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New research lists cell stiffness as possible biomarker for metastatic ovarian cancer

New Georgia Tech research shows that cell stiffness could be a valuable clue for doctors as they search for and treat cancerous cells before they're able to spread. The findings, which are published in the journal PLoS One, found that highly metastatic ovarian cancer cells are several times softer than less metastatic ovarian cancer cells.

11 Oct 2012

Leading scientists select first drugs to be evaluated in Alzheimer's clinical study

Leading scientists have selected the first drugs to be evaluated in a worldwide clinical study to determine whether they can prevent Alzheimer's disease.

11 Oct 2012

Xenex Healthcare Services receives GSA contract to purchase room disinfection systems

Xenex Healthcare Services, the world leader in UV room disinfection systems, today announced it has been awarded a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract, making it even easier for federal agencies (including Veterans Affairs hospital systems) to purchase Xenex's room disinfection systems.

11 Oct 2012

Non-surgical orthopedic medical devices: an interview with Brian Moore, Director of Sales and Product Marketing from DJO global

Non-surgical orthopedic medical devices are products designed to help relieve pain in specific parts of the body.

10 Oct 2012

Study to explore how mobile technology use can improve coordination in perioperative services

Three Clemson University professors have received $797,066 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate how the use of mobile technology can improve coordination in perioperative services.

10 Oct 2012

NACA could prevent or cure cataracts, macular degeneration and other eye conditions

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are working with an antioxidant that could prevent or cure cataracts, macular degeneration and other degenerative eye disorders.

10 Oct 2012

Boston Scientific initiates enrollment in Lotus Valve System clinical trial for aortic valve disease

Boston Scientific has enrolled the first patient in the REPRISE II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and performance of the Lotus Valve System in up to 120 patients with severe aortic valve disease.

10 Oct 2012

Regulatory approval service for hydroxyapatite users and manufacturers in the medical device industry launched by Ceram

Ceram, the international materials technology company, has launched a Regulatory Approval Service, designed to help hydroxyapatite users and manufacturers in the medical device industry gain FDA acceptance of their 510(k) submission.

10 Oct 2012

New screening method may lead to more efficient RNA drug development

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a new method of screening more than three million combinations of interactions between RNA and small molecules to identify the best targets on RNA as well as the most promising potential drug compounds.

10 Oct 2012

Organ Care System safe and feasible for lung transplant patients

The Lancet has published the initial series of successful lung transplants demonstrating the feasibility and safety of using the Organ Care System (OCS) Lung technology, at Hannover Medical School and Puerta de Hierro Hospital Madrid.

10 Oct 2012

EHRs enhance quality of patient care in community-based settings

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, provides compelling evidence that electronic health records (EHRs) enhance the quality of patient care in a community-based setting with multiple payers, which is representative of how medicine is generally practiced across the United States.

10 Oct 2012

Salivary-biomarker approach can identify individuals at future risk of PTSD, depression

Each year, more than a million Americans are at-risk of developing serious mental health problems after experiencing a terrifying event or serious physical injury. Once manifested, these psychiatric illnesses, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, can be extremely crippling and difficult to treat and are a leading cause of disability in civilian, military and minority populations.

10 Oct 2012

Anesthetic-loaded liposomes can delay onset of neuropathic pain

Using tiny spheres filled with an anesthetic derived from a shellfish toxin, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way to delay the rise of neuropathic pain, a chronic form of pain that arises from flawed signals transmitted by damaged nerves.

10 Oct 2012

ProteoWizard Toolkit interprets multi-platform mass spectrometry data

The world's leading mass spectrometer manufacturers have agreed to license technology that enabled University of Southern California (USC) researchers to develop software that, for the first time, allows scientists to easily use and share research data collected across proprietary platforms.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 10 Oct 2012

CRI, MedImmune partner to advance cancer immunotherapy research

The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, today announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to advance the research of immunotherapy in cancer.

10 Oct 2012

Study identifies cellular adhesion molecules key to cancer metastasis

Although tumor metastasis causes about 90 percent of cancer deaths, the exact mechanism that allows cancer cells to spread from one part of the body to another is not well understood. One key question is how tumor cells detach from the structural elements that normally hold tissues in place, then reattach themselves in a new site.

10 Oct 2012

MRI method ‘cuts breast cancer false‑positives’

Assessing apparent diffusion coefficients during dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging may reduce the number of avoidable false‑positive breast cancer results and unnecessary biopsies, show findings published in Radiology.

9 Oct 2012

Johns Hopkins joins API’s Actimab-A Phase I/II trial in acute myeloid leukemia

Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (API), a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative targeted payload immunotherapeutics, announced that Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD has joined the Company's ongoing Phase I/II trial in newly diagnosed elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

9 Oct 2012

Innovative treatments can lead to functional improvements in patients with SCIs

A series of rehabilitation studies published in the September 2012 issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation demonstrate that innovative treatments for individuals with spinal cord injuries can lead to significant functional improvements in patients and a higher quality of life.

9 Oct 2012

Pieris achieves milestone in Anticalin discovery and development collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo

Pieris AG announced today the achievement of the first financial milestone in its discovery and development collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited.

9 Oct 2012

Technology News and Research

New research lists cell stiffness as possible biomarker for metastatic ovarian cancer

Leading scientists select first drugs to be evaluated in Alzheimer's clinical study

Xenex Healthcare Services receives GSA contract to purchase room disinfection systems

Non-surgical orthopedic medical devices: an interview with Brian Moore, Director of Sales and Product Marketing from DJO global

Study to explore how mobile technology use can improve coordination in perioperative services

NACA could prevent or cure cataracts, macular degeneration and other eye conditions

Boston Scientific initiates enrollment in Lotus Valve System clinical trial for aortic valve disease

Regulatory approval service for hydroxyapatite users and manufacturers in the medical device industry launched by Ceram

New screening method may lead to more efficient RNA drug development

Organ Care System safe and feasible for lung transplant patients

EHRs enhance quality of patient care in community-based settings

Salivary-biomarker approach can identify individuals at future risk of PTSD, depression

Anesthetic-loaded liposomes can delay onset of neuropathic pain

ProteoWizard Toolkit interprets multi-platform mass spectrometry data

CRI, MedImmune partner to advance cancer immunotherapy research

Study identifies cellular adhesion molecules key to cancer metastasis

MRI method ‘cuts breast cancer false‑positives’

Johns Hopkins joins API’s Actimab-A Phase I/II trial in acute myeloid leukemia

Innovative treatments can lead to functional improvements in patients with SCIs

Pieris achieves milestone in Anticalin discovery and development collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

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