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Repro-Med Systems net revenue increases 30% for fiscal year ending February 28, 2011

Repro-Med Systems, Inc., dba RMS Medical Products, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal year ended February 28, 2011, showing increases in both domestic and international sales.

31 Mar 2011

Brain involuntary rotates reflected letters and words in the mirror

Human beings understand words reflected in a mirror without thinking about it, just like those written normally, at least for a few instants. Researchers from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Languages (Spain) have shown this in a study that could also help to increase our understanding of the phenomenon of dyslexia.

31 Mar 2011

Positive top-line data from Inhibitex INX-189 Phase 1b trial against HCV

Inhibitex, Inc. today reported positive top-line safety and antiviral data from its multiple ascending dose Phase 1b clinical trial of INX-189, an oral nucleotide polymerase inhibitor being developed to treat chronic infections caused by hepatitis C virus.

31 Mar 2011

SMFM praises FDA's announcement on Makena drug

The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine weighed in on today's FDA announcement to continue to allow pharmacies to compound hydroxyprogesterone caproate, also known as 17P.

31 Mar 2011

Low levels of radioactivity from Japan may affect sensitive physics experiments in the U.S.

University of Washington physicists are detecting radioactivity from Japanese nuclear reactors that have been in crisis since a mammoth March 11 earthquake, but the levels are far below what would pose a threat to human health.

31 Mar 2011

ACAAI to launch 15th annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program

The nation's allergists help adults and children learn if they are at risk for asthma or exercise-induced bronchoconstriction as the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology conducts its 15th annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program.

31 Mar 2011

McKesson releases Horizon Cardiology 12.2 cardiovascular information system

With its new 12.2 software release, McKesson's Horizon Cardiology™ is the industry's only cardiovascular information system (CVIS) system that offers a single database, including hemodynamics, and presents the entire patient history from fetal to adulthood.

31 Mar 2011

Cancer Commons researchers publish MDMM paper in PLoS ONE journal

Cancer Commons, an initiative of CollabRx, a provider of information technology to personalize cancer treatments and accelerate research, announces the publication of a molecular disease model of melanoma which classifies the disease into molecular subtypes, rather than traditional histological or cellular subtypes, and describes treatment guidelines for each subtype, including specific assays, drugs, and clinical trials.

31 Mar 2011

Growing stigma against overweight people around the world

Stigma against overweight people is becoming a cultural norm around the world, even in places where larger bodies have traditionally been valued. That's according to a cross-cultural study of attitudes toward obesity to be published in the April issue of Current Anthropology.

31 Mar 2011

Foundation for nationwide consensus on access to genetic information

Health privacy is a serious concern, but as genetic testing becomes more common, access to your genetic information raises questions the healthcare industry has never faced before. It is particularly important that we begin to address these questions now that genomic information is being collected to improve the diagnosis and treatment of children.

31 Mar 2011

South Sudan faces serious health challenges as new nation, Lancet Newsdesk reports

In South Sudan, which is poised to become "the world's newest country" in July, "90% of the population lives on less than $1 a day," and the region is plagued by multiple systemic health issues as a result of years of war, Lancet Infectious Diseases Newsdesk reports.

31 Mar 2011

Study finds continued smoking after cancer diagnosis among patients, family caregivers

Nicotine is so addictive for many people that even a cancer diagnosis doesn't help them - or their family members and caregivers - throw the cigarettes away.

31 Mar 2011

Towards accurate simulation of whole working cells

Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that - in a test of its response to sugar in its environment - accurately simulates the behavior of living cells.

31 Mar 2011

mtm’s p16 and Ki-67 dual staining test identifies high-grade cervical disease in women with ASC-US and LSIL

mtm laboratories, a privately held diagnostics company developing, manufacturing and globally commercializing in vitro diagnostics for cervical cancer early detection and diagnosis, today announced the publication of a new paper showing that dual staining for p16 and Ki-67 can pinpoint the underlying high-grade cervical disease with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity in women with ASC-US or LSIL cytology results.

31 Mar 2011

Study finds frequent anaemia in patients with chronic respiratory failure

A study of nearly 600 patients with severe non-inflammatory respiratory disease has found that a significant percentage also suffered from anaemia, according to the April issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

31 Mar 2011

Study examines how both men and women view harassment

Sexual harassment may have become so commonplace for women that they have built up resistance to harassing behavior they consider merely "bothersome," suggests a provocative new study by Michigan State University researchers.

31 Mar 2011

Two new studies on cancer

Last year, a research team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discovered one way the protein Tet 1 helps stem cells keep their pluripotency-the unique ability to become any cell type in the body.

31 Mar 2011

Health advocates file petition with U.N. over proposed trade agreement among several countries

Several health advocacy groups have submitted a letter to U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Anand Grover "outlining their objections" to negotiations over a trans-Pacific partnership agreement being negotiated by the governments of Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States and Vietnam, claiming that the agreement would inhibit access to low-cost medications in developing countries, BMJ News reports.

31 Mar 2011

Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine create Texas Children's Center for Global Health

Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) today announced the creation of the Texas Children's Center for Global Health and the appointment of renowned physician-scientist Dr. Russell E. Ware as director.

31 Mar 2011

NEJM publishes MSD's VICTRELIS two pivotal Phase III studies against HCV

MSD, known as Merck in the United States and Canada, announced today that final results from the two pivotal Phase III studies of VICTRELIS, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, will be published in the March 31st edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

31 Mar 2011

Medical News

Repro-Med Systems net revenue increases 30% for fiscal year ending February 28, 2011

Brain involuntary rotates reflected letters and words in the mirror

Positive top-line data from Inhibitex INX-189 Phase 1b trial against HCV

SMFM praises FDA's announcement on Makena drug

Low levels of radioactivity from Japan may affect sensitive physics experiments in the U.S.

ACAAI to launch 15th annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program

McKesson releases Horizon Cardiology 12.2 cardiovascular information system

Cancer Commons researchers publish MDMM paper in PLoS ONE journal

Growing stigma against overweight people around the world

Foundation for nationwide consensus on access to genetic information

South Sudan faces serious health challenges as new nation, Lancet Newsdesk reports

Study finds continued smoking after cancer diagnosis among patients, family caregivers

Towards accurate simulation of whole working cells

mtm’s p16 and Ki-67 dual staining test identifies high-grade cervical disease in women with ASC-US and LSIL

Study finds frequent anaemia in patients with chronic respiratory failure

Study examines how both men and women view harassment

Two new studies on cancer

Health advocates file petition with U.N. over proposed trade agreement among several countries

Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine create Texas Children's Center for Global Health

NEJM publishes MSD's VICTRELIS two pivotal Phase III studies against HCV

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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