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Monday 23 November 2009
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Opiate Painkillers May Encourage Spread Of Cancer
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
New research from the US adds weight to the growing body of evidence that opiate-based painkillers like morphine, which has been used to treat postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two hundred years, encourage cancer cells to grow and spread...
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Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Spread Among Hospital Patients In Wales, UK
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
There is evidence that a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread from person to person in a South Wales hospital in the UK and it appears that some of them acquired the illness while in hospital...
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Gene Silencing To Boost Biological Drug Yields
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
An American biotech company is planning to use a new technique called RNA interference (RNAi) to boost yields of biological drugs by improving the performance of drug-producing cell cultures...
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