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NIH budget slashing may stall future pain research funding

Multi-faceted pain research discoveries within the last decade are bringing new hope for the estimated 100 million Americans with chronic pain. Unfortunately, translation of these scientific advances into clinical practice could be stalled without sufficient funding for both basic science and clinical pain research, according to the American Pain Society.

12 Sep 2013

Current criteria for ALK positive lung cancer needs to be redefined

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Cancer shows that the current criteria used to match lung cancers with the drug crizotinib may miss some patients who could benefit from the drug. The findings suggest that doctors should look closer at borderline or atypical ALK-negative cases, and could widen the population of lung cancer patients offered treatment with crizotinib or other ALK-inhibitor drugs.

12 Sep 2013

HoneyBaked Ham to replace gold foil with pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Known for the world's best ham, HoneyBaked Ham will replace its iconic gold foil with pink for the first time ever this October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Customers are invited to help "foil" breast cancer by assisting HoneyBaked in its support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) in its mission to provide free mammograms and diagnostic breast cancer services to underserved women.

12 Sep 2013

Scientists develop novel, rapid way to test artemisinin-resistant malaria

For the first time, scientists have developed a novel and rapid way to test whether the most common and lethal form of malaria is resistant to potent artemisinin drugs.

12 Sep 2013

Mount Sinai physician-scientists join DILIN to help find causes, diagnostics for drug-induced liver injury

In an effort to better understand and develop prevention strategies for drug-induced liver injury, physician-scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have joined the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network, a National Institutes of Health-funded consortium of only six academic medical centers in the United States.

12 Sep 2013

Voice Program at Mayo Clinic provides expert care for people facing voice complications

People who rely on their voice for a living can rely on Mayo Clinic if there is a problem.

12 Sep 2013

Higher death rates in centers treating more minority patients may be due to financial strains

Nearly 80 percent of trauma centers in the United States that serve predominantly minority patients have higher-than-expected death rates, according to new Johns Hopkins research.

12 Sep 2013

Avon Foundation for Women supports innovative research on aggressive breast cancer

The Avon Foundation for Women has awarded a $300,000 grant to Dolores Di Vizio, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a member of the Cancer Biology and Urologic Oncology Research Programs at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute to advance scientific research in aggressive breast cancer.

12 Sep 2013

Genia Technologies receives $5M grant from NIH to develop nanopore-based DNA sequencing platform

Genia Technologies, Inc. today announced that the company, as part of a research consortium with Columbia University and Harvard Medical School, received a Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies – The $1,000 Genome grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

12 Sep 2013

Ventana gets CFDA approval for VENTANA ALK immunohistochemistry assay

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., a member of the Roche Group, today announced the approval of the VENTANA ALK immunohistochemistry assay by the Chinese Food and Drug Administration as a companion diagnostic to aid in the identification of patients for Pfizer's CFDA-approved oncology product XALKORI (crizotinib).

12 Sep 2013

Berg receives Drug Discovery Technology Innovation Award for agnostic approach to drug discovery

Berg, a biopharmaceutical company committed to uncovering health solutions through a data-driven, biological research approach, was recognized today with the 2013 North American Drug Discovery Technology Innovation Award at the Frost & Sullivan Growth, Innovation and Leadership Awards Gala, the annual event by the global research organization that highlights the most promising new innovative technology across sectors.

12 Sep 2013

Medflow chooses DataMotion Direct secure messaging service for exchange of PHI

DataMotion, an innovative health information service provider with more than 14 years of experience in secure data delivery, today announced that Medflow, Inc., the leading provider of electronic health records for ophthalmology, has selected its DataMotion Direct secure messaging service.

11 Sep 2013

Accuracy of diagnoses does not differ between simple and complex multitasking conditions

Physicians may be able to complete simple tasks concurrently while diagnosing a patient without affecting the accuracy or speed of diagnoses, human factors researchers have suggested, based on the findings of a recent laboratory experiment.

11 Sep 2013

Researchers identify alterations in proteins responsible for RNA splicing in Alzheimer's

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center have identified a previously unrecognized type of pathology in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

11 Sep 2013

Study: More than 70% of bladder tumors display somatic mutations in TERT gene

Researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered that more than 70% of bladder tumours display somatic mutations in the TERT gene (telomerase reverse transcriptase).

11 Sep 2013

Three rapid diagnostic tests could be used to diagnose drug resistance in TB

Results of a new study suggest that three new diagnostic tests could each be used to successfully diagnose drug resistance in tuberculosis (TB) patients in a quarter of the time taken by the current method.

10 Sep 2013

Heart IT releases WebPAX cardiac echo reporting module

Heart IT, the global leader that pioneered the first FDA approved zero-footprint medical imaging workstation, announced today the release of the WebPAX cardiac echo reporting module.

10 Sep 2013

Findings could lead to improvements in pneumonia care, outcomes for patients

An electronic decision support tool helped to reduce deaths from pneumonia in four hospital emergency departments in a new study.

10 Sep 2013

Scientists develop strain of MERS-CoV that can be used as vaccine against disease

Scientists have developed a strain of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that could be used as a vaccine against the disease, according to a study to be published in mBio-, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

10 Sep 2013

New technology to diagnose influenza quickly

A new technology is showing promise as the basis for a much-needed home test to diagnose influenza quickly, before the window for taking antiviral drugs slams shut and sick people spread the virus to others, scientists reported here today. In a presentation at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they described how it also could determine the specific strain of flu virus and help select the most effective drug for treatment.

10 Sep 2013

Diagnostic News and Research

NIH budget slashing may stall future pain research funding

Current criteria for ALK positive lung cancer needs to be redefined

HoneyBaked Ham to replace gold foil with pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Scientists develop novel, rapid way to test artemisinin-resistant malaria

Mount Sinai physician-scientists join DILIN to help find causes, diagnostics for drug-induced liver injury

Voice Program at Mayo Clinic provides expert care for people facing voice complications

Higher death rates in centers treating more minority patients may be due to financial strains

Avon Foundation for Women supports innovative research on aggressive breast cancer

Genia Technologies receives $5M grant from NIH to develop nanopore-based DNA sequencing platform

Ventana gets CFDA approval for VENTANA ALK immunohistochemistry assay

Berg receives Drug Discovery Technology Innovation Award for agnostic approach to drug discovery

Medflow chooses DataMotion Direct secure messaging service for exchange of PHI

Accuracy of diagnoses does not differ between simple and complex multitasking conditions

Researchers identify alterations in proteins responsible for RNA splicing in Alzheimer's

Study: More than 70% of bladder tumors display somatic mutations in TERT gene

Three rapid diagnostic tests could be used to diagnose drug resistance in TB

Heart IT releases WebPAX cardiac echo reporting module

Findings could lead to improvements in pneumonia care, outcomes for patients

Scientists develop strain of MERS-CoV that can be used as vaccine against disease

New technology to diagnose influenza quickly

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