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Combination of Herceptin and chemotherapy improves treatment for women with HER2+ breast cancer

Using Herceptin with chemotherapy, instead of after, clearly improves treatment of women with HER2+ breast cancer, and should be the new standard of care, says a Mayo Clinic researcher who led what is regarded to be a key clinical trial determining the best use of Herceptin.

14 Dec 2009

Case Western Reserve University grants option to startup Thermalin Diabetes

Case Western Reserve University has granted an 18-month, exclusive option to startup Thermalin Diabetes Inc. regarding a portfolio of insulin analogs. The company must reach certain milestones in order to exercise its option to obtain an exclusive license on therapies designed to help patients with diabetes.

14 Dec 2009

Texas researchers identify new detection method for circulating tumor cells

Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

14 Dec 2009

Scientists discover five genetic variants associated with lung disease

Scientists have discovered five genetic variants that are associated with the health of the human lung. The research by an international consortium of 96 scientists from 63 centres in Europe and Australia sheds new light on the molecular basis of lung diseases.

14 Dec 2009

Special issue focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention and outcomes

Emerging research on cardiovascular risk factors and treatment effects are helping clinicians gain a better understanding of which patients are most likely to benefit from close monitoring, lifestyle changes and/or additional therapeutic interventions.

14 Dec 2009

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta receives $5 million multi-year gift to care for low-income children

Kaiser Permanente of Georgia today announced a $5 million multi-year gift to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta with the goal of improving access to care for low-income children.

12 Dec 2009

Kaiser Permanente: Women of Chinese and Korean heritage may develop diabetes during pregnancy

More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of the Ethnicity and Disease journal.

11 Dec 2009

Talk To Me Technologies to help customers get funding through Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance

AbleNet, Inc. announces a new program to offer Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance funding support through Talk To Me Technologies, LLC. This service is effective December 2009 for the AbleNet SuperTalker™ progressive communicator and FL4SH™ scanning communicator products.

11 Dec 2009

University of the Rockies offers new specialization course in management and counseling

Bridgepoint Education, Inc. , a provider of post-secondary education services focused on providing higher access to higher education, announced today that University of the Rockies, a graduate school specializing in psychology programs at the master's and doctoral levels, has added a new Master of Arts specialization in Career Management and Counseling.

11 Dec 2009

Physical education teaching staff should encourage social interaction and avoid comparisons between students

What factors have an influence in making us like sport in the physical education classes we receive in school? According to a new investigation, physical education teaching staff must develop the responsibility, encourage social interaction and avoid making comparisons between the pupils.

11 Dec 2009

NAA protests against abusive restraint and seclusion in schools

Today the National Autism Association announced its support of H.R. 4247, the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act, introduced Wednesday by Congressman George Miller (D-CA) and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). The federal bill is a much-anticipated solution to the issues of unregulated restraint and seclusion in schools.

11 Dec 2009

Prescription Solutions achieves overall generic prescription drug penetration rate of 68.8 percent

Prescription Solutions, a leading pharmacy benefits management (PBM) organization and a UnitedHealth Group company, has achieved an industry-leading overall generic prescription drug penetration rate of 68.8 percent year-to-date for 2009.

11 Dec 2009

President Obama can still keep up his promise by establishing a well-resourced Global Fund for Education

Today is International Human Rights Day, commemorating the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states (in Article 26): "Everyone has the right to education [and] education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages."

11 Dec 2009

Winner of the 2010 Avanti Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research

Sarah L. Keller, a professor of chemistry and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Washington, has been named the winner of the 2010 Avanti Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research for her innovative and cutting-edge studies on membrane lipids.

11 Dec 2009

New engineering institute to help develop markets for low-cost engineering solutions

Pairing technological innovation with business collaboration to improve conditions for the global poor is the driving force behind the new Hunter and Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity at SMU's Bobby Lyle School of Engineering.

11 Dec 2009

GAA calls on Obama to fund for PEPFAR

International Human Rights Day -- At his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway, this morning, President Barack Obama emphasized the importance of health and access to medicines for all people as a prerequisite to security. The President said:

11 Dec 2009

African-American women in South Carolina more likely to have cervical cancer than white women

African-American women in South Carolina are 37 percent more likely to have cervical cancer than white women and have a death rate that is about 61 percent higher, according to a study by researchers at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health.

11 Dec 2009

Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital performs partial knee resurfacing surgery using MAKOplasty technology

For the first time in Wisconsin, patients suffering from arthritis pain have access to a new procedure that uses the precision of robotics to perform partial knee resurfacing surgery. The technology, called MAKOplasty®, is a minimally invasive surgical option that results in shorter hospital stays and faster healing than traditional knee surgeries.

11 Dec 2009

McGraw-Hill Education's free instructional resources on H1N1 available online

When H1N1 or other illnesses prevent school attendance, students, parents and teachers can now access a variety of McGraw-Hill Education's free instructional resources on the web.

11 Dec 2009

LLS becomes corporate partner and joins VDF as sponsor

The Vascular Disease Foundation (VDF) announced today that Life Line Screening, Inc. (LLS) has become a corporate partner and joined the foundation as a sponsor.

11 Dec 2009

Education News and Research

Combination of Herceptin and chemotherapy improves treatment for women with HER2+ breast cancer

Case Western Reserve University grants option to startup Thermalin Diabetes

Texas researchers identify new detection method for circulating tumor cells

Scientists discover five genetic variants associated with lung disease

Special issue focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention and outcomes

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta receives $5 million multi-year gift to care for low-income children

Kaiser Permanente: Women of Chinese and Korean heritage may develop diabetes during pregnancy

Talk To Me Technologies to help customers get funding through Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance

University of the Rockies offers new specialization course in management and counseling

Physical education teaching staff should encourage social interaction and avoid comparisons between students

NAA protests against abusive restraint and seclusion in schools

Prescription Solutions achieves overall generic prescription drug penetration rate of 68.8 percent

President Obama can still keep up his promise by establishing a well-resourced Global Fund for Education

Winner of the 2010 Avanti Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research

New engineering institute to help develop markets for low-cost engineering solutions

GAA calls on Obama to fund for PEPFAR

African-American women in South Carolina more likely to have cervical cancer than white women

Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital performs partial knee resurfacing surgery using MAKOplasty technology

McGraw-Hill Education's free instructional resources on H1N1 available online

LLS becomes corporate partner and joins VDF as sponsor

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