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R-Tech Ueno announces completion of RK-023 Phase 2a study for androgenetic alopecia

R-Tech Ueno, is pleased to announce that the Phase 2a clinical study of RK-023 to treat androgenetic alopecia was completed by January 21, 2011.

24 Jan 2011

Psychological Science journal releases new research findings

The insula has been implicated in evaluative and affective processes. New findings indicate that the insula may be broadly involved in integrating affective and cognitive processes. Participants rated the positivity and negativity of picture stimuli and how emotionally arousing they found the pictures to be.

24 Jan 2011

Global Poverty Summit addresses MDGs, global trade policy

At the Global Poverty Summit January 16-19 in Johannesburg, South Africa, "academics, policy-makers, civil society activists and development workers ... agreed that the [U.N. Millennium Development Goals] MDGs have made a difference, but have fallen far short of the ambitious targets on poverty, education, health, gender equality and global partnership that 189 countries committed to achieving by 2015," IRIN reports.

24 Jan 2011

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

York South-Weston area residents will soon benefit from reduced MRI wait times, thanks to the addition of a new MRI machine and additional funding to reduce the number of patients waiting for MRI scans at the Humber River Regional Hospital's Church St. site.

24 Jan 2011

Radiation Therapy Services to issue $50M of 9-7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017

Radiation Therapy Services Holdings, Inc.announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Radiation Therapy Services, Inc., has agreed to issue an aggregate principal amount of $50 million of 9-7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017.

24 Jan 2011

Republicans attack health law, call for Senate repeal vote; Obama to defend law in SOTU

News outlets previewed the President's State of the Union address and discussed how the health law repeal vote might fare in the Senate.

24 Jan 2011

MGH research sheds light on mechanisms of action of mindfulness-based training

Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital researchers report the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain's grey matter.

24 Jan 2011

Bayer's gadobutrol injection for CNS imaging receives FDA Advisory Committee approval

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously that clinical trial and postmarketing data for gadobutrol injection, a macrocyclic 1.0 molar gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA), support approval of the product for proposed use in diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in adults and children.

24 Jan 2011

New research shows how humans readily learn to throw long distances

Can't help molding some snow into a ball and hurling it or tossing a stone as far into a lake as you can? New research from Indiana University and the University of Wyoming shows how humans, unlike any other species on Earth, readily learn to throw long distances. This research also suggests that this unique evolutionary trait is entangled with language development in a way critical to our very existence.

24 Jan 2011

Rotavirus vaccine significantly cuts child hospitalizations, study says

Developing and developed countries that require children to be vaccinated against rotavirus "have significantly reduced the number of children admitted to hospitals with the disease, a report showed on Thursday," Reuters reports (Kelland, 1/20).

24 Jan 2011

Research findings reveal HIV's hiding spot, new way to stop the virus

HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe after three decades of research - more than 30 million people worldwide are infected with HIV - it also offers scientists a new, unexpected way to try to stop the virus.

24 Jan 2011

SuppreMol completes successful pre-IND meeting with U.S. FDA

SuppreMol GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, today announced that it has successfully completed a pre-Investigational New Drug Application (pre-IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its lead compound SM101, which is being developed for the treatment of Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).

24 Jan 2011

Eckert & Ziegler receives European Commission's indefinite approval for YTTRIGA

Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG, a firm specializing in radioactive compounds for the treatment of cancer, has renewed the approval of its drug YTTRIGA (Yttrium-90 chloride) by the European Commission. Five years ago the European Medicines Agency EMA approved this drug for the first time and as a result of the current renewal process the drug has now been granted an indefinite approval.

24 Jan 2011

Accent Dual Mode RF System is a less invasive anti-aging skin care technology

What most don't realize is that there is a revolutionary, virtually pain-free technology that delivers dramatic skin tightening and wrinkle reduction results without the pain and recovery of needle injections. Always at the forefront of the latest anti-aging skin care technologies, Manhattan-based JUVA Skin and Laser Center specializes in the Accent Dual Mode RF System.

24 Jan 2011

Sen. Barrasso calls for Senate to move on health repeal

Following House passage of the healthcare repeal, a Republican senator used the GOP's weekly address to urge the upper chamber to scrap the law. "Ask yourself - are you better off or worse off now that the healthcare law has been on the books for almost a year?" Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said. Barrasso said the new House Republican majority had "kept its promise" to voters by advancing a repeal of the healthcare law. "Now it's the Senate's turn," he said.

24 Jan 2011

Welch Allyn to feature new suite of devices at 2011 Arab Health Congress in Dubai, UAE

Welch Allyn, a leading global provider of medical products and solutions, will showcase its newest suite of devices that capture, format and transmit vital signs from the point of care to electronic medical records this week at the 2011 Arab Health Exhibition & Congress in Dubai, UAE.

24 Jan 2011

Novartis enters definitive merger agreement to acquire Genoptix

Genoptix, announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Novartis. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Novartis will commence an all cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Genoptix at USD$25.00 per share.

24 Jan 2011

Functional tests are necessary to understand human disease despite genetic sequencing

Despite what you might have heard, genetic sequencing alone is not enough to understand human disease. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have shown that functional tests are absolutely necessary to understand the biological relevance of the results of sequencing studies as they relate to disease, using a suite of diseases known as the ciliopathies which can cause patients to have many different traits.

24 Jan 2011

China Shenghuo's Lixuwang product recieves Chinese Well-Known Trademark Honor

China Shenghuo Pharmaceutical Holdings, a China-based pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of Traditional Chinese Medicine, nutritional supplement and cosmetic products, today announced that "Lixuwang", the trademark of its best selling product, Xuesaitong Capsule, was awarded the Chinese Well-Known Trademark Honor by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China.

24 Jan 2011

Eliminating sugary drinks from diet can reduce tooth decay in American Indian children

A study conducted in four American Indian communities in the Pacific Northwest presents an effective strategy to convince mothers to switch young children from drinking sweetened soda to water and shows that eliminating these sugary drinks from the diets of the youngest members of the tribe significantly decreased tooth decay.

24 Jan 2011

Medical News

R-Tech Ueno announces completion of RK-023 Phase 2a study for androgenetic alopecia

Psychological Science journal releases new research findings

Global Poverty Summit addresses MDGs, global trade policy

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

Radiation Therapy Services to issue $50M of 9-7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017

Republicans attack health law, call for Senate repeal vote; Obama to defend law in SOTU

MGH research sheds light on mechanisms of action of mindfulness-based training

Bayer's gadobutrol injection for CNS imaging receives FDA Advisory Committee approval

New research shows how humans readily learn to throw long distances

Rotavirus vaccine significantly cuts child hospitalizations, study says

Research findings reveal HIV's hiding spot, new way to stop the virus

SuppreMol completes successful pre-IND meeting with U.S. FDA

Eckert & Ziegler receives European Commission's indefinite approval for YTTRIGA

Accent Dual Mode RF System is a less invasive anti-aging skin care technology

Sen. Barrasso calls for Senate to move on health repeal

Welch Allyn to feature new suite of devices at 2011 Arab Health Congress in Dubai, UAE

Novartis enters definitive merger agreement to acquire Genoptix

Functional tests are necessary to understand human disease despite genetic sequencing

China Shenghuo's Lixuwang product recieves Chinese Well-Known Trademark Honor

Eliminating sugary drinks from diet can reduce tooth decay in American Indian children

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