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Project Peanut Butter and Hershey team up to reduce childhood malnutrition in rural Ghana

With funding from The Hershey Company, Project Peanut Butter announced today that it will make and distribute vitamin-enriched nutritional packets to impoverished children in rural Ghana.

10 Dec 2012

Flexpoint to deliver sensor products to Intertek and Bridgepoint

Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc. today announced that it has received follow-up orders from long standing clients Bridgepoint and Intertek. The orders will be completed and shipped before the close of the year.

10 Dec 2012

Belmora introduces mobile cough control application

Belmora LLC, makers of the FLANAX line of Over-The-Counter (OTC) health care products, announced the launch of a mobile cough control application.

10 Dec 2012

New hope for leukemia patients

Nine of twelve leukemia patients who received infusions of their own T cells after the cells had been genetically engineered to attack the patients' tumors responded to the therapy, which was pioneered by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

10 Dec 2012

Feature stories dealing with fitness, diet, and nutrition

This is the latest in a series of topical feature packages PRN will carry as part of its regular Feature News Service. Coming up in 2012 are features on: Fitness, Diet and Nutrition Feature Package

10 Dec 2012

DOW Chemical to attend the 4th World Drug Delivery & Formulation Summit

The pharmaceutical industry is experiencing a massive paradigm shift as the era of the highly profitable blockbusters comes to a close. In an attempt to remain competitive, companies are under more pressure than ever to push novel compounds through the development pipeline and so it has been largely left to those in formulation and delivery to optimise their product portfolio using winning business strategies and leading technologies.

10 Dec 2012

Surgical patients with chronic psychological symptoms require psychotherapeutic treatment

In their study, the research group, headed by Privatdozent Dr. Henning Krampe, psychologist at the Charité Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Prof. Claudia Spies, Director of the Charité Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and Prof. Elmar Brähler, Head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at the University of Leipzig, initially recorded how many patients faced by a forthcoming operation were interested in psychotherapy sessions and to what extent this interest was associated with the increased psychological distress occurring before the operation. Finally, the scientists examined whether changes in the psychological symptoms took place during the six months following the surgery.

10 Dec 2012

Commercial ultrasonic frequency devices are not effective in repelling insects

Alternative means of controlling urban insect pests by using ultrasonic frequencies are available and marketed to the public. However, few of these devices have been demonstrated as being effective in repelling insect pests such as mosquitoes, cockroaches, or ants. Despite the lack of evidence for the efficacy of such devices, they continue to be sold and new versions targeting bed bugs are readily available.

10 Dec 2012

Perceptive Informatics launches Customer Care office in Shanghai to serve biopharmaceutical researchers

Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), today announced that it has opened a Customer Care office in Shanghai to service biopharmaceutical researchers in China and Taiwan who are using Perceptive's technology solutions.

From Parexel 10 Dec 2012

First Edition: December 10, 2012

Today's headlines include news about yesterday's "fiscal cliff" meeting between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, as well as other health policy reports.

10 Dec 2012

Cervical disc replacement: an interview with Joe Ross, VP of U.S. Marketing at LDR

Cervical disc replacement is a surgical procedure that involves removing a damaged or degenerated cervical disc and replacing it with an artificial disc device.

10 Dec 2012

Physician's Technology launches WilloMD iLaserX device

The Italian Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo once declared "everything hurts". Baby boomers are more active than ever and stress their joints. Millions rely on dangerous pain meds and injections to stay active. Pain medication and injections can be dangerous and even lethal. Popular therapeutic pain laser technology offers hope but is not practical for home use and is out of reach of a vast patient population.

10 Dec 2012

Vorinostat reduces risk of graft-vs.-host disease from bone marrow transplant treatments

A new class of drugs reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, according to a study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

10 Dec 2012

Results from eribulin and capecitabine phase III comparison trial on metastatic breast cancer

Results from a phase III clinical trial comparing a newer chemotherapy agent called eribulin mesylate with capecitabine, a standard drug used for chemotherapy today in women with previously treated metastatic breast cancer, showed that eribulin demonstrated a trend toward improved overall survival.

10 Dec 2012

SketchUp program helps open new communication doors with grandparents of autistic children

For three years, University of Utah researchers have been deploying a computer-based design program called SketchUp in workshops to teach and develop life skills for youth on the autism spectrum. An earlier study showed that using the program helps kids develop their spatial and visual acuity, as well as to leverage those strengths to build positive social interactions.

10 Dec 2012

Ipsen, Active Biotech complete enrollment in tasquinimod Phase III trial for prostate cancer

Active Biotech and Ipsen today announced that the Phase III clinical trial for tasquinimod, a novel compound for the treatment of prostate cancer, is successfully enrolled with over 1,200 randomized patients as planned in the clinical protocol.

10 Dec 2012

Apollo launches telemedicine service in Yangon

The Apollo Group of Hospitals, one of Asia's largest healthcare providerm, formally announced the launch of its telemedicine service in Yangon on 4th December 2012.

10 Dec 2012

New survival results from Genentech’s Perjeta Phase III combination study on HER2-positive mBC

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, today announced updated survival results from the Phase III CLEOPATRA study, which showed that the combination of Perjeta (pertuzumab), Herceptin (trastuzumab) and docetaxel chemotherapy significantly extended the lives (overall survival) of people with previously untreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC), compared to Herceptin, chemotherapy and placebo.

10 Dec 2012

Study examines association between ischemic-hypoxic conditions and ADHD

Children who had in-utero exposure to ischemic-hypoxic conditions, situations during which the brain is deprived of oxygen, were significantly more likely to develop attention deficit hyperactivity disorder later in life as compared to unexposed children, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the journal Pediatrics.

10 Dec 2012

Ibrutinib may effectively combat chronic lymphocytic leukemia

The promising investigational targeted therapy ibrutinib and its mechanism of silencing gene communication pathways critical to the development of cancer may be an effective way to combat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to studies presented today at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

10 Dec 2012

Medical News

Project Peanut Butter and Hershey team up to reduce childhood malnutrition in rural Ghana

Flexpoint to deliver sensor products to Intertek and Bridgepoint

Belmora introduces mobile cough control application

New hope for leukemia patients

Feature stories dealing with fitness, diet, and nutrition

DOW Chemical to attend the 4th World Drug Delivery & Formulation Summit

Surgical patients with chronic psychological symptoms require psychotherapeutic treatment

Commercial ultrasonic frequency devices are not effective in repelling insects

Perceptive Informatics launches Customer Care office in Shanghai to serve biopharmaceutical researchers

First Edition: December 10, 2012

Cervical disc replacement: an interview with Joe Ross, VP of U.S. Marketing at LDR

Physician's Technology launches WilloMD iLaserX device

Vorinostat reduces risk of graft-vs.-host disease from bone marrow transplant treatments

Results from eribulin and capecitabine phase III comparison trial on metastatic breast cancer

SketchUp program helps open new communication doors with grandparents of autistic children

Ipsen, Active Biotech complete enrollment in tasquinimod Phase III trial for prostate cancer

Apollo launches telemedicine service in Yangon

New survival results from Genentech’s Perjeta Phase III combination study on HER2-positive mBC

Study examines association between ischemic-hypoxic conditions and ADHD

Ibrutinib may effectively combat chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Voltammetry and machine learning for real-time neurotransmitter detection

How real-time off-gas analysis improves fermentation process control

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