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Egalet provides business update, reports full year 2013 financial results

Egalet Corporation ("Egalet") today reported business highlights and financial results for the year ended December 31, 2013. This marks the first time that Egalet is reporting its operating results as a public company.

26 Mar 2014

High Court to hear arguments today in case mixing religious freedoms and health law's birth control coverage requirement

The case, which touches various politically charged issues, could have implications beyond the health law's birth control coverage requirement.

26 Mar 2014

People with type 2 diabetes who report good self-management behavior have reduced mortality risk

People with type 2 diabetes who report good self-management behavior have a reduced mortality risk. This was the result of a population-based study conducted by scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München emphasizing the great importance of patient behavior in the diabetes treatment process.

26 Mar 2014

United Therapeutics' Remodulin Injection gets approval in Japan for PAH treatment

United Therapeutics Corporation today announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has granted approval for Remodulin (treprostinil) Injection for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) by subcutaneous and intravenous administration.

26 Mar 2014

Simple blood test can predict obesity levels in children

Scientists have found that a simple blood test, which can read DNA, could be used to predict obesity levels in children.

26 Mar 2014

Research findings point to potential biomarkers for early detection of at-risk youth

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered impaired neuronal activity in the parts of the brain associated with anticipatory functioning among occasional 18- to 24-year-old users of stimulant drugs, such as cocaine, amphetamines and prescription drugs such as Adderall.

26 Mar 2014

BIND Therapeutics reports revenue of $2.1 million for fourth quarter 2013

BIND Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing targeted and programmable therapeutics called AccurinsTM, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year-ended December 31, 2013.

25 Mar 2014

First Edition: March 25, 2014

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories previewing today's Supreme Court action regarding the health law's contraception coverage mandate.

25 Mar 2014

Transgene raises €65.5M via two-step capital increase

Transgene SA, a French biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and manufacturing targeted immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases, announces that it has raised a total of €65.5 million via a two-step capital increase.

25 Mar 2014

Provo-Orem, Utah ranked first in Gallup-Healthways Community Well-Being Index

For the sixth consecutive year, global well-being improvement leader Healthways (NASDAQ: HWAY) and world-leading management consulting firm Gallup have released their analysis of the state of well-being for communities, states and congressional districts in the United States.

25 Mar 2014

$Fracture liaison services effective in identifying, treating older adults who suffer fragility fracture$

Fracture liaison services effective in identifying, treating older adults who suffer fragility fracture

Studies have shown that anyone age 50 or older who suffers a fragility fracture - a bone break sustained in a fall from a standing height or less - is two to five times more likely to experience a second fracture than someone who hasn't had one. The odds that a person who's suffered two such fractures will have a third are even higher.

25 Mar 2014

Viewpoints on challenge to contraceptive coverage mandate

This week, the owners of two secular, for-profit corporations will ask the Supreme Court to take a radical turn and allow them to impose their religious views on their employees - by refusing to permit them contraceptive coverage as required under the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court has consistently resisted claims for religious exemptions from laws that are neutral and apply broadly when the exemptions would significantly harm other people, as this one would. To approve it would flout the First Amendment, which forbids government from favoring one religion over another - or over nonbelievers (3/22).

25 Mar 2014

Common cholesterol-lowering drugs provide relief to patients suffering from chronic lung disease

Common cholesterol-lowering drugs could provide relief to patients suffering from a chronic lung disease, a study has shown.

25 Mar 2014

High-protein meal and exercise recipe for calorie-burning in some women

New research shows that for some women, a high-protein meal followed by 30 minutes of moderate exercise is an effective way of burning calories, especially when compared to exercising on an empty stomach.

24 Mar 2014

Rexahn provides updates on clinical development programs, reports full-year 2013 financial results

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, is providing an overview of its three clinical development programs and Year for the year ended December 31, 2013.

24 Mar 2014

Adolescence is key developmental period for obesity and depression

Depression and obesity have long been associated, but how they relate over time is less clear. New research from a Rutgers University-Camden professor shows that adolescent females who experience one of the disorders are at a greater risk for the other as they get older.

24 Mar 2014

Low levels of oxygen, nitric oxide appear to have unfortunate synergy for patients with sickle cell disease

Low levels of both oxygen and the powerful blood vessel dilator nitric oxide appear to have an unfortunate synergy for patients with sickle cell disease, researchers report.

21 Mar 2014

Study explores connection between ideology, social capital and health

The nation's left-leaning citizens might be pleased by the findings of a new University of Nebraska study that finds those who live in liberal states tend to be healthier.

20 Mar 2014

Exercise reduces breast cancer risk irrespective of age

Practising sport for more than an hour day reduces the risk of contracting breast cancer, and this applies to women of any age and any weight, and also unaffected by geographical location, according to research presented to the 9th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-9). Compared with the least active women, those with the highest level of physical activity reduced their risk of breast cancer by 12%, researchers say.

20 Mar 2014

Up to a third of obese kids 'metabolically healthy'

Digits on a scale can help determine a child's weight, but their overall health status can be influenced by other factors such as physical activity, diet and screen time, according to new research from the University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services.

20 Mar 2014

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Egalet provides business update, reports full year 2013 financial results

High Court to hear arguments today in case mixing religious freedoms and health law's birth control coverage requirement

People with type 2 diabetes who report good self-management behavior have reduced mortality risk

United Therapeutics' Remodulin Injection gets approval in Japan for PAH treatment

Simple blood test can predict obesity levels in children

Research findings point to potential biomarkers for early detection of at-risk youth

BIND Therapeutics reports revenue of $2.1 million for fourth quarter 2013

First Edition: March 25, 2014

Transgene raises €65.5M via two-step capital increase

Provo-Orem, Utah ranked first in Gallup-Healthways Community Well-Being Index

Fracture liaison services effective in identifying, treating older adults who suffer fragility fracture

Viewpoints on challenge to contraceptive coverage mandate

Common cholesterol-lowering drugs provide relief to patients suffering from chronic lung disease

High-protein meal and exercise recipe for calorie-burning in some women

Rexahn provides updates on clinical development programs, reports full-year 2013 financial results

Adolescence is key developmental period for obesity and depression

Low levels of oxygen, nitric oxide appear to have unfortunate synergy for patients with sickle cell disease

Study explores connection between ideology, social capital and health

Exercise reduces breast cancer risk irrespective of age

Up to a third of obese kids 'metabolically healthy'

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