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FDA warnings to gastric banding centers

The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has come out with warning letters to eight California healthcare organizations and one marketing firm for failing to provide adequate risk information in their advertisements for an implanted gastric band.

14 Dec 2011

Office of Naval Research hopes to find new scientists and futuristic technologies

In the spirit of science competitions that yielded technologies to send U.S. astronauts to the moon, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) selected five new basic research projects for significant funding, officials announced Dec. 12.

14 Dec 2011

CardioNet launches Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry device

CardioNet, Inc., a leading wireless medical technology company with a current focus on the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, today announced the launch of its next generation Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry device.

14 Dec 2011

Salix submits Crofelemer NDA to FDA for treatment of HIV-associated diarrhea

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. today announced that the Company has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a New Drug Application (NDA) for Crofelemer for the proposed treatment of HIV-associated diarrhea.

14 Dec 2011

IASIS Healthcare fourth quarter net revenue increases 13.8% to $716.8 million

IASIS Healthcare LLC today announced financial and operating results for the fiscal fourth quarter and year ended September 30, 2011.

14 Dec 2011

FETO improves infant survival rate in severe cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

A new study published in the journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology reveals that fetal tracheal occlusion (FETO) improves infant survival rate in severe cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).

14 Dec 2011

Angioplasties can be safely performed at centers that do not have on-site surgical capability

Contrary to current guidelines, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that elective or primary (in patients who have had heart attacks) angioplasties performed at centers without on-site cardiac surgery capabilities pose no increased risk for patient death or emergency bypass surgery.

14 Dec 2011

H2S plays critical role in signaling pathway linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

Something rotten never smelled so sweet. This is what members of a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are telling one another as they discuss a new finding they did not expect to make. They have discovered that hydrogen sulfide (H2S) - the flammable, highly toxic gas that we usually associate with the smell of rotten eggs in landfills and sewers - plays an important role in the regulation of a signaling pathway implicated in biological malfunctions linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, among others.

14 Dec 2011

Fresh cells can pep talk immune cells exhausted by HIV or hepatitis C

Chronic infections by viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C eventually take hold because they wear the immune system out, a phenomenon immunologists describe as exhaustion.

14 Dec 2011

Chemical disruption to key interaction shown to limit metastasis in test mice

Finding ways to counteract or disrupt the invasive nature of cancer cells, called "metastasis," has been a long-term goal of cancer researchers. Now, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have identified an interactive pathway that regulates metastases in some cancers that may be vulnerable to chemical targeting in order to prevent cancer cell proliferation and tumor growth.

14 Dec 2011

$Celgene reports final results from REVLIMID-rituximab combination phase II study for relapsed/refractory CLL$

Celgene reports final results from REVLIMID-rituximab combination phase II study for relapsed/refractory CLL

Celgene International Sàrl, a subsidiary of Celgene Corporation, (NASDAQ: CELG), announced final results from a phase II investigational study evaluating the combination of REVLIMID® (lenalidomide) and rituximab in 59 patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). These data were presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Diego, CA.

14 Dec 2011

Research on pancreatic cancer diagnostic test wins QED award

Hwyda Arafat, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and co-director of the Jefferson Pancreatic, Biliary and Related Cancers Center, and Mon-Li Chu, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, were awarded $200,000 from the University City Science Center's QED Proof of Concept Program for their breakthrough work on a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer.

14 Dec 2011

Use of rapid male circumcision tool will help Africa reach HIV prevention goals

In order for Rwanda to reach its HIV prevention goals, the country "need[s] to reach two million men in two years to benefit from the protective effect of [voluntary medical male circumcision] in order to achieve this as part of a comprehensive, combination HIV prevention strategy," Agnes Binagwahois, Rwanda's minister of health, writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.

14 Dec 2011

Textile cushions with smart sensor systems for persons confined to bed or wheelchair

Anyone confined to a wheelchair or a bed has to deal with numerous complications. Frequently, they suffer from bedsores or decubitus ulcers as physicians call them. Bony prominences, such as the sacrum, coccyx and ischium, are especially endangered spots. Unrelieved pressure can lead to tissue necrosis. Damage can extend into the periosteum and, at the worst, into bones themselves.

14 Dec 2011

Bill that forces prompt payments from Medicaid advances in House; Grassley challenges CMS on hedge funds

Modern Healthcare reports that Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., have introduced legislation to require Medicaid to pay its bills promptly. Also in the news, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday that he believes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may have given special treatment to information requests from hedge funds and political intelligence brokers.

14 Dec 2011

Hydrogel regenerates healthy, scar-free tissue on skin damaged by severe burns

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a jelly-like material and wound treatment method that, in early experiments on skin damaged by severe burns, appeared to regenerate healthy, scar-free tissue.

14 Dec 2011

House vote scheduled on payroll tax reduction package

The bill, which also would extend a number of other expiring measures and includes "must-pass" provisions such as the Medicare "doc fix," has drawn opposition. Hospitals groups have blasted it because it includes billions of dollars in cuts to hospital payments.

14 Dec 2011

Potential nanoparticle treatment for macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa

Hitching a ride into the retina on nanoparticles called dendrimers offers a new way to treat age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. A collaborative research study among investigators at Wayne State University, the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Medicine shows that steroids attached to the dendrimers targeted the damage-causing cells associated with neuroinflammation, leaving the rest of the eye unaffected and preserving vision.

14 Dec 2011

Health policy issues draw headlines for Romney and Gingrich

News outlets fact check the policy question behind GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's $10,000 bet. Meanwhile, other stories focus on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's support for the Medicare Part D drug program.

14 Dec 2011

Positive data from Nektar's NKTR-181 Phase 1 clinical study for chronic pain

Nektar Therapeutics today announced positive data from a Phase 1 clinical study of NKTR-181 evaluating multiple ascending oral doses of NKTR-181 over an 8-day treatment period in healthy subjects.

14 Dec 2011

Medical News

FDA warnings to gastric banding centers

Office of Naval Research hopes to find new scientists and futuristic technologies

CardioNet launches Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry device

Salix submits Crofelemer NDA to FDA for treatment of HIV-associated diarrhea

IASIS Healthcare fourth quarter net revenue increases 13.8% to $716.8 million

FETO improves infant survival rate in severe cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Angioplasties can be safely performed at centers that do not have on-site surgical capability

H2S plays critical role in signaling pathway linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

Fresh cells can pep talk immune cells exhausted by HIV or hepatitis C

Chemical disruption to key interaction shown to limit metastasis in test mice

Celgene reports final results from REVLIMID-rituximab combination phase II study for relapsed/refractory CLL

Research on pancreatic cancer diagnostic test wins QED award

Use of rapid male circumcision tool will help Africa reach HIV prevention goals

Textile cushions with smart sensor systems for persons confined to bed or wheelchair

Bill that forces prompt payments from Medicaid advances in House; Grassley challenges CMS on hedge funds

Hydrogel regenerates healthy, scar-free tissue on skin damaged by severe burns

House vote scheduled on payroll tax reduction package

Potential nanoparticle treatment for macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa

Health policy issues draw headlines for Romney and Gingrich

Positive data from Nektar's NKTR-181 Phase 1 clinical study for chronic pain

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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