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(Georgetown University Medical Center) Georgetown University hosts "Censoring Research on Contagious H5N1 Influenza in 2012?

-- A Panel Discussion on Global Public Health, Legal, and Policy Controversies" on Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the New Research Building Auditorium on the campus of Georgetown University Medical Center.

The panel is free and open to the public.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable."

(Duke University Medical Center) Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost vaccine responses, said lead author Ashley St.

John, Ph.D.

LA hospital prepares to send tiny baby home A study published in the journal Pediatrics in 2010 found that many survivors have ongoing health and learning concerns.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) The US government's request that the journals Science and Nature withhold scientific information related to the genetically modified H5N1 virus because of biosecurity concerns does not violate the First Amendment, say two Georgetown University professors.

They caution, however, that a fair, transparent process undertaken by research organizations is preferable to governmental constraints on disseminating scientific information.

(Boston University Medical Center) Aromatase inhibitors prevent the conversion of androgens to estrogens, and could play a role in the development of breast cancer.

This study of 36 pre-menopausal women consisted of a cross-over intervention trial to determine if there were differences between red wine and white wine in their effects on AIs.

(Duke University Medical Center) Tuning in to tune out may be just what's needed for men undergoing a prostate biopsy, according to researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute.

(Boston University Medical Center) BUSM researchers identify novel compound to halt virus replication.

(John Theurer Cancer Center) Researchers from the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, one of the nation's top 50 best hospitals for cancer, presented results from 31 major studies of blood-related cancers -- leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma -- during the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dec. 10-13, 2011, in San Diego.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) In a major step that could revolutionize biomedical research, scientists have discovered a way to keep normal cells as well as tumor cells taken from an individual cancer patient alive in the laboratory -- which previously had not been possible.

Normal cells usually die in the lab after dividing only a few times, and many common cancers will not grow, unaltered, outside of the body.