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Foreign aid reform increases efficiency, should appeal to all members of Congress

"Since the Eisenhower administration, the United States generally has done food aid in a certain way: grow and pack it in this country, ship it across the world on U.S.-flagged ships, then deliver it through American charities, which sell a portion of the food to fund their other programs," columnist Michael Gerson writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.

17 Apr 2013

BGI's second International Conference on Genomics in the Americas to be held in September

BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, will hold its second International Conference on Genomics in the Americas (ICG Americas 2013) on September 12-13, 2013 in Sacramento, CA.

17 Apr 2013

Focus on early childhood critical to new development framework

"UNICEF's latest report [.pdf] on child nutrition, launched at the Dublin Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, Climate Justice hosted by the Mary Robinson Foundation and Irish Government, revealed that every year 2.3 million children under the age of five still die of malnutrition and 165 million children are stunted as a result of not receiving enough nutritious food within the first 1,000 days of life," British Member of Parliament Ivan Lewis, the shadow secretary of state for international development, writes in a Huffington Post U.K. "Politics" opinion piece.

17 Apr 2013

New study reports smoke-free policies for public housing would provide better health

Establishing smoke-free policies for public housing would help protect residents, visitors and workers' from the harmful effects of smoking and result in significant cost savings, reports a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

17 Apr 2013

Devex blog examines private sector involvement in global health

In two posts, Devex's "Impact" blog examines the role of the private sector in global health initiatives. In one post, "Impact" interviews Ariel Pablos-Méndez, assistant administrator for global health at USAID.

17 Apr 2013

Country representatives, development agencies gather in Johannesburg for global newborn health conference

"Representatives of the United Nations Children's Fund, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation attended the world's first global newborn health conference in Johannesburg on Monday," Business Day Live reports (Magubane/Rapetswane, 4/15).

17 Apr 2013

Survival rate for bowel cancer patients lower in UK, new research finds

Incomplete diagnostic investigation and failure to get the best treatment are the most likely reasons why survival for bowel cancer patients is lower in the UK than in other comparable countries, according to new research published in the journal Acta Oncologica.

17 Apr 2013

Acetaminophen may help reduce existential pain

Thinking about death can cause us to feel a sort of existential angst that isn't attributable to a specific source. Now, new research suggests that acetaminophen, an over-the-counter pain medication, may help to reduce this existential pain.

17 Apr 2013

Birth registration key to achieving MDGs

With "less than 1,000 days to go until the 2015 deadline for the world's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ..., [t]he international community is busy examining the progress we've made and all the work remaining if we are to realize the vision that was laid out 12 years ago," Nigel Chapman, CEO of Plan International, writes in the Huffington Post's "Impact" blog.

17 Apr 2013

GlycoMimetics reports Phase 2 clinical study results of GMI-1070

GlycoMimetics, Inc. today announced top line clinical results from a Phase 2 study of GMI-1070 in patients experiencing vaso-occlusive crisis of sickle cell disease.

17 Apr 2013

Viewpoints: 9 'brilliant legal minds' wrestle with tough biological questions in gene case; Drug overdoses take surprising toll in Calif.; VA case raises privacy questions

When the Supreme Court took up the question Monday of whether genes could be patented, the justices were clearly concerned about preserving innovation in medicine and biotechnology. But the issue presented by Myriad Genetics' patents on the BRCA genes cuts both ways, leading to a potential split among the justices (Jon Healey, 4/15).

17 Apr 2013

Albert Einstein College of Medicine joins New York Genome Center

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University will join the New York Genome Center (NYGC) as its twelfth Institutional Founding Member.

17 Apr 2013

Preclinical data on anti-cancer activity of BI-505 published online in Cancer Cell

BioInvent International AB, a biotech company developing novel antibody therapeutics for treatment of cancer, today announced that the April 15, 2013 online issue of the highly prestigious cancer research journal Cancer Cell features a data publication demonstrating potent anti-cancer activity of BI-505 in multiple preclinical myeloma tumor models.

17 Apr 2013

Rule on home health care workers causing rift between Medicaid directors, labor advocates

Directors of state Medicaid programs and disability rights groups are warring with labor advocates over a long-awaited federal regulation that would extend federal minimum wage and overtime pay to in-home health care workers.

17 Apr 2013

Research findings in mice may pave way towards understanding autism in human patients

For the first time, researchers have linked autism in a mouse model of the disease with abnormalities in specific regions of the animals' chromosomes.

17 Apr 2013

Roundup: Ariz. lawmakers revive vetoed health care price transparency bill; Big tobacco starts health care payments to states

The Arizona Senate voted Monday to revive the major provisions of a medical pricing transparency bill that was vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer just last week. Senate Bill 1115 by Republican Sen. Nancy Barto would have required health care providers to post prices for common medical procedures (Christie, 4/15).

17 Apr 2013

Updated labeling for Purdue Pharma's reformulated OxyContin tablets gets FDA approval

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved updated labeling for Purdue Pharma L.P.'s reformulated OxyContin (oxycodone hydrochloride controlled-release) tablets.

17 Apr 2013

Panel expected to give Tavenner the nod, send nomination on to the full Senate

This week brings a full schedule as top federal health officials head for Capitol Hill to defend their 2014 budget requests.

17 Apr 2013

Researchers develop new tool to help surgeons use X-rays to track devices used in surgical procedures

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new tool to help surgeons use X-rays to track devices used in "minimally invasive" surgical procedures while also limiting the patient's exposure to radiation from the X-rays.

17 Apr 2013

Circumcision offers men some protection against HIV, discovers TGen-led study

Male circumcision reduces the abundance of bacteria living on the penis and might help explain why circumcision offers men some protection against HIV, according to a study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

17 Apr 2013

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Foreign aid reform increases efficiency, should appeal to all members of Congress

BGI's second International Conference on Genomics in the Americas to be held in September

Focus on early childhood critical to new development framework

New study reports smoke-free policies for public housing would provide better health

Devex blog examines private sector involvement in global health

Country representatives, development agencies gather in Johannesburg for global newborn health conference

Survival rate for bowel cancer patients lower in UK, new research finds

Acetaminophen may help reduce existential pain

Birth registration key to achieving MDGs

GlycoMimetics reports Phase 2 clinical study results of GMI-1070

Viewpoints: 9 'brilliant legal minds' wrestle with tough biological questions in gene case; Drug overdoses take surprising toll in Calif.; VA case raises privacy questions

Albert Einstein College of Medicine joins New York Genome Center

Preclinical data on anti-cancer activity of BI-505 published online in Cancer Cell

Rule on home health care workers causing rift between Medicaid directors, labor advocates

Research findings in mice may pave way towards understanding autism in human patients

Roundup: Ariz. lawmakers revive vetoed health care price transparency bill; Big tobacco starts health care payments to states

Updated labeling for Purdue Pharma's reformulated OxyContin tablets gets FDA approval

Panel expected to give Tavenner the nod, send nomination on to the full Senate

Researchers develop new tool to help surgeons use X-rays to track devices used in surgical procedures

Circumcision offers men some protection against HIV, discovers TGen-led study

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