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Researchers receive NIH grant to develop computer models for pediatric airway problems

A multidisciplinary team of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers has been awarded a $3.6 million grant to develop computer models that will allow physicians to predict which treatments will work best in children with upper airway problems.

4 Feb 2011

HHS encourages lower-cost drug usage to help reduce Medicaid spending

With Medicaid spending growth almost doubling over the past year, a new document released today by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to all 50 governors encourages the use of lower-cost drugs - including generics - to help reduce Medicaid spending.

4 Feb 2011

Preventive dental care could lead to lower overall dental expenses for older Americans

Older Americans could likely have lower overall dental expenses with preventive dental care and more routine dental visits, as indicated by a new study of public records of Medicare beneficiaries, says John Moeller, PhD, MA, research professor at the University of Maryland Dental School.

4 Feb 2011

FAO Food Price Index reaches new high in January

World food prices reached a new record high in January, continuing a trend for the seventh consecutive month, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday, the Guardian reports (Kollewe, 2/3).

4 Feb 2011

Digna Biotech, CIMA receive EU grant for development of gene therapy product for Acute Intermittent Porphyria

Digna Biotech and the Centro de Investigacion Medica Aplicada (CIMA) de la Universidad de Navarra announced today that the European Union (EU) has finalized a EUR 3.3 million grant to AIPGENE consortium. Digna Biotech and CIMA will receive, as members of the consortium, EUR 0.5 and EUR 0.8 million respectively for the clinical development of a gene therapy product for Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP).

4 Feb 2011

Study highlights link between food insufficiency, health care use among homeless adults

Homeless people who do not get enough to eat use hospitals and emergency rooms at very high rates, according to a new study. One in four respondents to a nationwide survey reported not getting enough to eat, a proportion six times higher than in the general population, and more than two thirds of those had recently gone without eating for a whole day. The report will appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and has been released online.

4 Feb 2011

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

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Researchers receive NIH grant to develop computer models for pediatric airway problems

HHS encourages lower-cost drug usage to help reduce Medicaid spending

Preventive dental care could lead to lower overall dental expenses for older Americans

FAO Food Price Index reaches new high in January

Digna Biotech, CIMA receive EU grant for development of gene therapy product for Acute Intermittent Porphyria

Study highlights link between food insufficiency, health care use among homeless adults

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

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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