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Common culinary spice derivative could treat tendinitis

A derivative of a common culinary spice found in Indian curries could offer a new treatment hope for sufferers of the painful condition tendinitis, an international team of researchers has shown.

9 Aug 2011

Simcere second quarter total revenue increases 0.3% to US$84.4 million

Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, a leading pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of branded generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals in China, today reported preliminary unaudited financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2011.

9 Aug 2011

Positive data from Lexicon LX1032 Phase 2 study on carcinoid syndrome

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering breakthrough treatments for human disease, announced positive, top-line proof-of-concept data from its recently completed Phase 2 study in carcinoid syndrome with LX1032, telotristat etiprate. Carcinoid syndrome is a chronic condition caused by neuroendocrine tumors that usually originate from the gastrointestinal tract.

9 Aug 2011

GTx reports revenue of $1.6 million for second quarter 2011

GTx, Inc. today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2011. The net loss for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 was $10.7 million compared with a net loss of $12.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.

9 Aug 2011

Providio, PRIUM partner to deliver Medicare Set Aside Clinical Review service

PRIUM and Providio MediSolutions, LLC have joined forces to deliver an innovative Medicare Set Aside Clinical Review (MSA-CR) service that not only calculates future medical and pharmacy costs of workers' compensation claims, but also reduces medical costs by recommending changes to treatment plans and drug regimens while overseeing their implementation.

9 Aug 2011

Medidata Solutions second quarter net revenues increase 25% to $50.2 million

Medidata Solutions, a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical technology solutions that enhance the efficiency of clinical development, today announced its financial results for the second quarter 2011, as well as provided financial guidance for the third quarter and full year 2011.

9 Aug 2011

Acute Care Emergency Surgical Service linked with 15% reduction in decision time

The use of Acute Care Emergency Surgical Service (ACCESS) in emergency departments (EDs) can lead to significant reductions in key patient measures, such as length of stay, surgical decision-making time and "time-to-stretcher", according to a study published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

9 Aug 2011

Pfizer, UC San Diego sign research agreement to drive innovation in drug discovery

In an innovative collaboration designed to speed the process of drug discovery, Pfizer, Inc. and the University of California, San Diego Health Sciences announced today that UC San Diego has joined the ranks of other top-tier life science research institutions across the country as part of Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation.

9 Aug 2011

New drug to prevent Alzheimer's could be tested on patients within six years

A new drug to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease could be tested on patients within six years according to researchers at Lancaster University.

9 Aug 2011

Jill Biden leads U.S. delegation to Kenya to assess conditions in Horn of Africa

Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, USAID Administrator Raj Shah, Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz and Special Assistant to the President Gayle Smith arrived in Kenya on Monday to assess and raise awareness of the famine conditions in the Horn of Africa, Capital FM News reports.

9 Aug 2011

Huddersfield lecturer's groundbreaking design for nursing bag wins four major awards

UNIVERSITY of Huddersfield lecturer Dr David Swann's groundbreaking design for a super-efficient and super-safe treatment bag for mobile health workers is attracting global praise and interest and put him in line for FOUR major awards.

9 Aug 2011

Pawlenty campaigns hard on health care but his own record is complicated

The former Minnesota governor is an ardent foe of Obama's health plan and dismisses health reform efforts by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. The Minnesota Star Tribune and Kaiser Health News explore how Pawlenty handled the issue.

9 Aug 2011

Elsevier adds 'Two Years and Counting' white paper, updated eBook to ICD-10 Roadmap

Elsevier / MC Strategies, a pioneer in providing eLearning solutions to more than 1,300 healthcare organizations, today announced the addition of a white paper, "Two Years and Counting", as well as updates to its eBook, A Guide to Education and Training for ICD-10 Implementation, to its ICD-10 Roadmap.

9 Aug 2011

MAVS prion-like proteins are involved in innate immunity: Discovery

A person's ability to battle viruses at the cellular level remarkably resembles the way deadly infectious agents called prions misfold and cluster native proteins to cause disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.

9 Aug 2011

Seattle Times examines Gates Foundation's efforts to enhance vitamins in crops for Africans

The Seattle Times on Sunday examined efforts by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "to boost the levels of vitamins and minerals in crops many Africans rely on for the bulk of their diets."

9 Aug 2011

New study focuses on Anopheles gambiae to prevent spread of malaria

A female mosquito cannot tell if the male that she has mated with is fertile or 'spermless' and unable to fertilise her eggs, according to a new study from scientists at Imperial College London.

9 Aug 2011

U.S. should continue funding maternal health programs in Afghanistan as troop drawdown begins

The success of the Afghan Safe Birth Project, funded by HHS, and the Community Midwife Education program, supported by USAID, in helping reduce maternal mortality in Afghanistan "is in jeopardy - not because of security threats, but because of a fiscal one," authors Isobel Coleman and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, both fellows at the Council on Foreign Relations, write in a Bloomberg opinion piece.

9 Aug 2011

Psychologists reveal how people really feel about video games

TWO lecturers at the University of Huddersfield have uncovered new research that contradicts a wide stream of consciousness in the media.

9 Aug 2011

Foreign aid should enhance, not replace, domestic health spending in developing countries

A case in Uganda of a woman bleeding to death while giving birth "underscores an unintended consequence of global health aid," a Globe and Mail editorial writes, adding that "in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, a reverse trend is under way; for every $1 of development assistance for health, governments have reduced their spending," according to a study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

9 Aug 2011

Researchers clarify role of two proteins key to T-cell development

In the latest issue of Nature, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania clarify the role of two proteins key to T-cell development.

9 Aug 2011

Medical News

Common culinary spice derivative could treat tendinitis

Simcere second quarter total revenue increases 0.3% to US$84.4 million

Positive data from Lexicon LX1032 Phase 2 study on carcinoid syndrome

GTx reports revenue of $1.6 million for second quarter 2011

Providio, PRIUM partner to deliver Medicare Set Aside Clinical Review service

Medidata Solutions second quarter net revenues increase 25% to $50.2 million

Acute Care Emergency Surgical Service linked with 15% reduction in decision time

Pfizer, UC San Diego sign research agreement to drive innovation in drug discovery

New drug to prevent Alzheimer's could be tested on patients within six years

Jill Biden leads U.S. delegation to Kenya to assess conditions in Horn of Africa

Huddersfield lecturer's groundbreaking design for nursing bag wins four major awards

Pawlenty campaigns hard on health care but his own record is complicated

Elsevier adds 'Two Years and Counting' white paper, updated eBook to ICD-10 Roadmap

MAVS prion-like proteins are involved in innate immunity: Discovery

Seattle Times examines Gates Foundation's efforts to enhance vitamins in crops for Africans

New study focuses on Anopheles gambiae to prevent spread of malaria

U.S. should continue funding maternal health programs in Afghanistan as troop drawdown begins

Psychologists reveal how people really feel about video games

Foreign aid should enhance, not replace, domestic health spending in developing countries

Researchers clarify role of two proteins key to T-cell development

Membrane proteins in focus: Turning high-risk targets into routine workflows

How metabolic phenotyping can detect viral infections in minutes

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

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