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ASPIRE 2010 focuses on A.R.T. issues

Infertility, defined as the failure to conceive after 12 months or more of regular, unprotected intercourse, may affect as many as 15 percent of couples around the world including Asia. Like other countries, China's infertility rate is on the rise increasing from 3 percent to 15 percent in the past 20 years. It is estimated that at least 40 million Chinese couples have difficulty in having children or are actually infertile.

7 Apr 2010

BeaconEquity.com releases investment report on Cell Therapeutics

BeaconEquity.com announces an investment report featuring biotech company Cell Therapeutics Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and pertinent industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

7 Apr 2010

Updates from Phase I/IIa clinical trial of DIABECELL treatment in insulin-dependent diabetics

Living Cell Technologies Limited, a global company pioneering the development of a cell implant to treat diabetes, today provided a penultimate update regarding the three-year follow up of its Phase I/IIa clinical trial in Russia of its DIABECELL® treatment in insulin-dependent diabetics.

7 Apr 2010

MAP Pharmaceuticals to present additional data from FREEDOM-301 Phase 3 trial of LEVADEX at AAN meeting

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the Company will present additional post-hoc analyses from the FREEDOM-301 Phase 3 trial of its investigational LEVADEX™ orally inhaled migraine therapy in two patient subpopulations that are often difficult to treat with current triptan migraine therapies: menstrual migraine and migraine with allodynia.

7 Apr 2010

Jazzercise, Back in the Swing USA partner to promote breast cancer survivorship programs

Jazzercise, the world's leading dance fitness program, is proud to announce its partnership with Back in the Swing USA®, a grassroots nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing awareness, access and financial support for breast cancer survivorship programs and academic medical research in the field of breast cancer survivorship.

7 Apr 2010

Researchers develop new mouse model of VUR to study chronic kidney disease in children

Kidney damage associated with chronic reflux is the fourth leading cause of chronic kidney disease and is the most common cause of severe hypertension in children. Doctors and researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed a new mouse model of vesicoureteral reflux, a common childhood condition that can lead to chronic kidney disease in children.

7 Apr 2010

Raptor Pharmaceutical engages The Trout Group for strategic advisory and investor relations services

Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp., today announced the engagement of The Trout Group LLC, a leading New York-based investor relations and strategic advisory firm. The Trout Group will work with Raptor to facilitate the Company's exposure to the international capital markets and coordinate their communications with investors worldwide.

7 Apr 2010

IMGG's revenues decrease 28% for year ended December 31, 2009: StockPreacher.com

StockPreacher.com announces an investment report featuring Imaging3 Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

7 Apr 2010

East Orange General Hospital to implement Streamline Health's document workflow solutions

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. a leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced that East Orange General Hospital in East Orange, N.J., will implement Streamline Health's document workflow solutions integrated with GE Centricity® Enterprise clinical information solution. Through this integrated solution, East Orange General Hospital looks to enhance their health information management processes, boost productivity and ultimately, improve patient care.

7 Apr 2010

Orchid Cellmark acquires paternity and immigration DNA testing business unit of Strand Analytical Laboratories

Orchid Cellmark Inc., a leading international provider of identity DNA testing services, today announced it has acquired the paternity and immigration DNA testing business unit of Strand Analytical Laboratories, LLC.

7 Apr 2010

Cepheid to launch GeneXpert Infinity-48 in Europe at 20th ECCMID

Cepheid will initiate European launch of its newest addition to the GeneXpert® family of molecular diagnostic testing systems, the GeneXpert Infinity-48, at the 20th annual European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Vienna, Austria. The GeneXpert Infinity-48 System is the world's first and only fully-automated, random-access system designed for management of the entire molecular testing workflow — from sample data, cartridge loading and unloading, to final reporting of test results and disposal of cartridges.

7 Apr 2010

First Edition: April 7, 2010

Today's headlines highlight developments regarding the implementation of the new health law as well as health developments from the state level.

7 Apr 2010

Prestige Brands provides update on 9 ¼% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012 tender offer

Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. previously announced that, on March 10, 2010, its wholly-owned subsidiary Prestige Brands, Inc. commenced a cash tender offer for any and all of its 9 ¼% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012, of which $126 million aggregate principal amount were outstanding at that time.

7 Apr 2010

Fewer babies face health risks of early birth

The nation's preterm birth rate dropped for the second consecutive year.

7 Apr 2010

Health care reform: Clarification for seniors

From the time presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt first discussed health care reform in 1912, the topic has been a precedent-setting issue in the U.S. The 2010 passage of health care legislation is no different, but has many Americans in a quandary about how it will affect them. This is especially true of senior citizens.

7 Apr 2010

HRV devices reduce respiratory symptoms in children: Study

Houses today are so well sealed that they can trap humidity and pollutants indoors as a result of insufficient ventilation. Recently, a team of Canadian scientists led by Dr. Tom Kovesi, a pediatric respirologist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Canada, performed a randomized double-blind, placebo controlled trial to determine whether use of heat recovery ventilators would increase home ventilation and therefore reduce the risk of lower respiratory tract illness in young children.

7 Apr 2010

DNA barcoding-sequencing of gene in sand flies identifies two species carrying Leishmania naiffi

In the first survey of sand flies in Panama to use genetic barcoding, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Gorgas Memorial Laboratories identified 20 sand fly species from Barro Colorado Island. Two species carried Leishmania naiffi, a parasite that causes cutaneous leishmaniasis: persistent, itchy skin lesions. Three species carried Wolbachia, a bacterial parasite of insects that could contribute to a strategy to control the flies and limit disease transmission.

7 Apr 2010

Updated report analyzing approval rates at FDA published

Sagient Research Systems, a leading publisher of independent research for the financial services, institutional investment and corporate intelligence communities, recently published an updated report analyzing approval rates at the U.S Food and Drug Administration. According to its research service, BioMedTracker, the rate of drugs that were approved by the FDA in 2008 and 2009 has remained close to the historical low seen in 2007.

7 Apr 2010

Study demonstrates potential ability of Chronix serum DNA assays in diagnosis of breast cancer

Chronix Biomedical today announced publication of a study that supports the utility of its serum DNA blood tests to predict clinical status and monitor disease activity and response to treatment in multiple sclerosis (MS). Chronix Biomedical uses proprietary technology to identify disease-specific genetic fingerprints based on the circulating DNA that is released into the bloodstream by damaged and dying cells.

7 Apr 2010

CBOs implement proven HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention with adolescents

An approach designed to reduce HIV/STDs previously used exclusively by academic researchers has successfully been implemented by community-based organizations (CBOs), an important component in national strategies to curtail the spread of HIV, meaning far more "at risk" youths can be reached.

7 Apr 2010

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ASPIRE 2010 focuses on A.R.T. issues

BeaconEquity.com releases investment report on Cell Therapeutics

Updates from Phase I/IIa clinical trial of DIABECELL treatment in insulin-dependent diabetics

MAP Pharmaceuticals to present additional data from FREEDOM-301 Phase 3 trial of LEVADEX at AAN meeting

Jazzercise, Back in the Swing USA partner to promote breast cancer survivorship programs

Researchers develop new mouse model of VUR to study chronic kidney disease in children

Raptor Pharmaceutical engages The Trout Group for strategic advisory and investor relations services

IMGG's revenues decrease 28% for year ended December 31, 2009: StockPreacher.com

East Orange General Hospital to implement Streamline Health's document workflow solutions

Orchid Cellmark acquires paternity and immigration DNA testing business unit of Strand Analytical Laboratories

Cepheid to launch GeneXpert Infinity-48 in Europe at 20th ECCMID

First Edition: April 7, 2010

Prestige Brands provides update on 9 ¼% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012 tender offer

Fewer babies face health risks of early birth

Health care reform: Clarification for seniors

HRV devices reduce respiratory symptoms in children: Study

DNA barcoding-sequencing of gene in sand flies identifies two species carrying Leishmania naiffi

Updated report analyzing approval rates at FDA published

Study demonstrates potential ability of Chronix serum DNA assays in diagnosis of breast cancer

CBOs implement proven HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention with adolescents

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