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NEW YORK, Sept. 5 /CNW/ - Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE / Euronext Paris: PM) announced today that it has extended the expiry of its CAD $30.00 per share cash offer to purchase all of the o...

UroToday.com - In the online edition of Prostate Cancer Prostatic Diseases, Dr. Jonathan Silberstein and his colleagues presented a systematic review of HIV and prostate cancer (CaP). The message that may be underappreciated by the urology community is the excellent longevity of HIV patients, which clearly impacts their potential for diagnosis and management of CaP. In 2003, over one-million people were living with HIV in the US and three quarters of them were men.

UroToday.com - The group from Johns Hopkins reviewed their perioperative management of newborn infants undergoing bladder exstrophy reconstruction between November 1999 and October 2006. They identified 23 newborn infants who underwent reconstructive exstrophy surgery utilizing a combined epidural and general anesthetic technique. They inserted a tunneled caudal epidural catheter in all patients. Local anesthetic without morphine was used, and they sedated the children with Diazepam.

United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Lung Rx, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for inhaled treprostinil for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The NDA will be subject to a standard review period of 10 months, with a targeted user fee deadline of April 30, 2009.

UroToday.com - This study from Boston Children's Hospital defined the incidence and risk factors for complications in children undergoing laparoscopic pediatric urologic surgery. They retrospectively reviewed all of their laparoscopic and robotic assisted cases between 1995-2005. They reviewed a total of 806 laparoscopic procedures and found an overall complication rate of 2%. They found that Veress needles caused the majority of access related injuries. 2.

AP - Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday....

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