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Akela announces the outcomes of two legal cases involving former employees

Akela a leader in the development of therapeutics for the treatment of pain and its wholly owned subsidiary, PharmaForm, a leader in the contract pharmaceutical development and manufacturing business, today announced the outcomes of two legal cases involving former employees.

4 Feb 2010

Health Canada accepts AbstralTM New Drug Submission for review

Orexo AB today confirms that its partner, ProStrakan Group plc has announced that the New Drug Submission made by their Canadian partner, Paladin Labs Inc., for AbstralTM has been accepted for review by Health Canada, the Canadian Government Department with responsibility for public health.

4 Feb 2010

New research may help adopt acupuncture as a treatment option for NHS patients

Important new research about the effects of acupuncture on the brain may provide an understanding of the complex mechanisms of acupuncture and could lead to a wider acceptability of the treatment.

4 Feb 2010

Results from three phase two studies show the effectiveness of Tanezumab

Tanezumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that targets nerve-growth factor, reduced pain in three common pain conditions, according to the results from three phase two studies presented today in a single poster at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th Annual Meeting.

4 Feb 2010

VaxGen-OXiGENE merger not approved

VaxGen, Inc. announced preliminary results of the vote from its special stockholder meeting held on February 3, 2010.

4 Feb 2010

Toshiba America Medical Systems' Viamo laptop ultrasound system receives FDA clearance

Designed to meet the needs of today’s hospitals by combining portability with high-end radiology features, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.’s new ViamoTM laptop ultrasound system has received FDA clearance.

4 Feb 2010

Closing funding gap for federal viral hepatitis education, screening and surveillance programs stops liver cancer

With most liver cancer caused by undetected or untreated hepatitis B or C viral infection, the 22,000 new cases of liver cancer that are diagnosed each year could be dramatically reduced if Congress took decisive action to close the funding gap for federal viral hepatitis education, screening, and surveillance programs, the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) said today.

4 Feb 2010

NIH awards CYCORE project for cancer research $2.6M

Nearly four decades after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Cancer," the disease still claims the lives of 560,000 Americans every year, despite an annual expenditure of $5 billion by the U.S. government on research to battle it.

4 Feb 2010

First annual Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum in Winston-Salem

The Regenerative Medicine Foundation today announced the first annual Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum to be held April 6-8, 2010 at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem.

4 Feb 2010

High school pitchers should do low-weight, high-repetition exercises to avoid injuries

"A large number of high school athletes take the winter off and just go out and start throwing as hard as they can," said Matt Holland, a physical therapist with The Methodist Center for Sports Medicine in Houston. "The problem is that their arms are not in baseball shape and they open themselves up to serious shoulder and elbow injuries."

4 Feb 2010

State of Michigan keeps lethal hospital infections in check

The state of Michigan, which used a five-step checklist developed at Johns Hopkins to virtually eliminate bloodstream infections in its hospitals' intensive care units , has been able to keep the number of these common, costly and potentially lethal infections near zero — even three years after first adopting the standardized procedures. A report on the work is being published in the February 20 issue of BMJ (British Medical Journal).

4 Feb 2010

Mycobacterium avium infection can result in three different kinds of illness in humans

Through work carried out in connection with her PhD, Tone Bjordal Johansen has shown that Mycobacterium avium does not infect pigs via birds, as previously believed. M. avium can be divided into several subspecies, and the research shows that birds are infected by one particular subspecies, whereas pigs and humans are infected by another.

4 Feb 2010

New ‘smart coating’ enables safe surgical implants; prevents infections post surgery

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a "smart coating" that helps surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection.

4 Feb 2010

Older married female cancer survivors have added health problems

A recently published study from Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences found 245 older married women who survived cancer had more health problems as compared to a sample of 245 married women without cancer.

4 Feb 2010

Muscle Flex to issue 3,666,666 shares of restricted stock to Danny Alex for $110,000.00 investment

Muscle Flex Inc. (www.MuscleFlex.com) announced today that its CEO, Danny Alex, has made an additional investment of $110,000.00 into Muscle Flex Inc. by way of a direct investment for restricted stock at a share price of $0.03.

4 Feb 2010

Surgery pricing secrets: The challenges patients face

Patients are the losers in both the Democratic and Republican versions of the health care reform bills. Proposed health care reform won't help patients find out how much health care costs before they get care and many hospitals aren't set up to help.

4 Feb 2010

New way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers

Scientists have published the first report on a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers - the source of long-standing human health concerns - from migrating from one of the most widely used groups of plastics.

4 Feb 2010

Workplace violence, signs and prevention to be addressed at national audioconference

In theory, science research laboratories are always peaceful places, where pure knowledge is being pursued. However, in recent years some tragic episodes of workplace violence have disturbed this tranquility. Principal Investigators have had to become more alert to head off these distressing, though uncommon, possibilities.

4 Feb 2010

Proposals to reduce tax deductions for charitable donations will harm fundraising for nonprofit hospitals

President Obama's budget proposals to reduce tax deductions for charitable donations and freeze discretionary spending will harm fundraising for nonprofit hospitals by thwarting giving by wealthy donors and drying up funds meant to help the poor and underinsured, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy whose members direct fundraising for some 2,200 hospitals and health care systems across the U.S. and Canada.

4 Feb 2010

Etch recipe allows engineers and product developers to design diamond devices

Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT) is making broadly available an etch recipe which enables engineers and product developers to reliably and affordably design micro devices and sensors out of diamond.

4 Feb 2010

Medical News

Akela announces the outcomes of two legal cases involving former employees

Health Canada accepts AbstralTM New Drug Submission for review

New research may help adopt acupuncture as a treatment option for NHS patients

Results from three phase two studies show the effectiveness of Tanezumab

VaxGen-OXiGENE merger not approved

Toshiba America Medical Systems' Viamo laptop ultrasound system receives FDA clearance

Closing funding gap for federal viral hepatitis education, screening and surveillance programs stops liver cancer

NIH awards CYCORE project for cancer research $2.6M

First annual Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum in Winston-Salem

High school pitchers should do low-weight, high-repetition exercises to avoid injuries

State of Michigan keeps lethal hospital infections in check

Mycobacterium avium infection can result in three different kinds of illness in humans

New ‘smart coating’ enables safe surgical implants; prevents infections post surgery

Older married female cancer survivors have added health problems

Muscle Flex to issue 3,666,666 shares of restricted stock to Danny Alex for $110,000.00 investment

Surgery pricing secrets: The challenges patients face

New way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers

Workplace violence, signs and prevention to be addressed at national audioconference

Proposals to reduce tax deductions for charitable donations will harm fundraising for nonprofit hospitals

Etch recipe allows engineers and product developers to design diamond devices

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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