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Haitian President to meet with Obama as long-term rebuilding plans take shape

Haitian President Rene Preval is expected to meet with President Barack Obama Wednesday in the U.S. to ask for "billions of dollars to rebuild" Haiti, Agence France-Presse reports.

9 Mar 2010

Consumer Watchdog calls for national freeze on health insurance rates and rate regulation

Consumer Watchdog called on President Obama to impose a national freeze on health insurance rates before health reform takes effect to protect consumers from premium hikes like the 39% increase recently announced by Anthem Blue Cross in California. The rate freeze is one of five tools Consumer Watchdog urged the president to include as part of his proposed fixes to the Senate health care bill.

9 Mar 2010

RepRegen's Strontium-based bioactive glass platform encourages osteoblast cell activity and proliferation

RepRegen™, the ‘smart biomaterials’ company previously known as BioCeramic Therapeutics, announced today that data from an in vitro study has demonstrated that its patented Strontium-based bioactive glass platform promotes osteoblast cell activity and proliferation. If in vivo studies, which are currently underway, demonstrate similar results, then RepRegen believes its platform has the potential to significantly improve the repair and regeneration of hard-tissue, such as bone.

9 Mar 2010

Gannett offers promotional support to ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers to help military members and veterans

Gannett is offering promotional support to ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, the No. 1 dental implant provider in the U.S., to help current members of the military and military veterans who have developed dental problems related to their service.

9 Mar 2010

Herceptin as add-on to standard chemotherapy for gastric cancer earns Decision Resources' gold standard status

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, for the treatment of gastric cancer, Roche/Genentech/ Chugai's Herceptin as an add-on to standard chemotherapy earns Decision Resources' proprietary clinical gold standard status in 2013, following its approval for the first-line treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive gastric cancer in 2010.

9 Mar 2010

Abused children more likely to suffer abdominal pain and nausea

Children who have been abused psychologically, physically or sexually are more likely to suffer unexplained abdominal pain and nausea or vomiting than children who have not been abused, a study led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers concludes.

9 Mar 2010

MDS ends strategic repositioning with divestiture of MDS Pharma Services Early Stage business

MDS Inc., a leading provider of products and services to the global health sciences markets, today announced that it has completed the divestiture of its MDS Pharma Services Early Stage business.

9 Mar 2010

Chicago Female Condom Campaign: Educating women about HIV/AIDS and FC2 Female Condom

The Female Health Company is supporting the launch of a social marketing campaign in Chicago that will educate women about HIV/AIDS and boost awareness, availability, and access to the FC2 Female Condom®, the only FDA approved woman-initiated HIV prevention method currently available.

9 Mar 2010

Positive results from INSYS Therapeutics' phase III trial for Fentanyl SL Spray

INSYS Therapeutics, Inc. announces positive results from the pivotal phase III efficacy trial for patients utilizing the Fentanyl Sublingual Spray technology to treat breakthrough cancer pain. All primary and secondary endpoints were achieved in the study, and the drug is the first product to ever show statistically significant pain relief when measuring the summary of pain intensity difference at five minutes in a phase III breakthrough cancer pain trial using Fentanyl.

9 Mar 2010

BIO-key International's accuracy improves by 23% on DHS2 Dataset

BIO-key International, Inc., a leader in finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced that in the recent test results published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), BIO-key's accuracy improved by a remarkable 23% on the DHS2 Dataset.

9 Mar 2010

Well-characterized molecular alterations of sarcomas make them ideal models for developing new therapies

New breakthrough treatments for the most common cancers could soon come from cutting-edge research into some of the world's rarest tumors.

9 Mar 2010

Study suggests early warning signs for autism spectrum disorders within families

A new study suggests a trend toward developing hyperactivity among typically developing elementary-school-aged siblings of autistic preschoolers and supports the notion that mothers of young, autistic children experience more depression and stress than mothers with typically developing children.

9 Mar 2010

Usage of gonadotropins in assisted reproductive technologies significantly improves outcomes

The U.S. infertility specialty has empirically incorporated greater amounts of human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) into stimulation protocols, according to a new review article, "Gonadotropins in the Treatment of Infertility" by George T. Koulianos, MD, published in a recent issue of US Obstetrics & Gynecology, supported by an educational grant from Ferring Pharmaceuticals. The article reviews the wealth of clinical evidence supporting this trend, and demonstrates how the use of gonadotropins in the treatment of infertility, especially in assisted reproductive technologies, has significantly improved outcomes.

9 Mar 2010

Positive results from international study of Oncotype DX breast cancer RS

Genomic Health, Inc. today announced the publication of positive results from a large international study which demonstrated that the Oncotype DX® breast cancer Recurrence Score® (RS) result is a significant independent predictor of distant recurrence in both node-negative and node-positive, hormone receptor-positive, postmenopausal breast cancer patients who are treated with either anastrozole or tamoxifen.

9 Mar 2010

Comparative study reveals no clinical advantages of mobile bearing knee systems over fixed bearing knee systems

Stryker Corporation's Orthopaedics' division today announced at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Conference that its recent FDA-monitored Investigational Device Exemption study found no statistical difference in clinical outcomes between its mobile bearing and traditional fixed bearing knee systems. In contrast, Stryker continues to be very pleased with the success of its fixed bearing Triathlon Knee System with X3 Advanced Bearing Technology, which offers significant advantages over mobile bearing knees on wear rates and overall value.

9 Mar 2010

Weight and risk for diabetes decrease for people in communities where fast food prices increase: Study

A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where fast food prices increased.

9 Mar 2010

Obesity - Body's effort to protect organs from lipids' toxic effects

The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome-insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke-are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th issue of the Cell Press publication Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, not in the way you probably think they are.

9 Mar 2010

Gender inequality killing millions of women in Asia, report finds

"Nearly 100 million women across Asia have 'disappeared' because of a huge and growing gender gap that has fatally deprived them of access to health care and food and has led to widespread abortions of female fetuses, according to a U.N. report released Monday," the Associated Press reports.

9 Mar 2010

Edward Hospital: ER wait times available through text message, online and phone

Edward Hospital is among the first hospitals in the country to make Emergency Room wait times available via text message, online and by phone.

9 Mar 2010

New reservoir for hidden HIV-infected cells identified

University of Michigan scientists have identified a new reservoir for hidden HIV-infected cells that can serve as a factory for new infections. The findings, which appear online March 7 in Nature Medicine, indicate a new target for curing the disease so those infected with the virus may someday no longer rely on AIDS drugs for a lifetime.

9 Mar 2010

Medical News

Haitian President to meet with Obama as long-term rebuilding plans take shape

Consumer Watchdog calls for national freeze on health insurance rates and rate regulation

RepRegen's Strontium-based bioactive glass platform encourages osteoblast cell activity and proliferation

Gannett offers promotional support to ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers to help military members and veterans

Herceptin as add-on to standard chemotherapy for gastric cancer earns Decision Resources' gold standard status

Abused children more likely to suffer abdominal pain and nausea

MDS ends strategic repositioning with divestiture of MDS Pharma Services Early Stage business

Chicago Female Condom Campaign: Educating women about HIV/AIDS and FC2 Female Condom

Positive results from INSYS Therapeutics' phase III trial for Fentanyl SL Spray

BIO-key International's accuracy improves by 23% on DHS2 Dataset

Well-characterized molecular alterations of sarcomas make them ideal models for developing new therapies

Study suggests early warning signs for autism spectrum disorders within families

Usage of gonadotropins in assisted reproductive technologies significantly improves outcomes

Positive results from international study of Oncotype DX breast cancer RS

Comparative study reveals no clinical advantages of mobile bearing knee systems over fixed bearing knee systems

Weight and risk for diabetes decrease for people in communities where fast food prices increase: Study

Obesity - Body's effort to protect organs from lipids' toxic effects

Gender inequality killing millions of women in Asia, report finds

Edward Hospital: ER wait times available through text message, online and phone

New reservoir for hidden HIV-infected cells identified

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

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