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Brand name drug prices go up

Even as government and private health plans push to restrain spending on medicines, the prices of brand name prescriptions are climbing rapidly, reaching the steepest rate of the decade last year.

18 Mar 2011

FibroGen, Astellas advance FG-4592 to phase 2b development for treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease

FibroGen, Inc., today announced that FibroGen and partner Astellas Pharma Inc. advanced FG-4592 (Astellas designation ASP1517), an investigational anemia therapy, to phase 2b development for treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients on dialysis and not on dialysis.

18 Mar 2011

Gardening may boost vegetable consumption in older adults

New research from Texas A&M University and Texas State University found that older adults who participate in gardening may be more likely to eat their veggies.

18 Mar 2011

St. Michael's receives $5 million McCain donation for therapeutic endoscopy program

Wallace and Margaret McCain have donated $5 million to St. Michael's Hospital for its therapeutic endoscopy program.

18 Mar 2011

Positron to introduce its radiopharmaceutical system at American College of Cardiology

Positron Corporation, a leading molecular imaging company specializing in the field of nuclear cardiology, announced the introduction of its automated radiopharmaceutical system, under the name PosiRx, at two upcoming industry conferences.

18 Mar 2011

Researchers develop diagnostic test for motor neurone disease

NeuRA researchers are one step closer to developing a diagnostic test for motor neurone disease. Dr Steve Vucic, from Neuroscience Research Australia, says the test will allow people with motor neurone disease to be diagnosed up to eight months earlier than is currently possible.

17 Mar 2011

British pie, mash and gravy meals too salty: Heart health experts

A new study by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) in the UK that looked at 526 pie, mash and gravy meals and products, found some meals to be extremely high in salt. A chicken and mushroom pie with chips or mash, gravy and peas from pub chain Wetherspoons contained an alarming 7.5g of salt, well over the daily maximum recommendation of 6g a day. All the pie and mash pub meals looked at contained more than 3g, half the daily maximum, the report said. The survey, conducted by YouGov, found that the mashed potato and gravy could significantly increase the salt content of a meal. According to CASH, while good progress has been made by supermarkets in cutting salt levels in pies, there are still too many products containing unnecessary quantities of salt.

17 Mar 2011

Eating fish protects from blindness: Study

According to latest study fish that is rich in omega 3 fatty acids significantly lowers the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration that leads to blindness. The study was published in the Archives of Ophthalmology.

17 Mar 2011

Stem cell therapy successfully heals a scarred and failing heart

A new study has shown that stem cells could heal scars caused by old heart attacks. In all eight patients who received the experimental treatment in an ongoing clinical trial this therapy worked. All of them had suffered heart attacks an average of 5 1/2 years prior; one of the patients had his heart attack 11 years earlier.

17 Mar 2011

Gene therapy for Parkinson’s: It works!

A latest study has shown that gene therapy may be successful in treating the dreaded brain degenerative disease – Parkinson’s disease. Neurologists are hopeful that it could be useful in other neurologic disorders too.

17 Mar 2011

Wash your hands? You may now approach the patient bed!

Each year patients in the U.S. get more than a million infections while in the hospital being treated for something else. The best way to prevent infection is to practice proper hand hygiene, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

17 Mar 2011

'Father of Biological Nutrient Removal' recognised for using micro-organisms to treat used water for the protection of lakes and rivers

Singapore International Water Week today announced that Dr James L. Barnard has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2011, a prestigious award that recognises outstanding contributions towards solving global water problems by either applying technologies or implementing policies and programmes which benefit humanity.

17 Mar 2011

Home care and hospice nurses, aides and providers march on Washington to ensure the right of every American to be cared for in their home

Hundreds of home care and hospice providers will arrive in that nation’s capitol to keep the fight alive for the critical, high-value, high-quality care that is delivered every day to some of the nation’s most vulnerable individuals.

17 Mar 2011

Sports medicine physician suggests cardiac screening for young athletes requires augmentation of existing diagnostics to achieve greater accuracy, become cost-effective

Sports medicine physician Steve Watts says cardiac screening for young athletes is useful in preventing sudden cardiac death and suggests new diagnostics have the potential to add value and change the debate about the viability of cardiac screening for young athletes in the United States.

17 Mar 2011

Hopkins experts: Taking potassium iodide could be harmful

The Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) is advising that people in the United States should not take potassium iodide as a preventive medication for possible radiation fallout from Japan's evolving nuclear plant crisis.

17 Mar 2011

ACT initiates enrollment in TEMPASURE cardiac ablation catheter CE Mark clinical trial

Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of innovative temperature-sensing cardiac ablation systems, today announced that the first patients have been enrolled in a first-in-man CE Mark clinical trial of the safety and performance of the company's TEMPASURE™ cardiac ablation catheter. The TEMPASURE system is the world's first RF cardiac ablation catheter to offer both saline irrigation and temperature-sensing technology.

17 Mar 2011

AICR awards £179,532 grant to Van Andel Research Institute for prostate cancer research

Research by scientists in America, funded by an international charity based in Scotland, could lead to new drugs for prostate cancer.

17 Mar 2011

Low calorie diet may delay or prevent aging and neurodegenerative diseases

Cells, which employ a process called autophagy to clean up and reuse protein debris leftover from biological processes, were the original recyclers. A team of scientists from Paul Greengard's Rockefeller University laboratory have linked a molecule that stimulates autophagy with the reduction of one of Alzheimer's disease's major hallmarks, amyloid peptide.

17 Mar 2011

How brain processes facial identity

It is no surprise to scientists that the largest social network on the web is called Facebook. Identifying people by their face is fundamental to our social interactions, one of the primary reasons vision researchers are trying to find out how our brain processes facial identity.

17 Mar 2011

GenSpera strengthens intellectual property for second prostate cancer drug

GenSpera, Inc. announced that its patent application, entitled "Activation of Peptide Prodrugs by HK2," has been issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as US Patent 7,906,477.

17 Mar 2011

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Brand name drug prices go up

FibroGen, Astellas advance FG-4592 to phase 2b development for treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease

Gardening may boost vegetable consumption in older adults

St. Michael's receives $5 million McCain donation for therapeutic endoscopy program

Positron to introduce its radiopharmaceutical system at American College of Cardiology

Researchers develop diagnostic test for motor neurone disease

British pie, mash and gravy meals too salty: Heart health experts

Eating fish protects from blindness: Study

Stem cell therapy successfully heals a scarred and failing heart

Gene therapy for Parkinson’s: It works!

Wash your hands? You may now approach the patient bed!

'Father of Biological Nutrient Removal' recognised for using micro-organisms to treat used water for the protection of lakes and rivers

Home care and hospice nurses, aides and providers march on Washington to ensure the right of every American to be cared for in their home

Sports medicine physician suggests cardiac screening for young athletes requires augmentation of existing diagnostics to achieve greater accuracy, become cost-effective

Hopkins experts: Taking potassium iodide could be harmful

ACT initiates enrollment in TEMPASURE cardiac ablation catheter CE Mark clinical trial

AICR awards £179,532 grant to Van Andel Research Institute for prostate cancer research

Low calorie diet may delay or prevent aging and neurodegenerative diseases

How brain processes facial identity

GenSpera strengthens intellectual property for second prostate cancer drug

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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