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Sandia receives four R&D Magazine's 2011 awards

Sandia National Laboratories researchers - competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs - captured three prestigious R&D 100 Awards in this year's contest, and were cowinners of a fourth.

23 Jun 2011

Monash researchers receive MMV Project of the Year award for new anti-malarial drug candidate

Monash University is collaborating on the development of a potential new drug to cure malaria throughout the world.

23 Jun 2011

Biosign grants 3,115,000 stock options at $0.92 per share

Biosign Technologies Inc. announced today the grant of an aggregate of 3,115,000 stock options pursuant to the Company's stock option plan. An aggregate of 1,115,000 of such options were granted effective June 16, 2011 to four directors of the Company.

23 Jun 2011

Mississauga Halton LHIN's SDL program receives 3M National Award for Health Care Quality

The Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is proud to announce that it is the single systems-level recipient of the prestigious 3M National Award for Health Care Quality at the National Conference of Canadian Health Care Leaders, on June 7th 2011.

23 Jun 2011

Nature News interviews outgoing Gates Foundation global health president

As Tachi Yamada, president of global health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, prepares to leave the foundation this month, Nature News interviewed him about his work at the Gates Foundation and his predictions for global health.

23 Jun 2011

Insight into future development of global pharmaceutical industry

Alacrita, which is changing the face of life science consulting, has published an insight into the future development of the global pharmaceutical industry.

23 Jun 2011

GOP presidential hopefuls carve out positions on key health law issues

Former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty has vowed to bring back the term "Obamneycare" while Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor, ambassador to China and the latest to throw his hat into the GOP presidential nomination race, explained his position on the individual mandate.

23 Jun 2011

Los Alamos National Lab scientists win three R&D Magazine's 2011 awards

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have won three of R&D Magazine's 2011 R&D100 Awards. Recognized as the "Oscars of Invention" by the Chicago Tribune, these awards honor the top 100 proven technological advances of the past year.

23 Jun 2011

New IOM report: Decades-old health laws need to be revised

Because strong evidence indicates that policies beyond the health sector have substantial effects on people's health, all levels of U.S. government should adopt a structured approach to considering the health effects of any major legislation or regulation, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine.

23 Jun 2011

Insights into type I diabetes

A new signal pathway that renders the insulin-releasing beta cell more sensitive to high levels of blood glucose has been discovered by researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. A second new study reveals a possible way to delay the disease by inhibiting a lipoprotein.

23 Jun 2011

Veredus Labs develops ‘Lab-on-Chip’ to detect and differentiate several food-borne pathogens, including Escherichia coli

Veredus Laboratories, a leading provider of molecular detection tests, and its technology partner, STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), today announced the successful development and deployment of VereFoodborne™, a Lab-on-Chip application that is able to detect 10 to 12 food-borne pathogens in one test, including the Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) responsible for the recent severe food poisoning outbreak in Europe.

23 Jun 2011

FDA reveals graphic new cigarette warning labels

"Nearly a half-century after U.S. cigarette packs were emblazoned with their first, modest warning, 'Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health,' the Food and Drug Administration - at Congress' behest - is … requiring tobacco companies to print painful images, such as that of a man smoking through a hole in his throat or of a lip eroded by cancer and a mouthful of rotting teeth, right on their cigarette packs," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

23 Jun 2011

SNP identification may help predict patients’ susceptibility to postoperative nausea and vomiting

There are several anesthetic complications that may have a hereditary background, including postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). Past observations have shown PONV to occur in blood relatives as far back as two to three generations.

23 Jun 2011

New sAPPβ biomarker may identify people at risk of developing Alzheimer's

A new biomarker may help identify which people with mild memory deficits will go on to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the June 22, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

23 Jun 2011

Summer safety tips to keep kids safe

Summer fun is in full swing, which coincides with an increase in bumps, bruises, scrapes and possibly worse. To keep kids safe, prevention and first-aid should be at the forefront of parents' minds this summer according to Dr. Karen Judy, Loyola University Health System pediatric safety expert and professor of pediatrics at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

23 Jun 2011

Veredus Lab-on-Chip application can diagnose and differentiate food-borne pathogens

Veredus Laboratories, a leading provider of molecular detection tests, and its technology partner, STMicroelectronics, today announced the successful development and deployment of VereFoodborne, a Lab-on-Chip application that is able to detect 10 to 12 food-borne pathogens in one test, including the Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli responsible for the recent severe food poisoning outbreak in Europe.

23 Jun 2011

Medical News

Sandia receives four R&D Magazine's 2011 awards

Monash researchers receive MMV Project of the Year award for new anti-malarial drug candidate

Biosign grants 3,115,000 stock options at $0.92 per share

Mississauga Halton LHIN's SDL program receives 3M National Award for Health Care Quality

Nature News interviews outgoing Gates Foundation global health president

Insight into future development of global pharmaceutical industry

GOP presidential hopefuls carve out positions on key health law issues

Los Alamos National Lab scientists win three R&D Magazine's 2011 awards

New IOM report: Decades-old health laws need to be revised

Insights into type I diabetes

Veredus Labs develops ‘Lab-on-Chip’ to detect and differentiate several food-borne pathogens, including Escherichia coli

FDA reveals graphic new cigarette warning labels

SNP identification may help predict patients’ susceptibility to postoperative nausea and vomiting

New sAPPβ biomarker may identify people at risk of developing Alzheimer's

Summer safety tips to keep kids safe

Veredus Lab-on-Chip application can diagnose and differentiate food-borne pathogens

Loyola to launch innovative clinic for runners

PNAS publishes Roche manuscript on generation of human bispecific IgG antibodies

Sungwon president signs consent decree of permanent injunction for seafood products: FDA

Study reveals 29% decline in bicycle-related head injuries after mandatory helmet laws

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

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

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