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RNAO calls on Ontario political parties to address nurses shortfall

As political parties look ahead to this fall's provincial election, registered nurses say hiring more RNs must be a top priority to help bring Ontario's RN to population ratio in line with the rest of the country.

4 Feb 2011

Cholesterol efflux capacity may protect against heart disease: Study

The discovery that high levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol are associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease has fostered intensive research to modify HDL levels for therapeutic gain. However, recent findings have called into question the notion that pharmacologic increases in HDL cholesterol levels are necessarily beneficial to patients.

4 Feb 2011

FDA sets new PDUFA date for AstraZeneca's ticagrelor

AstraZeneca announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged receipt of the company's reply to the Complete Response Letter (CRL) for the ticagrelor New Drug Application (NDA).

4 Feb 2011

Bright light from sports stadiums, urban street lamps may boost daytime ozone levels

Not even the most avid fans could notice, but those spectacular aerial images of a brightly-lit Cowboys Stadium during Sunday's Super Bowl XLV symbolize one of the hottest new pieces of scientific intelligence about air pollution.

4 Feb 2011

Obama administration contemplates requirement that insurers offer free contraceptives

The Obama administration is examining whether the new health care law can be used to require insurance plans to offer contraceptives and other family planning services to women free of charge (Pear, 2/2).

4 Feb 2011

Viewpoints: Dem lawmakers on fighting repeal; Debating Judge Vinson's impact; Medicaid cuts

Along with our Democratic colleagues in the Senate, we plan to review individual provisions in the law that may not work as intended. But we are not willing to allow a wholesale rollback of health care reform that could take away popular benefits from American families, jeopardize the health and well-being of millions and add more than a trillion dollars to the deficit.

4 Feb 2011

New discovery: miR-429 regulatory RNA may be effective in fighting ovarian cancer

Cancer researchers have discovered that a type of regulatory RNA may be effective in fighting ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer isn't typically discovered until it's in the advanced stages, where it is already spreading to other organs and is very difficult to fight with chemotherapy.

4 Feb 2011

Bayer HealthCare's regorafenib receives orphan drug status for GIST treatment

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that its investigational compound regorafenib has been granted orphan drug status for the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

4 Feb 2011

CAB expands offerings to EMS Transport business

CAB Receivables Management, a leader in creating cash flow performance solutions for specific industries, has expanded its offerings to the EMS Transport business.

4 Feb 2011

Kaiser Permanente receives $3 million CDC grant to continue SEARCH study for childhood diabetes

The Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation has been awarded more than $3 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study for an additional five years to 2015.

4 Feb 2011

Study: Worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled since 1980

The worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled since 1980, according to a major study on how three important heart disease risk factors have changed across the world over the last three decades. The study, published today in three papers in the Lancet, looked at all available global data to assess how body mass index, blood pressure and cholesterol changed between 1980 and 2008.

4 Feb 2011

Data generated on Ion Torrent PGM sequencer to be presented at AGBT

Life Technologies Corporation, today announced that just six weeks following the launch of the Ion Torrent PGM sequencer, independent researchers will present data they generated with the system at the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference.

4 Feb 2011

New way to stabilize proteins

A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a new way to stabilize proteins — the workhorse biological macromolecules found in all organisms. Proteins serve as the functional basis of many types of biologic drugs used to treat everything from arthritis, anemia, and diabetes to cancer.

4 Feb 2011

Scientists reprogram marrow cells from patient with chronic myeloid leukemia

By coaxing healthy and diseased human bone marrow to become embryonic-like stem cells, a team of Wisconsin scientists has laid the groundwork for observing the onset of the blood cancer leukemia in the laboratory dish.

4 Feb 2011

ACR releases two new provisional definitions of rheumatoid arthritis remission

The American College of Rheumatology today announced the release of two new provisional definitions of rheumatoid arthritis remission, which are to be applied to future RA clinical trials.

4 Feb 2011

Truth or false? Fact-checker examines health reform claims from Senate debate

Video excerpts from the Senate floor also offer a taste of the heated discussion surrounding the GOP-led effort to repeal the health overhaul.

4 Feb 2011

UM researchers find genetic cause of retinitis pigmentosa

Researchers led by geneticists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have identified a new gene that causes retinitis pigmentosa, a form of blindness, ending one South Florida family's nearly 20-year search for what caused three of their four children to lose their sight.

4 Feb 2011

AHRQ finds 3.4 million emergency department visits for back problems in the U.S.

Roughly 3.4 million emergency department visits - an average of 9,400 a day - were specifically for back problems at U.S. hospitals in 2008, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

4 Feb 2011

Treg therapy ensures success of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, without triggering GVHD

For blood cancer patients at high risk of relapse, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), the transplantation of blood-forming stem cells, is one of best options for treatment and a potential cure. Unfortunately, the most common complication of HSCT is graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a serious and often deadly post-transplant complication that occurs when the newly transplanted donor cells recognize the recipient's own cells as foreign and react by attacking the cells in the patient's body.

4 Feb 2011

New study finds link between mealtime family interactions and children's health

The amount of time families spend eating meals together has been linked to the health and well-being of children and teens, with families who eat together regularly reporting declines in substance abuse, eating disorders, and unhealthy weight in their children. Now, a new study that looks at children with asthma has found that the quality of family interactions during mealtime affected the children's health.

4 Feb 2011

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RNAO calls on Ontario political parties to address nurses shortfall

Cholesterol efflux capacity may protect against heart disease: Study

FDA sets new PDUFA date for AstraZeneca's ticagrelor

Bright light from sports stadiums, urban street lamps may boost daytime ozone levels

Obama administration contemplates requirement that insurers offer free contraceptives

Viewpoints: Dem lawmakers on fighting repeal; Debating Judge Vinson's impact; Medicaid cuts

New discovery: miR-429 regulatory RNA may be effective in fighting ovarian cancer

Bayer HealthCare's regorafenib receives orphan drug status for GIST treatment

CAB expands offerings to EMS Transport business

Kaiser Permanente receives $3 million CDC grant to continue SEARCH study for childhood diabetes

Study: Worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled since 1980

Data generated on Ion Torrent PGM sequencer to be presented at AGBT

New way to stabilize proteins

Scientists reprogram marrow cells from patient with chronic myeloid leukemia

ACR releases two new provisional definitions of rheumatoid arthritis remission

Truth or false? Fact-checker examines health reform claims from Senate debate

UM researchers find genetic cause of retinitis pigmentosa

AHRQ finds 3.4 million emergency department visits for back problems in the U.S.

Treg therapy ensures success of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, without triggering GVHD

New study finds link between mealtime family interactions and children's health

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