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SeraCare Life Sciences announces expansion of R&D facilities in Milford, Massachusetts

SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer of life sciences tools, bulk plasma, and quality controls for diagnostic companies and clinical laboratories, announced an expansion of its research and manufacturing facilities at its Milford, Massachusetts headquarters.

21 Sep 2013

New research may help in regulation of tobacco products to protect public health

UC San Francisco will receive a five-year, $20 million grant as part of a first-of-its-kind tobacco science regulatory program by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.

21 Sep 2013

Study: Women with access to group prenatal care have improved birth outcomes

Women with access to group prenatal care had improved birth outcomes, including longer gestational periods and higher birth weight, in a study conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt's Peabody Research Institute.

21 Sep 2013

Personality traits can be correlated to health care consumption, study finds

Psychiatrists and psychologists have long understood that an individual's personality can define how he or she views the world around them, reacts to situations, and interacts with others. It now appears that personality traits can be linked to the frequency with which older adults use expensive health care services.

21 Sep 2013

Blood pressure cuffs reduce subsequent cardiac symptoms, mortality after acute heart attack

In patients with an acute heart attack, remote ischemic conditioning - intermittent inflation of a blood pressure cuff to cut off blood flow to the arm during transportation to hospital for acute balloon dilatation - reduces subsequent cardiac symptoms and mortality after acute heart attack.

21 Sep 2013

New cellular switch could eventually inhibit growth of aggressive malignant brain tumor

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a cellular switch that potentially can be turned off and on to slow down, and eventually inhibit the growth of the most commonly diagnosed and aggressive malignant brain tumor.

21 Sep 2013

Friday face-off: With gov't shutdown looming, House to vote on stopgap funding measure that would defund health law

The GOP-controlled chamber is expected to approve the bill, which will then face stiff opposition in the Senate. The White House has also threatened a veto.

21 Sep 2013

Equatorial Guinea presents design for malaria vaccine trial

Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Health and Social Security recently presented a design for a malaria vaccine trial as part of the government's efforts to improve the country's public health.

21 Sep 2013

25 hospitals ready alliance in response to Obamacare

A group of 25 hospitals across 7 hospital systems in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will form what it calls the nation's largest health care alliance to improve care and lower costs.

21 Sep 2013

Higher calorie diets produce twice rate of weight gain for adolescents hospitalized with anorexia

Higher calorie diets produce twice the rate of weight gain compared to the lower calorie diets that currently are recommended for adolescents hospitalized with anorexia nervosa, according to a study by researchers at UCSF Benioff Children-s Hospital.

21 Sep 2013

Digoxin linked with higher rate of death among adults with diagnosed systolic heart failure

Digoxin, a drug commonly used to treat heart conditions, was associated with a 72 percent higher rate of death among adults with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current online issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

21 Sep 2013

Specialty asthma care no benefit to adherence in underserved children

Results of a study of underserved children with asthma in the USA suggest that they may be losing out on the benefits of specialty care.

20 Sep 2013

Adolescents with psychosis face long treatment delays

Adolescents have a duration of untreated psychosis that is approximately twice that seen in adults, UK study findings show.

20 Sep 2013

Impulsivity in bipolar disorder unrelated to substance abuse

Trait impulsivity is elevated and neurocognitive functioning is impaired in patients with bipolar disorder irrespective of whether they have a substance abuse history, research shows.

20 Sep 2013

Swallow therapy combats post-radiotherapy dysphagia

Swallowing exercises can help to minimize the risk for dysphagia in patients undergoing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer, a case study suggests.

20 Sep 2013

DiaRem score predicts diabetes remission after gastric bypass

A new scoring system offers a “scientifically valid” way of predicting the 5-year likelihood for diabetes remission in patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery, say the researchers who developed the score.

20 Sep 2013

Understanding tribological damage in biomaterials and medical implants

During their service life, most biomaterials and medical implants are vulnerable to tribological damage. In addition, the environments in which they are placed are often corrosive. The combination of triobology, corrosion and the biological environment has been named ‘bio-tribocorrosion’. Understanding this complex phenomenon is critical to improving the design and service life of medical implants. This important book reviews recent key research in this area.

20 Sep 2013

BASF Eyes Strategic Protein Growth, Buys Verenium For $62M

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20 Sep 2013

CHMP recommends approval of Xofigo for CRPC, symptomatic bone and visceral metastases

Bayer HealthCare announced today that the the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended Xofigo (radium Ra 223 dichloride) for approval with a proposed indication for the treatment of adults with castration-resistant prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral metastases.

20 Sep 2013

UH Seidman Cancer Center to become one of elite group of cancer centers to offer proton therapy

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center is breaking ground today on a $30 million proton therapy center, becoming one of an elite group of cancer centers in the country to offer this revolutionary technology. There are currently only 11 operational proton therapy centers in the nation and the UH Seidman Cancer Center site will be the first in Ohio.

20 Sep 2013

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SeraCare Life Sciences announces expansion of R&D facilities in Milford, Massachusetts

New research may help in regulation of tobacco products to protect public health

Study: Women with access to group prenatal care have improved birth outcomes

Personality traits can be correlated to health care consumption, study finds

Blood pressure cuffs reduce subsequent cardiac symptoms, mortality after acute heart attack

New cellular switch could eventually inhibit growth of aggressive malignant brain tumor

Friday face-off: With gov't shutdown looming, House to vote on stopgap funding measure that would defund health law

Equatorial Guinea presents design for malaria vaccine trial

25 hospitals ready alliance in response to Obamacare

Higher calorie diets produce twice rate of weight gain for adolescents hospitalized with anorexia

Digoxin linked with higher rate of death among adults with diagnosed systolic heart failure

Specialty asthma care no benefit to adherence in underserved children

Adolescents with psychosis face long treatment delays

Impulsivity in bipolar disorder unrelated to substance abuse

Swallow therapy combats post-radiotherapy dysphagia

DiaRem score predicts diabetes remission after gastric bypass

Understanding tribological damage in biomaterials and medical implants

BASF Eyes Strategic Protein Growth, Buys Verenium For $62M

CHMP recommends approval of Xofigo for CRPC, symptomatic bone and visceral metastases

UH Seidman Cancer Center to become one of elite group of cancer centers to offer proton therapy

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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