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Article reports on bright future and enormous need for stem cell therapeutics

An article in the current issue of Technology & Innovation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors - reports on the bright future and enormous need for stem cell therapeutics that may offer hope for those suffering from debilitating and deadly diseases.

9 Jun 2011

Skin cell-derived CGRP-beta may cause chronic pain

A new study may explain why only 50% of patients experiencing chronic nerve pain achieve even partial relief from existing therapeutics. The study, published in the June 6 online version of the international research journal PAIN, reveals that certain types of chronic pain may be caused by signals from the skin itself, rather than damage to nerves within the skin, as previously thought.

9 Jun 2011

Decline of citrate concentration may contribute to bone brittleness

Bone is one of nature's surprising "building materials." Pound-for-pound it's stronger than steel, tough yet resilient. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have identified the composition that gives bone its outstanding properties and the important role citrate plays, work that may help science better understand and treat or prevent bone diseases such as osteoporosis.

9 Jun 2011

Scientists, advocacy experts form new international Foundation for Vaccine Research

Fourteen leading scientists and advocacy experts in vaccines and infectious diseases have announced the formation of a new international Foundation to advance and accelerate vaccine research and development against infectious diseases.

9 Jun 2011

Ascribe announces partnership to launch eHandover, clinical handover solution

Ascribe has announced a partnership with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) to bring eHandover, a clinical handover solution, to the UK Acute care sector. The solution will be formally launched at the National Clinical Handover Conference hosted in London on the 30th June 2011.

8 Jun 2011

UAB first in U.S. with cell-processing workstation

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has taken a significant step toward making sophisticated cell therapy a part of patient care with its acquisition of the first cell-processing workstation (CPWS) from SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) in the United States.

8 Jun 2011

Sandbox announces business accelerator for healthcare industry

Sandbox Industries, a venture capital firm and leading incubator for startup companies, announces Healthbox, one of the first business accelerators in the country to focus exclusively on the healthcare industry. Healthbox builds on the success of Excelerate Labs, the tech accelerator that Sandbox co-founded last year, which Tech Cocktail recently named Top 3 among startup accelerators nationwide.

8 Jun 2011

Adoption of premium-priced sclerotherapy agents will contribute to growth of US sclerotherapy market

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the United States sclerotherapy market will experience rapid procedural growth stemming from favorable patient demographics and increased patient demand. Polidocanol, a sclerosing agent used to chemically treat varicose and spider veins, received FDA approval in 2010 and is expected to show significant growth in the US.

8 Jun 2011

ACT's TEMPASURE cardiac ablation catheter receives CE Mark

Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of innovative temperature-sensing cardiac ablation systems, today announced that the company has received CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) clearance for its TEMPASURE™ cardiac ablation catheter. The TEMPASURE system is the world's first RF cardiac ablation catheter to offer both saline irrigation and temperature-sensing technology.

8 Jun 2011

Rosa, Profil Institute partner to offer simulation technology for diabetes and obesity clinical trials

Profil Institute for Clinical Research, Inc., a company leading the industry in early phase clinical trials for diabetes and obesity, and Rosa & Co. LLC, a drug development advisory firm with expertise in drug-disease modeling and simulation, jointly announced today a strategic alliance to offer Profil Institute customers use of Rosa's modeling technology to simulate disease physiology, drug action, patient variability, and trial outcomes for their early phase clinical development programs.

8 Jun 2011

Ben Hogan Sports Medicine, StreamVenue partner to offer post-surgical management tool

StreamVenue Healthcare has partnered its "plug and play" products and services with Texas Health Ben Hogan Sports Medicine to teach, and to better manage post-surgical patient recovery.

8 Jun 2011

Doctors' move to electronic records requires serious commitment

The federal stimulus and health care laws are pushing medical providers to go electronic as a way to improve patient safety and track health care quality. ... But moving away from paper files to an electronic health record system requires serious commitment on several levels. First, they're expensive. ... Second, the learning curve can be painful.

8 Jun 2011

Closed-loop artificial pancreas could fight against Type 1 diabetes

Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are combining automation techniques from oil refining and other diverse areas to help create a closed-loop artificial pancreas. The device will automatically monitor blood sugar levels and administer insulin to patients with Type 1 diabetes, and aims to remove much of the guesswork for those living with the chronic disease.

8 Jun 2011

Cooperation is key to finding global food security

"We need a global approach to achieving food security," Tom Daschle, former Senate majority leader and chair of the DuPont Advisory Committee on Agricultural Innovation and Productivity for the 21st Century, writes in a Politico opinion piece.

8 Jun 2011

Self-assembling mini devices now enlisted in nanomedicine revolution

Measured in billionths of a meter, self-assembling nano-sized devices designed to carry drugs and imaging agents into the body are revolutionizing medicine by improving drug solubility and bio-distribution, providing a platform for combining targeting and imaging agents, and enabling membrane barriers to be crossed as well as making drug and imaging agent combination therapies possible.

8 Jun 2011

Quest conducts first clinical Investigators Meeting for Oregovomab in Rome, provides corporate updates

Quest PharmaTech Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of cancer, announced today that it conducted its first clinical Investigators Meeting for Oregovomab in Rome, Italy.

8 Jun 2011

Lethal malaria parasite has biochemical weakness

Every year, 10,000 pregnant women and up to 200,000 newborn babies are killed by the malaria parasite. Doctors all around the globe have for years been looking in vain for a medical protection, and now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found the biochemically weakness of the lethal malaria parasite, and will now start developing a vaccine to combat pregnancy related malaria.

8 Jun 2011

Vaccine candidate produces immune response to antigen in all strains of influenza A

A universal influenza vaccine targeting a protein common to all strains of influenza A has safely produced an immune response in humans. If proven effective, the vaccine could eliminate the practice of creating a new flu vaccine annually to match predicted strains, with major implications for global health.

8 Jun 2011

New Westchester Montefiore Laser and Eye Center to offer ophthalmology services

The new Montefiore Laser and Eye Center recently opened its doors to provide comprehensive care to Westchester patients at the Montefiore Medical Specialists of Westchester in Scarsdale, New York. Seven board-certified ophthalmologists from the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center provide patients with specialty emphasis in pediatric ophthalmology, oculoplastic surgery, glaucoma, cornea and laser refractive surgery.

8 Jun 2011

HP partners with nonprofit to help detect malaria outbreaks, improve health monitoring in Botswana

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced it will provide "smartphones and cloud computing technology to nonprofit group Positive Innovation for the Next Generation (PING)" to help improve health monitoring and malaria detection in Botswana, Venture Beat reports.

8 Jun 2011

Technology News and Research

Article reports on bright future and enormous need for stem cell therapeutics

Skin cell-derived CGRP-beta may cause chronic pain

Decline of citrate concentration may contribute to bone brittleness

Scientists, advocacy experts form new international Foundation for Vaccine Research

Ascribe announces partnership to launch eHandover, clinical handover solution

UAB first in U.S. with cell-processing workstation

Sandbox announces business accelerator for healthcare industry

Adoption of premium-priced sclerotherapy agents will contribute to growth of US sclerotherapy market

ACT's TEMPASURE cardiac ablation catheter receives CE Mark

Rosa, Profil Institute partner to offer simulation technology for diabetes and obesity clinical trials

Ben Hogan Sports Medicine, StreamVenue partner to offer post-surgical management tool

Doctors' move to electronic records requires serious commitment

Closed-loop artificial pancreas could fight against Type 1 diabetes

Cooperation is key to finding global food security

Self-assembling mini devices now enlisted in nanomedicine revolution

Quest conducts first clinical Investigators Meeting for Oregovomab in Rome, provides corporate updates

Lethal malaria parasite has biochemical weakness

Vaccine candidate produces immune response to antigen in all strains of influenza A

New Westchester Montefiore Laser and Eye Center to offer ophthalmology services

HP partners with nonprofit to help detect malaria outbreaks, improve health monitoring in Botswana

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