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Travoprost is a prostaglandin analog that lowers intraocular pressure by increasing aqueous fluid outflow. It is sold as Travatan and other brands, and may cause side effects such as eye discomfort, eyelash darkening, and iris color change.
Farid Fata was a hematologist and oncologist who ran one of the largest cancer practices in Michigan. He was convicted of health care fraud, kickbacks and money laundering for prescribing unnecessary chemotherapy to patients and billing millions to Medicare and insurance companies.
Learn about the history and examples of unethical experiments performed on human subjects in the US, such as surgical, chemical, biological, and radiation tests. Find out how these experiments violated human rights, laws, and ethical standards, and what consequences they had for the victims and society.
Chester M. Southam was an immunologist and oncologist who conducted unethical experiments on human subjects with cancer cells and West Nile virus. He worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cornell, and Thomas Jefferson universities, and was president of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cervical cancer cells were used to create the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line. Learn about her life, family, diagnosis, treatment, and the ethical issues of her cells' use for medical research and commercial purposes.
Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses ionizing radiation to kill or control malignant cells. Learn about the different types, applications, and side effects of radiation therapy, as well as the role of radiation oncologists and radiation oncology.
MammaPrint is a molecular test that predicts the risk of breast cancer metastasis based on a 70-gene signature. It is used to guide chemotherapy decisions for early stage breast cancer patients and has FDA clearance and clinical validation.
Tissue microarray is a technique that allows multiplex histological analysis of paraffin-embedded tissues. It is used to study and validate cancer biomarkers, protein expression patterns and clinical parameters.