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GIS discovery could help generate stem cells more efficiently for biomedical applications

A team of scientists from Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have shown how proteins involved in controlling genes work together to carry out their functions in stem cells and demonstrated for the very first time, how they can change interaction partners to make other types of cells.

20 May 2011

African LGBT advocates warn against cutting multilateral aid to Uganda

At a World Bank panel discussion in Washington, D.C., on homophobia in developing countries, LGBT advocates from Africa expressed concern that if multilateral development organizations cut aid to Uganda in protest of attempts to make homosexual acts crimes punishable by death, the human rights situation for them could worsen, the Washington Blade reports.

20 May 2011

Naltrexone improves clinical, inflammatory activity in Crohn's disease patients

Naltrexone reduced inflammation in Crohn's patients in a research study at Penn State College of Medicine.

20 May 2011

9/11 Health fund administrator chosen

The Justice Department on Wednesday chose a special master to administer a multibillion-dollar fund created to provide compensation to rescue workers and others sickened from exposure to toxic fumes, dust and smoke from ground zero after the 2001 terrorist attack.

20 May 2011

VBL to present positive VB-111 preclinical data in metastatic lung cancer at 14th ASGCT

VBL Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to the development of novel treatments for immune-inflammatory diseases and cancer, today announced that it will present preclinical data demonstrating VB-111's potential synergy and additive therapeutic effect when administered in combination with the conventional chemotherapy cancer treatments.

20 May 2011

Study: Costs get in way of cancer patients refilling their prescriptions

About 10 percent of cancer patients aren't taking the oral medicines they need either because of the cost or they feel they are already taking too many other drugs, according to a study released by health-care consulting company Avalere Health late Wednesday.

20 May 2011

Longer looks: Tough health care questions for GOP presidential contenders; Robotics help spike use of prostate treatment

For my money, the most interesting thing about Mitt Romney's health-care speech last week wasn't his struggle to defend Romneycare and distance it from Obamacare, but the largely hostile reception of the speech from the right.

20 May 2011

OPINION: U.S. administration must address humanitarian situation in Haiti

Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Donald Payne (D-N.J.), and Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) write in a Huffington Post opinion piece that the "increasing gravity of the situation" of internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Haiti "requires an urgent response.

20 May 2011

Cell phones increase testosterone level, but decrease fertility in men

Men who have been diagnosed with poor sperm quality and who are trying to have children should limit their cell phone use. Researchers have found that while cell phone use appears to increase the level of testosterone circulating in the body, it may also lead to low sperm quality and a decrease in fertility.

20 May 2011

Breakthrough injectable gel for treating degeneration of the intervertebral disc

Chronic lower back pain is a major problem for society - behind only headaches as the most common neurological ailment - and is frequently caused by degeneration of the intervertebral disc.

From The University of Manchester 20 May 2011

Viewpoints: Coburn on his dropout; Malpractice reform and states

For the past several months I have been meeting with a small group of senators from both parties, informally known as the Gang of Six, that was designed to force the idle — not gridlocked — Senate, and then the House and the president, to enact a long-term deficit-reduction package.

20 May 2011

OPINION: Economists helping to deliver reliable data about what development aid works

"[F]inally, we're getting some reliable data suggesting how to" help people in developing countries because of economists, who "provide answers that are rigorously field-tested, akin to the way drugs are tested in randomized controlled trials, yielding results that are particularly credible and persuasive," Nicholas Kristof writes in his New York Times column.

20 May 2011

CSL-Behring recombinant factor research presented

Advances that CSL Behring is making in developing innovative new technologies to meet the unmet therapeutic needs of patients with hemophilia A and B will be the topic of an oral presentation at an international medical congress on May 22, 2011. CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics company specializing in plasma-derived and recombinant therapies and is a subsidiary of CSL Limited (ASX:CSL).

19 May 2011

ISCO enrolls first U.S.-based donor to establish clinical-grade human parthenogenetic stem cell bank

International Stem Cell Corporation has now enrolled the first U.S.-based donor in its program to establish a bank of clinical-grade human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs) capable of being immune-matched to millions of patients.

19 May 2011

Medical food resolves metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk factors

Researchers at the University of Florida and Metagenics Inc. today announced that a program consisting of a breakthrough medical food combined with a low-glycemic, Mediterranean-style diet is almost twice as effective as one of the best diets alone for lowering risk factors for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S.

19 May 2011

Mitomics enters licensing agreement with QDx Pathology Services for QPredict Prostate Mitomic Test

Mitomics, world leader in the research and development of mitochondrial genome-based products, today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with QDx Pathology Services to develop, market and process the QPredict™ Prostate Mitomic Test.

19 May 2011

First Edition: May 19, 2011

Today's headlines continue to analyze the impact of the departure of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., from the 'Gang of Six' on the efforts to address long-term budget issues such as Medicare spending.

19 May 2011

PolyMedix's PMX-30063 compound mitigates ulcerative mucositis in pre-clinical studies

PolyMedix, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing new therapeutic drugs to treat patients with acute infectious diseases and cardiovascular disorders, announced today that its lead defensin-mimetic antibiotic compound, PMX-30063, when administered topically as an oral rinse, has shown activity against oral mucositis in an animal study.

19 May 2011

Online program helps people to manage chronic pain

There is good news for the 76 million Americans who experience chronic pain including migraine, back pain, fibromyalgia and arthritis. A new study reveals that an online, self-paced chronic pain management program reduces the physical and psychological burdens of this debilitating condition.

19 May 2011

ShangPharma first quarter net revenues increase 25.6% to $24.8 million

ShangPharma Corporation, a leading China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourcing company, today announced its financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2011.

19 May 2011

Research News and Research

GIS discovery could help generate stem cells more efficiently for biomedical applications

African LGBT advocates warn against cutting multilateral aid to Uganda

Naltrexone improves clinical, inflammatory activity in Crohn's disease patients

9/11 Health fund administrator chosen

VBL to present positive VB-111 preclinical data in metastatic lung cancer at 14th ASGCT

Study: Costs get in way of cancer patients refilling their prescriptions

Longer looks: Tough health care questions for GOP presidential contenders; Robotics help spike use of prostate treatment

OPINION: U.S. administration must address humanitarian situation in Haiti

Cell phones increase testosterone level, but decrease fertility in men

Breakthrough injectable gel for treating degeneration of the intervertebral disc

Viewpoints: Coburn on his dropout; Malpractice reform and states

OPINION: Economists helping to deliver reliable data about what development aid works

CSL-Behring recombinant factor research presented

ISCO enrolls first U.S.-based donor to establish clinical-grade human parthenogenetic stem cell bank

Medical food resolves metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk factors

Mitomics enters licensing agreement with QDx Pathology Services for QPredict Prostate Mitomic Test

First Edition: May 19, 2011

PolyMedix's PMX-30063 compound mitigates ulcerative mucositis in pre-clinical studies

Online program helps people to manage chronic pain

ShangPharma first quarter net revenues increase 25.6% to $24.8 million

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