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Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care receives $2.8M to extend cancer research

The Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care is the recipient of $2.8 million from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to expand cancer research.

22 Apr 2010

Columbia Laboratories' net revenues from US progesterone sales for first-quarter up 36%

Columbia Laboratories, Inc. today announced preliminary results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010.

22 Apr 2010

Alexion Pharmaceuticals reports total revenues of $117.6M from net product sales of Soliris

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010.

22 Apr 2010

Cancers deficient in ASS enzyme allow ADI-PEG 20 to inhibit cancer cell growth

Polaris Group scientists and university collaborators reported at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), that a number of different cancers have a deficiency in a specific enzyme, argininosuccinate synthetase (ASS), which allows pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG 20) to inhibit cancer cell growth.

22 Apr 2010

Study uses new BL-DMAC method to measure PAC levels in cranberry products

Natural compounds in cranberries are linked to the prevention of urinary tract infections (UTIs) but inconsistencies in methods currently used commercially to measure levels can result in the over- or under-estimation of potency levels, leaving product manufacturers and consumers without good data. A study published today in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture outlines a new, commercially viable method of measuring these compounds.

22 Apr 2010

Life sciences companies shifting away from traditional document management systems to emerging ECC solutions

Virtify, Inc., today announced the availability of a new IDC Health Insights study titled "Managing Paper at Its Roots: Extending Beyond Document Management to Enterprise Content Compliance." The new IDC Health Insights study, which was commissioned by Virtify, shows a growing trend in the life sciences industry away from traditional document management systems to emerging Enterprise Content Compliance (ECC) solutions.

22 Apr 2010

Los Angeles slum housing health crisis

Over three hundred community members, stakeholders, and public health workers joined Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas for a People's Hearing on Slum Housing and the unveiling of a position paper documenting the health crisis related to slum housing in Los Angeles.

22 Apr 2010

American action films continue to portray female heroines as weaker sex

These have the potential to influence a young viewing audience* and their ideas about gender and violence. Her study is published in Springer's journal Sex Roles.

22 Apr 2010

Human lymphocytes produce hepcidin that regulate iron levels in the body: Study

For some years now a small group of scientists have been pioneering a revolutionary idea - that the vertebrate immune system could have a role in the regulation of iron in the body. And now, a work soon to be published in the journal Immunology, shows that human lymphocytes (white blood cells) actually produce hepcidin, the most important protein in the regulation of iron levels in the body.

22 Apr 2010

RCPSG's Faculty of Travel Medicine selects Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease as official journal

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, in partnership with the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, announces that Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease has been chosen to become the official journal of RCPSG's Faculty of Travel Medicine.

22 Apr 2010

IL-10 Gene Therapy helps repair damaged lungs found unfit for transplant

Promising research brings hope for the almost two thousand lung transplant candidates who currently make up The United Network for Organ Sharing's (UNOS) wait list. A new technique that uses gene therapy to help repair damaged lungs previously found unfit for transplant shows promise for addressing the critical shortage of healthy donor organs.

22 Apr 2010

Pharmaceutical industry faces rapidly changing future: Pharma CI Conference

The pharmaceutical industry finds itself facing a rapidly changing future in light of the health care bill and the evolving pharmaceutical marketplace. There's never been a time when demand has been so intense for the most accurate and up-to-date information about the pharmaceutical industry, especially pharmaceutical competitive intelligence.

22 Apr 2010

Mild Cognitive Impairment Symposium is now 'Symposium on Early Alzheimer's Disease'

This year, the Miami Beach symposium kicked off on a rainy Friday with a new name and a new focus on biomarkers. For seven years, the meeting has been called the Mild Cognitive Impairment Symposium, but that changed this year to the Symposium on Early Alzheimer's Disease. The change comes as a nod to a recent and dramatic shift in how Alzheimer disease is perceived, and what researchers increasingly see as the most promising angle of attack for future therapeutics.

22 Apr 2010

Increase in mammographic density associated with increase of breast cancer in EPT study participants

An increase in breast density appears to be the culprit behind an increase of breast cancer found in women participating in the estrogen and progestin therapy study, a part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). That is the finding of a new WHI analysis led by Celia Byrne, PhD, assistant professor at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and presented during the AACR 101st Annual Meeting 2010 in Washington, DC.

22 Apr 2010

Researchers receive grant to help people living with mental illness tackle tobacco dependence

Researchers at The University of Nottingham have won government funding to improve the services which help people living with serious mental illness to tackle their tobacco dependence.

22 Apr 2010

Larger sized intravenous anesthetic diazepam incubated in isolation with Aβ peptide does not promote aggregation

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions of people worldwide and has become a major global concern. Uncontrolled oligomerization (aggregation) of Aβ peptide is the hallmark of AD and it is believed to be causally related to AD pathomechanism.

22 Apr 2010

KSERA research project focuses on COPD patients

To enable elderly people to live at home as long as possible, a group of European researchers, coordinated from Eindhoven University of Technology, will link robots and 'smart homes'. The robot, a 'sensible family friend', will ensure that home is a nice place to stay. And that patients do the right things.

22 Apr 2010

A-Life Medical signs exclusive agreement with Drs. Hill & Thomas

A-Life Medical, Inc., the pioneer and leading provider of computer-assisted coding products and services to the healthcare industry, announced today the forging of an exclusive agreement with the oldest and largest independently owned radiology group in Ohio, Cleveland-based Drs. Hill & Thomas Co.

22 Apr 2010

Need for better understanding potential dangers of prescription painkillers

In response to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine called "Hospitalizations for Poisoning by Prescription Opioids, Sedatives, and Tranquilizers," the Waismann Method of Opiate Detoxification is urging Americans to take measures to better understand and recognize the potential dangers and addictive nature of prescription painkillers.

22 Apr 2010

Removable methyl groups on specific genes of autistic individuals that led to gene silencing identified

A new study by researchers at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences' Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology raises hope that autism may be more easily diagnosed and that its effects may be more reversible than previously thought.

22 Apr 2010

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Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care receives $2.8M to extend cancer research

Columbia Laboratories' net revenues from US progesterone sales for first-quarter up 36%

Alexion Pharmaceuticals reports total revenues of $117.6M from net product sales of Soliris

Cancers deficient in ASS enzyme allow ADI-PEG 20 to inhibit cancer cell growth

Study uses new BL-DMAC method to measure PAC levels in cranberry products

Life sciences companies shifting away from traditional document management systems to emerging ECC solutions

Los Angeles slum housing health crisis

American action films continue to portray female heroines as weaker sex

Human lymphocytes produce hepcidin that regulate iron levels in the body: Study

RCPSG's Faculty of Travel Medicine selects Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease as official journal

IL-10 Gene Therapy helps repair damaged lungs found unfit for transplant

Pharmaceutical industry faces rapidly changing future: Pharma CI Conference

Mild Cognitive Impairment Symposium is now 'Symposium on Early Alzheimer's Disease'

Increase in mammographic density associated with increase of breast cancer in EPT study participants

Researchers receive grant to help people living with mental illness tackle tobacco dependence

Larger sized intravenous anesthetic diazepam incubated in isolation with Aβ peptide does not promote aggregation

KSERA research project focuses on COPD patients

A-Life Medical signs exclusive agreement with Drs. Hill & Thomas

Need for better understanding potential dangers of prescription painkillers

Removable methyl groups on specific genes of autistic individuals that led to gene silencing identified

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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