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Drug Delivery - news, views, blogs

Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals.  Drug delivery technologies are patent protected formulat...

Immunocytokines

Although the human cytokines interleukin-2 (IL-2) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha are approved marketed for tumor therapy, their use is rather limited due to severe systemic side effects. Targ...

Websites Touting 'Designer Vagina' Surgeries Often Inaccurate, Study Finds

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Women who go online to learn more about so-called "designer vagina" procedures often find poor and inaccurate information instead, a new study says. Designer va...

'Designer Vagina' Web Sites Confusing, Inaccurate

Web sites advertising 'designer vagina' surgical procedures provide confusing information and make unsubstantiated claims on benefits while minimizing risks of the elective cosmetic genital surgery....

Significant gaps in quality of clinical information on designer vagina procedures

The quality of internet information available for women opting for "designer vagina" procedures is "poor," and in some cases, inaccurate, reveals a small study published in the Obstetrics & Gynaecolog...

Pharmaceutical Research: Delivery Systems and Local Administration Routes for Therapeutic siRNA

Type: Review PaperWith the increasing number of studies proposing new and optimal delivery strategies for the efficacious silencing of gene-related diseases by the local administration of siRNAs, the...

Web info on 'designer vagina' procedures poor and often inaccurate

(Medical Xpress)—The quality of internet information available for women opting for "designer vagina" procedures is "poor," and in some cases, inaccurate, reveals a small study led by academics at t...

Shionogi dry vagina drug under review at FDA

Shionogi dry vagina drug under review at FDA

Poor, often inaccurate web info on ‘designer vagina’ procedures

The quality of internet information available for women opting for “designer vagina” procedures is “poor,” and in some cases, inaccurate, [...]

Warning Pictures On Cigarette Packages Prove Effective

The health warning labels (HWLs) containing pictures that graphically show the results of smoking on cigarette packages have proven to be effective in causing awareness in adult smokers, suggests a ne...

The time course of implicit processing of erotic pictures: An event-related potential study.

The current study investigated the time course of the implicit processing of erotic stimuli using event-related potentials (ERPs). ERPs elicited by erotic pictures were compared with those by three ot...

Developmental origin of vaginal epithelium.

The developmental origin of vaginal epithelium has been controversial for nearly a century, with speculation that vaginal epithelium originates from the Müllerian duct, Wolffian duct, and/or urogenit...

Impact of birth in the presence and absence of simulated birth injury on vaginal glycosaminoglycan content.

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: This study aims to evaluate the effects of simulated birth trauma and vaginal and Cesarean delivery on glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in the vagina of female rats. METHODS: One...

Does vaginal delivery affect postnatal coitus?

The concern that vaginal birth will result in loose vagina and negatively affect their postnatal sexual life is one of the main reasons that many women choose cesarean section. Here we aimed to implem...

Fetal topographical anatomy of the female urethra and descending vagina: A histological study of the early human fetal urethra.

Which parts of the male urethra correspond to the female urethra? To resolve this question, we need to understand fetal topographical changes in the urethra, its external sphincter and vagina. The vag...