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Astellas announces financial support to Japan for earthquake relief work

The Astellas European Foundation has today announced financial support to the Japanese Red Cross Society for their work to assist those impacted by the earthquake and tsunami on Friday, 11th March. The Japanese Red Cross Society is working with the local government of the affected region and the support will help provide aid to the local population.

24 Mar 2011

Pharmacists seek delay of rule limiting amount of dispensed drugs

The National Community Pharmacists Association is pressuring Medicare officials to delay a regulation that they say will drive up labor costs for drug stores and increase the potential for dispensing errors. The proposed rule is expected to be finalized and take effect on Jan. 1, 2012.

24 Mar 2011

Little evidence supporting effectiveness of acupuncture in reducing pain

Although acupuncture is commonly used for pain control, doubts about its effectiveness and safety remain. Investigators from the Universities of Exeter & Plymouth (Exeter, UK) and the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (Daejeon, South Korea) critically evaluated systematic reviews of acupuncture as a treatment of pain in order to explore this question.

24 Mar 2011

Scott Brown goes on record against efforts to choke planned parenthood funding

Brown joins Republican Sens. Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, in opposing the measure. The Republican-controlled House voted last month to pass the proposal, which would cut all federal funding to Planned Parenthood and eliminate a program called Title X, which provides aid for family planning and reproductive health.

24 Mar 2011

ASAM issues white paper to halt medical marijuana use

Citing the dangers of marijuana, the lack of clinical research on a controlled substance with a high potential for abuse, and the physician's oath to "first, do no harm," the American Society of Addiction Medicine today issued a white paper recommending a halt to using the weed as a medicine in states where it has been declared legal.

24 Mar 2011

Modified Atmosphere Packaging can retain polyacetylenes levels in carrots

Polyacetylenes are natural products found in certain plants that have been related to a reduction in the risks of developing diseases such as certain types of cancers and other important diseases.

24 Mar 2011

News reports discuss Japan's disaster preparedness, health situations on the ground

According to a report published in the Lancet on Tuesday, Japan's medical and aid response to the earthquake and tsunami is being challenged by "the sheer scale of the devastation, widespread damage to supply routes and concerns about radiation leaks from a stricken nuclear power plant".

24 Mar 2011

Colorcon announces specific details on its patent positions for enteric coatings

Colorcon, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BPSI Holdings Inc., today announced specific details on its world-wide patent positions for enteric coating compositions in response to misleading statements made in the international press, particularly in India.

24 Mar 2011

HighRoads survey provides insights into how acute health systems respond to ACA

A HighRoads survey of hospital industry employers shows 2011 health care costs for both hospital employers and employees are increasing, and hospitals are looking at leaner budgets and further cost control, as a result.

24 Mar 2011

Linköping doctor invents electroosmotic pump that can be placed in microfluidic chip

Advances in medical diagnostic technology will likely allow individuals to perform preliminary medical diagnoses themselves, in their own home, in the future.

24 Mar 2011

Immune system misinterprets threats and attacks body's own cells and tissue

Many chronic diseases are the result of the body's immune system mistakenly perceiving that the body is under attack from foreign bodies. A counterattack is then launched - an inflammatory response meant to vanquish the intruder. In reality, the immune system has misinterpreted the threat and is actually attacking the body's own cells and tissue.

24 Mar 2011

Robotic surgery for prostate cancer safe over the long term

In the first study of its kind, urologists and biostatisticians at Henry Ford Hospital have found that robot-assisted surgery to remove cancerous prostate glands is safe over the long term, with a major complication rate of less than one percent.

24 Mar 2011

Star Scientific's Ariva-BDL and Stonewall-BDL modified risk tobacco products not subject to FDC Act Chapter IX

Star Scientific, Inc. announced that the company has received notices from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its pending ARIVA-BDL™ and STONEWALL-BDL™ modified risk tobacco product applications.

24 Mar 2011

CCA: Incentives needed to control health care demands

Incentives to work smarter, not more money, is what's needed to curb escalating health care demands on the federal purse, said the Canadian Chiropractic Association today in response to the release of the Federal Budget.

24 Mar 2011

Prolia associated with greater adherence than alendronate in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

Amgen today announced new data that showed postmenopausal women with osteoporosis had significantly greater adherence, compliance, and persistence during Prolia® (denosumab) treatment than during alendronate treatment, an oral bisphosphonate commonly used to treat osteoporosis.

24 Mar 2011

Molecular Therapy journal publishes Mirna's new tumor suppressor miRNA mimics data

Mirna Therapeutics, Inc. announced today the publication of new results in the journal Molecular Therapy demonstrating how a neutral lipid emulsion facilitates the systemic delivery of tumor suppressor miRNA mimics and reduces the tumor burden in the lungs of mice.

24 Mar 2011

Imaging with voltage-sensitive dye captures real-time brain dynamics

The dye incorporates in the brain cells' membrane and changes fluorescence whenever these receive or send electrical signals. Hence, high resolution camera systems allow to simultaneously capture activities of millions of nerve cells across several square millimeters across the brain.

24 Mar 2011

Lack of laws governing newborn screening programs in Australia threaten public trust

The absence of specific laws which define the ownership, storage and use of blood drops taken from every Australian baby since 1971 could threaten public trust in newborn screening (NBS) programs in Australia, a University of Melbourne academic has warned.

24 Mar 2011

New study provides insights into epiboly mechanisms linked with wound healing, cancer

Avian embryos could join the list of model organisms used to study a specific type of cell migration called epiboly, thanks to the results of a study published this month in the journal Developmental Dynamics.

24 Mar 2011

Money matters: Some of the health law's big winners, possible costs emerge

MarketWatch reports that insurance companies appear to be coming out in the win column. Meanwhile, a new industry report details some of the health law's "hidden" costs.

24 Mar 2011

Medical News

Astellas announces financial support to Japan for earthquake relief work

Pharmacists seek delay of rule limiting amount of dispensed drugs

Little evidence supporting effectiveness of acupuncture in reducing pain

Scott Brown goes on record against efforts to choke planned parenthood funding

ASAM issues white paper to halt medical marijuana use

Modified Atmosphere Packaging can retain polyacetylenes levels in carrots

News reports discuss Japan's disaster preparedness, health situations on the ground

Colorcon announces specific details on its patent positions for enteric coatings

HighRoads survey provides insights into how acute health systems respond to ACA

Linköping doctor invents electroosmotic pump that can be placed in microfluidic chip

Immune system misinterprets threats and attacks body's own cells and tissue

Robotic surgery for prostate cancer safe over the long term

Star Scientific's Ariva-BDL and Stonewall-BDL modified risk tobacco products not subject to FDC Act Chapter IX

CCA: Incentives needed to control health care demands

Prolia associated with greater adherence than alendronate in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis

Molecular Therapy journal publishes Mirna's new tumor suppressor miRNA mimics data

Imaging with voltage-sensitive dye captures real-time brain dynamics

Lack of laws governing newborn screening programs in Australia threaten public trust

New study provides insights into epiboly mechanisms linked with wound healing, cancer

Money matters: Some of the health law's big winners, possible costs emerge

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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