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Brain Study Suggests New Way To Treat Anxiety

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22 Aug 2013

PDI Expands Focus With Mdx Commercialization Deal

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22 Aug 2013

Mount Sinai, Exosome Partner On Body Fluid Molecular Diagnostics

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22 Aug 2013

Aging Gene Tied To Myeloma

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22 Aug 2013

Genenews Axes 60% Of Staff To Boost New JV

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22 Aug 2013

Novel Approach Developed On Antitumor Immunotherapy

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22 Aug 2013

NIH Grants $5.2M To Vanderbilt Colon Cancer Investigator

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22 Aug 2013

Takeda Launches New Subsidiary In Peru

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22 Aug 2013

Psychogenics Picks Up Alzheimer’s Animal Model From USF

PsychoGenics obtained an exclusive license from the University of South Florida to its APP/PS1 double transgenic mice, which co-express the M146L presenilin 1 (PS1) mutation and the double mutations at K670N/M671L (Swedish mutation) in the amyloid precursor protein (APP).

22 Aug 2013

Nuvo: FDA accepts to review New Drug Application for PENNSAID 2%

Nuvo Research Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to building a portfolio of products for the topical treatment of pain and the development of its immune modulating drug candidate WF10 today announced that its U.S. licensee for PENNSAID (diclofenac sodium topical solution) 1.5% w/w and PENNSAID 2% (diclofenac sodium topical solution) 2% w/w, Mallinckrodt has advised that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted for filing and review the New Drug Application for PENNSAID 2% submitted by Mallinckrodt on August 7, 2013.

22 Aug 2013

First Edition: August 22, 2013

Today's headlines include news reports about how summer politics are shaking out around the health law's implementation.

22 Aug 2013

Ireland’s Health Research Board awards €1.2M to UL researchers

University of Limerick researchers have been awarded over €1.2 million funding by Ireland’s Health Research Board. The funding will support health research focused on; primary care reform in Ireland; avoidance of adverse outcomes in vascular surgery; dealing with the progression of chronic kidney disease and enhancing physical activity for multiple sclerosis patients.

22 Aug 2013

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy may affect people's thinking, memory, behavior and mood

New research suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease associated with repeat brain trauma including concussions in athletes, may affect people in two major ways: initially affecting behavior or mood or initially affecting memory and thinking abilities.

22 Aug 2013

Drug oxytocin may contribute to postpartum bleeding, researchers find

With the number of maternal deaths on the rise in the United States, researchers found that a drug frequently used to augment or induce labor may contribute to postpartum bleeding, a study in the September issue of Anesthesiology notes.

22 Aug 2013

Low-cost intervention reduces transmission of lymphatic filariasis to undetectable levels

An international team of scientists have demonstrated that a simple, low-cost intervention holds the potential to eradicate a debilitating tropical disease that threatens nearly 1.4 billion people in more than six dozen countries.

22 Aug 2013

Use of psychotherapy on a clear decline in US

Psychotherapy has issues. Evidence shows that some psychosocial treatments work well for common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression and that consumers often prefer them to medication.

22 Aug 2013

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine's July issue focuses on assistive technology for spinal cord injury

The July issue of the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine focuses on, "Advances in Technology for People with Spinal Cord Injury." Guest Editor Rory Cooper, PhD, is a member of the journal's Editorial Board. Dr. Cooper is the FISA/PVA Endowed Chair and a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.

22 Aug 2013

New focus on long-term effects of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster spread significant radioactive contamination over more than 3500 square miles of the Japanese mainland in the spring of 2011. Now several recently published studies of Chernobyl, directed by Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina and Anders M-ller of the Universit- Paris-Sud, are bringing a new focus on just how extensive the long-term effects on Japanese wildlife might be.

22 Aug 2013

Research findings may lead to treatments for disorders triggered by circadian clock dysfunction

Overnight flights across the Atlantic, graveyard shifts, stress-induced insomnia are all prime culprits in keeping us from getting a good night's sleep. Thanks to new research from McGill University and Concordia University, however, these common sleep disturbances may one day be put to bed.

22 Aug 2013

Antipsychotic drug not effective in treating delirium in critically ill patients

Haloperidol, an antipsychotic drug used in many hospitals to treat delirium in critically ill patients, is no more effective than placebo in reducing the number of days that critically ill patients spend either delirious or in a coma, according to new research published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

22 Aug 2013