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Study highlights how parents, coaches and youth sport organizations can promote healthful eating

The food and beverages available to youth when they participate in organized sports can often be unhealthy, according to a new study released in the July/August 2012 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

20 Jun 2012

Researchers unlock structure of STING protein

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have unlocked the structure of a key protein that, when sensing certain viruses and bacteria, triggers the body's immediate immune response.

20 Jun 2012

Combination therapy may help defeat pancreatic cancer

Combining a new targeted therapy with standard chemotherapy may help defeat pancreatic cancer, according to results presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Pancreatic Cancer: Progress and Challenges conference, held here June 18-21.

20 Jun 2012

Human Circuit receives 2012 ProAV Spotlight Award in Medical/Healthcare category

Human Circuit announced today that it was awarded the 2012 ProAV Spotlight Award in the Medical/Healthcare category for their work on an innovative and revolutionary integration project for Baystate Medical, Hospital of the Future in Springfield, MA.

20 Jun 2012

New method uses stem cells to create cardiac muscle patches

A cutting-edge method developed at the University of Michigan Center for Arrhythmia Research successfully uses stem cells to create heart cells capable of mimicking the heart's crucial squeezing action.

20 Jun 2012

Study reveals critical aspect of how frontopolar cortex contributes to decision making

Researchers at the University of Iowa, together with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and New York University, have discovered how a part of the brain helps predict future events from past experiences. The work sheds light on the function of the front-most part of the frontal lobe, known as the frontopolar cortex, an area of the cortex uniquely well developed in humans in comparison with apes and other primates.

20 Jun 2012

Theorem Clinical Research introduces new look and tagline

Theorem Clinical Research, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing core clinical research and development services, has launched its new look and tagline, "Think Theorem."

20 Jun 2012

Fujitsu, NCKU sign MOU to build platform for genomics and bioinformatics research

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, and Fujitsu Taiwan LTD. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Monday for building a platform of genomics and bioinformatics research to jointly promote computational biology, cultivate personnel training for bioinformatics, and develop biology analysis software.

20 Jun 2012

Emergence of drug resistance to ARVs has potential to 'curb, and even reverse' gains against HIV

Noting that the "roll-out of antiretroviral treatment for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa has been accompanied by rising rates of drug resistance," Raph Hamers, a global health research fellow at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, and colleagues "call for improved patient management and the integration of population-based drug resistance surveillance into national treatment programs" in this BMJ analysis.

20 Jun 2012

Bode introduces new DNA service

Bode Technology (Bode), a leading provider of forensic DNA services, announced today the launch of a new DNA service allowing DNA to be used as an effective crime fighting tool through same-day DNA analysis.

20 Jun 2012

Radimetrics establishes new office in Scotland

Radimetrics, headquartered in Toronto has established an office in Scotland to provide a comprehensive system for monitoring and managing patient radiation exposure across imaging modalities to hospitals and imaging centers across the EU.

20 Jun 2012

Survey: 1 in 5 U.S. women experience sexual assault during their lifetime

Despite the fact that the majority of women presenting to emergency departments for care after sexual assault experience severe pain, very few receive pain treatment. These were the findings of a multi-site research study led by Samuel McLean, MD, MPH, director of the TRYUMPH Research Program in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. The results were published online in the Journal of Pain on June 15, 2012.

20 Jun 2012

State roundup: Retiree health costs soaring; Calif.'s duplicate surgical payments; Georgia's AIDS drug waiting list shrinks

Recession-plagued states diverted scarce money away from pensions to pay for more immediate concerns, leaving a $757 billion hole in the retirement funds covering millions of public employees, according to a study released Monday. … States also faced a $627 billion shortfall in health care services for retirees. Essentially, for every $1 they'll eventually have to pay out in health care, states had set aside only 5 cents.

20 Jun 2012

Inserm researchers examine effect of night work on women’s health

Breast cancer is the number one cause of female mortality. It affects 100 out of 100,000 women per year in developed countries. Each year, more than 1.3 million new cases are diagnosed, 53,000 of these in France. The risk factors of breast cancer are varied. They include genetic mutations, late first pregnancy, low parity or hormone therapy, but other causes of breast cancer such as way of life, environmental or professional causes have not yet been completely identified.

20 Jun 2012

FDA provides Orphan Drug Designation to Alnylam’s ALN-TTR02

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has provided Orphan Drug Designation to ALN-TTR02 as a therapeutic for the treatment of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP), one of the predominant clinical manifestations of transthyretin (TTR)-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR).

20 Jun 2012

HealthSouth to acquire 36-bed inpatient adult rehabilitation unit of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa

HealthSouth Corporation announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire the 36-bed inpatient adult rehabilitation unit of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital – Medical Center.

20 Jun 2012

Synthesis of silver nanoparticles from pomegranates

Food waste is a growing problem in many parts of the world, but discarded fruit peel, in the case of pomegranates, could be put to good use in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology according to research published in the International Journal of Nanoparticles.

20 Jun 2012

TigerText adds 7 new hospice organizations

TigerText, the #1 leader in secure, real-time messaging, has expanded its HIPAA compliant mobile messaging platform to a new healthcare segment, hospice providers, and today announced the addition of 7 new hospice organizations to its growing list of healthcare customers.

20 Jun 2012

Report: 3.1M young adults gain insurance due to new health care law

A new report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows that 3.1 million young adults have gained health insurance because of the health care law. Without the health care law - the Affordable Care Act - these 3.1 million young adults would not have health insurance.

20 Jun 2012

NCOA spearheads new initiative to help protect older adults from influenza

The National Council on Aging announced today it is spearheading a new initiative to help protect older adults from influenza this upcoming flu season. The educational program, Flu + You, in collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur, aims to educate older adults and their caregivers about the seriousness of influenza, the importance of annual influenza immunization, and available vaccine options.

20 Jun 2012

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Study highlights how parents, coaches and youth sport organizations can promote healthful eating

Researchers unlock structure of STING protein

Combination therapy may help defeat pancreatic cancer

Human Circuit receives 2012 ProAV Spotlight Award in Medical/Healthcare category

New method uses stem cells to create cardiac muscle patches

Study reveals critical aspect of how frontopolar cortex contributes to decision making

Theorem Clinical Research introduces new look and tagline

Fujitsu, NCKU sign MOU to build platform for genomics and bioinformatics research

Emergence of drug resistance to ARVs has potential to 'curb, and even reverse' gains against HIV

Bode introduces new DNA service

Radimetrics establishes new office in Scotland

Survey: 1 in 5 U.S. women experience sexual assault during their lifetime

State roundup: Retiree health costs soaring; Calif.'s duplicate surgical payments; Georgia's AIDS drug waiting list shrinks

Inserm researchers examine effect of night work on women’s health

FDA provides Orphan Drug Designation to Alnylam’s ALN-TTR02

HealthSouth to acquire 36-bed inpatient adult rehabilitation unit of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa

Synthesis of silver nanoparticles from pomegranates

TigerText adds 7 new hospice organizations

Report: 3.1M young adults gain insurance due to new health care law

NCOA spearheads new initiative to help protect older adults from influenza

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