The Food and Drug Administration has issued a first slate of decisions affecting the market for tobacco products, approving two new products and rejecting four.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/25/science/la-sci-fda-tobacco-20130625
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The Food and Drug Administration has issued a first slate of decisions affecting the market for tobacco products, approving two new products and rejecting four.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/25/science/la-sci-fda-tobacco-20130625
NCI officials outlined a plan to bring together the agency's contract lab in Frederick, Maryland, and outside researchers to find ways to block a mutated protein that drives growth in one-third of all cancers.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/06/us-cancer-institute-megaproject-.html?ref=hp
A promising new treatment for breast cancer being developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) has been shown in cell culture and in animal models to selectively kill cancer stem cells.
http://www.stemcellsfreak.com/2013/06/breast-cancer-stem-cells.html
A new study looking at the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in girls and women before and after the introduction of the HPV vaccine shows a significant reduction in vaccine-type HPV in U.S. teens.
http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0619-hpv-vaccinations.html
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step for use without a prescription or age restrictions, effectively ending more than a decade of legal and regulatory wrangling over the controversial morning-after pill.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fda-plan-b-20130621,0,3037557.story
Two researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered the chemical that makes naked mole rats cancer-proof.
The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could induce physicians to pay more attention to the condition and spur more insurers to pay for treatments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/business/ama-recognizes-obesity-as-a-disease.html?_r=0
A mechanism that cells use to group together and move around the body – called 'chase and run' - has been described for the first time by scientists at UCL.
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i24/Pushing-Cancer-Over-Edge.html
Memory improved in mice injected with a small, drug-like molecule discovered by UCSF San Francisco researchers studying how cells respond to biological stress.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/memory-boosting-chemical-is-identified-in-mice
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that human genes isolated from the body can't be patented, a victory for doctors and patients who argued that such patents interfere with scientific research and the practice of medicine.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324049504578543250466974398.html