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Life Technologies partners to create Genomic Cancer Care Alliance

Life Technologies Corporation today announced the creation of the Genomic Cancer Care Alliance to help people battling cancer gain access to treatment options found through analysis of their genomic information. Founding partners include Fox Chase Cancer Center, Scripps Genomic Medicine, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). The announcement came during the Consumer Genetics Conference being held June 2-4 in Boston.

4 Jun 2010

Researchers generate the first comprehensive genetic parts list of mouse hypothalamus

A Johns Hopkins and Japanese research team has generated the first comprehensive genetic "parts" list of a mouse hypothalamus, an enigmatic region of the brain — roughly cherry-sized, in humans — that controls hunger, thirst, fatigue, body temperature, wake-sleep cycles and links the central nervous system to control of hormone levels.

4 Jun 2010

Particle Sciences adds Dried Blood Spot Analysis capability to Analytic Services offerings

Particle Sciences has expanded its Bioanalytic Service's offerings to include Dried Blood Spot LC/MS/MS analysis (DBS). DBS is a growing area of interest because of its advantages in sample collection, stability, and simplified storage requirements. By using DBS, sample collection and processing is greatly simplified resulting in decreased costs, increased safety and greater comfort for test subjects.

4 Jun 2010

DEET-based repellents effective against insect and tick borne diseases

As summer nears, health experts are recommending insect repellents to help prevent mosquito and tick bites and the diseases that these bites sometimes transmit.

4 Jun 2010

ASTRO to honor David Larson and William McBride with prestigious Gold Medal award

David Larson, M.D., Ph.D., FASTRO, and William McBride, D.Sc., Ph.D., have been chosen to receive the American Society for Radiation Oncology's most prestigious award, the Gold Medal. They will be presented with this honor at the Awards Ceremony during ASTRO's 52nd Annual Meeting, taking place October 31 to November 4, 2010, in San Diego.

4 Jun 2010

DaVita receives subpoena from Department of Health and Human Services OIG

DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), announced today that on May 28, 2010, it received a subpoena from the Dallas office of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG). The subpoena relates to a civil investigation that was previously disclosed by the company during its earnings call on April 27, 2010, and in its quarterly report on form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2010.

4 Jun 2010

Novel brain mechanism promises new and effective anesthetics

A brain mechanism involved in both dreaming and waking from sleep may hold the key to new, more effective anesthetics and stimulants, reported neuroscientists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

4 Jun 2010

Lumeris releases innovative technology platform to improve quality of care delivered to consumers

Lumeris, a leader in provider performance management technology and services for the health care industry, today announced the general market release of its innovative technology platform that helps health plans and other health care delivery organizations reduce the cost and improve the quality of care delivered to consumers.

4 Jun 2010

Kidney dialysis patients unprepared for disasters: Study

Immediately after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, the survival of more than 5,800 Gulf Coast kidney dialysis patients was threatened as the storm forced closure of 94 dialysis units. Within a month 148 of these patients had died.

4 Jun 2010

Strategy for harnessing physics for health

Following a workshop hosted by the CERN European particle physics laboratory in February, doctors and physicists today published a strategy for harnessing physics for health. Techniques developed for physics research have a long history of application in medicine. Today's news recognises that synergy, and sets out a programme of strengthened collaboration.

4 Jun 2010

Scancell's ImmunoBody vaccine technologies to be combined with ImmuneRegen's Homspera

Scancell Holdings Plc, the developer of therapeutic cancer vaccines, today announces a strategic collaboration with ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of IR BioSciences Holdings, Inc.. Under the agreement, Scancell and ImmuneRegen will work together to investigate the synergy between ImmuneRegen's Homspera® and Scancell's ImmunoBody® vaccine technologies.

4 Jun 2010

Connect with nature to get re-energized

Being outside in nature makes people feel more alive, finds a series of studies published in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

4 Jun 2010

Stage III colon cancer patients treated with 5-FU-based chemotherapy after 1995 have improved overall survival

Patients with stage III colon cancer treated with 5-FU-based chemotherapy after complete surgical removal of their tumor after 1995 had improved overall survival with no change in time to recurrence compared to patients treated before 1995. In contrast, patients with stage II colon cancer treated after 1995 had longer time to recurrence and time from recurrence to death compared to those patients treated prior to 1995, according to Mayo Clinic and Gr Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, researchers.

4 Jun 2010

Boehringer Ingelheim to present new data on BIBW 2992 for NSCLC and head-and-neck cancer at ASCO 2010

Boehringer Ingelheim will present promising new data on non-small cell lung cancer as well as head-and-neck cancer for its leading investigational compound BIBW 2992 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago, June 4-8, 2010.

4 Jun 2010

Medical News

Life Technologies partners to create Genomic Cancer Care Alliance

Researchers generate the first comprehensive genetic parts list of mouse hypothalamus

Particle Sciences adds Dried Blood Spot Analysis capability to Analytic Services offerings

DEET-based repellents effective against insect and tick borne diseases

ASTRO to honor David Larson and William McBride with prestigious Gold Medal award

DaVita receives subpoena from Department of Health and Human Services OIG

Novel brain mechanism promises new and effective anesthetics

Lumeris releases innovative technology platform to improve quality of care delivered to consumers

Kidney dialysis patients unprepared for disasters: Study

Strategy for harnessing physics for health

Scancell's ImmunoBody vaccine technologies to be combined with ImmuneRegen's Homspera

Connect with nature to get re-energized

Stage III colon cancer patients treated with 5-FU-based chemotherapy after 1995 have improved overall survival

Boehringer Ingelheim to present new data on BIBW 2992 for NSCLC and head-and-neck cancer at ASCO 2010

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Caltech biologists pinpoint molecular changes that help allow global spread of resistance to Tamiflu

Advergames can promote unhealthy eating habits in children

Frequent relocations in childhood linked to poorer well-being in adulthood

Researchers compare outcomes of two surgical procedures for stress urinary incontinence

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