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Sinai Hospital of Baltimore launches Diabetes Resource Center

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore takes an innovative approach to help people with diabetes mange their disease by opening the Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai. Participants who attend the center learn how to set and achieve successful medical and lifestyle goals with practical advice and emotional support.

3 Dec 2009

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics options immunotherapy targeting CSCs using abnormal Notch and Numb pathways

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a biotechnology company that is focused on the development of novel immune-based cancer therapies, announced today that it has entered into an option agreement with The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center relating to an immunotherapy targeting cancer stem cells (CSCs) which has demonstrated in pre-clinical animal models significant abilities to target and destroy CSCs.

3 Dec 2009

Smoking cessation efforts attracted mixed results in Ohio's Appalachian region

In the Appalachian region of the country — where smoking rates are high, tobacco is often a cash crop and income and education levels are low — a smoking cessation effort led by non-medical professionals was successful in the short term, but quit rates trailed off in the long term.

3 Dec 2009

Breast Cancer Fund: Congress must enforce BPA ban in food and beverage containers

In the wake of the first evidence that American babies are born contaminated with a plastics chemical linked to birth defects and breast cancer, Congress must act immediately to protect infants and mothers.

3 Dec 2009

HHS Secretary announces plans to support innovative Beacon Community Program

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS’ National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced today plans to make available $235 million to support an innovative Beacon Community Program.

3 Dec 2009

Hennepin Regional Poison Center receives AAPCC accreditation

The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) has designated Hennepin Regional Poison Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota as an accredited poison control center - a major milestone for the center. The designation by the AAPCC places the Hennepin Regional Poison Center among 58 accredited poison centers in the United States.

3 Dec 2009

Interactive video presentation on corset trunkplasty surgery

Alexander P. Moya, M.D., Director of the Center for Weight Loss Body Contouring and Assistant Director of the Geisinger Center for Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery at Geisinger Medical Center (GMC), will deliver an interactive video presentation on his corset trunkplasty surgery in April 2010. This presentation will be made to a group of board-certified plastic surgeons at the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's annual Aesthetic Meeting in Washington, D.C.

3 Dec 2009

Despite declining smoking rates, U.S. obesity rates continue to rise

If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

3 Dec 2009

Association of Surgeons in Training affliates with International Journal of Surgery

Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce that the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) has affiliated with the International Journal of Surgery (IJS), an online-only peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of surgery.

3 Dec 2009

Generational and aging influences may have a major impact on future of eating

Each generation will make a distinctive mark on how and what Americans will be eating in 10 years, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. In its A Look into The Future of Eating report, NPD’s food industry market research finds that eating patterns over the next decade will be influenced by the behaviors that occur with aging, and the differences in preferences from one generation to another.

3 Dec 2009

Galapagos' multiple milestone achievement triggers cash payment of EUR 10.2 million

Galapagos NV announced today achievement of multiple milestones under its alliance agreement in rheumatoid arthritis. The milestones trigger a cash payment of EUR 10.2 million to Galapagos.

3 Dec 2009

Specially developed PACEM system installed at Max Planck Institute for Biophysics

PACEM is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) designed to image low-contrast biological specimens. It was specially developed and installed at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics (MPI-BP) by optical expert Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen and researchers from the Macromolecular Complexes excellence cluster in Frankfurt.

3 Dec 2009

Lung disease linked to the use of contaminated well water in a CPAP machine

Many people rely on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines as a safe and effective treatment for sleep apnea. But a new case report describes a rare complication—a lingering inflammatory disease of the lungs, apparently related to the use of contaminated well water in a CPAP machine. The report appears in the December Southern Medical Journal, official journal of the Southern Medical Association.

3 Dec 2009

Study: Affluent people more likely to undergo bowel cancer screening than deprived counterparts

Affluent people are 50 per cent more likely to take part in bowel cancer screening than their deprived counterparts, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer (BJC).

3 Dec 2009

Email security experts at Red Condor issue a warning about latest spam campaign

Email security experts at Red Condor today issued a warning about the latest spam campaign claiming to be from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and requesting that recipients complete a "Personal H1N1 Vaccination Profile."

3 Dec 2009

New study utilizes solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone

A new study using solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone paves the way for atomic-level explorations of how disease and aging affect bone.

3 Dec 2009

Exposure to secondhand smoke may increase breast cancer risk

Exposure to secondhand smoke for a prolonged period of time and in high quantity may increase the risk of breast cancer, even in women who never smoked cigarettes themselves.

3 Dec 2009

Lunasin may have important health benefits, two new studies report

Two new University of Illinois studies report that lunasin, a soy peptide often discarded in the waste streams of soy-processing plants, may have important health benefits that include fighting leukemia and blocking the inflammation that accompanies such chronic health conditions as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

3 Dec 2009

AstraZeneca and Targacept enter into agreement to develop and commercialize TC-5214

AstraZeneca and Targacept, Inc. today announced a collaboration and license agreement for the global development and commercialization of TC-5214, Targacept’s late-stage investigational product for major depressive disorder (MDD).

3 Dec 2009

Novel multi-analyte approach to develop urine-biomarker based diagnostic assay to be presented

Predictive Biosciences today announced that Company scientists will be presenting a novel multi-analyte approach to the development of a non-invasive, urine-biomarker based diagnostic assay during the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO).

3 Dec 2009

Medical News

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore launches Diabetes Resource Center

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics options immunotherapy targeting CSCs using abnormal Notch and Numb pathways

Smoking cessation efforts attracted mixed results in Ohio's Appalachian region

Breast Cancer Fund: Congress must enforce BPA ban in food and beverage containers

HHS Secretary announces plans to support innovative Beacon Community Program

Hennepin Regional Poison Center receives AAPCC accreditation

Interactive video presentation on corset trunkplasty surgery

Despite declining smoking rates, U.S. obesity rates continue to rise

Association of Surgeons in Training affliates with International Journal of Surgery

Generational and aging influences may have a major impact on future of eating

Galapagos' multiple milestone achievement triggers cash payment of EUR 10.2 million

Specially developed PACEM system installed at Max Planck Institute for Biophysics

Lung disease linked to the use of contaminated well water in a CPAP machine

Study: Affluent people more likely to undergo bowel cancer screening than deprived counterparts

Email security experts at Red Condor issue a warning about latest spam campaign

New study utilizes solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone

Exposure to secondhand smoke may increase breast cancer risk

Lunasin may have important health benefits, two new studies report

AstraZeneca and Targacept enter into agreement to develop and commercialize TC-5214

Novel multi-analyte approach to develop urine-biomarker based diagnostic assay to be presented

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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