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GTx provides clinical updates, reports financial results for fourth quarter and full year 2013

GTx, Inc. today provided a Company update and reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2013.

4 Mar 2014

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals’ net revenues increase $125.9M to 56%

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a fully integrated specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2013. The Company also highlighted select commercial, regulatory and clinical development progress and future goals and provided financial guidance for 2014.

28 Feb 2014

Specific genes and factors can lead to delays in language development in kids

Boys are at greater risk for delayed language development than girls, according to a new study using data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. The researchers also found that reading and writing difficulties in the family gave an increased risk.

19 Feb 2014

Viewpoints: Refusing a mammogram; video monitoring in hospitals; peril of low-T marketing

A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.

19 Feb 2014

Researchers investigate sex differences in brain structure

Reviewing over 20 years of neuroscience research into sex differences in brain structure, a Cambridge University team has conducted the first meta-analysis of the evidence, published this week in the prestigious journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

12 Feb 2014

Ipsen’s phase III clinical trial evaluating Decapeptyl in patients with prostate cancer meets primary endpoints

Ipsen today announced that the phase III clinical trial evaluating Decapeptyl (triptorelin pamoate) 11.25 mg administered subcutaneously in patients with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer has met its primary endpoints.

10 Feb 2014

Study examines risks and benefits of testosterone therapy for older men

According to a statement issued today by the Endocrine Society, the risks and benefits of testosterone therapy for older men with declining levels of the hormone need to be fully evaluated.

10 Feb 2014

Viewpoints: CBO report on health law: Damaging the labor market or freeing workers from 'insurance trap'?

There are 7.8 million Americans working part-time who want full-time work, including a fry cook whose restaurant cut his hours to avoid Affordable Care Act mandates and confronted President Obama in an online Google Q&A last week: "We can't survive. It's not a living." Mr. Obama changed the subject to raising the minimum wage. But he can't dodge reality forever as the evidence piles up that ObamaCare is harming the labor market.

6 Feb 2014

Study: Women find wider-faced men attractive for short-term relationships

Women may perceive men with wider faces as more dominant and more attractive for short-term relationships, according to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

5 Feb 2014

Viewpoints: Drop in abortion rates may have something to do with better contraception; GOP health law alternative 'designed to fail'

A new study released on Monday finds that the abortion rate among American women declined to its lowest level in more than three decades in 2011. ... Notably, though, the decline in abortions from 2008 to 2011 was mirrored by a decline in pregnancy rates that the researchers say may reflect stricter adherence to birth control methods during recession, and the growing use, especially among younger women, of reliable long-term contraceptives, like the intrauterine device, or IUD.

5 Feb 2014

Biomarker used to diagnose brain injury shows early promise for assessing heart inflammation

A biomarker widely used to diagnose brain injury has shown early promise for assessing the severity of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, find researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, and the Mayo Clinic.

28 Jan 2014

New biomarker for stress in wild animals facing global climate change

Chemical analyses by neuroscientist Jerrold Meyer and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are helping to establish hair cortisol concentration (HCC) as an important new biomarker for stress in wild animals facing global climate change.

25 Jan 2014

Prostate cancer patients treated with ADT experience mental, emotional well-being during treatment

A new study published in the Journal of Urology- reports that prostate cancer patients treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) experienced changes in mental and emotional well-being during treatment, although there was no meaningful decline in emotional quality of life two years after treatment.

24 Jan 2014

ASA's recommendations to help patients avoid unnecessary tests for chronic pain

Not prescribing opioids first or as a long-term therapy for chronic, non-cancer pain and avoiding MRIs, CTs and X-rays for low-back pain are among the tests and treatments identified by ASA that are commonly ordered but not always necessary.

22 Jan 2014

Prostate cancer vaccines receive a boost in funding

The development of two innovative new vaccines that are hoped to offer an alternative to castration therapy for men with recurring prostate cancer, is due for an $8 million boost in funding.

16 Jan 2014

FTM transgender patients are more likely to have inadequate Pap tests

A new study finds that female-to-male (FTM) transgender patients had over 10 times higher odds of having an inadequate Papanicolaou (Pap) test compared to female patients.

16 Jan 2014

Prenatal exposure to maternal stress hormones predicts nicotine dependence for daughters

Tobacco smoking by pregnant women has long been viewed as a public health risk because of smoking's adverse effects on the development of a fetus.

10 Jan 2014

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals reports interim data from XIAFLEX Phase 4 study in patients with DC

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a fully integrated specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that interim data from its Phase 4 retreatment study (AUX-CC-862) evaluating XIAFLEX (collagenase clostridium histolyticum or CCH) in adult patients with Dupuytren's contracture and a recurrent contracture with a palpable cord will be presented for the first time at the American Association for Hand Surgery 2014 Annual Meeting being held January 8-11, 2014 in Kauai, Hawaii.

9 Jan 2014

OASIS receives research award from MJFF to develop saliva-based, rapid test for Parkinson's detection, diagnosis

Oasis Diagnostics Corporation is the recipient of a research award from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to validate OASIS' development of a non-invasive, saliva-based, rapid test for Parkinson's disease detection and diagnosis.

8 Jan 2014

Researchers receive $540M from Ludwig Cancer Research to accelerate research on metastasis

Cancer researchers at the University of Chicago and five other leading institutions will share equally in a $540 million gift from Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder Daniel K. Ludwig. Ludwig Cancer Research is an international community of researchers dedicated to pursuing life-changing discoveries to alter the course of cancer.

7 Jan 2014

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GTx provides clinical updates, reports financial results for fourth quarter and full year 2013

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals’ net revenues increase $125.9M to 56%

Specific genes and factors can lead to delays in language development in kids

Viewpoints: Refusing a mammogram; video monitoring in hospitals; peril of low-T marketing

Researchers investigate sex differences in brain structure

Ipsen’s phase III clinical trial evaluating Decapeptyl in patients with prostate cancer meets primary endpoints

Study examines risks and benefits of testosterone therapy for older men

Viewpoints: CBO report on health law: Damaging the labor market or freeing workers from 'insurance trap'?

Study: Women find wider-faced men attractive for short-term relationships

Viewpoints: Drop in abortion rates may have something to do with better contraception; GOP health law alternative 'designed to fail'

Biomarker used to diagnose brain injury shows early promise for assessing heart inflammation

New biomarker for stress in wild animals facing global climate change

Prostate cancer patients treated with ADT experience mental, emotional well-being during treatment

ASA's recommendations to help patients avoid unnecessary tests for chronic pain

Prostate cancer vaccines receive a boost in funding

FTM transgender patients are more likely to have inadequate Pap tests

Prenatal exposure to maternal stress hormones predicts nicotine dependence for daughters

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals reports interim data from XIAFLEX Phase 4 study in patients with DC

OASIS receives research award from MJFF to develop saliva-based, rapid test for Parkinson's detection, diagnosis

Researchers receive $540M from Ludwig Cancer Research to accelerate research on metastasis

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