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HOYA ConBio's dentistry lasers to be featured at LVI's teaching facilities through 2013

HOYA ConBio™, a global leader in dental and aesthetic lasers, today announced an extension of its sponsorship agreement with the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies (LVI), the pioneer in live-patient, post-graduate dental training. The agreement ensures that VersaWave™ and DioDent™ Micro 980 lasers will continue to be featured at LVI's advanced teaching facilities through 2013.

19 Oct 2010

Five Prime Therapeutics relocates into new drug discovery facility in South San Francisco

Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc., a leader in biologics, has relocated into its state-of-the-art drug discovery facility in South San Francisco. The new facility provides FivePrime with a two fold increase in square footage without significant incremental rental cost. The relocation includes an expanded laboratory facility for the Company to accelerate its innovative and proprietary protein therapeutic and antibody drug discovery platform.

19 Oct 2010

Reproductive Specialists of New York opens new office in Brooklyn

Reproductive Specialists of New York announces the opening of its new Brooklyn office, the newest addition to their five locations.

19 Oct 2010

Tips to improve cellular prostate health

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in America and may lead to more than 32,000 deaths this year. Medical Doctor and cancer expert, Dr. Isaac Eliaz announces breakthrough research and essential recommendations for the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer.

19 Oct 2010

DOD awards grant to develop ‘lab-on-a-chip’ device for monitoring patients with severe brain injury

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a $5 million grant to The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and the University of Cincinnati to further develop a "lab-on-a-chip" device used for monitoring patients suffering from severe brain injury.

19 Oct 2010

Moderate amount of protein in low-carb beverage improves aerobic endurance: Report

Compared to a standard carbohydrate supplement, a low-carbohydrate beverage with added protein leads to longer endurance times in cyclists, reports the October issue of the The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

19 Oct 2010

STOP-BANG questionnaire on sleep apnea syndrome helps identify patients' risk for surgical complication

A research team from the Jefferson Sleep Disorders Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has utilized a simple, eight-item pre-operative questionnaire about obstructive sleep apnea syndrome that could help identify patients at risk for complications following surgery, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Individuals prone to the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome as determined by the questionnaire appear to have an increased risk of heart, lung and other complications following elective surgery.

19 Oct 2010

UC awarded $2.1 million technology award to develop next generation brain monitors

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) a $2.1 million Advanced Technology/Therapeutic Development Award to develop the next generation of brain monitors.

19 Oct 2010

Study reveals diagnostic strategies eliminate ionizing radiation exposure in IBD patients

At the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 75th Annual Scientific meeting in San Antonio, Texas, several studies of the effectiveness of non-X-ray techniques to evaluate Crohn's disease revealed that diagnostic strategies such as capsule endoscopy (CE) and magnetic resonance enteroscopy (MRE) are useful in managing patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and avoiding ionizing radiation.

19 Oct 2010

Annals of Vascular Surgery publishes Endologix's Powerlink System clinical trial results for AAA endovascular repair

Endologix, Inc. developer of minimally invasive treatments for aortic disorders, announced today the publication of results from its pivotal, multicenter, prospective clinical trial of the Company's Powerlink System for endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) using an anatomical fixation technique with a suprarenal aortic extension.

19 Oct 2010

Dopamine behind mens susceptibility to alcoholism

Alcohol is one of the most commonly abused substances, and men are up to twice as likely to develop alcoholism as women. Until now, the underlying biology contributing to this difference in vulnerability has remained unclear.

19 Oct 2010

Salix presents two Phase 3 pivotal clinical trials data for non-C IBS at ACG Meeting

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. today announced the presentation of two analyses of data from its Phase 3 pivotal clinical trials, TARGET 1 and 2, demonstrating a 14-day course of XIFAXAN 550 mg (rifaximin) taken three times daily achieved adequate relief of symptoms of non-constipation irritable bowel syndrome (non-C IBS) in a significantly greater proportion of patients compared with placebo.

19 Oct 2010

Researchers to test nanoparticle-based theranostics for pancreatic cancer treatment

Researchers from Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), the radiology department at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are preparing to test a combined approach for diagnosing and treating pancreatic cancer with a specially engineered nanoparticle.

19 Oct 2010

UK IPO rejects revocation action by Biogene against Enigma's patents

Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced that the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has rejected a revocation action brought by Biogene against three patents licensed exclusively to Enigma by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), part of the UK Ministry of Defence.

18 Oct 2010

New imaging technique to study response of white blood cells to inflammation

Researchers at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine are using an innovative new imaging technique to study how white blood cells (called neutrophils) respond to inflammation, and have revealed new targets to inhibit the response.

18 Oct 2010

Study reinforces need for physicians to screen obstructive sleep apnea prior to surgery

As Americans get heavier and heavier, the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea increases, and results from two clinical studies presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2010 reinforce the need for physicians to screen for the disorder prior to surgery in order to appropriately manage the patient in the operating room.

18 Oct 2010

New tool could help researchers understand the neural basis of olfaction

Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of olfaction.

18 Oct 2010

Researchers to identify protein-recycling mechanism of TB bacteria

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a key difference in the way human cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB, deliver unwanted proteins marked with a "kiss of death" sequence to their respective cellular recycling factories.

18 Oct 2010

New discovery raises hopes for women with tamoxifen resistance

SCIENTISTS in London have found a potential new way of boosting the effectiveness of the anti-breast cancer drug, tamoxifen.

18 Oct 2010

ACR Image Metrix hosted Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development event

ACR Image Metrix, a global imaging contract research organization (CRO) with expertise in imaging trial design, techniques and data extraction, hosted the Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development Methods, Technical Issues and Case Studies event, which took place at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, in Cambridge Massachusetts, on September 16, 2010.

18 Oct 2010

Laboratory News and Research

HOYA ConBio's dentistry lasers to be featured at LVI's teaching facilities through 2013

Five Prime Therapeutics relocates into new drug discovery facility in South San Francisco

Reproductive Specialists of New York opens new office in Brooklyn

Tips to improve cellular prostate health

DOD awards grant to develop ‘lab-on-a-chip’ device for monitoring patients with severe brain injury

Moderate amount of protein in low-carb beverage improves aerobic endurance: Report

STOP-BANG questionnaire on sleep apnea syndrome helps identify patients' risk for surgical complication

UC awarded $2.1 million technology award to develop next generation brain monitors

Study reveals diagnostic strategies eliminate ionizing radiation exposure in IBD patients

Annals of Vascular Surgery publishes Endologix's Powerlink System clinical trial results for AAA endovascular repair

Dopamine behind mens susceptibility to alcoholism

Salix presents two Phase 3 pivotal clinical trials data for non-C IBS at ACG Meeting

Researchers to test nanoparticle-based theranostics for pancreatic cancer treatment

UK IPO rejects revocation action by Biogene against Enigma's patents

New imaging technique to study response of white blood cells to inflammation

Study reinforces need for physicians to screen obstructive sleep apnea prior to surgery

New tool could help researchers understand the neural basis of olfaction

Researchers to identify protein-recycling mechanism of TB bacteria

New discovery raises hopes for women with tamoxifen resistance

ACR Image Metrix hosted Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development event

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