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First Edition: October 14, 2009

Today's headlines report on the Senate Finance Committee's historic vote on health overhaul legislation with Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, at the center of the action. But with the insurance industry emerging as a clear foe, what comes next?

14 Oct 2009

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation honors Greenberg Traurig attorney D. Porpoise Evans

D. Porpoise Evans, a litigation associate in the Miami office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig P.A., has been named among the "40 Under 40" outstanding lawyers of Miami-Dade County by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). The 40 lawyers will be honored at the CFF benefit dinner on November 20, 2009 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami.

14 Oct 2009

Global Bioenergies discovers synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene

Global Bioenergies, located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, has today announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals.

14 Oct 2009

Delegation from All-CABPA visits Sundia

A delegation from the Alliance of Chinese-American Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Associations (All-CABPA) visited Sundia in Shanghai's famous Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park on October 12.

14 Oct 2009

Climate change and health policy: Expert panel to guide health professionals in the run-up to Copenhagen

Join Ian Roberts, Mike Gill and Mala Rao for an examination of health policy in relation to climate change, both in the developed and developing world, and the crucial role that health professionals have to play in the run-up to Copenhagen. They will provide practical guidance on how to influence everything from international policy to community health strategies, and you will have the opportunity to have your questions answered by our expert panel.

14 Oct 2009

Roche and Genentech to discuss their radical collaborative business model at the Windhover Conference

Elsevier Business Intelligence and Windhover Conferences have announced a major addition to the lineup for their upcoming Therapeutic Area Partnerships event, Nov. 17-19 in Boston, MA. In Roche and Genentech: Understanding Their Collaborative Business Development Model, the two executives who designed and implemented the radical new collaborative business model will share exactly how they make this relationship work and the outlook for the business model in the future.

14 Oct 2009

New non-invasive technology to measure glucose levels in the human eye

New non-invasive technology designed to painlessly measure glucose levels in the human eye shows promise of one day replacing the finger-stick blood test, according to results of a pre-clinical study funded by Freedom Meditech, Inc.

14 Oct 2009

Women with breast cancer can improve their mental health through Transcendental Meditation technique

Women with breast cancer reduced stress and improved their mental health and emotional well being through the Transcendental Meditation technique, according to a new study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed Integrative Cancer Therapies (Vol. 8, No. 3: September 2009).

14 Oct 2009

GeckoSystems to discuss the CareBot's low cost differential drive locomotion system

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (PINKSHEETS: GCKO) (http://www.geckosystems.com/) announced today that during their first annual "Mobile Robots in Motion" conference November 4-5, 2009, attendees will be able to observe and discuss the CareBot's™ low cost differential drive locomotion system.

14 Oct 2009

Research scientists develop bioengineered treatment for targeting pancreatic cancer

Research scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, have developed a novel bioengineered treatment that has shown promise in targeting pancreatic cancer without causing damage to healthy noncancer cells, a typical problem of chemotherapy.

14 Oct 2009

Patients who are severely ill with H1N1 are at risk for developing PE, says study

Researchers utilizing computed tomography (CT) scans have found that patients with severe cases of the H1N1 virus are at risk for developing severe complications, including pulmonary emboli (PE), according to a study to be published online Oct. 14, 2009, in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The study will be published in the December issue of the AJR.

14 Oct 2009

Breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment

Epeius Biotechnologies (www.epeiusbiotech.com) confirms the first real breakthrough for pancreatic cancer seen in years; publishes a landmark report of tumor-targeted Rexin-G as stand-alone therapy in chemotherapy-resistant pancreatic cancer.

14 Oct 2009

University of North Carolina awarded grant to continue research on rare disease-causing gene mutations

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a five-year, $6.2 million renewal grant to continue its work as part of the National Institutes of Health's Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN).

14 Oct 2009

Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House commemorates 35th anniversary

Thursday, October 15, 2009 marks the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House, the first of 288 Ronald McDonald Houses in 52 countries and regions throughout the world, and of four in the Greater Philadelphia Region.

14 Oct 2009

Study: Psychiatrists can distinguish competent defendants from incompetent ones

Court cases across America often feature expert testimony that offers conflicting conclusions. When this happens in cases involving psychiatric expertise, does it mean that one side or the other is necessarily being less than honest?

14 Oct 2009

Experts to discuss the safety of H1N1 flu vaccine

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will host a Know What to Do about the Flu Webcast on Wednesday, October 14.

14 Oct 2009

Children with low birth weight are at a higher risk of developing asthma later in life, says study

A new study from the medical university Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm shows that children born with low birth weight are at a higher risk of developing asthma later in life. The study, which is published in the journal Pediatrics, is based on data on the incidence of asthma in 10,918 twins from the Swedish Twin Registry.

14 Oct 2009

European Patent Office to grant two intellectual property patents to Athera Biotechnologies

Athera Biotechnologies AB, an atherosclerosis R&D company developing novel products for treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), announced today that the European Patent Office intends to grant two key patents related to the Company's intellectual property on its two pharmaceutical candidates Annexin A5 and PC-mAb.

14 Oct 2009

DIATHERIX Laboratories granted EUA for H1N1-09 Influenza Test

DIATHERIX Laboratories, Inc. is pleased to announce it has been granted emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its DIATHERIX H1N1-09 Influenza Test.

14 Oct 2009

Presentation on L-DOS47 drug formulation and development at Pharmaceutical Industry Conference

Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX, FSE: "HBP" / OTCQX: HXBPF) today announced that a presentation on L-DOS47 formulation and analytical method development will be made at the "Formulation Strategies for Protein Therapeutics" conference to be held on October 13 to 15, 2009, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The conference is sponsored by IBC Life Sciences.

14 Oct 2009

Medical News

First Edition: October 14, 2009

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation honors Greenberg Traurig attorney D. Porpoise Evans

Global Bioenergies discovers synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene

Delegation from All-CABPA visits Sundia

Climate change and health policy: Expert panel to guide health professionals in the run-up to Copenhagen

Roche and Genentech to discuss their radical collaborative business model at the Windhover Conference

New non-invasive technology to measure glucose levels in the human eye

Women with breast cancer can improve their mental health through Transcendental Meditation technique

GeckoSystems to discuss the CareBot's low cost differential drive locomotion system

Research scientists develop bioengineered treatment for targeting pancreatic cancer

Patients who are severely ill with H1N1 are at risk for developing PE, says study

Breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment

University of North Carolina awarded grant to continue research on rare disease-causing gene mutations

Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House commemorates 35th anniversary

Study: Psychiatrists can distinguish competent defendants from incompetent ones

Experts to discuss the safety of H1N1 flu vaccine

Children with low birth weight are at a higher risk of developing asthma later in life, says study

European Patent Office to grant two intellectual property patents to Athera Biotechnologies

DIATHERIX Laboratories granted EUA for H1N1-09 Influenza Test

Presentation on L-DOS47 drug formulation and development at Pharmaceutical Industry Conference

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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