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IBM and Peking University People's Hospital build evidence-based patient centric care system

IBM and Peking University People's Hospital have built an evidence-based patient centric care (ePC3) system to enable cooperation and resource sharing among medical services providers for improved patient care.

15 Jul 2010

NIH awards $20M grant to support Institute for Clinical & Translational Science efforts

The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at UC Irvine will get $20 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health to speed the transformation of scientific discoveries into medical advances for patients.

15 Jul 2010

New myopia control technology for eye health benefits from Vision CRC

Scientists from the Vision Cooperative Research Centre in Australia have announced that myopia, or short-sightedness, can be controlled with new technology. This ground breaking discovery was based on research conducted by Vision CRC partners – the University of Houston College of Optometry and the Brien Holden Vision Institute, located at the University of New South Wales.

15 Jul 2010

VCU receives $20M NIH grant to join national consortium of research centers

Virginia Commonwealth University announced Wednesday it has received a $20 million grant - the largest federal award in its history - from the National Institutes of Health to become part of a nationwide consortium of research institutions working to turn laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients.

15 Jul 2010

Keck School of Medicine receives grant for research on biomarker impact on breast cancer screening

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) will test whether a set of blood-based biomarkers can assist mammography in the early detection of breast cancer with a $180,000 grant announced today from Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. The grant will fund research into whether specific biomarkers, or minute substances in the blood, can effectively distinguish breast cancer patients from their healthy counterparts and whether an inexpensive, less invasive screening strategy can be developed based on this approach.

15 Jul 2010

Merck acquires Millipore for $7.0 billion

Merck KGaA, a global pharmaceutical and chemical company, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Millipore Corporation, a leading Life Science company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, USA, for an aggregate purchase price including debt and cash of approximately $7.0 billion. Merck agreed to acquire Millipore on February 28, 2010 for $107 in cash per share of Millipore common stock.

15 Jul 2010

Lew chosen for OMB post as federal deficit tops $1 trillion

President Obama's pick to replace Peter Orszag to run the Office of Management and Budget is inheriting a federal deficit that has topped $1 trillion with three months left in the federal government's fiscal year.

15 Jul 2010

Hospital for Special Surgery named top hospital for orthopedics

Hospital for Special Surgery has been named the top hospital in the nation for orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report in its 2010 "America's Best Hospitals" issue. Once again the hospital ranked as a leader in rheumatology at number 3 in the nation. In addition, neurology was ranked at number 16.

15 Jul 2010

NIH awards $38.2M grant to Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science

In support of a critical partnership between Georgetown University Medical Center and Howard University, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $38.2 million Clinical and Translational Sciences Award to aid the universities' effort to transform health care and preventive practices in communities through medical discoveries made in laboratories and clinical settings.

15 Jul 2010

Study links obesity to poorer memory, brain function in older women

The more an older woman weighs, the worse her memory, according to new research from Northwestern Medicine. The effect is more pronounced in women who carry excess weight around their hips, known as pear shapes, than women who carry it around their waists, called apple shapes.

15 Jul 2010

Rules for free preventive services requirement to be announced

During a Wednesday news conference, the Obama administration is expected to unveil regulations showing which preventive services insurers will be required to provide free-of-charge to consumers under the health overhaul law, The Wall Street Journal reports.

15 Jul 2010

JNK protein controls cell cycle, new study reveals

Put simply, a tumor is the result of out-of-control cell growth. To assure that the cell cycle - the cell's process of duplicating itself to make more cells - goes smoothly, a large network of proteins tells other proteins what to do and when to do it. When any of these layers of protein regulation fail, cell growth can get out of hand. A new study led by Ze'ev Ronai, Ph.D., associate director of Sanford-Burnham's National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, reveals a new player in cell cycle control.

15 Jul 2010

Evotec to acquire DeveloGen

Evotec AG today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire DeveloGen, a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery of novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment of metabolic and endocrine disorders, for up to €14m in shares plus performance-related deferred payments (earn-out).

15 Jul 2010

Study links high-fat diet as potential cause of prostatic diseases

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men with an estimated 192,280 new cases diagnosed in the US in 2009 (Jemal 2009). Diet is considered one of the most important controllable risk factors for inflammation and prostate diseases including benign prostatic hyperplsia, prostatitis, and prostate cancer.

15 Jul 2010

U.S. taxpayers spend equal amounts on non-emergency food aid and shipping, study says

IRIN examines the findings of a study about the costs and effects of the U.S. Agricultural Cargo Preference policy, noting that "U.S. taxpayers spend about $140 million every year on non-emergency food aid in Africa, and roughly the same amount to ship food aid to global destinations on U.S. vessels; money that could have been used to feed more people."

15 Jul 2010

New HIV treatment strategy could reduce HIV-related deaths by 10M in 15 years, UNAIDS says

UNAIDS on Tuesday outlined a new strategy, called "Treatment 2.0," to simplify the provision of HIV treatment and improve global access to antiretrovirals, Reuters reports. The agency says the plan could prevent up to 10 million AIDS-related deaths by 2025 and reduce the number of new HIV infections annually by up to one million, if all people in need receive treatment, according to the news service.

15 Jul 2010

AP further examines how PEPFAR helped inform new U.S. domestic HIV/AIDS strategy

"The national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS the Obama administration released Tuesday credits the Bush-era international campaign against AIDS for setting clear targets and ensuring a variety of agencies and groups worked together smoothly to achieve them," the Associated Press writes in a piece that examines how PEPFAR served to inform the national strategy.

15 Jul 2010

Genelex, Helix announce strategic alliance to increase availability of new DNA Drug Sensitivity Tests

Genelex and Helix have announced a personalized prescribing strategic alliance to increase the availability of important new DNA Drug Sensitivity Tests such as Plavitest and Tamoxitest. These tests and the GeneMedRx medication management software can save lives and healthcare dollars by allowing doctors to personalize their prescribing practices in order to prevent adverse medication outcomes, including treatment failures and dangerous side effects.

15 Jul 2010

SWCRF/Emerald Foundation Global Collaborative Grant to fund critical cancer research

The leukemia stem cell-the root cause of all acute leukemias- represents a small population of cells in patients that are difficult to eliminate with standard treatments available today. Though current chemotherapy can produce temporary remission in leukemia survivors, they remain at risk of experiencing a recurrence and dying from the disease.

15 Jul 2010

Support for health overhaul down; GOP asks Kagan if she would recuse herself from cases on new law

Support for the new health reform law has dropped seven percentage points in the last two months, though it remains higher than when the law was first signed in March. "Forty-nine percent of Americans now disapprove of the health care reform measure, according to the poll, which was conducted July 9-12. Thirty-six percent support the law. In a May CBS News poll, 47 percent disapproved of the new laws, while 43 percent approved. While the new poll shows a recent drop in support, the numbers have still improved overall since March, when 53 percent of Americans disapproved of the new laws and 32 percent said they approved of them."

15 Jul 2010

Research News and Research

IBM and Peking University People's Hospital build evidence-based patient centric care system

NIH awards $20M grant to support Institute for Clinical & Translational Science efforts

New myopia control technology for eye health benefits from Vision CRC

VCU receives $20M NIH grant to join national consortium of research centers

Keck School of Medicine receives grant for research on biomarker impact on breast cancer screening

Merck acquires Millipore for $7.0 billion

Lew chosen for OMB post as federal deficit tops $1 trillion

Hospital for Special Surgery named top hospital for orthopedics

NIH awards $38.2M grant to Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science

Study links obesity to poorer memory, brain function in older women

Rules for free preventive services requirement to be announced

JNK protein controls cell cycle, new study reveals

Evotec to acquire DeveloGen

Study links high-fat diet as potential cause of prostatic diseases

U.S. taxpayers spend equal amounts on non-emergency food aid and shipping, study says

New HIV treatment strategy could reduce HIV-related deaths by 10M in 15 years, UNAIDS says

AP further examines how PEPFAR helped inform new U.S. domestic HIV/AIDS strategy

Genelex, Helix announce strategic alliance to increase availability of new DNA Drug Sensitivity Tests

SWCRF/Emerald Foundation Global Collaborative Grant to fund critical cancer research

Support for health overhaul down; GOP asks Kagan if she would recuse herself from cases on new law

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