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U.S. clinical trials provide further evidence of importance of storing umbilical cord blood

Cord Blood America, Inc., the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells, a biological insurance policy, to families nationwide and internationally, today said that clinical trials ongoing in the U.S. using umbilical cord blood in the treatment of cerebral palsy, high-risk hematologic cancer, injured spinal cords and Type 1 diabetes provide significant further evidence of the importance of storing umbilical cord blood at the time of birth.

3 Aug 2010

Researchers call for more public disclosure about clinical drug trials

When published results are systematically tracked for drug trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, those from industry-funded trials are the likeliest to be favorable to the drug in question, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Publishing in the August 3 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers call for more public disclosure about clinical drug trials at their outset to reduce the possibility of bias in the findings.

3 Aug 2010

Scientists discover factors that reduce breast screening effectiveness

Scientists have found evidence that the reduced effectiveness of breast screening in women in their 40s is mainly due to their tumours being harder to detect, rather than because they grow faster.Previous research has suggested that breast screening is less effective in women in their 40s than in older women.Two reasons have been identified for this - firstly, that younger women tend to have denser breast tissue which makes it harder to detect tumours on a mammogram; and secondly, because younger women's tumours tend to grow more quickly.

3 Aug 2010

Retail-inspired audit program increases patient satisfaction

St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima, Ohio has been experiencing 15-30% increases in patient satisfaction a month after nursing units adopted a retail-inspired audit program introduced to the hospital by a retired Macy's executive. Hired by St. Rita's as the Vice President of Patient Experience, Walt Kinsey is just one example of prominent healthcare organizations hiring executives from the retail and hospitality industries to transform their customer service cultures.

3 Aug 2010

Recommendations available for managing ascites, SBP and hepatorenal syndrome

The peer reviewed guidelines will be available in the September 2010 issue, (Volume 53, No.3) of the Journal of Hepatology and online in advance of publication at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20633946 . They also provide recommendations for the management of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and hepatorenal syndrome, which often affect patients with cirrhosis.

3 Aug 2010

AIBS event facilitates biologist interaction with members of Congress

The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is pleased to announce the launch of the 2nd Annual Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event. This nationwide initiative is intended to spur individual biologists and research centers to meet with their members of Congress during the August congressional district work period.

3 Aug 2010

New trend in management of post-liver transplantation biliary strictures

Endoscopic intervention has emerged to become the first line treatment for benign biliary strictures following liver transplantation. The current endoscopic approach involves repetitive dilatation of the stricture and placement of multiple large-diameter parallel plastic stents with frequent stent exchange to prevent biliary infection.

3 Aug 2010

RIT professor designs database with physician input and novel eye-tracking techniques

Digital archives of biomedical images could someday put critical information at doctors' fingertips within seconds, illustrating how computers can improve the way medicine is practiced. The current reality, however, isn't quite up to speed, with databases virtually overwhelmed by the explosion of medical imaging.

3 Aug 2010

Research findings help shape long-term follow-up strategies for early stage lung cancer patients

In patients with non-small cell lung cancer, five-year disease-free survival is currently the benchmark of cure. However, there are two issues that remain with the follow-up standards: (1) When can cure be declared with confidence and (2) for how long should follow-up examination be continued?

3 Aug 2010

New publication on active middle ear implants

In recent years, methods for coupling active implants to the middle ear, round window or combinations of passive middle ear prostheses have progressed considerably. Patient selection criteria have expanded from purely sensorineural hearing losses to conductive and mixed hearing losses in difficult-to-treat ears.

3 Aug 2010

New FEI software package increases electron microscope throughput, ease-of-use

FEI Company ,a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscopy systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, released today a set of software applications that increase the throughput and ease-of-use of its electron microscopes for biological research. The four software packages make electron microscopes more useful for life science researchers involved in structural, cellular and tissue biology as they build the full solution from sample to biological answer.

3 Aug 2010

An overview of ESA-s Annual Meeting

Whether it is a single rock being overturned or an entire mountaintop being removed, humans play a continuous role in environmental processes, and vice versa. Ecological scientists will discuss findings on human-ecosystem interactions-from the effects of nanomaterials on plant growth to the diversity of insect species on green roofs, and even communities of airborne microbes in hospital buildings-at the Ecological Society of America's 95th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh from August 1-6, 2010. Here is just some of the research on humans and the environment to be presented:

3 Aug 2010

TFAH commends U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's $1.27B approval for prevention and public health

The Trust for America's Health (TFAH) commended the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for approving an historic $1.27 billion for prevention and public health for fiscal year 2011. This proposed funding would include $750 million, the second installment of the new Prevention and Public Health Fund that was created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

3 Aug 2010

IntegenX selects Zeta's 3D to analyze dimensional properties of micro-channel biochips

Zeta Instruments, Inc. a leading provider of cost-effective, precision measurement solutions for micron-scale surface analysis, announced that its Zeta-20™ optical metrology system has been selected for the analysis and development of advanced microfluidics/biotechnology laboratory products. IntegenX, an innovative supplier of automation systems for DNA and RNA-based micro-sample preparation used in forensics and gene sequencing, has chosen Zeta's 3D surface measurement solution to analyze the dimensional properties of its micro-channel biochips.

3 Aug 2010

South East Asia and Australia New Zealand RFID market revenues to reach over $250.0 million in 2016

With several radio frequency identification (RFID) initiatives getting underway across diverse verticals in the South East Asian and Australia New Zealand region, RFID is all set to live up to its billing as a breakthrough technology. In line with this technology's capabilities to enable greater security and efficiency, more end users are considering it a tool that will help them gain a competitive edge.

3 Aug 2010

White House predicts overhaul will save $8 billion for Medicare by the end of 2011

The White House says the new health law will save Medicare about $8 billion by the end of next year and $575 billion during the rest of the decade, according to a new report the Obama administration is releasing Monday, The Associated Press reports.

3 Aug 2010

Study finds hunger as a serious risk factor for long-term poor health among children, youth

Children and youth who experience hunger appear more likely to have health problems, and repeated episodes of hunger may be particularly toxic, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

3 Aug 2010

Toxic protein in bee venom improves liposome encapsulated drug effectiveness

The next time you are stung by a bee, here's some consolation: a toxic protein in bee venom, when altered, significantly improves the effectiveness liposome-encapsulated drugs or dyes, such as those already used to treat or diagnose cancer. This research, described in the August 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal, shows how modified melittin may revolutionize treatments for cancer and perhaps other conditions, such as arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and serious infections.

3 Aug 2010

Antisense Pharma receives FDA IND authorisation for clinical studies with trabedersen for high-grade glioma

The biopharmaceutical company Antisense Pharma announced today that the US-American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Investigational New Drug (IND)-authorisation for clinical studies with trabedersen for patients with high-grade glioma. This authorisation entitles the company to include US-American clinics both in the phase III study SAPPHIRE and in further studies.

3 Aug 2010

Obama Administration releases U.S. MDGs strategy

Obama Administration officials on Friday unveiled the U.S. government's strategy to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals by 2015 during a meeting at the U.N. Foundation "that was closed to the press," Washington Post's "Checkpoint Washington" blog reports.

3 Aug 2010

Research News and Research

U.S. clinical trials provide further evidence of importance of storing umbilical cord blood

Researchers call for more public disclosure about clinical drug trials

Scientists discover factors that reduce breast screening effectiveness

Retail-inspired audit program increases patient satisfaction

Recommendations available for managing ascites, SBP and hepatorenal syndrome

AIBS event facilitates biologist interaction with members of Congress

New trend in management of post-liver transplantation biliary strictures

RIT professor designs database with physician input and novel eye-tracking techniques

Research findings help shape long-term follow-up strategies for early stage lung cancer patients

New publication on active middle ear implants

New FEI software package increases electron microscope throughput, ease-of-use

An overview of ESA-s Annual Meeting

TFAH commends U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's $1.27B approval for prevention and public health

IntegenX selects Zeta's 3D to analyze dimensional properties of micro-channel biochips

South East Asia and Australia New Zealand RFID market revenues to reach over $250.0 million in 2016

White House predicts overhaul will save $8 billion for Medicare by the end of 2011

Study finds hunger as a serious risk factor for long-term poor health among children, youth

Toxic protein in bee venom improves liposome encapsulated drug effectiveness

Antisense Pharma receives FDA IND authorisation for clinical studies with trabedersen for high-grade glioma

Obama Administration releases U.S. MDGs strategy

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