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Cleveland healthcare institutions receive $1M grant to develop Stroke Clinical Trials Coordinating Center

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11 Oct 2013

Finding highlights new ways of treating inflammation disorders

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has identified key signaling proteins in the inflammation process that contribute to the development of inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, sepsis and inflammatory bowel diseases.

11 Oct 2013

Medical device tax gets attention in budget fight

Opponents of the tax, which helps fund the health law, have proposed killing it to help defuse the current standoff, but there is not yet consensus on that effort.

11 Oct 2013

Research delves deeply into genomics of glioblastoma multiforme cases to better target disease

When The Cancer Genome Atlas launched its massively collaborative approach to organ-by-organ genomic analysis of cancers, the brain had both the benefit, and the challenge, of going first.

11 Oct 2013

Indiana sues to halt health law's employer mandate

The state attorney general and 15 school districts filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, claiming that tax penalties for businesses with 50 or more full-time employees that fail to provide health benefits cannot be enforced against state or local governments.

11 Oct 2013

Children who stutter have less grey matter in brain regions responsible for speech production

A new study by a University of Alberta researcher shows that children who stutter have less grey matter in key regions of the brain responsible for speech production than children who do not stutter.

11 Oct 2013

Researchers discover how the body's muscles accidentally fall asleep while awake

Normally muscles contract in order to support the body, but in a rare condition known as cataplexy the body's muscles "fall asleep" and become involuntarily paralyzed. Cataplexy is incapacitating because it leaves the affected individual awake, but either fully or partially paralyzed. It is one of the bizarre symptoms of the sleep disorder called narcolepsy.

11 Oct 2013

IVF and chromosome testing: an interview with Dr. Santiago Munné

The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) releases every year a report on pregnancy rates by maternal age. The last one shows a decline on implantation rates per embryo from 36% in young women, to 27.3% in women 35-37, 17.5% in 38-40, and less than 10% above 40 years of age.

10 Oct 2013

Cholinergic degeneration marks gait speed in Parkinson’s patients

Gait speed is preserved in patients with Parkinson’s disease who have isolated dopaminergic denervation, but reduced in those with comorbid cholinergic denervation, research shows.

10 Oct 2013

Nonmotor signs aid Parkinson’s diagnosis

Physicians should account for nonmotor symptoms when diagnosing Parkinson’s disease, researchers believe.

10 Oct 2013

Diverse Neurological Disorders Appear To Share Tangled Metabolic Roots

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10 Oct 2013

Teva Cutting 5,000 Jobs In Global Restructuring

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10 Oct 2013

Nuvo Scores $2M Payment From Galderma For Launch Of Topical Anesthetic In Brazil

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10 Oct 2013

J&J Innovation, Janssen, And Joslin Diabetes To Pump Up Exercise-Related Targets

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10 Oct 2013

Vivaldi Buys Flu Vaccine R&D Assets From Baxter

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10 Oct 2013

Constellation Pharmaceuticals awarded grant to facilitate study of epigenetic control of inflammation

Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in the field of epigenetics, today announced that it has been awarded a research grant in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to explore the potential use of BET bromodomain inhibitors for the control of inflammation in cystic fibrosis.

10 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 10, 2013

Today's headlines include a new Associated Press poll that offers the public's early reviews of the first days of the health law's online insurance marketplaces.

10 Oct 2013

New research shows high levels of aluminium in infant formulas

New research from Keele University shows that infant formulas are still heavily contaminated with aluminium.

10 Oct 2013

Combining gene therapy with stem cells leads to faster healing of burns

Johns Hopkins researchers, working with elderly mice, have determined that combining gene therapy with an extra boost of the same stem cells the body already uses to repair itself leads to faster healing of burns and greater blood flow to the site of the wound.

10 Oct 2013

Heptares' StaR platform offers breakthrough solution to challenge associated with antibodies therapeutics

Heptares Therapeutics, the leading GPCR structure-guided drug discovery and development company, achieved the first research milestone in its antibody therapeutics alliance with MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX), announced in February 2013.

10 Oct 2013

Research News and Research

Cleveland healthcare institutions receive $1M grant to develop Stroke Clinical Trials Coordinating Center

Finding highlights new ways of treating inflammation disorders

Medical device tax gets attention in budget fight

Research delves deeply into genomics of glioblastoma multiforme cases to better target disease

Indiana sues to halt health law's employer mandate

Children who stutter have less grey matter in brain regions responsible for speech production

Researchers discover how the body's muscles accidentally fall asleep while awake

IVF and chromosome testing: an interview with Dr. Santiago Munné

Cholinergic degeneration marks gait speed in Parkinson’s patients

Nonmotor signs aid Parkinson’s diagnosis

Diverse Neurological Disorders Appear To Share Tangled Metabolic Roots

Teva Cutting 5,000 Jobs In Global Restructuring

Nuvo Scores $2M Payment From Galderma For Launch Of Topical Anesthetic In Brazil

J&J Innovation, Janssen, And Joslin Diabetes To Pump Up Exercise-Related Targets

Vivaldi Buys Flu Vaccine R&D Assets From Baxter

Constellation Pharmaceuticals awarded grant to facilitate study of epigenetic control of inflammation

First Edition: October 10, 2013

New research shows high levels of aluminium in infant formulas

Combining gene therapy with stem cells leads to faster healing of burns

Heptares' StaR platform offers breakthrough solution to challenge associated with antibodies therapeutics

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