Health Highlights: May 11, 2012

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:Source:
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Health Highlights: May 10, 2012

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:Source:
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Health Highlights: May 9, 2012

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:Source:
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Prostate, Baldness Drugs Linked to Sexual Dysfunction [Medical News & Perspectives]

Medications used to treat male baldness or an enlarged prostate that contain the active ingredient finasteride have been linked to sexual dysfunction and infertility, according to a notice about changes to the drugs' labels from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Source:
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Scientists find differences in naked mole rat's protein disposers

The naked mole rat's unusually long and healthy life span may be explained by cellular machinery that disposes of damaged proteins. Scientists found that this machinery differs in composition from that of other rodents.Source:
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Interleukin Genetics Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results

Interleukin Genetics, Inc. today announced financial and operational results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012.Source:
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Seattle Genetics to Present at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Health Care Conference

Seattle Genetics, Inc. announced today that management will present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2012 Health Care Conference on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.Source:
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NewLink Genetics Corporation Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results

AMES, Iowa — NewLink Genetics Corporation , a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today reported consolidated financial results for the …Source:
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Seattle Genetics Announces Data from Investigator Trial of ADCETRIS™ in Relapsed Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma

Seattle Genetics, Inc. today announced that interim results from an investigator-sponsored phase II clinical trial of ADCETRIS in patients with relapsed cutaneous T-cell lymphoma were presented at the Society for Investigative Dermatology annual meeting being held May 9-12, 2012 in Raleigh, NC.Source:
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Response Genetics, Inc. Announces First Quarter Financial Results

Response Genetics Inc. , , a company focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer, today announced its consolidated finaSource:
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Seattle Genetics Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results

Seattle Genetics, Inc. today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. The company also highlighted the ADCETRIS prSource:
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Gene therapy for hearing loss: Potential and limitations

Regenerating sensory hair cells could form the basis for treating age- or trauma-related hearing loss. One way to do this could be with gene therapy that drives new sensory hair cells to grow. Researchers have shown that introducing a gene called Atoh1 into the cochleae of young mice can induce the formation of extra sensory hair cells.Source:
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Dani Lecher focuses on future in medicine

Park City High School sophomore Dani Lecher is planning to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine at the Berkeley University andSource:
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Forensic medicine increasingly popular career option

KOTA KINABALU: Forensic pathology or forensic medicine is becoming a popular career option for many doctors. There is [...]Source:
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Evolution of medicine at St. Cloud Hospital

After almost six years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent in construction, St. Cloud Hospital officials are ready for Central Minnesotans to see what all the excitement is about. It's clearly about the future.Source:
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Failure to Take Medicine Linked to Unnecessary Hospital Visits, Especially for Medicare Patients Taking High Blood …

ATLANTA, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Older patients with high cholesterol or high blood pressure are at particular risk for unnecessary hospitalizations if they don't follow doctor's orders on taking …Source:
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First-graders get 19 fluffy lessons in embryology – www.roanoke.com

A 4-H program let students at Herman L. Horn Elementary watch real eggs turn into real white leghorn chicks. The first-graders in Kathleen Lunsford's classroom at Herman L. Horn Elementary School may have settled the age-old debate about which came first, the chicken or the egg. Sort of. At this Roanoke County school, the egg arrived first — actually two dozen of them, fertilized at a Blackstone …Source:
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Lessons on life taught at L.B. Morris Elementary School

VICTOR IZZO/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS Gently holding some of the chicks hatched out during their fourth grade's 4-H project called "Embryology" are L.B. Morris Elementary School students, front, left to right : Teegan Kunkle, Tanner Horn, and Kristen Scott; rear, from left : Holly Skrimcovsky, Casey Keeler, Dylan Millaed, and Brandon Becker.Source:
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Choffin students bond with birds

Waffle waddles after student Deja Sharafan down a hallway at Choffin Career and Technical Center in Youngstown. It’s called imprinting, according to Holly Welch, biotechnology instructor at Choffin. Biotechnology students watched ducks and chickens develop inside their eggs and hatch as part of their annual embryology project.Source:
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DNA match fingers suspect 14 years after murder

A DNA match led to the arrest of a man accused of murdering a teenaged New York girl 14 years ago in what had been an unsolved case, city prosecutors said Thursday.Source:
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