Archive for: May, 2009

New Research Shows Antidepressants May Thwart Breast Cancer Treatment

New Research Shows Antidepressants May Thwart Breast Cancer Treatment

Popular antidepressants taken with tamoxifen can increase the risk of breast cancer recurrence A new study found that taking tamoxifen with certain antidepressants more than doubled the risk of breast cancer recurrence in women taking both medications. The antidepressants inhibit an enzyme, CYP2D6, which helps tamoxifen work effectively. The study was conducted by researchers from [...]

Scientists at The Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit Identify Potential New Target for Breast Cancer Therapy

Scientists at The Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit Identify Potential New Target for Breast Cancer Therapy

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has selected new breast cancer research conducted at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit for posting on ASCO’s Web site. Karmanos’ potentially ground-breaking findings identify a promising new therapeutic target for aggressive hormone receptor negative breast cancer tumors. The research appears at www.ASCO.org and www.jco.org and [...]

Sicilian island, myth and eternal beauties for holidays

Sicilian island, myth and eternal beauties for holidays

When in 1949 Rossellini, together with the actress Bergmann and his film crew, disembarked at Stromboli the island must have seemed an ancient, mysterious world, a wild, far away land dominated by its volcano, as if it were a divinity. The pictures of the Sweden star walking with bare feet on the black rocks, among [...]

Fashion and Design Summer Courses in Milan for summer 2009

Fashion and Design Summer Courses in Milan for summer 2009

About Milan. com presents this year a new Naba’s summer programme that consists of a variety of courses addressed to students whose desire is to work in the field of Italian fashion and represent a complete and high quality training able to satisfy all kinds of needs. These are 2-weeks programmes that develop on three [...]

UNICEF Appeals for Funding to Urgently Assist Displaced Children and Women in Northwest Pakistan

UNICEF Appeals for Funding to Urgently Assist Displaced Children and Women in Northwest Pakistan

UNICEF has appealed for an additional $41.4 million to provide urgent assistance to people displaced by fighting in northwest Pakistan. Over half of the displaced are children. UNICEF Pakistan has now almost exhausted its contingency stocks of supplies and funding. Humanitarian efforts have been strained by the very rapid increase in the number of people [...]

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