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10 Sep 2013

Weill Cornell Medical College gets $100M gift to launch Driving Discoveries, Changing Lives campaign

Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that it has received a $100 million gift from longtime benefactors Joan and Sanford I. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation to launch the Medical College's $300 million Driving Discoveries, Changing Lives campaign dedicated to using the most advanced scientific approaches to rapidly translate research breakthroughs into innovative treatments and therapies for patients.

10 Sep 2013

Cooper Aerobics commit to help Flexjet owners prevent health issues while traveling

From staying hydrated to avoiding jet lag, Cooper Aerobics is making a commitment to help Flexjet owners prevent health issues while traveling. As part of its new alliance with Cooper Aerobics – a prestigious health and wellness center in Dallas – Flexjet, one of the world's leading fractional jet ownership services providers, has selected Founder and Chairman Kenneth Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., and CEO Tyler Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., as its official health advisors.

10 Sep 2013

Life Technologies announces the Ion AmpliSeq Exome Certified Service Provider program

Life Technologies Corporation today announces the Ion AmpliSeq™ Exome Certified Service Provider program, a global organization of some of the world's top service providers that will sequence and analyze human exomes in as little as two days.

10 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 10, 2013

Today's headlines include reports from Capitol Hill about the GOP strategy to link debate of a stopgap spending bill to keep the government operating to efforts to defund the health law.

10 Sep 2013

Power Balance Technologies joins NBCF with the new 'Breast Cancer Awareness' Wristband

Power Balance Technologies Inc., sellers of the original Power Balance silicone wristband, today announces their year-long partnership with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. (NBCF) with the new 'Breast Cancer Awareness' Wristband.

10 Sep 2013

Hospira announces EC approval of Inflectra, Europe's first biosimilar mAb therapy

Hospira, the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, today announced the European Commission (EC) approval of Inflectra™ (infliximab), Europe's first biosimilar monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy. Inflectra has been approved for the treatment of inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and psoriasis.

10 Sep 2013

Patients with COPD show improvements in lung function with olodaterol

Data from the olodaterol Phase 3 clinical program, presented for the first time at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress 2013 in Barcelona, showed the addition of olodaterol 5 and 10 µg delivered once daily via the Respimat® inhaler provided improvements in lung function in patients with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

10 Sep 2013

Metamark reports positive results from clinical validation study of prostate cancer prognostic test

Metamark Genetics, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company, today announced positive results from a large clinical validation study of ProMark, its biopsy-based prostate cancer prognostic test.

10 Sep 2013

Roche, Inovio Pharmaceuticals to develop DNA-based vaccines for prostate cancer and hepatitis B

Roche and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that they have entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement to research, develop and commercialize Inovio's highly-optimized, multi-antigen DNA immunotherapies targeting prostate cancer and hepatitis B.

10 Sep 2013

Study: Nearly one in five older adults end up in emergency department after surgery

Nearly one in five older adults who have common operations will end up in the emergency department within a month of their hospital stay, a new study finds - a surprisingly high number found in the first national look at the issue.

10 Sep 2013

UCLA receives multimillion-dollar gift to provide patients with innovative home health program

A multimillion-dollar gift has allowed the UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases to provide patients with an innovative home health program; supported new, minimally invasive treatment procedures; and funded state-of-the-art gastroenterology research.

10 Sep 2013

Novel viral therapy to treat specific types of cancer in children

Parents do everything they can to protect their children against all of the nasty germs floating around classrooms across the country this time of year. Doctors and researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital, however, are looking into how those same types of common viruses can actually help treat a child who is diagnosed with certain cancers.

10 Sep 2013

Experts develop website to help navigate new challenges posed by breast density notification laws

A team of California-based breast imagers and breast cancer risk specialists have developed a website to help navigate the new challenges posed by breast density notification laws, according to a special report published online in the journal Radiology.

10 Sep 2013

Researchers develop TSUNAMI method to create animal model of adult-onset version of SMA

A research team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has used a recently developed technology they call TSUNAMI to create the first animal model of the adult-onset version of spinal muscular atrophy, a devastating motor-neuron illness.

10 Sep 2013

State highlights: Democratic Gov. hopefuls spar over hospitals in N.Y.

A selection of health policy stories from New York, Indiana, South Carolina, California and Kansas.

10 Sep 2013

Biologists identify two pathways via which chromosomes are rearranged

Biologists reported today in Nature that they have identified two pathways through which chromosomes are rearranged in mammalian cells. These types of changes are associated with some cancers and inherited disorders in people.

10 Sep 2013

Study: Regular mammogram screening should be encouraged in younger women

A new analysis has found that most deaths from breast cancer occur in younger women who do not receive regular mammograms. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that regular screening before age 50 should be encouraged.

10 Sep 2013

New method helps reconnect injured organs or build functional human tissues from ground up

A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has found a way to self-assemble complex structures out of bricks smaller than a grain of salt.

10 Sep 2013

Research offers focused explanation for cardiac arrest predilection for morning hours

Evidence from people with heart disease strongly supports the existence of the molecular link first discovered in laboratory mice between the body's natural circadian rhythms and cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death (SCD) - the No. 1 cause of death in heart attacks, a scientist said here today.

10 Sep 2013

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Chemists Find New Way To Put The Brakes On Cancer

Weill Cornell Medical College gets $100M gift to launch Driving Discoveries, Changing Lives campaign

Cooper Aerobics commit to help Flexjet owners prevent health issues while traveling

Life Technologies announces the Ion AmpliSeq Exome Certified Service Provider program

First Edition: September 10, 2013

Power Balance Technologies joins NBCF with the new 'Breast Cancer Awareness' Wristband

Hospira announces EC approval of Inflectra, Europe's first biosimilar mAb therapy

Patients with COPD show improvements in lung function with olodaterol

Metamark reports positive results from clinical validation study of prostate cancer prognostic test

Roche, Inovio Pharmaceuticals to develop DNA-based vaccines for prostate cancer and hepatitis B

Study: Nearly one in five older adults end up in emergency department after surgery

UCLA receives multimillion-dollar gift to provide patients with innovative home health program

Novel viral therapy to treat specific types of cancer in children

Experts develop website to help navigate new challenges posed by breast density notification laws

Researchers develop TSUNAMI method to create animal model of adult-onset version of SMA

State highlights: Democratic Gov. hopefuls spar over hospitals in N.Y.

Biologists identify two pathways via which chromosomes are rearranged

Study: Regular mammogram screening should be encouraged in younger women

New method helps reconnect injured organs or build functional human tissues from ground up

Research offers focused explanation for cardiac arrest predilection for morning hours

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