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Dominion Diagnostics enhances laboratory testing procedure for chronic opioid pharmacotherapy

Only a short time after introducing its newly developed and validated tapentadol assay, Dominion Diagnostics (Dominion) is pleased to announce an important enhancement to another clinical laboratory test.

8 Oct 2009

Researchers find link between obesity and common mental disorders

Doctors should pay more attention to the link between common mental illness and obesity in patients because the two health problems are closely linked, according to researchers at the University of Adelaide.

8 Oct 2009

Talecris Biotherapeutics closes initial public offering of common stock

Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:TLCR) (“Talecris” or the “Company”) today announced the closing on October 6 of its initial public offering of shares of common stock, which was priced on September 30 at a public offering price of $19.00 per share.

8 Oct 2009

Mimetogen Pharmaceuticals completes its equity financing

Mimetogen Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Mimetogen"), a privately held drug development company announced today that it has successfully completed an equity financing, co-led by Boston-based VIMAC Milestone Medica Fund and Montréal-based iNovia Capital.

8 Oct 2009

Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research to study vision impairment and blindness

Real-time biomedical studies of factors leading to vision impairment are now possible through the world's largest ocular research center at Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research.

8 Oct 2009

Medsphere Systems urges hospitals to meet EHR implementation deadline to avail maximum federal funding

Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of open source healthcare IT solutions, today announced that hospitals that sign a contract before December 31, 2009 to implement the OpenVista open source electronic health record (EHR) are guaranteed to achieve full implementation and meet federal meaningful use standards by January 31, 2011.

8 Oct 2009

Specialists unanimously agree needle biopsy as 'best practice' for breast cancer diagnosis

A special report published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that an alarming 35% of initial diagnostic breast biopsies in the United States are still being done using unnecessary open surgical techniques. This in spite of the fact that it costs as much as three times more than the much less invasive and equally accurate needle biopsy technique.

8 Oct 2009

The CE Marked HairDX Genetic Test for Hair Loss launched in Europe

The HairDX Genetic Test for Hair Loss, the world’s first genetic baldness (Androgenetic Alopecia) test, is now available as a CE Marked product under the European In Vitro Diagnostic Directive.

8 Oct 2009

Birth control pills may have an impact on choice of partners

There is no doubt that modern contraception has enabled women to have unprecedented control over their own fertility. However, is it possible that the use of oral contraceptives is interfering with a woman's ability to choose, compete for and retain her preferred mate?

8 Oct 2009

Ascensions Community Services founder receives the RWJF Community Health Leader Award

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced its selection of Satira Streeter, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and executive director of Ascensions Community Services in the District of Columbia, to receive a Community Health Leaders Award. She is one of 10 extraordinary Americans who will receive the RWJF honor for 2009 at a ceremony this evening at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.

8 Oct 2009

Sinobiopharma receives certificate for using Gabexate Mesylate as pharmaceutical raw material

Sinobiopharma, Inc. ("Sinobiopharma") (the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company received a certificate for the use of Gabexate mesylate as a pharmaceutical raw material (Certificate #2009S01805) from the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration ("SFDA").

8 Oct 2009

Kylin Therapeutics receives notice of allowance for its first U.S. patent application

Officials of Kylin Therapeutics Inc., a leading RNAi company, announced that they have received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its first U.S. patent application.

8 Oct 2009

Labopharm's trazodone API supplier Angelini resolves manufacturing facility deficiencies

Labopharm Inc. today announced that it has been informed by Angelini, the manufacturer of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) for the Company's novel trazodone formulation, that it has received a letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stating that Angelini has appropriately addressed all deficiencies cited by the FDA following its inspection of the manufacturing facility in June and July of this year.

8 Oct 2009

Health experts recommend schools to use new web-based tools in view of upcoming flu season

The CDC and Department of Health and Human Services have recommended that schools use school to home communication tools to aide parents and students in the event of school closures or student absences due to the upcoming H1N1 (Swine) flu season.

8 Oct 2009

AMAG Pharmaceuticals to present three abstracts at ASN Renal Week meeting

AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that three abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Renal Week meeting being held October 27-November 1, 2009 in San Diego, CA.

8 Oct 2009

New entitlement is not a viable health care reform, says Concord Coalition

As House and Senate leaders negotiate the final details of their respective health care reforms bills, The Concord Coalition warned today that one provision under consideration, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, is structurally unsound and fiscally irresponsible.

8 Oct 2009

eHealth Ontario take steps to regain public's trust

eHealth Ontario today pledged that the agency will regain the public's trust by delivering concrete results and ensuring that the issues of procurement and governance reported by the Auditor General will not be repeated.

8 Oct 2009

PP5 enzyme decrease in neurons can cause cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients

A Purdue University researcher has discovered that the amount of an enzyme present in neurons can affect the mechanism thought to cause cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients and may have applications for other diseases such as stroke and heart attack.

8 Oct 2009

While some votes are still in play, other lawmakers vie for audience with Reid

Members are fighting for a seat at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's table as he merges the Senate's two versions of health legislation in order to bring the measure to the floor.

8 Oct 2009

New web-based tool to strengthen informed patient consent process launched

Krames, the leader in patient education, has announced the release of Krames Patient Consent, a comprehensive web-based tool designed to strengthen and streamline every aspect of the informed consent process.

8 Oct 2009

Medical News

Dominion Diagnostics enhances laboratory testing procedure for chronic opioid pharmacotherapy

Researchers find link between obesity and common mental disorders

Talecris Biotherapeutics closes initial public offering of common stock

Mimetogen Pharmaceuticals completes its equity financing

Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research to study vision impairment and blindness

Medsphere Systems urges hospitals to meet EHR implementation deadline to avail maximum federal funding

Specialists unanimously agree needle biopsy as 'best practice' for breast cancer diagnosis

The CE Marked HairDX Genetic Test for Hair Loss launched in Europe

Birth control pills may have an impact on choice of partners

Ascensions Community Services founder receives the RWJF Community Health Leader Award

Sinobiopharma receives certificate for using Gabexate Mesylate as pharmaceutical raw material

Kylin Therapeutics receives notice of allowance for its first U.S. patent application

Labopharm's trazodone API supplier Angelini resolves manufacturing facility deficiencies

Health experts recommend schools to use new web-based tools in view of upcoming flu season

AMAG Pharmaceuticals to present three abstracts at ASN Renal Week meeting

New entitlement is not a viable health care reform, says Concord Coalition

eHealth Ontario take steps to regain public's trust

PP5 enzyme decrease in neurons can cause cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients

While some votes are still in play, other lawmakers vie for audience with Reid

New web-based tool to strengthen informed patient consent process launched

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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