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Best Practices publishes updated Medical Science Liaison-focused report

With the support of Key Opinion Leaders clearly linked to success in the marketplace, competition for the time and attention of KOLs is intensifying. But the changing regulatory and access environment has altered the landscape for creating and maintaining KOL and physician relationships.

23 Aug 2011

KU professor to create patient-friendly lung cancer treatment

A Kansas State University professor is trying to create a patient-friendly treatment to help the more than 220,000 people who are diagnosed with lung cancer each year.

23 Aug 2011

Helsinn begins enrollment in anamorelin Phase III trial for NSCLC-associated anorexia/cachexia

Helsinn, a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company, announced today that its US subsidiary, Helsinn Therapeutics, has enrolled the first patient in the company's pivotal Phase III clinical program of anamorelin HCl for the treatment of anorexia/cachexia in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

23 Aug 2011

High-salt diets with low physical activity can impact brain health in older adults

Older adults who lead sedentary lifestyles and consume a lot of sodium in their diet may be putting themselves at risk for more than just heart disease.

23 Aug 2011

NPR interviews author of study on emerging HIV epidemic among MSM in MENA

NPR's health blog "Shots" interviewed Laith Abu-Raddad of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, co-author of a recent study published in PLoS Medicine that showed "more than five percent of men who have sex with men are infected by HIV in" the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), about "the challenges of researching such a taboo topic."

23 Aug 2011

Climate shifts may threaten to increase spread of malaria, health experts say

"Shifts in the world's climate and responses to those shifts – including construction of more irrigation systems – threaten to increase the spread of malaria, health experts say," AlertNet reports.

23 Aug 2011

Fla., CMS discuss Medicaid managed care options; Calif. may shrink healthy families enrollment

A Florida proposal to shift nearly all of its 3 million Medicaid patients into managed care is emerging as a national test case for how lenient CMS will be as cash-strapped states look for savings in their most expensive health program. CMS and Florida officials met this week to address concerns about a five-county managed care pilot program that Florida is seeking to expand statewide.

23 Aug 2011

KalVista raises £8 million in series A round of funding

KalVista Pharmaceuticals, a new ophthalmology company with a focus on diabetic macular edema (DME), has raised £8 million in a series A round from leading life sciences investors Novo A/S and SV Life Sciences.

23 Aug 2011

Prescription drug shortages forcing docs, pharmacists to scramble

Record shortages of prescription drugs in the United States are forcing pharmacists and doctors to scramble to find medications for their patients, suitable alternatives or to delay potentially lifesaving treatments.

23 Aug 2011

Spinifex secures AU$6.25 million in expanded Series B funding

Spinifex Pharmaceuticals, an Australian pain drug development company, today announced it has secured a further AU$6.25 million of venture capital investment from GBS Venture Partners Limited, Brandon Capital Partners Pty Limited, Uniseed Management Pty Limited and UniQuest Pty Limited to fund the development of its pain management drug, EMA401.

23 Aug 2011

RMS opens new Innovation Center, updated medical solution testing facility

Rubbermaid Medical Solutions (RMS), the leading provider of medication carts and mobile computing solutions for healthcare facilities, announced the opening of its new Innovation Center and updated testing facility today.

23 Aug 2011

NextDocs receives $10.3 million in Series A financing

NextDocs Corporation, the global leader in Microsoft SharePoint based software solutions for life sciences industries, today announced that the Company has received $10.3 million in a Series A financing from OpenView Venture Partners.

23 Aug 2011

Molecular Endocrinology journal publishes two studies on estrogen hormones

University of Houston (UH) researchers have their sights set on developing possible treatments for breast and colon cancer.

23 Aug 2011

USAID helps improve maternal, child health care at Pakistani hospital

This post in the State Department's "DipNote" blog looks at Fatima Jinnah Women's Hospital, "one of more than 80 Pakistani medical facilities that the United States has helped renovate in recent years in Pakistan" and describes how medical personnel at the facility "demonstrated the benefits that new equipment and training opportunities have made to their standard of care on Thursday, August 18, as U.S. Agency for International Development Mission Director Andrew Sisson toured the facility."

23 Aug 2011

CompTIA to offer live healthcare IT training sessions in Los Angeles, Chicago

Training programs designed to help information technology (IT) companies broaden their business skills and knowledge in the emerging areas of healthcare IT and unified communications are available in the coming weeks from CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry.

23 Aug 2011

OICR President announces $12.6M in funding for High Impact Clinical Trials Program

Dr. Tom Hudson, President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), today announced $12.6 million in funding over four years for OICR's High Impact Clinical Trials (HICT) Program.

23 Aug 2011

UNICEF warns Horn of Africa 'crisis will get worse'; China contributes $16M in aid funds to WFP

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake told reporters on Friday that "more than 300,000 children in the Horn of Africa are severely malnourished 'and in imminent risk of dying' because of drought and famine," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.

23 Aug 2011

Symphogen initiates Sym004 Phase 2 trial in squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck cancer

Symphogen A/S today announced the initiation of a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of Sym004 in patients who have failed anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody (mAb)-based therapy, with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

23 Aug 2011

Research into TB medication may shorten treatment regimen

Research of the common tuberculosis (TB) drug pyrazinamide, which is used in combination with other medications to treat the disease in a six-month regimen, "has now revealed that the drug does kill the latent form of the microbe, which does not cause observable symptoms," VOA News reports.

23 Aug 2011

Prenatal smoking affects early neurological development in babies

In one of the largest studies of its kind to date, researchers have found that babies born to mothers who smoke while pregnant face substantial delays in early neurological development, and the effects may be stronger than researchers had previously thought.

23 Aug 2011

Research News and Research

Best Practices publishes updated Medical Science Liaison-focused report

KU professor to create patient-friendly lung cancer treatment

Helsinn begins enrollment in anamorelin Phase III trial for NSCLC-associated anorexia/cachexia

High-salt diets with low physical activity can impact brain health in older adults

NPR interviews author of study on emerging HIV epidemic among MSM in MENA

Climate shifts may threaten to increase spread of malaria, health experts say

Fla., CMS discuss Medicaid managed care options; Calif. may shrink healthy families enrollment

KalVista raises £8 million in series A round of funding

Prescription drug shortages forcing docs, pharmacists to scramble

Spinifex secures AU$6.25 million in expanded Series B funding

RMS opens new Innovation Center, updated medical solution testing facility

NextDocs receives $10.3 million in Series A financing

Molecular Endocrinology journal publishes two studies on estrogen hormones

USAID helps improve maternal, child health care at Pakistani hospital

CompTIA to offer live healthcare IT training sessions in Los Angeles, Chicago

OICR President announces $12.6M in funding for High Impact Clinical Trials Program

UNICEF warns Horn of Africa 'crisis will get worse'; China contributes $16M in aid funds to WFP

Symphogen initiates Sym004 Phase 2 trial in squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck cancer

Research into TB medication may shorten treatment regimen

Prenatal smoking affects early neurological development in babies

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