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FDA approves Lannett's NDA for Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution

Lannett Company, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's 505(b)(2) New Drug Application (NDA) for Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution on June 23, 2011.

24 Jun 2011

Combined pediatric neuroscience programs at Barrow Neurological Institute

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center and Phoenix Children's Hospital jointly announced this week their pediatric neuroscience programs are combining under the newly formed Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

24 Jun 2011

Disordered eating behaviors carried into young adulthood and beyond

Adolescents who diet and develop disordered eating behaviors (unhealthy and extreme weight control behaviors and binge eating) carry these unhealthy practices into young adulthood and beyond, according to a study conducted by University of Minnesota researchers and published in the July 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

24 Jun 2011

First Edition: June 24, 2011

In today's headlines, reports that Republicans have quit the debt-ceiling negotiations and details about how the Supreme Court sided with drug makers in two decisions.

24 Jun 2011

Galileo's advanced visual analytics platform to be launched at BIO 2011 conference

Galileo Analytics announced today that it will debut Galileo Cosmos, Galileo's advanced visual analytics platform at the BIO 2011 conference in Washington, DC, providing a powerful new dimension to Galileo's suite of analytical tools and enhancing the company's ability to mine complex sets of de-identified health data.

24 Jun 2011

Up to 5M Pakistanis at risk from floods this year, U.N. says

"Up to five million people in Pakistan are at risk from floods this year, partly due to poor reconstruction and the inadequate rehabilitation of survivors who are still reeling from last year's epic deluge, the U.N. said on Wednesday," Reuters reports.

24 Jun 2011

EMA CHMP issues positive opinion for Baxter's IVIG therapy for multifocal motor neuropathy

Baxter International Inc. announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a positive opinion for extension of the therapeutic indications of KIOVIG to include a new indication for multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN), a severe, debilitating disorder requiring lifelong treatment.

From Baxter International Inc. 24 Jun 2011

CMS official grilled on Medicare Secondary Payer program

Politics were at work as Deborah Taylor, the chief financial officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, faced tough questioning during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee On Oversight and Investigations hearing regarding the financial controls applied to this aspect of Medicare — a generally complex and obscure part of the program.

24 Jun 2011

Unavailability of Avastin more dangerous risk for breast cancer patients, says FAMEDS founder

Breast cancer patients and their families will rally together on Tuesday, June 28, at 7:00 am outside of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). At issue will be the FDA's final hearing to remove the anti-cancer drug Avastin from the approved medication list for treatment of late stage breast cancer, despite the FDA approving it in 2008 for use to treat breast cancer.

24 Jun 2011

Global development companies form coalition to gain more visibility

More than 50 companies involved in global development work have formed the Coalition of International Development Companies "in hopes of gaining more visibility for their work with the U.S. Agency for International Development as well as with other government agencies and nongovernmental organizations," Washington Technology reports.

24 Jun 2011

Bodies resist weight loss efforts when food intake is reduced drastically

If you've been trying to lose weight and suspect your body's working against you, you may be right, according to a University of Illinois study published in Obesity.

24 Jun 2011

Leadership addresses Feed the Future Forum

The Knowledge-Driven International Development (KDID) Portal's "Agrilinks" blog features a summary of several of the speakers who presented at the Feed the Future Forum, including Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities;

24 Jun 2011

'Predatory' marketing pattern geared to lure young African Americans into becoming smokers

Tobacco companies increased the advertising and lowered the sale price of menthol cigarettes in stores near California high schools with larger populations of African-American students, according to a new study from the Stanford School of Medicine.

24 Jun 2011

Gender-based sex selection harms women's health in Asia, U.N. report says

"Gender biased sex selection, widespread in many parts of Asia, has serious and profoundly debilitating effects on the mental and physical health of women, says a report by five United Nations agencies," BMJ reports.

24 Jun 2011

G20 agriculture ministers reach deal aimed at addressing high food prices

"G20 farm ministers settled a deal on Thursday to tackle high food prices, agreeing to a watered-down declaration that fell short of France's ambitious proposals to tighten regulation of commodity markets," Reuters reports.

24 Jun 2011

Pfizer and Pain Therapeutics receive FDA Complete Response Letter for resubmission of REMOXY NDA

Pfizer and Pain Therapeutics, Inc. announced that a Complete Response Letter was received from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the resubmission to the new drug application (NDA) for REMOXY® (oxycodone) Extended-Release Capsules CII. Pfizer is working to evaluate the issues described in the Complete Response Letter and plans to have further discussions with FDA around them.

24 Jun 2011

Breast milk is an incredible low-tech solution for infant malnutrition

In his latest New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof discusses the health benefits of breast milk for preventing childhood malnutrition. "When we think of global poverty, we sometimes assume that the challenges are so vast that any solutions must be extraordinarily complex and expensive.

24 Jun 2011

Epilepsy may arise from complex mixture of altered ion channels

Imagine two flat screen televisions tuned to the same channel and sitting side-by-side. From a distance, their pictures are virtually the same, however up close, you can see subtle variations in the pixels - one blurred here, another dropped out there.

24 Jun 2011

Protein globin E helps avian eyes 'breathe' and contributes to visual acuity

Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us -- and all the other animals on the planet -- beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains develop.

24 Jun 2011

Arguments held in NJ Appeals Court over health law challenge

A federal appeals court hearing arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of last year's U.S. health reform law focused primarily on whether plaintiffs need to demonstrate they are suffering economic harm now or will when the part of the law mandating that everyone have health coverage takes effect.

24 Jun 2011