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  1. 1930s Drug Slows Tumor Growth-11/6/09

    Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer.
    http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2009/11_06_09.html
  2. Scientists Reveal How Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Differ From Embryonic Stem Cells and Tissue of Derivation-11/4/09

    The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research from Johns Hopkins and Harvard.
    http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2009/11_04_09.html
  3. Teen Girls With PID More Likely To Tell and Seek Treatment For Partners After Watching Video-11/4/09

    A study at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center found that girls diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) who watched a short educational video were three times more likely to discuss their condition with their partners and to ensure partner treatment than girls diagnosed and treated without seeing the film.
    http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/Teen-Girls-With-PID-More-Likely-To-Tell-and-Seek-Treatment-For-Partners-After-Watching-Video.aspx
  4. Low Cholesterol May Shrink Risk for High-Grade Prostate Cancer-11/3/09

    Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high-grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study.
    http://www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter.org/index.cfm/cID/1684/mpage/item.cfm/itemID/1140
 
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