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Legal-Bay to donate lawsuit funding sales for October to breast cancer awareness month

Legal-Bay, The Lawsuit Settlement Funding Company, announced today that they will be donating a portion of their October sales to assist with the fight of Breast Cancer for women.

11 Oct 2012

LSUHSC receives HRSA grant to help students pursue practice primary care nursing degrees

The School of Nursing at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans has been awarded a $700,000 grant over two years by the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services to help students pursuing advanced practice primary care nursing degrees meet educational expenses.

11 Oct 2012

Enrollment complete in Euthymics’ amitifadine phase 2b/3a trial for major depressive disorder

Euthymics Bioscience, Inc. today announced completion of enrollment in the advanced clinical study of its lead product candidate amitifadine (formerly called EB-1010), a novel serotonin-preferring triple reuptake inhibitor for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD).

11 Oct 2012

Amarantus acquires option to license LymPro Alzheimer's diagnostic blood test from MDx

Amarantus BioSciences, Inc., a biotechnology company developing new treatments and diagnostics for Parkinson's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury centred on its proprietary anti-apoptotis therapeutic protein MANF, today announced that it has acquired an exclusive option to license the LymPro Alzheimer's Diagnostic Blood Test from Memory Dx, LLC (MDx), formerly known as Provista Life Sciences, LLC.

11 Oct 2012

CEO Roundtable on Cancer's Life Sciences Consortium initiates Project Data Sphere

The CEO Roundtable on Cancer's Life Sciences Consortium has initiated Project Data Sphere, a collaborative effort to create a shared platform where clinical trials data will become available to researchers for further studies that will speed cancer research.

11 Oct 2012

Accenture to build and implement Norway's electronic health record system

The Norwegian Directorate of Health has awarded Accenture a five-year contract to build and implement Norway's electronic health record (EHR) system.

11 Oct 2012

NYSCF conference to discuss latest advances in stem cell research

Leaders in translational stem cell research from across the country and around the world will present findings on how advances in stem cell science lead to better treatments and cures to disease and injury at The New York Stem Cell Foundation's Seventh Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference, held at The Rockefeller University in Manhattan on October 10-11.

11 Oct 2012

Catalent licenses NJIT’s taste-making technology to mask unpleasant and bitter medicines

Following a successful research collaboration with NJIT, Catalent Pharma Solutions of Somerset has announced that it has exclusively licensed innovative taste-making technology developed by NJIT Distinguished Professor Rajesh Dav-, who was the principal investigator of a research project funded by Catalent. The technology will mask the most challenging, unpleasant and bitter tasting pharmaceutical active ingredients.

11 Oct 2012

Theragenics enters second amended and restated credit agreement with Wells Fargo

Theragenics Corporation, a medical device company serving the surgical products and prostate cancer treatment markets, today announced that it has entered into a Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association.

11 Oct 2012

Inpeco, Precise Biometrics partner to deploy Precise Match-on-Card technology

Precise Biometrics announces today that they have partnered with the Inpeco Group for a 6-month contract, to deploy Precise Match-on-Card technology to the Inpeco Group System.

11 Oct 2012

First Edition: October 11, 2012

Today's headlines include previews of how Medicare and other health policy issues might playin tonight's vice presidential debate.

11 Oct 2012

Researchers create mouse model that reproduces brain chemical changes associated with AD

Researchers at Western University have created a mouse model that reproduces some of the chemical changes in the brain that occur with Alzheimer's, shedding new light on this devastating disease.

11 Oct 2012

New York Stem Cell Foundation names 6 scientists as 2012 NYSCF - Robertson Investigators

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) named six of the most promising scientists as its 2012 NYSCF - Robertson Investigators.

11 Oct 2012

Novel neuroimaging technique reveals evidence of cocaine-induced cerebral microischemia

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University have developed a high-resolution, 3D optical Doppler imaging tomography technique that captures the effects of cocaine restricting the blood supply in vessels - including small capillaries - of the brain.

11 Oct 2012

New mass spectrometry helps identify bacteria in clinical specimens within minutes

New mass spectrometry technology is helping Le Bonheur Children's physicians analyze microbiology samples quickly - identifying specific bacteria present in a sample within minutes.

11 Oct 2012

Sun protection: an interview with Jane Hanrahan

UV radiation is a form of energy being transmitted. Sunlight is main source of UV radiation, although manmade sources also exist, such as the lamps used in sunbeds. At the earth’s surface sunlight consists of approximately 2 percent UV light, 47 percent visible light and 51 percent IR light.

11 Oct 2012

UCI neuro-oncologist to lead DCVax Phase II trial in glioblastoma multiforme

UC Irvine doctors are enrolling patients with the deadly brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme in a clinical trial of a vaccine that may prevent the cancer's return or spread after surgery.

11 Oct 2012

Bad news articles increase women's sensitivity to stressful situations

Bad news articles in the media increase women's sensitivity to stressful situations, but do not have a similar effect on men, according to a study undertaken by University of Montreal researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress of Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital.

11 Oct 2012

Examining funding for TB treatment in Europe

In a BMJ Group Blogs post, Caroline Robinson, global health advocacy manager for Results U.K., discusses the prevalence and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant TB in Europe and provides the example of Romania.

11 Oct 2012

Grand Challenges Canada funds 15 new projects to improve mental health diagnosis and care

Grand Challenges Canada, which is funded by the Government of Canada, today announced a landmark $19.4 million in support of 15 innovative, pioneering projects designed to improve mental health diagnosis and care in developing countries, many of them nations ravaged by conflict and disaster as well as poverty.

11 Oct 2012

Medical News

Legal-Bay to donate lawsuit funding sales for October to breast cancer awareness month

LSUHSC receives HRSA grant to help students pursue practice primary care nursing degrees

Enrollment complete in Euthymics’ amitifadine phase 2b/3a trial for major depressive disorder

Amarantus acquires option to license LymPro Alzheimer's diagnostic blood test from MDx

CEO Roundtable on Cancer's Life Sciences Consortium initiates Project Data Sphere

Accenture to build and implement Norway's electronic health record system

NYSCF conference to discuss latest advances in stem cell research

Catalent licenses NJIT’s taste-making technology to mask unpleasant and bitter medicines

Theragenics enters second amended and restated credit agreement with Wells Fargo

Inpeco, Precise Biometrics partner to deploy Precise Match-on-Card technology

First Edition: October 11, 2012

Researchers create mouse model that reproduces brain chemical changes associated with AD

New York Stem Cell Foundation names 6 scientists as 2012 NYSCF - Robertson Investigators

Novel neuroimaging technique reveals evidence of cocaine-induced cerebral microischemia

New mass spectrometry helps identify bacteria in clinical specimens within minutes

Sun protection: an interview with Jane Hanrahan

UCI neuro-oncologist to lead DCVax Phase II trial in glioblastoma multiforme

Bad news articles increase women's sensitivity to stressful situations

Examining funding for TB treatment in Europe

Grand Challenges Canada funds 15 new projects to improve mental health diagnosis and care

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How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

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