Adolescents attending college six months after completing high school are significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who do not go to college, according to the first study to directly compare the two groups.

A research team has uncovered the likely target of niacin (vitamin B3) in the liver, which should provide a clearer picture of how this vitamin helps maintain adequate HDL-cholesterol levels in the blood and thus lower the risk of heart disease.While niacin can increase plasma HDL levels, the mechanism of how it works has been mysterious, although it’s believed that niacin does not actually increase HDL production.

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - This group of authors from San Francisco attempted to push the envelope for the use of FISH in clinical practice. In this study, FISH falls short when used to screen upper tracts in patients following cystectomy (both continent and non-continent diversions).

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - This international group of investigators evaluated a large cohort of men treated with either radical prostatectomy (RP n=6196) or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT n=4137) between 1983 and 2004. Hormonal therapy was not used in either group. Need for subsequent extirpative treatment for bladder, lung, or colorectal cancer was examined. The investigators controlled for age, baseline co-morbidities, and year of treatment.

A group of Swiss investigators has reported on a new conceptualization of the effects of behavioral conditioning in allergic rhinitis in the fourth 2008 issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Allergic symptoms can be induced by behavioral conditioning. However, the conditionability of antiallergic effects has not yet been studied.

There is a need to remove the major ethnic inequalities which still exist in access to cancer services and outcomes, according to the latest edition of Science & Public Affairs.

Until recently, the traditional approach to precancerous lesions of the endometrium was based on curettage (scraping), a blind and aggressive diagnostic procedure that didn’t single out focal from extended lesions. Lacking more precise information, clinical doctors used to turn to hysterectomy, or uterus removal, which precluded future pregnancies to affected women.

Synvista Therapeutics, Inc. (Amex: SYI) announced data from three Phase 2 trials (Trials 201a, 201 and 203) of SYI-2074 in Type 2 diabetic patients. Trial 201a established that haptoglobin (Hp) types, the target of Synvista’s proprietary haptoglobin variant test currently under development, correlated with a difference in baseline levels of plasma isoprostanes, confirming that Hp2-2 in diabetic patients is associated with increased oxidized lipids.

Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDQ: ROSG), a leader in the development of microRNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic products, announced a research collaboration with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Kleberg Center for Molecular Markers to develop a microRNA- based diagnostic test to predict risk of disease recurrence in lung cancer patients who have undergone curative resection.

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