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Endocrine Society to host Congressional briefing on November 4 to combat diabetes epidemic

The Endocrine Society is hosting a Congressional briefing on November 4 to examine policies to help the 29 million Americans who have diabetes and the 86 million who are likely to develop the disease.

28 Oct 2015

WSU collaborates with Botanisol to study and develop new anti-inflammatory drug

Work on a new anti-inflammatory drug developed from the medicinal/spice plant turmeric recently received funding from a $225,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

28 Oct 2015

Oral formulation of insulin shows promise in management of blood glucose in diabetic rats

An intestinal patch device containing insulin that can be swallowed in the form of a capsule, in development by researchers at University of California Santa Barbara, has demonstrated efficacy of blood glucose management in diabetic rats. This work is being presented Oct. 27 at the 2015 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting and Exposition, the world's largest pharmaceutical sciences meeting, in Orlando, Fla. Oct. 25-29.

28 Oct 2015

MHNConnect's connectivity improves health care delivery

The Medical Home Network collaboration in Chicago is changing the way health care is being delivered to Medicaid patients through the use of innovative technology combined with a highly efficient, patient-centered and team-based model of care, according to information released October 15. This has an impact on hospital readmissions, the length of hospital stay and the cost of providing care. Rush University Medical Center is one six founding hospital partners.

27 Oct 2015

Galil Medical signs agreement to acquire 100% of Perseon

Galil Medical, the global leader in interventional oncology cryoablation technology, announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of Perseon Corporation, a publicly-traded company and a leader in the field of microwave ablation, in an all cash transaction valued at $10.6M. The resulting combined company will be privately owned.

27 Oct 2015

Oxytocin treatment improves social, emotional and behavioral problems among young kids with autism

A five week treatment with the synthetic hormone oxytocin significantly improved social, emotional and behavioral issues among young children with autism, according to University of Sydney research published today in Molecular Psychiatry.

27 Oct 2015

MedStar Washington Hospital Center sets up new videophone booth for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing patients

MedStar Washington Hospital Center has installed an innovative videophone booth for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing to communicate with others in real-time. The Sorenson Video Relay Service (SVRS) videophone allows those who use American Sign Language (ASL) to place phone calls through a sign language interpreter.

27 Oct 2015

Love hormone may enhance pleasure of social interactions, UCI study finds

The hormone oxytocin, which has been associated with interpersonal bonding, may enhance the pleasure of social interactions by stimulating production of marijuana-like neurotransmitters in the brain, according to a University of California, Irvine study.

27 Oct 2015

Researchers develop multiplexed screening approach to study cancer development in mice

In a novel use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, which can be deployed to switch genes off, researchers from Germany, the UK and Spain have developed a multiplexed screening approach to study and model cancer development in mice. The scientists mutated genes in the adult mouse liver uncovering their cancer-causing roles and determining which combinations of genes cooperate to cause liver cancer.

27 Oct 2015

Scientists decode central signal switch associated with epileptic seizures

Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures. If the researchers blocked a central switch in epileptic mice, the frequency and severity of the seizures decreased. Using a novel technology, it was possible to observe the processes prior to the occurrence of epileptic seizures in living animals.

27 Oct 2015

Study: Reduction in Amazon deforestation improves air quality, prevents premature deaths

Because of decreasing deforestation and emissions from forest fires in the Amazon over the past ten years, the amount of particulate matter (aerosols), ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and other atmospheric pollutants released by burning biomass has fallen by 30% on average during the dry season in southern Brazil, Paraguay, northern Bolivia and Argentina.

27 Oct 2015

New game-based simulation training for firefighters beats home fires, minimizes heart risk

Firefighting isn't what it used to be. Whether it's a complex blaze raging in an urban high-rise or a seemingly straightforward single-level home fire, modern building construction and furnishings have made fighting fires more difficult: Flames burn hotter, produce more smoke, and spread more quickly.

27 Oct 2015

Ipsen, EpiVax partner to create next generation botulinum neurotoxin and TSI therapeutics

Ipsen and the US company EpiVax, Inc. today announced that they have completed a collaborative project that provides a novel approach for creating next generation botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) and Targeted Secretion Inhibitor (TSI) therapeutics.

27 Oct 2015

Edwards Lifesciences' net sales grow 1.3% to $615.5 million in third quarter 2015

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.

27 Oct 2015

CareFusion, AAM Healthcare sign exclusive distribution agreement for APA video laryngoscope

CareFusion, a BD company, today announced its Vital Signs anesthesia delivery and patient monitoring business has entered into an exclusive agreement with AAM Healthcare to distribute its APA video laryngoscope in the U.S. and 12 other countries.

26 Oct 2015

Mast Therapeutics begins vepoloxamer Phase 2 study in patients with chronic heart failure

Mast Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging its molecular adhesion and sealant technology (MAST) platform to develop novel therapies for sickle cell disease, heart failure, and stroke, announced that it has initiated its Phase 2 study of vepoloxamer for the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure.

26 Oct 2015

Revolutionary prostate biopsy approach more accurate at diagnosing prostate cancer

A revolutionary prostate biopsy approach uses fewer needles and is more accurate for diagnosing prostate cancer. It is done during a real time MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan that clearly shows suspicious sites. When done by an expert radiologist using a highly powerful magnet, only a minimum number of needles are used to sample suspicious abnormalities.

26 Oct 2015

SKYSCAN 1275 provides high quality 3D images by highly automated, self optimizing, micro-CT

With the introduction of the new SKYSCAN™ 1275 highly automated, self-optimizing desktop X-ray microtomograph, Bruker puts class-leading imaging into the hands of materials and life scientists in both research and industrial applications, such as high-throughput 3D imaging in quality control and production process monitoring.

From Bruker BioSpin Group 26 Oct 2015

Future Medicinal Chemistry releases themed issue higlighting the Academic Drug Discovery conference

Future Medicinal Chemistry, a leading MEDLINE-indexed journal published by Future Science Group, has released a themed issue dedicated to providing coverage of the presentations that took place at the 2015 Academic Drug Discovery Conference (Cambridge, UK), organized by SelectBio.

26 Oct 2015

Scalable production of gene therapy vectors: an interview with Frank Ubags

Gene therapy involves introducing genetic material into cells to replace missing or malfunctioning genes or to add a gene to express a beneficial protein in order to treat certain diseases, such as cancer or inherited disorders.

26 Oct 2015

Technology News and Research

Endocrine Society to host Congressional briefing on November 4 to combat diabetes epidemic

WSU collaborates with Botanisol to study and develop new anti-inflammatory drug

Oral formulation of insulin shows promise in management of blood glucose in diabetic rats

MHNConnect's connectivity improves health care delivery

Galil Medical signs agreement to acquire 100% of Perseon

Oxytocin treatment improves social, emotional and behavioral problems among young kids with autism

MedStar Washington Hospital Center sets up new videophone booth for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing patients

Love hormone may enhance pleasure of social interactions, UCI study finds

Researchers develop multiplexed screening approach to study cancer development in mice

Scientists decode central signal switch associated with epileptic seizures

Study: Reduction in Amazon deforestation improves air quality, prevents premature deaths

New game-based simulation training for firefighters beats home fires, minimizes heart risk

Ipsen, EpiVax partner to create next generation botulinum neurotoxin and TSI therapeutics

Edwards Lifesciences' net sales grow 1.3% to $615.5 million in third quarter 2015

CareFusion, AAM Healthcare sign exclusive distribution agreement for APA video laryngoscope

Mast Therapeutics begins vepoloxamer Phase 2 study in patients with chronic heart failure

Revolutionary prostate biopsy approach more accurate at diagnosing prostate cancer

SKYSCAN 1275 provides high quality 3D images by highly automated, self optimizing, micro-CT

Future Medicinal Chemistry releases themed issue higlighting the Academic Drug Discovery conference

Scalable production of gene therapy vectors: an interview with Frank Ubags

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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