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Orexo partner submits NDA for cancer pain drug Abstral in Japan

Orexo AB today announces that its partner Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. has submitted the New Drug Application (NDA) in Japan for the cancer pain drug KW-2246 (Abstral).

25 Feb 2010

Brain implant helps scientists in determining link between brainwave patterns and attention

A paralyzed patient implanted with a brain-computer interface device has allowed scientists to determine the relationship between brain waves and attention.

25 Feb 2010

MicroTransponder awarded $2.6M NINDS SBIR FastTrack U44 grant, announces $7M Series B funding

MicroTransponder, Inc., a privately-held medical device company, has just announced a $7 Million Series B round of funding. MicroTransponder is developing a wireless neurostimulation platform for the treatment of chronic pain and other neurological indications.

25 Feb 2010

Identification of gaps in accessing stroke centers cuts down the deadly toll of stroke

When stroke strikes, choking off blood supply to the brain, every minute counts: Nearly 2 million neurons die each minute a stroke is left untreated, making it a race to recognize symptoms so that lifesaving "clot-busting" drugs can be administered.

25 Feb 2010

Rapamycin may hold promise for Alzheimer's disease

Rapamycin, a drug that keeps the immune system from attacking transplanted organs, may have another exciting use: fighting Alzheimer's disease.

25 Feb 2010

Eclipsys, Microsoft sign health information technology alliance

Eclipsys Corp.® and Microsoft Corp. today announced they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology (HIT) efficiencies. Breaking with the tradition of closed, proprietary systems, the two companies will offer the market tightly integrated health IT solutions designed to make it easy for physicians, nurses and hospital administrators to gain insights from data aggregated from multiple clinical and financial systems across the hospital.

25 Feb 2010

Anti drinking campaigns can increase alcohol abuse

Public service advertising campaigns that use guilt or shame to warn against alcohol abuse can actually have the reverse effect, spurring increased drinking among target audiences, according to new research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

25 Feb 2010

GlaxoSmithKline responds to Staff Report on GlaxoSmithKline and the Diabetes Drug Avandia

Today, GlaxoSmithKline responded to the recently released Senate Committee on Finance's January 2010 "Staff Report on GlaxoSmithKline and the Diabetes Drug Avandia" (the "Staff Report").

25 Feb 2010

Scientists one step closer to innovative drug delivery

A team of scientists led by Dr Simon Richardson at the University of Greenwich has got a step closer to one of the holy grails of drug delivery.

25 Feb 2010

Ecolab signs strategic cooperation agreement with Belimed to provide cleaning solutions for hospitals

Ecolab Inc. today announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Belimed Inc. to provide optimized cleaning solutions for hospital sterile processing departments.

25 Feb 2010

Mariner to present HAI controlling dashboard at 2010 Microsoft Health User Group Exchange

Mariner, an industry-leading business intelligence, performance management and analytics solutions provider, will present an exciting new data-driven dashboard at the Microsoft Health User Group Exchange 2010 taking place during HIMSS10 at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, February 28th. Designed to help the medical center’s infection control practitioner’s control HAIs, the Dashboard has been the subject of recent POC activity at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC).

25 Feb 2010

New data shows Valortim antibody enhances human T cell response to B. anthracis

PharmAthene, Inc., a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced today that new data from the Company's Valortim® anthrax anti-toxin program were presented at the 8th Annual ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting, held in Baltimore, Maryland, February 21-24, 2010.

25 Feb 2010

AAJ says healthcare reform should improve safety, not restrict rights of patients

As President Obama and Congressional leaders prepare for tomorrow's health care summit, the American Association for Justice (AAJ) is today reminding lawmakers to remember the 98,000 patients killed every year by preventable medical errors and how restricting their legal rights will not fix America's broken health care system.

25 Feb 2010

Fisher Wallace Cranial Stimulator prescribed to patients suffering from depression, anxiety and insomnia

Fisher Wallace Laboratories today announced that two psychiatry professors at Columbia University, Dr. Richard Brown and Dr. Andres San Martin, have prescribed the Fisher Wallace Cranial Stimulator to more than 250 patients suffering from depression, anxiety and insomnia.

25 Feb 2010

Increase in anti-Apo A-I, anti-HDL and anti-CRP may lead to atherosclerosis in SLE patients

A study by researchers in Australia and the United Kingdom suggests that autoantibodies to fat binding proteins significantly increase in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with active disease. This increase in anti-apolipoprotein (anti-Apo A-I), anti-high-density lipoprotein (anti-HDL), and anti-C-reactive protein (anti-CRP) may contribute to the development of atherosclerosis in SLE patients, placing them at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).

25 Feb 2010

Chilean hospital's early use of antiviral treatment and aggressive measures helped reduce H1N1 cases

A Chilean hospital's early use of antiviral treatment in influenza patients and other aggressive measures helped reduce the number of severe H1N1 cases and related deaths. Those are the findings of a new study, now available online (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/650750), published in the March 15, 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

25 Feb 2010

MHN forms Men's Health Caucus to improve health and well-being of men

Men's Health Network is pleased to announce the formation of a Men's Health Caucus in official relations with the American Public Health Association. As an active participant of the APHA Annual Meeting for many years we have seen growing interest and excitement generated around the need and desire to form a Men's Health Caucus and we are happy to see it come to fruition.

25 Feb 2010

Poll: Americans' health reform fears eased in January

With President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in limbo, Americans' fears about its effect on them eased in January, according to a poll released as the president tries to revive sweeping Democratic legislation," The Associated Press/MSNBC reports.

25 Feb 2010

Nevirapine taken to protect fetus from HIV should be avoided for one year after childbirth, say researchers

Women given the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention drug nevirapine to protect their fetus should not use an HIV-drug regimen that contains nevirapine for at least one year after childbirth, say researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

25 Feb 2010

Inverseon comments on LABAs and INV102CR drugs

Inverseon, Inc. (http://www.inverseon.com) comments on Long Acting Beta-Agonists (LABAs) and INV102CR.

25 Feb 2010

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Orexo partner submits NDA for cancer pain drug Abstral in Japan

Brain implant helps scientists in determining link between brainwave patterns and attention

MicroTransponder awarded $2.6M NINDS SBIR FastTrack U44 grant, announces $7M Series B funding

Identification of gaps in accessing stroke centers cuts down the deadly toll of stroke

Rapamycin may hold promise for Alzheimer's disease

Eclipsys, Microsoft sign health information technology alliance

Anti drinking campaigns can increase alcohol abuse

GlaxoSmithKline responds to Staff Report on GlaxoSmithKline and the Diabetes Drug Avandia

Scientists one step closer to innovative drug delivery

Ecolab signs strategic cooperation agreement with Belimed to provide cleaning solutions for hospitals

Mariner to present HAI controlling dashboard at 2010 Microsoft Health User Group Exchange

New data shows Valortim antibody enhances human T cell response to B. anthracis

AAJ says healthcare reform should improve safety, not restrict rights of patients

Fisher Wallace Cranial Stimulator prescribed to patients suffering from depression, anxiety and insomnia

Increase in anti-Apo A-I, anti-HDL and anti-CRP may lead to atherosclerosis in SLE patients

Chilean hospital's early use of antiviral treatment and aggressive measures helped reduce H1N1 cases

MHN forms Men's Health Caucus to improve health and well-being of men

Poll: Americans' health reform fears eased in January

Nevirapine taken to protect fetus from HIV should be avoided for one year after childbirth, say researchers

Inverseon comments on LABAs and INV102CR drugs

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