene, has been successfully completed...

CO2 gas exchange across the human tympanic membrane is not appreciably affected by pathology

September 1st, 2010 by std
The objective of the study was to determine if transTM CO2 exchange in humans is affected by atrophic and sclerotic pathologies. The study used an ear canal (EC) probe (ECP) constructed from a custom-fitted acrylic body, a glass capillary tube enclosing an oil meniscus to maintain ambient ECP + EC pressure and a silica glass microtube linked to a mass spectrometer (MS) for measuring gas composition that was hermetically sealed within the ear canal of the test ear. ECP + EC volume was measured and gas samples taken at 10 min intervals for 1 h. The fractional CO2 pressure measured in the ECP + EC for each sample was regressed on time and the slope of the function multiplied by the ECP + EC volume and divided by the estimated transTM CO2 ...

Sex education, STIs and politicians make a toxic combination

September 1st, 2010 by std
Should our response to the rising number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) be a call for more ignorance, as one MP appears to believe?Woody Allen, in the movie Annie Hall, tells a joke about how two elderly (probably Jewish) women are at a Catskill Mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." That's how I feel about sex education in Britain's schools. Over the bank holiday weekend, an MP, Stewart Jackson (Conservative, Peterborough) in response to media reports of a rise in the number of STIs (sexually transmitted infections) in teenagers, said on Twitter that the problem was too much sex education. He tweeted on 26 August:V disappointing news on STD rates in Pboro. No doubt our ...