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![NIH News](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090113180041im_/http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/90FD0F51-73C4-42A4-B211-BD0916B2D3AD/0/NIH_news.gif) | | DECEMBER 17, 2008: Common Treatment for Chronic Prostatitis Fails to Reduce Symptoms |
| | Alfuzosin, a drug commonly prescribed for men with chronic prostatitis, a painful disorder of the prostate and surrounding pelvic area, failed to significantly reduce symptoms in recently diagnosed men who had not been previously treated with this drug, according to a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study is to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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![NIH News](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090113180041im_/http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/90FD0F51-73C4-42A4-B211-BD0916B2D3AD/0/NIH_news.gif) | | DECEMBER 04, 2008: Hepatitis C Treatment Reduces the Virus but Liver Damage Continues |
| | Treating patients who have chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease with long-term pegylated interferon significantly decreased their liver enzymes, viral levels and liver inflammation, but the treatment did not slow or prevent the progression of serious liver disease, a study finds.
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![NIH News](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090113180041im_/http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/90FD0F51-73C4-42A4-B211-BD0916B2D3AD/0/NIH_news.gif) | | NOVEMBER 12, 2008: Teaching Tools Foster Science and Diabetes Education in Native American Schools |
| | Schools across the country now have free access to an innovative set of teaching tools designed to increase the understanding of science, health, and diabetes among American Indian and Alaska Native students from kindergarten through the 12th grade. The comprehensive new curriculum, called "Health is Life in Balance," is being launched today at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
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