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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital opens new Center for Fetal Health

Complex fetal diagnoses bring extraordinary strain to pregnant women and their families. Learning an eagerly-awaited child will be born with a medical problem is often the worst crisis an expectant parents can face.

30 Apr 2010

Novavax reports positive results from Phase II study of trivalent VLP influenza vaccine in older adults

Novavax, Inc. reported today that its trivalent seasonal influenza virus-like-particle (VLP)-based vaccine candidate was safe and immunogenic against the 2009-2010 seasonal influenza virus strains in older adults 60 years or higher in age.

30 Apr 2010

Researchers study effects of low-moderate alcohol consumption on bone health in women

For as long as our ancestors have been drawing pictograms or writing prose about food and culture, humans have been imbibing various forms of alcohol. Once simply a process by which nutritious beverages could be preserved and stored for later use, there is no doubt that the production and consumption of wines, beers, and spirits now provides integral texture to the fabric of many cultures.

30 Apr 2010

New tool to detect inflammatory eye disease at molecular level before damage occurs

Forget what you know about how diseases are diagnosed-new research published in the May 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal details a noninvasive ground-breaking tool that detects signs of disease at early molecular stages before symptoms can be seen using traditional methods.

30 Apr 2010

New data on Cimzia for Crohn’s Disease treatment to be demonstrated at DDW 2010

Studies and analyses of the Crohn’s Disease (CD) treatment Cimzia® (certolizumab pegol) demonstrating new data will be exhibited at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2010, taking place in New Orleans from May 1-5, 2010.

30 Apr 2010

Reliv International's first-quarter 2010 net sales decline 4.5%

Reliv International, Inc., a nutrition and direct selling company, today reported that sales and earnings in the first-quarter of 2010 were below last year's first-quarter results, but sales outside of the United States rose during the period.

30 Apr 2010

Newsweek examines advocates' views of PEPFAR under Obama

Newsweek examines HIV/AIDS advocates' concerns that the Obama administration's focus on the six-year, $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI) is compromising PEPFAR's reach.

30 Apr 2010

Public health officials lay out opportunities, challenges related patient care at USP 2010 Membership Meeting

Four of the nation's leading public health officials laid out opportunities and challenges in the diverse area of patient care in the 21st century at the recently concluded U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention's 2010 Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C., emphasizing the critical nature of partnerships and the evolving role of quality standards to meet modern threats.

30 Apr 2010

IRX Therapeutics and Japan's NCRC collaborate to evaluate peptide-based cancer vaccines

IRX Therapeutics, a developer of novel immunomodulators to treat cancer and viral diseases, today announced that it has established a strategic collaboration with Japan's National Cancer Research Center (NCRC) to evaluate next-generation peptide-based cancer vaccines. Clinical research will be conducted at NCRC. IRX Therapeutics will provide its proprietary IRX-2 immunomodulatory regimen, clinical trial design and technical support. This is the first collaboration of its kind between the NCRC and a U.S.-based biotechnology firm.

30 Apr 2010

Health care reform in Massachusetts improves minority access for inpatient procedures: Researchers

Researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University School of Medicine have found that health care reform in Massachusetts has improved minority access for some inpatient procedures. These findings are being presented today at the annual Society of General Internal Medicine annual meetings in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

30 Apr 2010

Oxytocin enhances ability to experience fellow-feeling

48 healthy males participated in the experiment. Half received an oxytocin nose spray at the start of the experiment, the other half a placebo. The researchers then showed their test subjects photos of emotionally charged situations in the form of a crying child, a girl hugging her cat, and a grieving man. The test subjects were then invited to express the depth of feeling they experienced for the persons shown.

30 Apr 2010

SeraCare reports 18% increase in second-quarter fiscal 2010 revenues

SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc., a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, today reported operational and financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended March 31, 2010.

30 Apr 2010

CT Dose Summit to establish freely available guidelines for performing CT scans

A national "CT Dose Summit" in Atlanta, GA this week will bring together some of the world's leading experts on medical imaging to lay the foundation for assembling optimized guidelines for performing CT scans -- a common medical imaging procedure that uses X-rays to show cross-sectional images of the body.

30 Apr 2010

TenX Biopharma signs Clinical Trial Agreement with NCI

TenX Biopharma, Inc., announced today it has signed a Clinical Trial Agreement with the National Cancer Institute to conduct an investigator sponsored Phase II clinical trial.

30 Apr 2010

U.S. lawmakers reach trade deal to help Haiti; News outlets examine health care, housing

"Top U.S. lawmakers said on Wednesday they have reached a bipartisan deal to help Haiti rebuild its earthquake-shattered economy by opening the U.S. market to more Haitian clothing and textiles," Reuters reports. The deal would almost triple "the amount of certain Haitian knit and woven clothing products that qualify for U.S. duty-free treatment."

30 Apr 2010

Hormone mimic Octreotide promising for treatment of polycystic liver disease caused by ADPKD: Study

A hormone mimic called Octreotide may be effective for treating polycystic liver disease (PLD) caused by ADPKD, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The study is the first clinical trial performed in the United States to test the effects of this agent in PLD.

30 Apr 2010

PROVENGE receives FDA approval for treatment of CRPC

Dendreon Corporation today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved PROVENGE (sipuleucel-T), an autologous cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic, castrate-resistant (hormone-refractory) prostate cancer.

30 Apr 2010

Anesthetist may have infected patients during procedure

There has been a breach in the strict infection prevention protocols followed by health care staff including doctors presumably by an Anesthetist. Nearly 250 patients in Western Australia might have been already infected with HIV, Hepatitis B and C and syphilis.

30 Apr 2010

States move to require ultrasounds before abortions

Various states have passed or are considering bills to tighten abortion regulations.

30 Apr 2010

Summer born babies more at risk of multiple sclerosis, says research

A recent study in Australia has found a link between low exposure to sunlight during the first three months of pregnancy and development of multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life of the baby.

30 Apr 2010

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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital opens new Center for Fetal Health

Novavax reports positive results from Phase II study of trivalent VLP influenza vaccine in older adults

Researchers study effects of low-moderate alcohol consumption on bone health in women

New tool to detect inflammatory eye disease at molecular level before damage occurs

New data on Cimzia for Crohn’s Disease treatment to be demonstrated at DDW 2010

Reliv International's first-quarter 2010 net sales decline 4.5%

Newsweek examines advocates' views of PEPFAR under Obama

Public health officials lay out opportunities, challenges related patient care at USP 2010 Membership Meeting

IRX Therapeutics and Japan's NCRC collaborate to evaluate peptide-based cancer vaccines

Health care reform in Massachusetts improves minority access for inpatient procedures: Researchers

Oxytocin enhances ability to experience fellow-feeling

SeraCare reports 18% increase in second-quarter fiscal 2010 revenues

CT Dose Summit to establish freely available guidelines for performing CT scans

TenX Biopharma signs Clinical Trial Agreement with NCI

U.S. lawmakers reach trade deal to help Haiti; News outlets examine health care, housing

Hormone mimic Octreotide promising for treatment of polycystic liver disease caused by ADPKD: Study

PROVENGE receives FDA approval for treatment of CRPC

Anesthetist may have infected patients during procedure

States move to require ultrasounds before abortions

Summer born babies more at risk of multiple sclerosis, says research

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