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...exotic name, but the human papillomavirus is actually a very commonplace sexually transmitted disease. More than half of U.S. women will develop sex-related HPV infections at some point in their life, and in most cases the immune system knocks the virus out before it can do any damage. In some cases, however, the infection becomes chronic, with measurable levels of the virus remaining in the system. Perhaps 5% of these women will eventually develop precancerous lesions that could lead to cervical cancer. Or at least that's what would happen if they did not undergo routine Pap smears, which...
...that may be available in five years. (Other groups are pursuing similar strategies.) Such a vaccine would protect against the two main cancer-causing strains of HPV as well as HPV-6 and HPV-11, which are not malignant but do trigger genital warts. It would be impractical to develop a vaccine against all 100 HPV strains, since so many are harmless. The types that cause garden-variety warts on the hands and feet are perhaps the most familiar to people and are not contracted sexually...
...European Union and promised support for Turkey's mess of an economy. Then he was off to Russia, where he reassured President Vladimir Putin that the Americans have not forgotten that Iraq owes Russia $8 billion--and would not forget that Russian companies have signed potentially lucrative contracts to develop Iraq's oil fields when U.N. sanctions are removed...
...amount spent by an entrepreneurial Philadelphia man in his quest to develop a doorbell for pets...
Supporters of the patent system argue that rival companies should not be allowed to copy and produce medicinal drugs developed by other firms, insisting that without well-defended intellectual property rights, medications would not be developed at all. It is true that, if medical research were left to the free market without a patent system, companies would have no incentive to invest in researching and developing new drugs. After all, if they did develop the drugs and pay the high costs involved, other companies, which had not shouldered those research costs, could simply copy the new medicines and sell them...