Medical News

RSS

External qigong therapy can help control cocaine craving early in recovery

Cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs of abuse. Few effective treatments are available to help control cravings and withdrawal symptoms among individuals undergoing therapy to overcome cocaine abuse.

26 Feb 2013

New research examines role of PKC in airway smooth muscle contraction

New research examines the role of PKC in airway smooth muscle contraction and raises the possibility that this enzyme could be a therapeutic target for treating asthma, COPD, and other lung diseases.

26 Feb 2013

Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group physicians appear on the Best Doctors in America List

Eighty-five physicians affiliated with The Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group, the faculty practice of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, appear on the Best Doctors in America List for 2013.

26 Feb 2013

Study explores effects of mindfulness and integrated self-knowledge in treating heart disease

With heart disease one of the world's very biggest killers, new approaches to prevention and treatment are always welcome. In fact, most heart disease can be prevented by changes in people's behaviour and attitudes. The same holds true for the effective treatment of those who have already developed the disease.

26 Feb 2013

Thermo Fisher Scientific launches Brilliance GBS Agar

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of Brilliance GBS Agar for the testing of Group B streptococci (GBS) during pregnancy.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 26 Feb 2013

NYAM initiative to create improved supports for New York's older adults during disasters

The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has received $185,000 from The New York Community Trust and $100,000 from Altman Foundation to launch an initiative to create improved supports for New York's community-dwelling older adults before, during, and after disasters and other mass, long-term events, like power outages and heat waves.

26 Feb 2013

N-acetylcysteine improves graft survival following liver transplantation

Researchers from Italy have found that the antioxidant, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), when injected prior to harvesting of the liver, significantly improves graft survival following transplantation.

26 Feb 2013

BIOTRONIK receives FDA approval for Lumax 740 DX System

BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of cardiovascular medical technology, announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval for the BIOTRONIK Lumax 740 DX System.

26 Feb 2013

Insight into cellular operations that give extraordinary staying power to S. mansoni

From the point of view of its ultimate (human) host, the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoni has a gruesome way of life. It hatches in feces-tainted water, grows into a larva in the body of a snail and then burrows through human skin to take up residence in the veins. Once there, it grows into an adult, mates and, if it's female, starts laying eggs. It can remain in the body for decades.

26 Feb 2013

HDAC-mediated mechanisms play critical role in regulating lung repair and regeneration

Lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are on the rise, according to the American Lung Association and the National Institutes of Health.

26 Feb 2013

LINX device may help relieve chronic heartburn symptoms

Clinical trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week offer additional evidence that a new device may help relieve chronic heartburn symptoms that standard treatment cannot. The Keck Medical Center of USC was one of 14 U.S. and European medical centers to test the device prior to its March 2012 approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

26 Feb 2013

FDA approves Actavis’ generic Suboxone ANDA to treat opioid dependence

Actavis, Inc. today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Buprenorphine HCl and Naloxone HCl Dihydrate SL Tablets, 2 mg/0.5 mg and 8 mg/2 mg, the generic equivalent to Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare's Suboxone.

26 Feb 2013

Adynxx initiates AYX1 Phase 2 study to prevent post-surgical pain

Adynxx, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a first-in-class platform of therapeutics to address pain at its molecular roots, announced today that the first patient was dosed in a Phase 2 study of its lead investigational drug candidate for the prevention of post-surgical pain, AYX1.

26 Feb 2013

LabCorp introduces GeneSeq: Carido for familial cardiac disease

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings today announced it has launched its clinical next generation sequencing assay, GeneSeq: Cardio for genetic causes of familial cardiac disease.

26 Feb 2013

Bayer receives FDA approval for Stivarga to treat advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Stivarga (regorafenib) to treat patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) that cannot be surgically removed and no longer respond to other FDA-approved treatments for this disease.

26 Feb 2013

Viewpoints: Health care 'price gouging;' Health law pushing employers to cut workers' hours; Medicare spending must be tamed

Steven Brill's cover story on the Looking Glass world of healthcare pricing may be the longest article Time Magazine has ever published, but more importantly, it is a fresh sign that the medical-industrial complex should be worried as the deadline for launching Obamacare rolls closer.

26 Feb 2013

Survey finds 65% of Missouri salons would allow pre-teens to use tanning beds

A survey of tanning salon operators in Missouri shows that 65 percent would allow children as young as 10 to 12 years old to use tanning beds. That's despite evidence that any tanning bed use increases the risk of all skin cancers, including melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, later in life.

26 Feb 2013

Roundup: N.Y. GOP readies Medicaid probe after allegations; Mich. lawmakers consider Blue Cross overhaul without abortion provisions; Long-term care costs in Calif.

New York state Senate Republicans plan to investigate the state's Medicaid program after news reports and a congressional audit alleged it was fraught with waste and mismanagement.

25 Feb 2013

Avaxia initiates AVX-470 Phase 1b clinical study in ulcerative colitis

Avaxia Biologics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing gut-targeted therapeutics, announced today that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1b clinical study of AVX-470, an oral anti-TNF antibody, for the treatment of ulcerative colitis.

25 Feb 2013

Kindred Healthcare fourth quarter consolidated revenues increase 2% to $1.55 billion

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. today announced its operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012.

25 Feb 2013

Medical News

External qigong therapy can help control cocaine craving early in recovery

New research examines role of PKC in airway smooth muscle contraction

Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group physicians appear on the Best Doctors in America List

Study explores effects of mindfulness and integrated self-knowledge in treating heart disease

Thermo Fisher Scientific launches Brilliance GBS Agar

NYAM initiative to create improved supports for New York's older adults during disasters

N-acetylcysteine improves graft survival following liver transplantation

BIOTRONIK receives FDA approval for Lumax 740 DX System

Insight into cellular operations that give extraordinary staying power to S. mansoni

HDAC-mediated mechanisms play critical role in regulating lung repair and regeneration

LINX device may help relieve chronic heartburn symptoms

FDA approves Actavis’ generic Suboxone ANDA to treat opioid dependence

Adynxx initiates AYX1 Phase 2 study to prevent post-surgical pain

LabCorp introduces GeneSeq: Carido for familial cardiac disease

Bayer receives FDA approval for Stivarga to treat advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors

Viewpoints: Health care 'price gouging;' Health law pushing employers to cut workers' hours; Medicare spending must be tamed

Survey finds 65% of Missouri salons would allow pre-teens to use tanning beds

Roundup: N.Y. GOP readies Medicaid probe after allegations; Mich. lawmakers consider Blue Cross overhaul without abortion provisions; Long-term care costs in Calif.

Avaxia initiates AVX-470 Phase 1b clinical study in ulcerative colitis

Kindred Healthcare fourth quarter consolidated revenues increase 2% to $1.55 billion

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

Latest News