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Lower Levels Of Key Protein Influence Tumor Growth In Mice, Stanford Study Shows
Tumors need a healthy supply of blood to grow and spread. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that regulates blood vessel growth that is often found at less-than-normal levels in human tumors. Blocking the expression of the molecule, called PHD2, allows human cancer cells to grow more quickly when implanted into mice and increases the number of blood vessels feeding the tumor.
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WHO Closer To Declaring Swine Flu Outbreak A Pandemic
The WHO on Tuesday said it was "getting closer" to declaring the H1N1 (swine) flu outbreak to be a pandemic, as the virus continues to spread to people outside of North America, and in populations "as far apart as Britain, Spain, Japan, Chile and Australia," the AP/Washington Post reports (Jordans, AP/Washington Post, 6/2).
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Sol-Gel Anti-Acne Clinical Study Shows Significantly Improved Efficacy And Safety
Sol-Gel Technologies Ltd, a specialty pharmaceuticals company, announced today results from a comparative clinical study. The results demonstrate that the company"s two strength Anti-Acne kits achieved pronounced efficacy and markedly improved tolerability. The study will be presented at the 10th International Congress of Dermatology in Prague, May 20-23, 2009.
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Obama May Settle For Democrat-Only Support To Pass Health Reform

"President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican resistance doesn"t eventually give way, two of the president"s top advisers said," Bloomberg reports. "Both (Obama"s senior political strategist David) Axelrod and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said taking a partisan route to enacting major health-care legislation isn"t the president"s preferred choice. Yet in separate interviews, each man left that option open. "We"d like to do it with the votes of members of both parties," Axelrod said. "But the worst result would be to not get health-care reform done."" "Emanuel, making a theoretical case for a party-line vote, offered a definition of bipartisanship based not on roll-call votes but on whether Democrats have accepted Republican ideas during the process of negotiations. He said Democrats already have passed that test, pointing to Republican amendments that the Democratic-controlled Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has adopted. ... ""That"s a test of bipartisanship -- whether you took ideas from both parties," Emanuel said. "At the end of the day, the test isn"t whether they voted for it," he said, referring to Republicans. "The test is whether the final product represented some of their ideas. And I think it will."" Emanuel also said he thinks reform can get done without using the budget reconciliation process should a filibuster threat arise (Chen, 7/15). Obama"s political organization is also running TV ads boosting reform, The Associated Press reports: "The 30-second ads will begin airing Wednesday in Washington, D.C., and on cable TV nationally. A version will run on local stations in eight states to prod senators to back the health care effort. They will run for two weeks." The group wouldn"t reveal how much it spent on the ads (7/15). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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