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Provocative Spot Highlights Cancer Risk from Processed Meats; Commercial Airing in Cities Across the Country; Survey Shows Atlanta, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and D.C. Schools Are Worst Offenders

"Imaging for Primary and Secondary Prevention: Improving the Detection Gap."

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- In a historically unprecedented move, over 30 national HIV/AIDS organizations and leaders representing African-American, Latino, Native American/Alaska Native, and Asian & Pacific Islander communities ha

Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on in-licensing, developing and commercializing proprietary product candidates principally for use in the hospital setting, announced today that the company's President and CEO Theodore

Gen-Probe Incorporated announced today that the Company will present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference 2008 on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at approximately 8 a.m. Eastern Time. The presentation is scheduled to be webcast live and may b

The following is being issued by Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue.

Intravenous magnesium sulfate supplementation before preterm delivery cuts the risk for handicapping cerebral palsy in half, according to research led by University of Alabama at Birmingham obstetrician Dwight Rouse, M.D., and published in the Aug. 28 is

Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla have found evidence explaining why a common chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, may not always work for every cancer patient. They have shown that when a variant ver