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Early Data Presented at ASCO Show Potential of RAD001 to Enhance Efficacy of, and Overcome Resistance to, Breast Cancer Treatments (Popularity:  )
Early proof-of-concept studies presented today show RAD001 (everolimus) may offer a novel treatment strategy for breast cancer by enhancing the efficacy of, and overcoming resistance to, several commonly used breast cancer treatments.
Findings from a Phase II study show that RAD001 enhances tumor shrinkage when given in combination with letrozole tablets (Femara(R)) to postmenopausal women with newly diagnosed estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer. Further, initial results from two Phase I ...
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Study Finds More Than One in Two Women are Too Embarrassed to Discuss Vaginal Discomfort With Their Doctors (Popularity: )
Despite living in a society that promotes images and icons of female empowerment like "Sex and the City's" Carrie Bradshaw, popular sex therapist Dr. Sue Johannsen and even former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner, more than one in two women are embarrassed and uncomfortable discussing pertinent issues of vaginal health. That's the major finding from the Vagisil(R) Voice for Women survey, administered to U.S. women, ages 18 and older, ...
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Pro-Life Author Enjoys Early Mother's Day Gift - A New Born Son (Popularity: )
Author Jennie Chancey brought precious, new life to the phrase "stay-at-home mom" when she unexpectedly went into labor in her Birmingham home less than a month before Mother's Day. On April 14 at 6:42 PM, her husband Matthew helped her deliver their eighth child-a boy weighing in at 6 lbs, 12 oz -- two minutes before the 911 crew arrived. Baby and mommy are doing well.
"Labor went at warp ...
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Fred Jordan Mission's 19th Annual Mother's Makeovers for Hundreds of Underprivilged Mothers (Popularity: )
Love will not only change outward appearances. It will transform lives and renew the crushed spirits of abandoned, abused women.
The power of "love" will be transmitted by the acts of kindness of more than 150 professional volunteer hair stylists, make-up artists and manicurists at Fred Jordan Missions 19th Annual Mother's Makeovers for impoverished women on Skid Row and the inner city.
The Mission's Annual Mother's Makeovers will include shampoos, ...
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Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk for Women Celebrates 15 Years in Los Angeles on May 10 (Popularity: )
The 15th annual Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk For Women -- the largest fundraiser of its kind for women's cancers in the nation -- will be held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this Mother's Day weekend on Saturday, May 10.
Tom Selleck, star of CBS's "Jesse Stone" franchise and NBC's "Las Vegas," Carrie Ann Inaba, star of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" and "Dance Wars: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann," ...
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Survey: Many Women Aspire to For-Profit Board Membership (Popularity: )
Many women executives who currently serve on non-profit boards of directors actively aspire to serve on for-profit boards -- where women currently are dramatically underrepresented -- according to a survey released today by the Simmons School of Management () in Boston.
But survey authors say that the growing number of organizations who want more women board members need to change their traditional search procedures. And women who aspire to board ...
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National Spokeswoman Eva Longoria Parker to Accept $200,000 Donation From AT&T to Benefit PADRES Contra El Cancer (Popularity: )
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced a $200,000 donation to PADRES Contra El Cancer (PADRES) national spokeswoman Eva Longoria Parker to benefit the organization. PADRES is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality of life for Latino children who are battling cancer.
"We are extremely grateful for AT&T's generosity and commitment to PADRES and the Latino community," said Parker, actress and PADRES national spokeswoman. "The money AT&T raised will ...
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China Yuchai International Enters into Joint Venture with Geely and Yinlun (Popularity: )
China Yuchai International Limited (NYSE: CYD) ("China Yuchai" or the "Company"), the leading manufacturer and distributor of diesel engines in China, announced today that its subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited ("Yuchai"), has entered into an Equity Joint Venture Agreement with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. ("Geely") and Zhejiang Yinlun Machinery Co, Limited ("Yinlun"), to form two joint venture companies in Tiantai, Zhejiang Province and Jining, Shandong Province.
The ...
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Dr. Welsh 'Self-Test' Diagnoses Glaucoma, the Leading Cause of Preventable- Blindness (Popularity: )
According to the World Health Organization, more than five million people, mostly elderly blacks, needlessly suffer from total incurable Glaucoma-Blindness ("White-Canes"). Most lacked the opportunity to get tested for earlier Glaucoma before Glaucoma robbed them of all sight. Dr. Robert Welsh, a Rotarian, a world-renowned Eye Surgeon and a leading Medical Missionary can help prevent 80,000 new cases a year through administering his new unique invention: The Welsh "Self-Test."
This ...
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U.S. Census Bureau Black History Month Daily Feature for February 10 (Popularity: )
Following is the daily Black History Month 2008 "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10: JOHN JOHNSON
Profile America for the 10th day of Black History Month. Clipping newspaper and magazine articles about African-Americans gave John Johnson an idea, one that not only made him wealthy and honored but changed the self-perception of the black community. The idea was to publish a magazine about African-Americans. Borrowing ...
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