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Young gymnasts need proper amount of nutrition to keep their bodies healthy: HSS

Most elite gymnasts reach their peak at age 15 or 16, training 20 to 36 hours per week when a body's calorie needs are at its highest. But in a sport where aesthetics can influence scores, some athletes adopt restrictive eating habits to control their physique.

24 Apr 2010

U.S., other donors commit $880M for new World Bank-hosted Global Food Security fund

The U.S. Treasury Thursday announced $880 million in contributions from the U.S., Canada, Spain, South Korea and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the new World Bank-hosted Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, Reuters reports (Lawder, 4/22).

24 Apr 2010

AlloMap molecular expression test reduces need for invasive heart-muscle biopsies

Monitoring rejection in heart transplantation patients with a simple blood test co-developed by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center physician-scientist Dr. Mario Deng in 2005 can safely reduce their need for invasive heart-muscle biopsies, a new study has found.

24 Apr 2010

BCA encourages people to urge KFC, Komen to to end "Buckets for the Cure" campaign

Breast Cancer Action -- respected watchdog of the breast cancer movement -- is calling out money-making giants KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure for their egregious pinkwashing campaign "Buckets for the Cure." This partnership exploits breast cancer and does the most harm in low income communities already disproportionately affected by health issues like obesity, diabetes, as well as breast cancer.

24 Apr 2010

ACE, Lilly Diabetes create "Diabetes Disaster Plan"

The Power of Prevention: Diabetes Disaster Plan is a checklist of essential items and tips to help diabetes patients prepare for the unexpected. Since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, ACE and Lilly Diabetes have worked together to create a comprehensive checklist of items for diabetes patients to prepare in anticipation of disaster.

24 Apr 2010

Urigen Pharmaceuticals requests FDA meeting for advancing URG101 clinical program

Urigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of treatments for urological disorders and pain, announced today that it has filed a request for an FDA meeting to advance the URG101 clinical program and mutually agreed with Oceana Therapeutics, Inc. to terminate their Consulting Agreement effective immediately.

24 Apr 2010

Health IT policy group calls for patient safety oversight program

Modern Healthcare: The federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee is calling for the development of a national program that would monitor patient safety problems in health care IT systems. "The first among the work group's recommendations was a proposal to create 'a national transparent oversight process and information system,' similar to a patient-safety organization, that could receive reports from various sources about patient-safety issues linked to the use of healthcare IT systems."

24 Apr 2010

NDSsi's ZeroWire Duo wireless Full HD video solution receives FDA clearance

NDS Surgical Imaging today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for ZeroWire Duo, a Class II medical-grade wireless Full HD video solution for minimally-invasive surgery, GI and interventional suites.

24 Apr 2010

Merz Aesthetics debuts at ASAPS annual meeting with announcement of FDA approval of Asclera Injection

Following news of the acquisition of BioForm Medical, Inc. earlier this year, Merz Aesthetics, the new business unit of Merz Pharma Group, makes its debut at the prestigious American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS) annual meeting with the announcement of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent approval of Asclera™ (polidocanol) Injection, a sclerotherapy treatment for uncomplicated spider and reticular veins.

24 Apr 2010

New initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps, which are devices that deliver fluids, including nutrients and medications, into a patient's body in a controlled manner.

24 Apr 2010

The NPD Group reports decrease in consumption of low-sodium/sodium-free foods

As food manufacturers, health organizations, and government turn their attentions to helping Americans reduce the amount of sodium in their diets, market research company, The NPD Group, reports that there is a gap between consumers' concerns about the amount of sodium in their diets and their consumption of low-sodium and sodium-free foods.

23 Apr 2010

Cipher Pharmaceuticals' first-quarter total revenue up 52%

Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced its financial and operational results for the three months ended March 31, 2010.

23 Apr 2010

Advances in understanding of cardiac-specific genes in heart development

Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (THI at St. Luke's) announced today the results of research which they believe marks a significant advance in understanding how cardiac-specific genes are turned on during the development of the heart in mice embryos.

23 Apr 2010

More tips to protect lungs on elevated-ozone days

It's a harmless-looking pale blue gas, a relative of the oxygen molecule that sustains life. In the upper atmosphere, a layer of it protects us from the sun's harmful rays.

23 Apr 2010

IQPC announces 13th Annual Software Design for Medical Devices conference at San Diego

IQPC announces the 13th Annual Software Design for Medical Devices conference taking place May 24th-26th at the The Westgate Hotel, San Diego, California.

From IQPC Ltd 23 Apr 2010

Real-people videos and expert advice to address childhood obesity

More than anything, bad habits are to blame for the childhood obesity epidemic. For Alejandra and her parents, food was an expression of love. But overeating and other unhealthy habits led this 11-year-old Hispanic girl to become an overweight kid.

23 Apr 2010

CARE applauds U.S. leadership in addressing long-term solutions to global hunger

Today the humanitarian organization CARE applauds the United States' leadership in addressing long-term solutions to global hunger. CARE commends Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN) for holding this important hearing.

23 Apr 2010

New blood test to determine patients at low risk for rejection of transplanted hearts

After his heart transplant in 2005, Ramon Llenado underwent a biopsy every week, then every month, then every three months. Most heart transplant patients face a lifetime of these invasive tests, which involve snipping out tiny pieces of heart to check for possible organ rejection.

23 Apr 2010

Patients more likely to change diet with written plan combined with counseling calls

Combining telephone counseling calls with a daily written diet plan increases a person's success in improving fruit and vegetables consumption, according to research published in Preventive Medicine.

23 Apr 2010

Researchers take major step to predict adverse drug reactions using genetic information

In a new study, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have taken a major step toward the ability to predict adverse drug reactions, using genetic, cellular, and clinical information to learn why some medicines cause heart arrhythmias in patients. Published in the April 20 issue of the journal Science Signaling, the new framework described in the study could potentially be applied to the study of medications that treat other diseases and disorders such as epilepsy and autism.

23 Apr 2010

Food News and Research

Young gymnasts need proper amount of nutrition to keep their bodies healthy: HSS

U.S., other donors commit $880M for new World Bank-hosted Global Food Security fund

AlloMap molecular expression test reduces need for invasive heart-muscle biopsies

BCA encourages people to urge KFC, Komen to to end "Buckets for the Cure" campaign

ACE, Lilly Diabetes create "Diabetes Disaster Plan"

Urigen Pharmaceuticals requests FDA meeting for advancing URG101 clinical program

Health IT policy group calls for patient safety oversight program

NDSsi's ZeroWire Duo wireless Full HD video solution receives FDA clearance

Merz Aesthetics debuts at ASAPS annual meeting with announcement of FDA approval of Asclera Injection

New initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps

The NPD Group reports decrease in consumption of low-sodium/sodium-free foods

Cipher Pharmaceuticals' first-quarter total revenue up 52%

Advances in understanding of cardiac-specific genes in heart development

More tips to protect lungs on elevated-ozone days

IQPC announces 13th Annual Software Design for Medical Devices conference at San Diego

Real-people videos and expert advice to address childhood obesity

CARE applauds U.S. leadership in addressing long-term solutions to global hunger

New blood test to determine patients at low risk for rejection of transplanted hearts

Patients more likely to change diet with written plan combined with counseling calls

Researchers take major step to predict adverse drug reactions using genetic information

The future is bioengineered: Synthetic biology and global sustainability eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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