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GlaxoSmithKline opens new facility in Philadelphia's Navy Yard Corporate Center

GlaxoSmithKline officially opened its new double LEED® platinum certified facility in Philadelphia's Navy Yard Corporate Center today, ushering in a new era of how people work in Philadelphia.

8 Apr 2013

Business Network Services from Anglia Ruskin: an interview with Prof Young

The Anglia Ruskin Medtech Campus Business Network Services have been developed in partnership with Chelmsford City Council, Harlow District Council and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council as part of plans to form the largest MedTech cluster in the UK over three development sites in Essex.

8 Apr 2013

New issue of Global Health Diplomacy Network's 'Health Diplomacy Monitor' available online

Volume 4 Issue 2 of the Global Health Diplomacy Network's "Health Diplomacy Monitor" is now available online.

8 Apr 2013

Gene behind Vel blood group discovered

Researchers have uncovered the gene at the root of a human blood group that has remained a mystery for the past 60 years. They showed that a genetic deletion on this gene is responsible for the lack of this blood group in some people.

8 Apr 2013

Untested products sold in stores during patent medicine era, study shows

Scientists provided a glimpse today based on an analysis of a museum collection of patent medicines used in turn-of-the-century America.

8 Apr 2013

Amakem backs new Chair of Ophthalmology Translational Research at KU Leuven

Amakem NV, a kinase platform company focusing on ophthalmology, today announces it has sponsored a new Chair of Ophthalmology Translational Research at the Catholic University Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium.

8 Apr 2013

Nine Nobel laureates to present their research at American Chemical Society meeting

At least nine Nobel laureates have research that will be presented here this week during the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

8 Apr 2013

New Orleans to host scientific conference on energy and food

Renowned for its cuisine and chefs and as a global hub of the energy industry, New Orleans this week hosts what news media have described as the "World Series of Science," one of the year's largest and most important scientific conferences.

8 Apr 2013

Sorrento Therapeutics, IGDRASOL to present updates on Cynviloq at Nanomedicine 2013 meeting

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. and IGDRASOL announced today that IGDRASOL will be presenting updates of its analysis of proprietary late clinical stage NBN-Pac formulations, namely IG-001 (Cynviloq) and IG-004 (a D-a-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate (TPGS)-based paclitaxel formulation) at the annual Nanomedicine 2013 meeting in Barcelona, Spain (April 11th - 12th).

8 Apr 2013

Phase 3 study results of simeprevir in hepatitis C patients to be presented at EASL Congress

Janssen R&D Ireland announces that data will be presented on the investigational protease inhibitor simeprevir (TMC435) for the treatment of hepatitis C at The International Liver Congress 2013 of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, which will take place April 24 to 28 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

8 Apr 2013

Abstracts on Bristol-Myers Squibb's research in liver disease accepted for presentation

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced today that 14 abstracts on the Company's research in liver disease have been accepted for presentation at The International Liver CongressTM 2013, the 48th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, in Amsterdam, April 24 - 28.

8 Apr 2013

GenSight Biologics announces closing of €32 million Series A financing

GenSight Biologics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of ophthalmic therapeutics using gene therapy, announced today the closing of a €32 million Series A financing.

8 Apr 2013

Pros and cons of new screening technologies for breast cancer

Although mammography, the gold standard of breast cancer screening, reduces breast cancer mortality, it has important limitations. Critics point to reduced sensitivity for women with dense breasts, a high rate of false positives leading to excessive biopsies, and concerns about long-term effects of repeated radiation.

8 Apr 2013

MentisCura launches clinical center for early detection of Alzheimer's disease, dementia

MentisCura Diagnostics today announced the launch of its first clinical center for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

8 Apr 2013

FDA grants priority review for Bayer HealthCare's riociguat for treatment of CTEPH

Bayer HealthCare announced today that the New Drug Application for its oral investigational compound riociguat has been accepted for filing and granted priority review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension or with persistent or recurrent CTEPH after pulmonary endarterectomy and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

8 Apr 2013

Fruit-juice-infused chocolate offers healthy treat

Already renowned as a healthy treat when enjoyed in moderation, chocolate could become even more salubrious if manufacturers embraced new technology for making "fruit-juice-infused chocolate," a scientist said here today.

8 Apr 2013

Study examines developmental delays in children within six weeks of CSE

Researchers from the UK determined that developmental delays are present in children within six weeks following convulsive status epilepticus -a seizure lasting longer than thirty minutes.

8 Apr 2013

Stress circuits in brain undergo profound learning early in life

Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute have discovered that stress circuits in the brain undergo profound learning early in life. Using a number of cutting edge approaches, including optogenetics, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and colleagues have shown stress circuits are capable of self-tuning following a single stress.

8 Apr 2013

Nektar Therapeutics presents positive results for NKTR-214 at AACR Annual Meeting

Nektar Therapeutics today presented positive preclinical data for NKTR-214, a novel cancer immunotherapy which targets the IL-2 receptor complex, at the 2013 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

8 Apr 2013

Researchers study influence of muscle types, body metabolism in diabetes

Researchers in the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan have challenged a long-held belief that whitening of skeletal muscle in diabetes is harmful.

8 Apr 2013

Medical News

GlaxoSmithKline opens new facility in Philadelphia's Navy Yard Corporate Center

Business Network Services from Anglia Ruskin: an interview with Prof Young

New issue of Global Health Diplomacy Network's 'Health Diplomacy Monitor' available online

Gene behind Vel blood group discovered

Untested products sold in stores during patent medicine era, study shows

Amakem backs new Chair of Ophthalmology Translational Research at KU Leuven

Nine Nobel laureates to present their research at American Chemical Society meeting

New Orleans to host scientific conference on energy and food

Sorrento Therapeutics, IGDRASOL to present updates on Cynviloq at Nanomedicine 2013 meeting

Phase 3 study results of simeprevir in hepatitis C patients to be presented at EASL Congress

Abstracts on Bristol-Myers Squibb's research in liver disease accepted for presentation

GenSight Biologics announces closing of €32 million Series A financing

Pros and cons of new screening technologies for breast cancer

MentisCura launches clinical center for early detection of Alzheimer's disease, dementia

FDA grants priority review for Bayer HealthCare's riociguat for treatment of CTEPH

Fruit-juice-infused chocolate offers healthy treat

Study examines developmental delays in children within six weeks of CSE

Stress circuits in brain undergo profound learning early in life

Nektar Therapeutics presents positive results for NKTR-214 at AACR Annual Meeting

Researchers study influence of muscle types, body metabolism in diabetes

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

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