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Why men’s health is a feminist issue

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Source: www.msmagazine.com Author: Adina Nack Jorge (not his real name) feared his girlfriend would dump him. He’d been diagnosed with genital warts before meeting her, and hadn’t yet told her about his infection. Jorge was being careful—no skin-to-skin sexual contact—but the disclosure was looming. So he’d done some research and learned what caused genital warts. Armed with [...]

What’s in a cigarette? FDA will study the ingredients

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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Source: Yahoo Author: MICHAEL FELBERBAUM RICHMOND, Va. – The Food and Drug Administration is working to lift the smokescreen clouding the ingredients used in cigarettes and other tobacco products. In June, tobacco companies must tell the FDA their formulas for the first time, just as drugmakers have for decades. Manufacturers also will have to turn over any studies they’ve done [...]

Kids may mistake new tobacco products for candy

Friday, January 15, 2010

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Source: Clippertoday.com Author: Melinda Williams FARMINGTON — New tobacco products often look like candy, and their packaging may look like cell phones or other electronics. “But there’s no such thing as a safe tobacco product,” Davis County health educator Isa Kaluhikaua told Board of Health members Tuesday. Kaluhikaua brought examples of smoking alternatives to show board members, most [...]

Transoral robotic surgery gets FDA approval

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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Source: Medgadget Author: Staff The FDA has given the go ahead for surgeons to use robotic surgery for procedures in the throat and nearby regions by going through the mouth. In effect, this is a new indication for the Da Vinci Surgical System from Intuitive Medical, as it is the only robot of its type that can be [...]

FDA clears transoral robotic surgery – developed at Penn –for tumors of mouth, throat and voice box

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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Source: www.healthcanal.com Author: staff A minimally invasive surgical approach developed by head and neck surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The da Vinci Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, California) has been cleared for TransOral Otolaryngology surgical procedures to treat benign tumors and [...]

Evaluation of in vitro assays for assessing the toxicity of cigarette smoke and smokeless tobacco

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Source: aacrjournals Author: Staff Requests for reprints:Peter G. Shields, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3800 Reservoir Road Northwest, LL (S) Level, Room 150, Washington, DC 20057-1465. Phone: 202-687-0003. E-mail: pgs2@georgetown.edu Abstract Background: In vitro toxicology studies of tobacco and tobacco smoke have been used to understand why tobacco use causes cancer and to assess the toxicologic impact of [...]

U.S. smoking rates remain steady, but vary widely by state

Friday, November 13, 2009

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Source: Medical News Author: John Gever National rates of cigarette smoking showed little change in 2008 from a year earlier, the CDC reported, though states vary widely both in rates of current smoking and exposures of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke. Some 20.6% of Americans were current smokers in 2008 (95% CI 19.9% to 21.4%), not significantly different from [...]

Biovex agrees to Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) with the FDA for a pivotal phase III study with Oncovexin head and neck cancer

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Source: www.pressreleasepoint.com Author: press release BioVex Inc, a biotechnology company developing clinical stage treatments for cancer and the prevention of infectious disease, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the design of a single, pivotal, Phase III clinical trial evaluating its lead product, OncoVEXGM-CSF for the first line treatment of patients with [...]

Males can get HPV vaccine Gardasil thanks, in part, to Gulfport cancer survivor

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Source: St. Petersburg Times Author: John Barry David Hastings’ crusade to inoculate boys against a cancer-causing virus that afflicts women — but threatened him, too — has scored a victory. But it’s not quite the one he has been fighting for in the past three years. A panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week [...]

HPV vaccine fails to get nod for routine use in boys

Friday, October 23, 2009

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Source: Medscape.com Author: Robert Lowes October 21, 2009 — Despite hearing impassioned pleas to protect both men and women from cancer, a federal advisory panel today declined to recommend that a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine be routinely administered to boys to prevent genital warts. Instead, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) issued a “permissive” recommendation stating that [...]

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