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Stanford University develops stress-shielding device to reduce surgical scarring

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a special wound dressing that they report was able to significantly reduce scar tissue caused by incisions.

23 May 2011

Roche's new cobas TaqScreen MPX viral discriminatory test, v2.0 now available in Europe

Roche announced today that the cobas TaqScreen MPX Test, version 2.0 for use on the cobas s 201 system is now commercially available in Europe.

23 May 2011

Phytoceuticals to present promising clinical data on 1 PRIMARY WOUND DRESSING at EWMA 2011

Phytoceuticals Ltd. will present promising clinical and scientific data on 1 PRIMARY WOUND DRESSING at the 2011 EWMA Conference on May 26, the largest European wound management conference.

23 May 2011

ShiftWise launches free VeriStaff management system for hospitals, healthcare providers

ShiftWise, the country's leading supplier of online healthcare staff management services, today announced ShiftWise VeriStaff, a free service that allows hospitals and other healthcare providers of all sizes to easily track their staff's credentialing compliance.

23 May 2011

Lab21 acquires molecular diagnostics company Myconostica Ltd

Lab21 Limited, the global specialist in personalised medicine and clinical diagnostics has today announced that it has acquired Myconostica Ltd, a molecular diagnostic company focussing on the diagnosis of fungal infections of clinical importance.

23 May 2011

New data from ProSavin Phase I/II trial in Parkinson's presented at ASGCT annual meeting

Oxford BioMedica, a leading gene therapy company, announces that new data from the on-going Phase I/II trial of ProSavin for the treatment of Parkinson's disease were presented at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy 14th Annual Meeting held in Seattle, USA by Professor Stephane Palfi, Principal Investigator at the Henri Mondor Hospital in Paris, on Saturday 21 May 2011.

23 May 2011

Sosei to introduce NorLevo oral emergency contraceptive in Japan

Sosei Group Corporation, the biopharmaceutical company, today announced that Sosei Co., Ltd., its wholly owned Japanese subsidiary, will launch its emergency contraceptive pill, NorLevo(R) TABLETS 0.75mg, tomorrow 24 May, through the distribution network of its commercialization partner, ASKA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

23 May 2011

Scientists direct embryonic, induced human stem cells to become astrocytes in lab dish

Pity the lowly astrocyte, the most common cell in the human nervous system. Long considered to be little more than putty in the brain and spinal cord, the star-shaped astrocyte has found new respect among neuroscientists who have begun to recognize its many functions in the brain, not to mention its role in a range of disorders of the central nervous system.

23 May 2011

Study: Full access to personal medical record increases cancer patient's trust in physicians

A new analysis has found that allowing full access to personal medical records increases satisfaction without increasing anxiety in newly diagnosed cancer patients. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that providing accurate information to patients through medical records can be a beneficial complement to verbal communication with their physicians.

23 May 2011

Travel, hunting, and venison consumption linked to prion diseases

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have examined the potential for human exposure to prion diseases, looking at hunting, venison consumption, and travel to areas in which prion diseases have been reported in animals.

23 May 2011

Automated microfluidic device can monitor hematopoietic stem cells

A Canadian research team has developed an automated microfluidic cell culture platform to monitor the growth, survival and responses of hundreds of hematopoietic stem cells at the single cell level.

23 May 2011

Researchers discover new genes that influence severity of cystic fibrosis

Johns Hopkins Institute for Genetic Medicine researchers working as part of the North American Cystic Fibrosis Consortium have discovered two regions of the genome that affect the severity of cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition that causes scarring throughout the body, affecting most notably the pancreas and lungs.

23 May 2011

H. pylori infection could play a role in Parkinson's disease development

The stomach bacteria responsible for ulcers could also play a role in the development of Parkinson's disease according to research presented today at the 111th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

23 May 2011

CT scan may help determine early death in individuals with diabetes

New findings out of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center reveal that a common test may be useful in predicting early death in individuals with diabetes.

23 May 2011

Tumor necrosis factor can suppress inflammation, treat rheumatoid arthritis

A new study by rheumatologists at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York has shown that a powerful pro-inflammatory protein, tumor necrosis factor, can also suppress aspects of inflammation.

23 May 2011

Protesters favoring health reform disrupt Aetna meeting

Protesters briefly interrupted Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini Friday morning during his remarks at the health insurer's annual meeting. The Hartford, Conn., company was holding the meeting at Le Meridien, a Philadelphia hotel, when several people entered the room and started chanting about the health care overhaul, spokesman Fred Laberge said. The meeting resumed a few minutes later. Aetna Inc. said in an email that the disruption was "inappropriate, uncivil and unsafe," but that people are entitled to their opinions.

23 May 2011

Scientists invent Monolayer Stress Microscopy to measure physical forces during collective cellular migration

The physical forces that guide how cells migrate-how they manage to get from place to place in a coordinated fashion inside the living body- are poorly understood. Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia have, for the first time, devised a way to measure these forces during collective cellular migration.

23 May 2011

Patients with chronic heart failure can benefit from telemonitoring

Two trials presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2011, organized by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, will help to define the precise populations of patients with chronic heart failure in whom telemedical management delivers benefits.

23 May 2011

Huntsman's stance on Utah health mandate questioned

During a campaign stop Friday, former Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. presented Utah's health reform as a model for what other states could do. And, Huntsman pointed out, Utah did not mandate that people buy health insurance, unlike the Massachusetts model now a thorn for Mitt Romney. His assertion, however, was called into question by a story in the Huffington Post, under the headline "Huntsman vs. Huntsman," which quoted Utah health policy players who said Huntsman had wanted a mandate but didn't get it.

23 May 2011

Patients with mild heart failure more likely to benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation

Patients with dyssynchronous yet viable ventricles are most likely to benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy combined with defibrillation, concludes the latest analysis of the MADIT CRT trial.

23 May 2011

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Stanford University develops stress-shielding device to reduce surgical scarring

Roche's new cobas TaqScreen MPX viral discriminatory test, v2.0 now available in Europe

Phytoceuticals to present promising clinical data on 1 PRIMARY WOUND DRESSING at EWMA 2011

ShiftWise launches free VeriStaff management system for hospitals, healthcare providers

Lab21 acquires molecular diagnostics company Myconostica Ltd

New data from ProSavin Phase I/II trial in Parkinson's presented at ASGCT annual meeting

Sosei to introduce NorLevo oral emergency contraceptive in Japan

Scientists direct embryonic, induced human stem cells to become astrocytes in lab dish

Study: Full access to personal medical record increases cancer patient's trust in physicians

Travel, hunting, and venison consumption linked to prion diseases

Automated microfluidic device can monitor hematopoietic stem cells

Researchers discover new genes that influence severity of cystic fibrosis

H. pylori infection could play a role in Parkinson's disease development

CT scan may help determine early death in individuals with diabetes

Tumor necrosis factor can suppress inflammation, treat rheumatoid arthritis

Protesters favoring health reform disrupt Aetna meeting

Scientists invent Monolayer Stress Microscopy to measure physical forces during collective cellular migration

Patients with chronic heart failure can benefit from telemonitoring

Huntsman's stance on Utah health mandate questioned

Patients with mild heart failure more likely to benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation

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