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Patients with NAFLD have higher overall mortality rate, say researchers

Researchers from the Karolinska Institute determined that patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have a higher overall mortality rate compared with the general population.

28 Jan 2010

Budgetary freeze will impact over 5M Americans afflicted with chronic viral hepatitis

Ms. Lorren Sandt, Chair of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) issued the following statement in advance of the President's State of the Union Address. NVHR is a coalition of more than 150 public, private, and voluntary organizations dedicated to reducing the incidence of infection, morbidity, and mortality from chronic viral hepatitis that afflicts more than 5 million Americans:

28 Jan 2010

Polls find Americans want Obama to focus more on economy, less on health care

As President Barack Obama prepares to give his State of the Union address this evening, new polls show public support for congressional health bills is low, with a majority wanting more focus on the economy instead.

28 Jan 2010

PRA International enters into partnership agreement with Oncopartners and IBPC

PRA International, a leading Clinical Research Organization, announces it has entered into a partnership agreement with Oncopartners, a leading Latin American oncology development company, and its exclusive partner IBPC, a non-profit oncology research network comprised of Brazil's largest public oncology hospitals which collectively treat an estimated 140,000 new incidences of cancer annually.

28 Jan 2010

Children with cancer are treated with proton therapy at ProCure Proton Therapy Center

Children with cancer are now being accepted for treatment at the ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Oklahoma, where a wide range of tumors are treated with proton therapy, an alternative to X-ray radiation that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects.

28 Jan 2010

Pelosi on health reform: 'We will make every effort'

The Washington Post / Reuters: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said today that abandoning health care reform was not a possibility. "'Let's put it this way. The present (healthcare) system is unsustainable. We can no longer afford it ... We will make every effort to have a health care bill. But we will make progress, whatever it is, one way or the other, we will go forward with that'" (Maler, 1/27).

28 Jan 2010

African vaccine maker plans to increase production capacity sevenfold by 2013

Biovac Institute, a South African vaccine maker, said Monday that it is working with other major pharmaceutical firms to increase its annual capacity sevenfold to 35 million doses by 2013, Reuters reports.

28 Jan 2010

Antibiotic protects against noise-induced hearing loss in young mice

A type of antibiotic that can cause hearing loss in people has been found to paradoxically protect the ears when given in extended low doses in very young mice.

28 Jan 2010

Sepracor's STEDESA NDA: FDA extends PDUFA action date

Sepracor Inc. today announced that it has received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the agency now anticipates completing its review of the STEDESA™ (eslicarbazepine acetate) New Drug Application (NDA) on April 30, 2010, which is a three-month extension to the original Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date of January 30, 2010.

28 Jan 2010

Researchers develop PEG-POD tool for gene therapy

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have developed a new tool for gene therapy that significantly increases gene delivery to cells in the retina compared to other carriers and DNA alone, according to a study published in the January issue of The Journal of Gene Medicine.

28 Jan 2010

Epidemiological study shows Parkinson's disease is more common among whites and Hispanics

The largest epidemiological study of Parkinson's disease in the United States has found that the disease is more common in the Midwest and the Northeast and is twice as likely to strike whites and Hispanics as blacks and Asians.

28 Jan 2010

Obama's State of the Union address: LIVESTRONG CEO releases statement

Tonight, LIVESTRONG released the following statement from its President and CEO Doug Ulman, a three-time cancer survivor, regarding President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:

28 Jan 2010

State news: A doctor shortage in New Jersey, a plan to expand health care in Iowa and more

News outlets report on a health care expansion plan in Iowa, an outcry over a possible hospital deal in New York, the impending doctor shortage in New Jersey, and an increase in new HIV infections in Minnesota.

28 Jan 2010

Women experiencing early menopause could develop dementia at a younger age

Women experiencing an early onset of menopause could develop dementia at a younger age. Research by Tonnie Coppus of Erasmus MC has indicated this. She studied women with Down Syndrome, who are known to have an early onset of menopause. The

28 Jan 2010

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine awarded 6 DOD CDMRP grants for medical research

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded six Department of Defense (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) grants for innovative medical research. The grants, totaling nearly $2.8 million, will advance research in the field of breast cancer.

28 Jan 2010

Synygy, Health Market Science partner to market commercial analytics solutions for healthcare industry

Synygy Inc., the largest and most experienced provider of sales performance management solutions, and Health Market Science, the leading source of healthcare provider data and advanced analytics, have partnered to market joint sales compensation and commercial analytics solutions for the healthcare industry.

28 Jan 2010

Power-generating rubber films could harness natural body movements

Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.

28 Jan 2010

Teens who drink under their parents' watch have an elevated risk of developing alcohol-related problems

Parents who try to teach responsible drinking by letting their teenagers have alcohol at home may be well intentioned, but they may also be wrong, according to a new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

28 Jan 2010

Top pharmaceutical companies select CRi solutions for drug research and development

Injured veterans' caregivers face emotional, financial pressures

Caregivers of severely injured veterans and their families face emotional and financial pressures and difficulty accessing military medical care. USA Today reports on the "thousands of unpaid caregivers — parents, spouses, siblings and war buddies — helping veterans injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars get through each day.

28 Jan 2010

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Patients with NAFLD have higher overall mortality rate, say researchers

Budgetary freeze will impact over 5M Americans afflicted with chronic viral hepatitis

Polls find Americans want Obama to focus more on economy, less on health care

PRA International enters into partnership agreement with Oncopartners and IBPC

Children with cancer are treated with proton therapy at ProCure Proton Therapy Center

Pelosi on health reform: 'We will make every effort'

African vaccine maker plans to increase production capacity sevenfold by 2013

Antibiotic protects against noise-induced hearing loss in young mice

Sepracor's STEDESA NDA: FDA extends PDUFA action date

Researchers develop PEG-POD tool for gene therapy

Epidemiological study shows Parkinson's disease is more common among whites and Hispanics

Obama's State of the Union address: LIVESTRONG CEO releases statement

State news: A doctor shortage in New Jersey, a plan to expand health care in Iowa and more

Women experiencing early menopause could develop dementia at a younger age

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine awarded 6 DOD CDMRP grants for medical research

Synygy, Health Market Science partner to market commercial analytics solutions for healthcare industry

Power-generating rubber films could harness natural body movements

Teens who drink under their parents' watch have an elevated risk of developing alcohol-related problems

Top pharmaceutical companies select CRi solutions for drug research and development

Injured veterans' caregivers face emotional, financial pressures

AI in Healthcare: How generative tools are transforming clinical practice

The future of automation: Machine learning–driven hepatocyte and organoid counting

From street to lab: Advancing controlled substance testing with handheld Raman and FTIR

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