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Abiomed announces new data from its USpella IRB registry of Impella 2.5 patients

Abiomed Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD), a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, today announced new clinical data from USpella, the first U.S. multicenter registry of Impella 2.5 patients evaluating the safety and feasibility of left ventricular support with the Impella 2.5 during high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

23 Sep 2009

Gamma Medica-Ideas closes $24 million financing to support digital technologies

Gamma Medica-Ideas, Inc. ("GMI"), a leading developer of digital molecular imaging systems, announced today that it had closed a $24 million financing, the company's first institutional round, in order to support continued growth of the company's proprietary digital SPECT, PET and CT technologies in current and new markets.

23 Sep 2009

Oncology Metrics and Altos Solutions to merge

Altos Solutions and Oncology Metrics llc, today announced the planned merger of the two companies, creating a combined technology and knowledge data company serving community-based oncology practices. The merged company will be known as Altos Solutions and will be headquartered in Los Altos, California.

23 Sep 2009

Obesity can increase cancer incidence in leukemic children

Obesity is an important factor contributing to chemotherapy resistance and increasing relapse rates among children with leukemia, according to recent findings published online first in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

23 Sep 2009

Chan calls for additional H1N1 vaccines for poor countries during WHO Asia-Pacific regional meeting

During the WHO Asia-Pacific regional meeting Monday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan discussed the organization's efforts to ensure that poor nations have access to H1N1 vaccines, VOA News reports (Bayron, 9/21).

23 Sep 2009

HealthRock to promote health education

The $1 trillion cost and massive government role envisioned by the Obama Administration’s health care reform plan (The Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009) continue to create controversy in Congress and throughout the nation.

23 Sep 2009

$1.2 million grant to study centrosomes and cilia and their connections to human disease

If you don't know how a human cell is supposed to work, it's hard to offer a good explanation when the cell goes haywire -- as it does in cancer. That's why a Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has been awarded a $1.2 million grant to explore the role of centrosomes and cilia in cell division and development and their connections to human disease.

22 Sep 2009

U.S. FDA bans flavored cigarettes

One of the first provisions of the new federal law regulating tobacco products will take effect Tuesday as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforces a ban on candy, fruit and other flavored cigarettes.

22 Sep 2009

New research poll reveals that Canadians rate physicians and pharmacists highest in honesty and ethics

According to a new Nanos Research poll, Canadians rate physicians and pharmacists highest among 18 professions, when it comes to honesty and ethics. Seventy-seven per cent of respondents call medical doctors' standards of honesty and ethics "high" or "very high", while the figure was 73 per cent for community pharmacists.

22 Sep 2009

Advaxis' patent approval enables the development of new vaccines with additional properties

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted and issued Advaxis, Inc. (OTCBB: ADXS), the live, attenuated Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) vaccine company, patent 7,588,930 “Compositions and Methods for Enhancing Immunogenicity of Antigens.” This patent expands the Company’s intellectual property portfolio to cover another family of adjuvant proteins based upon the Lm protein Act-A.

22 Sep 2009

Senate President, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, and HHMI join for groundbreaking ceremony

Senate President Therese Murray, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and key state officials gathered at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) today to break ground on a $25 million renovation of the MBL's central research training facility, the Loeb Laboratory.

22 Sep 2009

BRAIN and Südzucker join forces to improve sustainable production of functional carbohydrates

BRAIN AG a leading European White Biotechnology company and the food company and largest sugar producer within the EU, the Südzucker AG, further intensify their long-term research co-operation. The joint research program aims at optimizing the production processes of functional carbohydrates in terms of product yield and energy efficiency.

22 Sep 2009

Updates from Pacific Biosciences to its commercial strategy and progress

Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing a disruptive technology platform for real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution, today provided a number of updates to its commercial strategy and progress.

22 Sep 2009

A 2,000-mile scooter journey to raise cystic fibrosis awareness

Emily Schaller, a 27-year-old drummer with cystic fibrosis (CF), begins a 2,000-mile journey today aboard a Vespa scooter -- riding from Chicago to Burbank, California, in her quest to get on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

22 Sep 2009

Cancer Research UK invests £16 million in new Drug Discovery Programes at Manchester and Glasgow

CANCER RESEARCH UK is set to extend its drug discovery effort by investing up to £16 million in two new Drug Discovery Programmes at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow.

22 Sep 2009

Macrophages play a crucial role in muscle regeneration

For scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, what seemed like a disappointing result turned out to be an important discovery.

22 Sep 2009

Study reveals effectiveness of targeted heat therapy in addition to chemotherapy

Patients with soft-tissue sarcomas at high risk of spreading were 30% more likely to be alive and cancer free almost three years after starting treatment if their tumours were heated at the time they received chemotherapy, according to new research. The finding bolsters the case for intensifying exploration of the strategy in other types of cancer.

22 Sep 2009

Hormone therapy for treating prostate cancer is linked to heart problems

Berlin, Germany: New research has found that hormone therapy used to treat men with advanced prostate cancer is associated with an increased chance of developing various heart problems. Some choices of therapy appear, however, to be less risky than others.

22 Sep 2009

President Obama's proposals to provide sustained funding for research welcomed by TSC

The Science Coalition (TSC) strongly supports President Barack Obama's efforts to increase investment in basic research as a means to spur innovation and fuel the economy.

22 Sep 2009

Beech Sandal Company supports breast cancer awareness program

Beech Sandal Company declares its commitment to raising awareness and funding for education, research and treatment for women's health issues by donating its popular, health-oriented Yoga Sandals(R) footwear and a portion of the company's sales to support a number of worthy causes.

22 Sep 2009

Research News and Research

Abiomed announces new data from its USpella IRB registry of Impella 2.5 patients

Gamma Medica-Ideas closes $24 million financing to support digital technologies

Oncology Metrics and Altos Solutions to merge

Obesity can increase cancer incidence in leukemic children

Chan calls for additional H1N1 vaccines for poor countries during WHO Asia-Pacific regional meeting

HealthRock to promote health education

$1.2 million grant to study centrosomes and cilia and their connections to human disease

U.S. FDA bans flavored cigarettes

New research poll reveals that Canadians rate physicians and pharmacists highest in honesty and ethics

Advaxis' patent approval enables the development of new vaccines with additional properties

Senate President, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, and HHMI join for groundbreaking ceremony

BRAIN and Südzucker join forces to improve sustainable production of functional carbohydrates

Updates from Pacific Biosciences to its commercial strategy and progress

A 2,000-mile scooter journey to raise cystic fibrosis awareness

Cancer Research UK invests £16 million in new Drug Discovery Programes at Manchester and Glasgow

Macrophages play a crucial role in muscle regeneration

Study reveals effectiveness of targeted heat therapy in addition to chemotherapy

Hormone therapy for treating prostate cancer is linked to heart problems

President Obama's proposals to provide sustained funding for research welcomed by TSC

Beech Sandal Company supports breast cancer awareness program

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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