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CHS, BPC and CHEP integrated into one hypertension entity

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada today welcomed the integration of the Canadian Hypertension Society (CHS), Blood Pressure Canada (BPC), and the Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) into one hypertension entity.

29 Oct 2009

CTE cases are misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease, says CSTE researchers

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that a recently deceased member of the NFL Hall of Fame suffered from the degenerative brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) when he died, becoming the 10th former NFL player diagnosed with the disease.

29 Oct 2009

CIRM awards Salk Institute $10.8M grant to develop stem-cell based therapy for Lou Gehrig's Disease

The Salk Institute has been awarded a $10.8 million grant by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for translational research focusing on developing a novel stem-cell based therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - or Lou Gehrig's Disease.

29 Oct 2009

FDA Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel recommends approval for Asthmatx' Alair System

Asthmatx Inc., announced today that the Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted to recommend that the Alair® System, a device utilized in bronchial thermoplasty for the treatment of severe persistent asthma in patients 18 years and older, be found approvable with conditions.

29 Oct 2009

Study: Short-term use of COX-2 inhibitors may help prevent gastric cancer

Elevated expression of COX-2 is observed in a wide variety of human malignancies, including gastric cancer. Long-term high dose COX-2 inhibitors can inhibit gastric carcinogenesis in animal models, but the possible life-threatening cardiovascular adverse events limit its popular application. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the optimal intervention point of COX-2 inhibitors for inhibiting H. pylori-associated gastric carcinogenesis.

29 Oct 2009

Treatment of angina patients with ivabradine reduces risk of cardiovascular death

Dramatic reductions in hospitalization for heart attacks and in the need for revascularization surgery were achieved in angina patients treated with the selective heart rate reduction medication ivabradine on top of current standard treatment, according to results of a major clinical study presented today at the 2009 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Edmonton.

29 Oct 2009

USC researchers receive grant to develop stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration

Physician-researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) received a nearly $16 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to fund the development of a stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness among the elderly.

29 Oct 2009

Recipients of the second round of funding under CLL/SLL Research Initiative announced by LRF

The Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) is pleased to announce that David Frank, MD, PhD of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Thomas Kipps, MD, PhD, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego are the recipients of the second round of funding under the Foundation's Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (SLL) Research Initiative.

29 Oct 2009

New study demonstrates that stem cell therapy may help prevent acute lung injury

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have shown that adult stem cells from bone marrow can prevent acute lung injury in a mouse model of the disease.

29 Oct 2009

Steroid-induced osteoporosis can now be treated with Teriparatide

A recent study determined glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (OP) is now treatable with Teriparatide, a synthetic form of the human parathyroid hormone. Researchers found patients with glucocorticoid-induced OP who were treated with teriparatide for 36 months had a greater increase in bone mineral density (BMD) and fewer new vertebral fractures than those treated with alendronate.

29 Oct 2009

Cognitive scores deteriorate with age: Study

According to recent studies carried out by leading brain-training games developer MIND360, people's cognitive scores do indeed deteriorate with age. The research results were compiled following careful observations of players engaged in the company's science based online brain games within an uncontrolled environment.

29 Oct 2009

Proper diet and exercise reduce risk of type 2 diabetes

Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent over 10 years in people at high risk for the disease.

29 Oct 2009

Tele-stroke network launched by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center launched a tele-stroke network to help patients in rural communities receive state-of-the-art stroke therapies.

29 Oct 2009

Transient ischemic attacks are treatable and preventable

An estimated 200,000 Americans experience TIAs each year, and more than one-third will later have full strokes. But TIAs, like strokes, are treatable and preventable.

29 Oct 2009

Aerobic exercise not only prevents weight gain, but also inhibits regain of harmful visceral fat

A study conducted by exercise physiologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Human Studies finds that as little as 80 minutes a week of aerobic or resistance training helps not only to prevent weight gain, but also to inhibit a regain of harmful visceral fat one year after weight loss.

29 Oct 2009

Avon Foundation for Women awards grant to improve reconstructive breast surgery

The Avon Foundation for Women has awarded the Clemson University Institute for Biological Interfaces of Engineering a $195,000 grant to support research to develop new ways to improve reconstructive breast surgery using engineered tissue that contains anti-cancer properties.

29 Oct 2009

No scientific proof that patients with Alzheimer's disease benefit from drugs containing the agent memantine

There is no scientific proof that patients with moderate or severe Alzheimer's disease benefit from drugs containing the agent memantine. This is the conclusion in the final report that the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) published in September 2009.

29 Oct 2009

TNF therapy does not raise cancer risk in RA patients; overall cancer risk comparable to those not taking immunosuppressive drugs

A recent study by Swedish researchers found that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients did not experience an elevated cancer risk in the first 6 years after starting anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) therapy.

29 Oct 2009

Biomoda to launch multisite Phase III clinical trials of CyPath assay

Medical diagnostics company Biomoda, Inc. is taking preliminary steps to launch multisite Phase III clinical trials of its in-vitro diagnostic for early-stage lung cancer, trademarked under the name CyPath®.

29 Oct 2009

Berkeley HeartLab enters into collaborative agreement

Berkeley HeartLab (BHL), a subsidiary of Celera Corporation, announced today that it has entered into collaborative agreements with Geisinger Medical Center and Proven Diagnostics, a clinical laboratory service recently launched by Geisinger Health System.

29 Oct 2009

Medical Condition News

CHS, BPC and CHEP integrated into one hypertension entity

CTE cases are misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease, says CSTE researchers

CIRM awards Salk Institute $10.8M grant to develop stem-cell based therapy for Lou Gehrig's Disease

FDA Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel recommends approval for Asthmatx' Alair System

Study: Short-term use of COX-2 inhibitors may help prevent gastric cancer

Treatment of angina patients with ivabradine reduces risk of cardiovascular death

USC researchers receive grant to develop stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration

Recipients of the second round of funding under CLL/SLL Research Initiative announced by LRF

New study demonstrates that stem cell therapy may help prevent acute lung injury

Steroid-induced osteoporosis can now be treated with Teriparatide

Cognitive scores deteriorate with age: Study

Proper diet and exercise reduce risk of type 2 diabetes

Tele-stroke network launched by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Transient ischemic attacks are treatable and preventable

Aerobic exercise not only prevents weight gain, but also inhibits regain of harmful visceral fat

Avon Foundation for Women awards grant to improve reconstructive breast surgery

No scientific proof that patients with Alzheimer's disease benefit from drugs containing the agent memantine

TNF therapy does not raise cancer risk in RA patients; overall cancer risk comparable to those not taking immunosuppressive drugs

Biomoda to launch multisite Phase III clinical trials of CyPath assay

Berkeley HeartLab enters into collaborative agreement

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