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Soligenix announces personalized medicine collaboration with SciClone

Soligenix, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing products to treat inflammatory diseases and biodefense countermeasures where there remains an unmet medical need, announced a personalized medicine collaboration with SciClone Pharmaceuticals in the Company's oral mucositis clinical program with SGX942.

8 Jul 2013

HeadSense closes financing for non-invasive intracranial pressure monitor

HeadSense, an early stage company developing a non-invasive neurological monitor focused initially on an intracranial pressure application, today announced it closed financing led by Pontifax, a leading Israeli VC; GE Ventures of Menlo Park, California, USA; Everett Partners, an investment group based out of Akron, Ohio, USA; and JuMaJo, an investment group from Hamburg, Germany.

8 Jul 2013

New study provides data that could help break the cycle of gun violence

They're young. They've been injured in an assault - so badly they went to the emergency room. And nearly one in four of them has a gun, probably an illegal one. What happens next?

8 Jul 2013

St. Michael Hospital receives $4.7M grant to conduct policy-driven prescription drug research

An Ontario-wide research network based at St. Michael's Hospital has received a three-year, $4.7 million grant from the province of Ontario to conduct policy-driven prescription drug research.

6 Jul 2013

Data shows individualized regimens can help optimize prophylaxis treatment in hemophilia patients

Baxter International Inc. today announced data featuring ADVATE [Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant), Plasma/Albumin-Free Method], a leading recombinant treatment available worldwide, during the 24th Annual Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

From Baxter International Inc. 5 Jul 2013

Open window can become dangerous hazard for children

The dog days of summer are here. As we try to catch a cool breeze, that open window can become a dangerous hazard for children. In fact, emergency rooms treat more than 5,000 children each year for injuries related to falls from windows.

4 Jul 2013

Research: Change in functional state, structure of spinal cord and brain occur within 40 days of injury

A spinal cord injury changes the functional state and structure of the spinal cord and the brain. For example, the patients' ability to walk or move their hands can become restricted. How quickly such degenerative changes develop, however, has remained a mystery until now.

3 Jul 2013

LARIAT procedure prevents stroke in patients who are unable to tolerate blood thinners

Jersey Shore University Medical Center is one of only a handful of hospitals in the country offering the recent FDA-approved LARIAT Suture Delivery Device procedure. Electrophysiologists and interventional cardiologists perform this innovative procedure to help prevent stroke in patients who suffer from atrial fibrillation and are unable to take blood thinners.

3 Jul 2013

Parents, children should leave fireworks displays to experts, say Vanderbilt specialists

Vanderbilt specialists are urging parents and children to leave the fireworks displays to the experts this Fourth of July.

2 Jul 2013

OBI advances Phase IIb clinical trial of Oxycyte for treatment of TBI

Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc., ("OBI") (NASDAQ: OXBT), today announced enrollment of the first subject in the second cohort of its global Phase IIb clinical trial to investigate the safety and tolerability of Oxycyte® in patients with severe, non-penetrating traumatic brain injury ("STOP-TBI").

2 Jul 2013

Mayo Clinic provides tips to stay safe this summer

A backyard fireworks display may look pretty and get family and friends excited, but when it comes to lighting fireworks, leave it to the professionals, Mayo Clinic physicians are advising. Each year, Mayo Clinic doctors see dozens of patients who have lost fingers and limbs, gotten severe burns and suffered hearing loss as a direct result of using fireworks. Even seemingly harmless fireworks - such as sparklers - can cause severe burns and even blindness.

2 Jul 2013

Study shows lymphatic circulatory system may be intimately involved in vascular disorders

The often forgotten lymphatic circulatory system may be intimately involved in vascular disorders, according to a study by researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and University of Michigan. Their research was reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

30 Jun 2013

Pre-deployment insomnia symptoms associated with major mental disorders

A new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Naval Health Research Center has shown Military service members who have trouble sleeping prior to deployments may be at greater risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety once they return home.

30 Jun 2013

Healthy man injured severely while weight lifting required surgery

A young, healthy man injured himself so severely while weight lifting that he required surgery and nearly a full week in the hospital to recover. The unusual case report of compartment syndrome to the shoulder will be reported online today in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("An Unusual Complication of Weightlifting: A Case Report").

30 Jun 2013

Orlando Health's clinicians provide hospital-level care in patient's home

Instead of admitting patients to medical units at the hospital, clinicians at Orlando Regional Medical Center are providing health care to patients in the comfort of their homes. The new twist on modern medicine is being piloted in a project to provide hospital-level care in a patient's home through home visits, videoconferencing (virtual visit) and telemonitoring (remote vital signs monitoring).

28 Jun 2013

People who have TBI may be more likely to have future stroke, says study

People who have a traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be more likely to have a future stroke, according to research that appears in the June 26, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

28 Jun 2013

Anesthesia & Analgesia journal of IARS achieves another increase in its "Impact Factor"

The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) is pleased to announce that Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the IARS, has achieved yet another increase in its "Impact Factor"—a key indicator of the influence and scientific value of medical journals.

26 Jun 2013

Survey finds at least 20% of Ontario adolescents had TBI in their lifetime

One in five adolescents surveyed in Ontario said they have suffered a traumatic brain injury that left them unconscious for five minutes or required them to be hospitalized overnight, a statistic researchers in Toronto say is much higher than previously thought.

26 Jun 2013

Research: Flu shot effective in preventing flu, even if virus does not match vaccine

New research out of St. Michael's Hospital has found that despite popular belief, the flu shot is effective in preventing the flu, even if the virus going around does not match the vaccine.

26 Jun 2013

Researchers use neuroimaging abnormalities to detect timing of abusive head trauma in infants

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pennsylvania) have categorized the appearance and evolution of abnormalities on neuroimages that represent abusive head trauma (AHT) in infants.

26 Jun 2013

Trauma News and Research

Soligenix announces personalized medicine collaboration with SciClone

HeadSense closes financing for non-invasive intracranial pressure monitor

New study provides data that could help break the cycle of gun violence

St. Michael Hospital receives $4.7M grant to conduct policy-driven prescription drug research

Data shows individualized regimens can help optimize prophylaxis treatment in hemophilia patients

Open window can become dangerous hazard for children

Research: Change in functional state, structure of spinal cord and brain occur within 40 days of injury

LARIAT procedure prevents stroke in patients who are unable to tolerate blood thinners

Parents, children should leave fireworks displays to experts, say Vanderbilt specialists

OBI advances Phase IIb clinical trial of Oxycyte for treatment of TBI

Mayo Clinic provides tips to stay safe this summer

Study shows lymphatic circulatory system may be intimately involved in vascular disorders

Pre-deployment insomnia symptoms associated with major mental disorders

Healthy man injured severely while weight lifting required surgery

Orlando Health's clinicians provide hospital-level care in patient's home

People who have TBI may be more likely to have future stroke, says study

Anesthesia & Analgesia journal of IARS achieves another increase in its "Impact Factor"

Survey finds at least 20% of Ontario adolescents had TBI in their lifetime

Research: Flu shot effective in preventing flu, even if virus does not match vaccine

Researchers use neuroimaging abnormalities to detect timing of abusive head trauma in infants

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