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GHIT Fund grants US$5.7 million to six global partnerships working on vaccines against malaria

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), a new public health partnership that is bringing Japanese know-how and investment to the global fight against infectious diseases, announced today grants of US$5.7 million to six global partnerships working on innovative drugs and vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and Chagas disease.

8 Nov 2013

New coverage gaps, cost issues spur health law worries

News outlets look at the nuts and bolts of the health law's implementation, including a worry that coverage gaps will persist for some vulnerable people, as well as how the government pays for insurance subsidies and why some premium costs increase under the health law.

8 Nov 2013

Study investigates association between preterm birth and later retinal detachment

Children born extremely prematurely have up to a 19 times greater risk of retinal detachment later in life than peers born at term, according to a Swedish study published this month in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

8 Nov 2013

Higher chocolate consumption associated with lower levels of total fat

Scientists at the University of Granada have disproved the old idea that chocolate is fattening, in a study reported this week in Nutrition. Higher chocolate consumption associated with lower levels of total fat—fat deposits all over the body—and central—abdominal—fat, independently of whether or not subjects are physically active, and of their diet.

8 Nov 2013

Rice U. researchers link von Willebrand factor to heart-valve calcium deposits

Heart valves calcify over time, and Rice University scientists are beginning to understand why. The Rice lab of bioengineer Jane Grande-Allen found through studies of pigs' heart valves that age plays a critical role in the valves' progressive hardening, and the problem may be due to the infiltration of a protein known as von Willebrand factor.

8 Nov 2013

For health exchange navigators, enrollment frustrations continue

Workers helping people enroll in policies through the health law's new online insurance marketplaces are still finding website problems and it's causing concerns.

8 Nov 2013

Increased consumption of vegetable protein linked with prolonged survival among kidney disease patients

Increased consumption of vegetable protein was linked with prolonged survival among kidney disease patients in a new a study. The findings will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2013 November 5-10 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA.

8 Nov 2013

Consumption of tree nuts inversely associated with risk of pancreatic cancer in women

In a large prospective study published online in the British Journal of Cancer, researchers looked at the association between nut consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer among 75,680 women in the Nurses' Health Study, with no previous history of cancer.

8 Nov 2013

UC researchers receive FDA grant to study generic tacrolimus in high-risk transplant patients

Transplant researchers at the University of Cincinnati have received a grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to study the safety and efficacy of a generic immunosuppressive drug in high-risk transplant patients.

7 Nov 2013

Neonatal jaundice linked to pediatric asthma risk

Researchers have found that neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with an increased risk for childhood asthma.

7 Nov 2013

Diets and the famine reaction: an interview with Associate Professor Amanda Salis, University of Sydney

The statistic that you often hear is that 95% of diets fail, but in actual fact, emerging research is now showing that it’s around 70% of diets that fail. That means that around 30% of people who are losing weight are actually keeping it off. So we’re doing better now than we were doing in the past, but there’s still work to be done.

7 Nov 2013

Study finds few beneficial effects of metformin drug for cardiovascular disease in people without diabetes

Despite high expectations for the commonly used diabetes drug metformin to improve risk factors for heart disease in people without diabetes, few beneficial effects have been found in a randomised trial of patients with established cardiovascular disease, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

7 Nov 2013

NIDDK director to receive Outstanding Achievement Award from NKF

The National Kidney Foundation will honor Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, for his commitment to bettering the lives of patients and raising awareness of chronic kidney disease.

7 Nov 2013

SIgN scientist wins prestigious EMBO Young Investigator 2013 award

Dr Florent Ginhoux, Principal Investigator at the Singapore Immunology Network, has been awarded the prestigious EMBO Young Investigator 2013 award. The European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigator Programme recognises young, promising researchers who are less than forty years of age and who have established their first laboratories in Europe and EMBO cooperation partner countries in the past four years.

7 Nov 2013

Research: Where positive information comes in bad-news conversation can influence outcomes

There's good news and there's bad news. Which do you want to hear first? That depends on whether you are the giver or receiver of bad news, and if the news-giver wants the receiver to act on the information, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside.

7 Nov 2013

Mental health services, tobacco control programs must work together to encourage smoking cessation

Persons with mental illness account for more than one-third of adult smokers in the United States and despite a decline in tobacco use during the past five decades, there has been no change in the smoking rate for patients with poor mental health.

7 Nov 2013

State highlights: New Va. governor-elect pledges to expand Medicaid; Wis. employers see 7% health plan cost increase; Miami voters approve $830M for health system

In his emotional concession speech, Cuccinelli also noted the lopsided spending and vowed he would not give up on his fight against Democrats' national health care law. … From the outset, the campaign shaped up as a barometer of voters' moods and a test of whether a swing-voting state like Virginia would elect a tea party-style governor. Republicans bet a deeply conservative candidate would be their best shot at holding onto the governor's office, passing over a lieutenant governor for Cuccinelli, a crusader against the federal health care law (11/6).

7 Nov 2013

Inhibition of heart protein reduces damage from heart attack, say researchers

The stop and start of blood flow to the heart during and after a heart attack causes severe damage to heart cells, reducing their capacity to function and potentially causing their death.

7 Nov 2013

ImmunGene secures $9 million in Series A financing from Ally Bridge Group

ImmunGene, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing antibody-cytokine fusion technology therapies to treat cancer, today announced it has secured $9 million in a milestone-based Series A financing from Ally Bridge Group. Previous investments in the Company were converted into Series A preferred stock. ImmunGene will use the capital to advance its early-stage development products to IND-enabling studies.

7 Nov 2013

Researchers identify new class of anti-inflammatory drugs may be used to treat IBD

Researchers in UCD Conway Institute and Systems Biology Ireland have identified a way that a new class of anti-inflammatory drugs may be used to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

7 Nov 2013

Research News and Research

GHIT Fund grants US$5.7 million to six global partnerships working on vaccines against malaria

New coverage gaps, cost issues spur health law worries

Study investigates association between preterm birth and later retinal detachment

Higher chocolate consumption associated with lower levels of total fat

Rice U. researchers link von Willebrand factor to heart-valve calcium deposits

For health exchange navigators, enrollment frustrations continue

Increased consumption of vegetable protein linked with prolonged survival among kidney disease patients

Consumption of tree nuts inversely associated with risk of pancreatic cancer in women

UC researchers receive FDA grant to study generic tacrolimus in high-risk transplant patients

Neonatal jaundice linked to pediatric asthma risk

Diets and the famine reaction: an interview with Associate Professor Amanda Salis, University of Sydney

Study finds few beneficial effects of metformin drug for cardiovascular disease in people without diabetes

NIDDK director to receive Outstanding Achievement Award from NKF

SIgN scientist wins prestigious EMBO Young Investigator 2013 award

Research: Where positive information comes in bad-news conversation can influence outcomes

Mental health services, tobacco control programs must work together to encourage smoking cessation

State highlights: New Va. governor-elect pledges to expand Medicaid; Wis. employers see 7% health plan cost increase; Miami voters approve $830M for health system

Inhibition of heart protein reduces damage from heart attack, say researchers

ImmunGene secures $9 million in Series A financing from Ally Bridge Group

Researchers identify new class of anti-inflammatory drugs may be used to treat IBD

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