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MIT researchers developing computer system to help predict effects of disease on brain anatomy

MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the effects of disease on brain anatomy.

7 Oct 2015

Three researchers recognised for their contributions to Australian medical research

Three top Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have been recognised for their contributions to Australian medical research, with their election as fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

7 Oct 2015

2-year advanced melanoma survival benefit with dabrafenib, trametinib combination

Updated results from the COMBI-v trial show significantly improved overall and progression-free survival with first-line dabrafenib plus trametinib compared with vemurafenib in patients with advanced melanoma.

7 Oct 2015

Everolimus, 177Lu-dotatate extend neuroendocrine tumour PFS

Positive progression-free survival results from the RADIANT-4 and NETTER-1 trials extend the armamentarium for physicians treating patients with neuroendocrine tumours.

7 Oct 2015

Brain metastases evolve ‘clinically actionable’ mutations

Brain metastatic disease shows branched evolution from the primary tumour, suggest preliminary findings from the largest massively parallel sequencing study of paired samples performed so far.

7 Oct 2015

Elsevier announces winners of first triennial IEA Elsevier John Wilson Award

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the winners of the first triennial IEA Elsevier John Wilson Award.

7 Oct 2015

Adeptus Health closes $175 million of new senior secured credit facilities

Adeptus Health Inc., the largest operator of freestanding emergency rooms in the U.S., today announced that it has closed on $175 million of new senior secured credit facilities. Bank of America Merrill Lynch served as administrative agent. Bank of Montreal and SunTrust Bank served as co-syndication agents.

7 Oct 2015

VWR announces acquisition of Purification Technologies

VWR, a leading, global, independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, announced today that it has acquired Purification Technologies Inc., a specialty solvent company that performs high volume purification of selected high purity solvents. This acquisition will enhance VWR's growing laboratory and production chemical manufacturing portfolio to better support its laboratory and biopharmaceutical manufacturing customers.

7 Oct 2015

IQWiG finds no added benefit for ceritinib drug in adults with NSCLC

The drug ceritinib (trade name: Zykadia) has been approved since May 2015 for the treatment of adults with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It is an option when certain changes in the cancer cells (anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive) stimulate tumour growth and patients have already been pretreated with crizotinib.

7 Oct 2015

Houston Methodist-led research team one step closer to developing technologies to fix broken bones

A collaborative research team led by scientists at Houston Methodist is one step closer to developing technologies that could help mend broken bones faster. The Department of Defense awarded close to $6 million to the Houston Methodist Research Institute for an initiative aimed at studying two new materials to repair complex fractures in long bones.

7 Oct 2015

Immune submits Bertilimumab IND application to FDA for treatment of Bullous Pemphigoid

Immune Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has submitted an Investigational New Drug Application in the U.S. to expand recruiting for its first in class lead product candidate, Bertilimumab, for the treatment of Bullous Pemphigoid (BP).

7 Oct 2015

Lonza, Benitec partner to develop scalable manufacturing process for AAV-based viral gene therapies

Lonza Houston, Inc., a global leader in biological, cell and viral gene therapy manufacturing, and Benitec Biopharma, a clinical stage biotechnology company commercializing a patented gene-silencing technology, DNA-directed RNA interference (ddRNAi), today announced that they have entered into a Manufacturing Services Agreement to develop a scalable manufacturing process for Benitec's ddRNAi-based, Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)-delivered products intended for therapeutic use in humans.

7 Oct 2015

Solix Algredients introduces Solasta Astaxanthin to B2B marketplace

Solix Algredients, Inc. has introduced Solasta Astaxanthin to the B2B ingredients marketplace. Solasta is a natural astaxanthin extract produced from the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis, the richest natural source of the antioxidant. Research has shown that algal astaxanthin has superior antioxidant activity compared to other well-known antioxidants.

7 Oct 2015

SCT, Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborate to advance development of cardiac disease models

Stem Cell Theranostics announced today that they have successfully completed a research collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific focused on advancing the development of cardiac disease models derived from induced pluripotent stem cells using Thermo Fisher Scientific's suite of work flow reagents and SCT's patient biobank and proprietary disease modeling methods.

7 Oct 2015

Use of chest CT scans for hospital emergency-room patients with blunt trauma can be reduced: Study

Use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest for hospital emergency-room patients with blunt trauma could be reduced by more than one-third without compromising detection of major injury, concludes a new study led by a UC San Francisco physician.

7 Oct 2015

UT Southwestern's William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital receives UHC's Rising Star Quality Leadership award

UT Southwestern Medical Center's William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital has received a national Rising Star Quality Leadership award from the University HealthSystem Consortium for its quality and safety efforts.

7 Oct 2015

Penn Medicine announces $375,000 in new grants to support BRCA-focused research projects

Penn Medicine's Basser Center for BRCA announced $375,000 in new grant funding to support BRCA-focused research projects across the nation. The grants are aimed at advancing the care of patients living with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.

7 Oct 2015

Study identifies five resources that can help hospitals improve surgeries on weekends

Studies have shown that patients who undergo surgeries on weekends tend to experience longer hospital stays and higher mortality rates and readmissions.

7 Oct 2015

Teens who spend excessive time on Internet may be at risk for high blood pressure

Teens who spend hours on the Internet may be at risk for high blood pressure, say researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

7 Oct 2015

UC Davis researchers awarded $15.5 million to develop world's first total-body PET scanner

A UC Davis research team has been awarded $15.5 million to build the world's first total-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, which could fundamentally change the way cancers are tracked and treated and put the university on the nation's leading edge of molecular imaging.

7 Oct 2015

Medical News

MIT researchers developing computer system to help predict effects of disease on brain anatomy

Three researchers recognised for their contributions to Australian medical research

2-year advanced melanoma survival benefit with dabrafenib, trametinib combination

Everolimus, 177Lu-dotatate extend neuroendocrine tumour PFS

Brain metastases evolve ‘clinically actionable’ mutations

Elsevier announces winners of first triennial IEA Elsevier John Wilson Award

Adeptus Health closes $175 million of new senior secured credit facilities

VWR announces acquisition of Purification Technologies

IQWiG finds no added benefit for ceritinib drug in adults with NSCLC

Houston Methodist-led research team one step closer to developing technologies to fix broken bones

Immune submits Bertilimumab IND application to FDA for treatment of Bullous Pemphigoid

Lonza, Benitec partner to develop scalable manufacturing process for AAV-based viral gene therapies

Solix Algredients introduces Solasta Astaxanthin to B2B marketplace

SCT, Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborate to advance development of cardiac disease models

Use of chest CT scans for hospital emergency-room patients with blunt trauma can be reduced: Study

UT Southwestern's William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital receives UHC's Rising Star Quality Leadership award

Penn Medicine announces $375,000 in new grants to support BRCA-focused research projects

Study identifies five resources that can help hospitals improve surgeries on weekends

Teens who spend excessive time on Internet may be at risk for high blood pressure

UC Davis researchers awarded $15.5 million to develop world's first total-body PET scanner

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