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More dramas with Queensland Health payroll

Health worker salaries for the Queensland Health payroll have been going into bank accounts but have also been leaving a number of people unpaid. The Australian Services Union which represents the Queensland Health payroll staff is not too optimistic about the pay blunders being sorted out this pay cycle.

20 Apr 2010

IGF-IR plays role in proliferation and motility of pancreatic cancer cell lines: Research

Insulin-like growth factor-I is upregulated in human pancreatic cancer tissues but is not expressed in surrounding non-cancerous tissues. Serum level of IGF-I is elevated in pancreatic cancer patients. Histological analysis has shown that IGF-I receptor is positive in the membrane of pancreatic cancer tissues.

20 Apr 2010

Millipore begins global shipments of Scepter Handheld Automated Cell Counter

Millipore Corporation, a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, today announced it has begun full commercial shipments of its Scepter™ Handheld Automated Cell Counter to customers worldwide.

20 Apr 2010

Homeopathy – Is it a safer and effective alternative?

Studies have shown that nearly 45% Britons rely on Homeopathy, a branch of medicine that has been doubted by many and loved by an equal number.

20 Apr 2010

Momenta Pharmaceuticals presents preclinical data of M402 at AACR 2010

Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company specializing in the characterization and engineering of complex mixture drugs, today announced presentation of results from a preclinical study of its novel oncology drug candidate, M402, in a murine pancreatic cancer model.

20 Apr 2010

Exact Sciences completes 4.2M share common stock public offering

Exact Sciences Corp. announced today that it has completed its previously announced underwritten public offering of 4.2 million shares of common stock at a price of $4.50 per share to the public.

20 Apr 2010

CombiMatrix announces operational restructuring plan

CombiMatrix Corporation announced today that it is implementing a restructuring plan to significantly reduce operating costs, increase the focus on the Company's diagnostic services business and transition senior management. After the restructuring, CombiMatrix will be focused on its diagnostics services business, including increasing utilization of its existing tests, expanding the test menu, increasing the number of customers and partners, and improving reimbursement for its testing services.

20 Apr 2010

Increased health care costs concerns 99.4% of employers

Results of the 2010 UBA Employer Opinion Survey indicate that nearly all (99.4 percent) top decision makers are concerned with the impact of health care costs are having or are going to have on their overall corporate costs, according to newly released data.

20 Apr 2010

ITI granted AOAC approval for additional Salmonella matrices

Idaho Technology, Inc. (ITI) has received AOAC Performance Tested Method approval for two additional Salmonella matrices—stainless steel environmental samples and dry pet food. These matrices join the list of already approved matrices in the Salmonella LT Food Security System including chocolate, cooked ham, fresh raw chicken, lettuce, raw ground beef, and liquid whole eggs. This assay uses real-time PCR technology to identify the presence of Salmonella in less than one hour after a pre-enrichment period.

20 Apr 2010

FDA-approved metformin can prevent tobacco-carcinogen induced lung tumors: Study

Metformin, a mainstay of treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes, may soon play a role in lung cancer prevention if early laboratory research presented here at the AACR 101st Annual Meeting 2010 is confirmed in clinical trials.

20 Apr 2010

Rudd offers more funding for health overhaul

With the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in talks with the state and territory leaders in Canberra at Parliament House the country waits to see the result of the discussions on the health reforms. The Premiers of Western Australia, Colin Barnett and Victoria, John Brumby, have both been fighting against the federal government’s desire to take away their GST money. At the same time the New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally has been asking for a sustainable health system plan that does not affect the tax payers.

20 Apr 2010

Lincare Holdings first-quarter net revenues increase 10.3% to $410M

Lincare Holdings Inc. today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

20 Apr 2010

Life Technologies introduces new ViiA 7 Real-Time PCR System

Life Technologies Corporation today announced the expansion of its industry-leading family of real-time PCR systems with the introduction of a new high-productivity instrument. The Applied Biosystems ViiA™ 7 Real-Time PCR System seamlessly integrates a variety of quantitative PCR (qPCR) and genotyping applications, enabling researchers to enter a new era of lab productivity.

20 Apr 2010

Even modest weight loss brings many health benefits

There have been repeated warnings related to the growing obese and diabetes related population in Australia. Studies have shown that nearly 50% Australians are either obese or overweight and thus suffer from its ill effects like heart disease, high cholesterol and type II diabetes.

20 Apr 2010

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals obtains clearance for CPI-613 human clinical trial for hematologic malignancies

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a private pharmaceutical company, with a singular focus on cancer metabolism, has announced today that U.S. regulatory clearance has been obtained for the initiation of a physician-sponsored, Phase I human clinical trial of Cornerstone's first-in-class anticancer agent, CPI-613.

20 Apr 2010

Epileptic activity in brain can affect language development in children: Sahlgrenska Academy

Epileptic activity in the brain can affect language development in children, and EEG registrations should therefore be carried out more frequently on children with severe language impairment to identify more readily those who may need medical treatment, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg.

20 Apr 2010

KHN column -- Report from Michigan: What state residents stand to gain from health reform

On their way to Washington last week, Tea Party activists stopped in Lansing, Michigan. And among the officials who addressed them was Mike Cox, the state's Republican attorney general.

20 Apr 2010

Viral Genetics relocates research facilities to Georgetown

Biotech company Viral Genetics, Inc.,, is relocating its research facilities to the life science cluster in Georgetown, Texas. Lead scientist Dr. Karen Newell has joined the faculty of Texas A&M University's College of Medicine and has received a $750,000 grant to research bio-fuels from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund.

20 Apr 2010

New research shows link between infection-related diseases and risk of cancer

New research is emerging that suggests a link between infection-related diseases and risk of cancer, according to findings presented here at the American Association for Cancer Research 101st Annual Meeting 2010.

20 Apr 2010

Senate committee targets claim rejections by health insurers

The News Journal: A Senate committee has sent letters to two more Delaware insurance companies that have denied coverage for nuclear stress tests, imaging tests that are used to identify heart-attack causing arterial blockage.

20 Apr 2010