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UCI study shows promise of metabolic therapy for autoimmune diseases

A glucosamine-like dietary supplement suppresses the damaging autoimmune response seen in multiple sclerosis, according to a UC Irvine study.

1 Oct 2011

Novel binding assay can simplify search for potential SERT inhibitors

Many psychiatric conditions are caused by aberrant metabolism of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Researchers in the Department of Pharmacy at LMU have now developed a new screening method, which will facilitate the search for new drugs that modulate the biological activity of serotonin.

1 Oct 2011

USAID interviews Kenyan government staff regarding Cabinet memorandum outlining HIV program fundraising options

USAID's "IMPACTblog" interviews Regina Ombam, head of strategy for the Kenya National AIDS Control Council (NACC), and Irene Mukui, the antiretroviral therapy (ART) program manager for Kenya's National AIDS and STI Control Program, regarding a Cabinet memorandum prepared by the NACC in March that outlines ways to raise funds for HIV programming.

1 Oct 2011

Funding for health law is again on GOP chopping block

House Republicans released a draft 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill on Thursday. The measure, which is currently deadlocked in committee, would block funds necessary to continue implementing the 2010 health law.

1 Oct 2011

PHAB selects Liaison International's eAccreditation System for health departments

After a comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) process, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) selected Liaison International's eAccreditation System to manage the accreditation of more than 3,000 health departments.

1 Oct 2011

Circadian subsidiary submits IND application to FDA to initiate VGX-100 study against cancer

Circadian Technologies Limited is extremely proud to announce that its 100% owned subsidiary, Vegenics Pty Ltd, has submitted an investigational new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to initiate clinical studies of VGX-100.

1 Oct 2011

Baxter seeks European marketing authorization for HyQ to treat PI

Baxter International Inc. announced today that it has submitted an application to the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Human Medicinal Products seeking marketing authorization for HyQ. HyQ is Baxter's investigational immunoglobulin (IG) therapy administered subcutaneously and facilitated by recombinant human hyaluronidase, a dispersion and permeation enhancer, for use in patients with primary immunodeficiencies.

From Baxter International Inc. 1 Oct 2011

Experts to discuss issues related to stroke at Canadian Stroke Congress

More than 900 of the top stroke researchers, clinicians and policy experts from across Canada and around the world are gathering at the Canadian Stroke Congress in Ottawa Oct. 3 and 4 to tackle issues related to stroke, a leading cause of death and disability in this country.

1 Oct 2011

ADVENTRX holds Type A meeting with FDA to discuss Exelbine NDA

ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it held a Type A meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the complete response letter (CRL) it received in August from the FDA regarding the Company's New Drug Application (NDA) for Exelbine (vinorelbine injectable emulsion) for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

1 Oct 2011

UC San Diego professor receives NIDDK grant to study kidney complications related to diabetes

Kumar Sharma, MD, FAHA, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of the Center for Renal Translational Medicine, has received a $5.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study kidney complications related to type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

1 Oct 2011

Health Management acquires assets of Mercy Health Partners

Health Management Associates, Inc. today announced that a subsidiary of Health Management has completed its acquisition of the assets of Mercy Health Partners, which is a subsidiary of Catholic Health Partners, Inc.

1 Oct 2011

Researchers examine link between innate exercise capacity and survivability

Aerobic exercise capacity has proven to be a good indicator of health. A recent paper in Circulation Research whose authors include researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's KG Jebsen Center of Exercise in Medicine uses a rat model to show that innate exercise capacity can be linked to longevity.

1 Oct 2011

JenaValve's transapical TAVI system receives CE mark approval to treat aortic valve stenosis

JenaValve Technology GmbH, a German medical device company specializing in the development of transcatheter heart valve implantation systems, announced today that the Company has received CE mark approval for its transapical TAVI system of the second-generation. This system is used to treat severe aortic valve stenosis in elderly high-risk patients, especially in patients for whom conventional open-heart surgery is not an option.

1 Oct 2011

Researchers discover new inherited disorder that causes mental retardation, liver dysfunction

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new inherited disorder that causes severe mental retardation and liver dysfunction. The disease, adenosine kinase deficiency, is caused by mutations in the ADK gene, which codes for the enzyme adenosine kinase.

1 Oct 2011

Meeting with Bill Gates, Nigerian President Jonathan re-affirms country's commitment to eradicating polio within two years

In a meeting at the presidential villa on Thursday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan told Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "that he was determined to eradicate polio within two years after the crippling disease re-emerged earlier this year," Agence France-Presse reports.

1 Oct 2011

General Dynamics acquires Vangent

General Dynamics today completed its acquisition of Vangent Holding Corp., the parent company of Vangent, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information technology and business systems to federal agencies.

1 Oct 2011

Weeds are an integral part of our ecosystem

Weeds, which are widely deemed as a nuisance plant, are vital to the existence of many farmland species according to a new University of Hull study published in the journal Biological Conservation today.

30 Sep 2011

Patients enrolled in consumer-directed health plans have control over health care spending

The historic RAND Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their health care spending once they began to receive a physician's care, but a new study shows that this has changed for those enrolled in consumer-directed health plans.

30 Sep 2011

Walter Reed employees moved to Bethesda without adequate parking, transportation plan

The American Federation of Government Employees is voicing its concern over the lack of progress in securing parking for thousands of Walter Reed Army Medical Center employees who have been transferred to the new Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda.

30 Sep 2011

Young woman fights tobacco within the Hispanic Community

Twenty-five year old Anna Luzania knows first-hand the effects of tobacco in the Hispanic Community. As a student at California State University (CSU) at Fresno, she did what many young people enjoying their first years of college do not -- she took action to save the lives of her fellow students and community.

30 Sep 2011

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UCI study shows promise of metabolic therapy for autoimmune diseases

Novel binding assay can simplify search for potential SERT inhibitors

USAID interviews Kenyan government staff regarding Cabinet memorandum outlining HIV program fundraising options

Funding for health law is again on GOP chopping block

PHAB selects Liaison International's eAccreditation System for health departments

Circadian subsidiary submits IND application to FDA to initiate VGX-100 study against cancer

Baxter seeks European marketing authorization for HyQ to treat PI

Experts to discuss issues related to stroke at Canadian Stroke Congress

ADVENTRX holds Type A meeting with FDA to discuss Exelbine NDA

UC San Diego professor receives NIDDK grant to study kidney complications related to diabetes

Health Management acquires assets of Mercy Health Partners

Researchers examine link between innate exercise capacity and survivability

JenaValve's transapical TAVI system receives CE mark approval to treat aortic valve stenosis

Researchers discover new inherited disorder that causes mental retardation, liver dysfunction

Meeting with Bill Gates, Nigerian President Jonathan re-affirms country's commitment to eradicating polio within two years

General Dynamics acquires Vangent

Weeds are an integral part of our ecosystem

Patients enrolled in consumer-directed health plans have control over health care spending

Walter Reed employees moved to Bethesda without adequate parking, transportation plan

Young woman fights tobacco within the Hispanic Community

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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