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NAC to deliver education program on asthma management for youth

As children with asthma head back to school this fall, the National Asthma Campaign Foundation (NAC) is partnering with Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago (RHAMC) to deliver Fight Asthma Now (FAN), an asthma education program that teaches youth to control and manage their asthma.

13 Aug 2010

Guided Therapeutics second-quarter service revenue increases to $0.8 million

Guided Therapeutics, Inc. today announced its operating results for the second quarter and first six months of 2010.

13 Aug 2010

CLC bio, PSSC Labs announce new turnkey solution for full-genome assembly and analysis

Today, CLC bio and PSSC Labs announced a new turnkey solution, CLC Genomics Factory, for assembly, read mapping, and subsequent downstream analysis of very large amounts of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data. Built as a high-performance bioinformatics appliance, CLC Genomics Factory comes in three different sizes with varying numbers of compute nodes, capable of processing the data output from up to 10 Illumina HiSeq2000 or 7 Life Technologies SOLiD 4 systems.

13 Aug 2010

Aeolus completes $1.0M financing to initiate human clinical studies of AEOL 10150 for cancer

Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has completed a $1.0 million financing with two existing institutional shareholders, both of which are affiliates of Xmark Opportunity Partners, LLC.

13 Aug 2010

Stanley awards $15 million to provide operation, infrastructure support for Nationwide Health Information Network

Stanley, Inc., a leading provider of systems integration and professional services to the U.S. federal government, today announced that it was awarded two time-and-materials contracts valued at $15 million, with exercise of options, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). These two awards follow an award from DHHS that the company announced on August 2, 2010, to provide operation and infrastructure support for the Nationwide Health Information Network. All three awards fall under the company's Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 2 Innovations contract with the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC).

13 Aug 2010

Interleukin Genetics second-quarter net loss from continuing operations decreases to $1.9 million

Interleukin Genetics, Inc. today announced financial and operational results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

13 Aug 2010

U-M dentistry agrees to use Interleukin's PST test for gum disease clinical study

University of Michigan School of Dentistry has signed an agreement with Interleukin Genetics Inc. to conduct what may be the largest clinical study to date using genetic testing to assess the risk for gum disease.

13 Aug 2010

Sandata announces acquisition of Medical Management Technology Group's customer base

Sandata Technologies, LLC, a leading nationwide provider of information technology solutions to the home healthcare and social services communities today announced the acquisition of all of the home healthcare agency contracts of Medical Management Technology Group, Inc. in connection with the settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit.

13 Aug 2010

Peter Rullan offers Pixel Perfect skin treatment on Pixel CO2 laser purchase

Founder of the Dermatology Institute, Peter Rullan, M.D., has expanded his practice and is now offering Pixel Perfect™ treatments to his patients with the purchase of the Pixel CO2 laser from Alma Lasers.

13 Aug 2010

BioSante second-quarter net loss increases to $10.8 million

BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2010.

13 Aug 2010

ARMC completes system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in Colton, California, and Masimo, the inventor of Masimo rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry, Masimo rainbow Acoustic Monitorin, and Masimo SET Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, today jointly announced the completion of ARMC's system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology.

13 Aug 2010

CPF urges people to consider clinical trials for pulmonary fibrosis

The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) is urging the more than 128,000 people known to suffer from the deadly lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis (PF), to consider clinical trials, including two new ones funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Clinical trials of potential drug therapies are critical to the discovery of treatments for any disease and for a disease like PF that claims as many lives each year as breast cancer with virtually no survivors, they are the likely path to answers and saved lives.

13 Aug 2010

Severe inflammatory response to initial UTI causes bladder damage: Research

The immune system may open the door to recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) by overdoing its response to an initial infection, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found.Researchers showed in mice that severe inflammatory responses to an initial UTI cause bladder damage and allow infection to persist longer. After one to two weeks of infection, the bladder wall undergoes additional changes that leave mice more vulnerable to later infection. Suppressing the immune system during initial infection decreases these vulnerabilities, they report Aug. 12 in PLoS Pathogens.

13 Aug 2010

Mass. docs will soon track patients who abuse prescription drugs; Wis. Catholic Church employees now eligible for birth control

The Boston Globe: "With a few computer keystrokes, Massachusetts physicians will soon be able to identify patients who travel from clinic to clinic in pursuit of potent prescription drugs that feed lethal addictions. State health regulators yesterday unanimously approved the new detection system designed to stop 'doctor shopping' by addicted patients who try to dupe doctors into prescribing narcotics. The practice, specialists said, has fueled a surge in drug-related deaths in Massachusetts" (Smith, 8/12).

13 Aug 2010

Exposure to immune proteins during pregnancy increases risk for schizophrenia in offspring

Infections like the flu are common occurrences during pregnancy, and research has shown that children born to mothers who suffered from flu, viruses and other infections during pregnancy have about a 1.5 to 7 times increased risk for schizophrenia. A new study out of Temple University examines what's behind that link.

13 Aug 2010

Clearstone Central Laboratories announces strategic global collaboration with LabCorp

Clearstone Central Laboratories, a leading provider of central laboratory services for late-stage clinical trials, announced today a global collaboration with Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings through its Esoterix Clinical Trials Services division, providing clients with seamless access to CAP-accredited laboratories across both organizations in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Singapore and the United States.

13 Aug 2010

Trimeris second-quarter royalty revenue decreases to $1.6 million

Trimeris, Inc., or the "Company," today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, reporting net income of $1.3 million, or $0.06 per share, which was unchanged from the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Comparisons of net income between the quarters ended June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2009 are affected by a one-time adjustment in the second quarter of 2009 that increased operating expenses for that period by $496,000.

13 Aug 2010

New criteria by ACR for early diagnosis, treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

New criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, could prevent thousands of people from developing disabling late stage disease, by redefining how RA should be classified.Rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive autoimmune inflammatory disease, primarily of the joints. If untreated, it leads to damage of bone and cartilage, joint deformities and disability. Around 350,000 people in the UK are living with RA, which affects around three times as many women as men.

13 Aug 2010

HIV infected injection drug users likely to have kidney disease: Study

Poor kidney function is common among injection drug users, particularly those with HIV, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that clinicians should monitor the kidney function of HIV-infected injection drug users and consider them candidates for medical treatments to protect their kidneys when appropriate.

13 Aug 2010

The Australian examines development of low-cost water purifiers by Indian companies

The Australian reports on how four large businesses in India are developing low-cost water purifiers for some of the country's "poorest of the poor."

13 Aug 2010

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NAC to deliver education program on asthma management for youth

Guided Therapeutics second-quarter service revenue increases to $0.8 million

CLC bio, PSSC Labs announce new turnkey solution for full-genome assembly and analysis

Aeolus completes $1.0M financing to initiate human clinical studies of AEOL 10150 for cancer

Stanley awards $15 million to provide operation, infrastructure support for Nationwide Health Information Network

Interleukin Genetics second-quarter net loss from continuing operations decreases to $1.9 million

U-M dentistry agrees to use Interleukin's PST test for gum disease clinical study

Sandata announces acquisition of Medical Management Technology Group's customer base

Peter Rullan offers Pixel Perfect skin treatment on Pixel CO2 laser purchase

BioSante second-quarter net loss increases to $10.8 million

ARMC completes system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow technology

CPF urges people to consider clinical trials for pulmonary fibrosis

Severe inflammatory response to initial UTI causes bladder damage: Research

Mass. docs will soon track patients who abuse prescription drugs; Wis. Catholic Church employees now eligible for birth control

Exposure to immune proteins during pregnancy increases risk for schizophrenia in offspring

Clearstone Central Laboratories announces strategic global collaboration with LabCorp

Trimeris second-quarter royalty revenue decreases to $1.6 million

New criteria by ACR for early diagnosis, treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

HIV infected injection drug users likely to have kidney disease: Study

The Australian examines development of low-cost water purifiers by Indian companies

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