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Degarelix avoids initial hormone surge seen in other drugsMore than 95 per cent of men who took degarelix for prostate cancer saw their testosterone levels fall dramatically as early as three days after they started treatment, according to a paper in the December issue of BJU International.They also experienced much greater falls in their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels at 14 and 28 days than men taking leuprolide.Researchers from Canada, the USA, France, Denmark and the Netherlands...
The international jury brought together by La Fondation Ipsen on June 2, 2006 in Toronto (Canada), under the presidency of Professor Iain Robinson (National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK) awarded the 6th Endocrine Communication and Regulation Prize to William F. Crowley (Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA) for his pioneering research on GnRH, a peptide hormone secreted by the hypothalamus which plays a role in the sexual development of humans. He...
Internationally adopted children can undergo puberty at an early age making them more susceptible to health risks as adults, Canadian researchers said. University of Montreal researchers said that earlier puberty is linked to abdominal obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. "Many factors are at play but a low birth weight that isn't recuperated between the ages 0 and 2, combined with an accelerated weight gain during childhood, would increase the risk...
Researchers say a small protein molecule in the brain plays a crucial ovulation-triggering role, a finding that could hold the key to new therapies for infertility.The protein, called kisspeptin, is known to play a vital role in kick-starting puberty.Now, the first evidence that kisspeptin signaling in the brain is also essential for ovulation to occur in adults has been published by a group from the University of Otago led by Professor Allan Herbison, in collaboration with Cambridge...
NEW YORK -- For women with endometriosis who undergo assisted fertilization procedures, treatment with a hormone that decreases the body's production of testosterone and estrogen a few months before the procedure quadruples the chance of successful pregnancy, according to a review of randomized trials -- but data on side effects is lacking.Endometriosis is a painful condition that occurs when the tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus, often in pelvic and abdominal...
