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EC approves Pfizer’s Prevenar 13 to prevent pneumococcal disease

Pfizer Inc. announced today that the European Commission has approved expanding the use of the company's pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Prevenar 13(pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine [13-valent, adsorbed]), to older children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years for active immunization for the prevention of invasive disease, pneumonia and acute otitis media caused by vaccine-type Streptococcus pneumoniae.

9 Jan 2013

New scoring system can help clinicians better identify non-ICU patients at risk for GI bleeding

Critically ill patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) are routinely prescribed acid-suppressive medications to reduce their risk of developing stress ulcers and gastrointestinal bleeding, both of which can result from being in a stressful environment and from being intubated. Over the years, this routine practice has often been extended to patients outside the ICU, despite a lack of evidence that this population is at significant risk of these complications.

9 Jan 2013

Wockhardt receives final FDA approval for Lamotrigine to treat epilepsy

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt has received final approval from the United States Food & Drug Administration (US FDA) for marketing 25mg, 50mg, 100mg, 200mg and 300mg extended release tablets of Lamotrigine, which is used in treatment of epilepsy.

9 Jan 2013

USC’s Keck Medical Center installs Aplio 500 and Viamo ultrasound systems from Toshiba

To stay competitive using the most cutting-edge technology, the Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California (USC) installed two Aplio 500 ultrasound systems and a Viamo ultrasound system from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. at its Keck Hospital of USC in Los Angeles, Calif.

9 Jan 2013

NEJM examines global disease eradication efforts

"Since the last case of naturally occurring smallpox, in 1977, there have been three major international conferences devoted to the concept of disease eradication," an article in the New England Journal of Medicine reports and includes "a brief review of five diseases selected for eradication or elimination that illustrate the potential benefits of such efforts and some of the challenges they pose."

9 Jan 2013

Brown University receives Irene Diamond Fund gift to launch major initiative on healthy aging

Brown University's Program in Public Health has received a gift from the Irene Diamond Fund to launch a major initiative on healthy aging.

9 Jan 2013

Patient requests, drug company ties likely to influence doctors' decision to prescribe name-brand drugs

When patients ask for a brand-name drug, many physicians give in rather than prescribe a generic, according to a nationwide survey, and in-office promotions to doctors increase the likelihood.

9 Jan 2013

Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim announce top-line results from empagliflozin Phase III trials on T2D

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company today announced top-line results for four completed Phase III clinical trials for empagliflozin, an investigational sodium glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor being studied for treatment of patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D).

9 Jan 2013

Viewpoints: Health care and the 'crushing federal debt;' Optimism about 'grand bargain;' Iowa's premium increase request

The largest issue America will face in 2013 is health care. And it will only get larger. As the national conversation changes, we'll find that by year-end we're talking about it all the time, whether the ostensible topic is politics, government, the economy, our jobs, or our families. Health care will be the unavoidable topic. Medicare and Medicaid are the biggest element of our most serious national problem: crushing federal debt.

9 Jan 2013

Tips to help maintain healthy New Year's resolution

Now that the New Year is upon us, New Year's resolutions to eat healthier may be top of mind, but how easy is it to keep your resolve after a few weeks? To keep from sliding back into old habits, Ryerson University experts offer tips to help you keep on track.

9 Jan 2013

Combination of pazopanib and paclitaxel shows promise in slowing anaplastic thyroid cancer

A combination of the drugs pazopanib and paclitaxel shows promise in slowing anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC), according to a Mayo Clinic-led study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

9 Jan 2013

USAID series examines risk reduction activities in Bangladesh

USAID's "IMPACTblog" introduces the newest installment of the agency's "Pounds of Prevention" series, which focuses on risk reduction activities in Bangladesh.

9 Jan 2013

IHM discusses improvement and modernisation of public services

The latest issue of the International Journal of Healthcare Management highlights the requirement to improve and modernise public services. Vol. 5, No. 4 of the publication discusses the novel developments within healthcare and cites the most relevant articles within this area.

9 Jan 2013

Key link between stem cell factors that fuel ovarian cancer's growth and patient prognosis

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a key link between stem cell factors that fuel ovarian cancer's growth and patient prognosis. The study, which paves the way for developing novel targeted ovarian cancer therapies, is published online in the current issue of Cell Cycle.

9 Jan 2013

Tunisian women more likely to suffer from obesity than male compatriots

Men and women in Tunisia are not equal before the scales. Tunisian women are three times as likely to suffer from obesity as their male compatriots.

9 Jan 2013

Scientists wrestle to understand why Huntington's can produce variable symptoms

Scientists have wrestled to understand why Huntington's disease, which is caused by a single gene mutation, can produce such variable symptoms. An authoritative review by a group of leading experts summarizes the progress relating cell loss in the striatum and cerebral cortex to symptom profile in Huntington's disease, suggesting a possible direction for developing targeted therapies.

9 Jan 2013

Humanitarian conditions deteriorating in CAR, aid groups warn

"A rebel takeover of several key towns in the Central African Republic (CAR) has placed additional strain on humanitarian conditions that were already precarious due to years of armed conflict," IRIN reports.

9 Jan 2013

Dopamine-related drug exposure, Parkinson's increase risk of impulse control problems

Parkinson's disease itself does not increase the risk of impulse control problems such as compulsive gambling and shopping that have been seen in people taking certain drugs for Parkinson's disease, according to new research published in the January 8, 2013, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

9 Jan 2013

Links between rodents' environment, climate and leptospirosis infection

Leptospirosis is a water-related bacterial disease with a high incidence in Southeast Asia. People usually become infected through exposure to water contaminated by the urine of infected animals, mainly rats and mice. In the framework of the CERoPath program, IRD researchers and their partners have revealed the relationship between rodents' environment and infection by leptospirosis bacteria.

9 Jan 2013

Oramed files IND with FDA to begin ORMD-0801 Phase 2 trial for type 2 diabetes

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a developer of oral drug delivery systems, announced today that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a Phase 2 clinical trial of its orally ingested insulin candidate, ORMD-0801.

9 Jan 2013

Medical News

EC approves Pfizer’s Prevenar 13 to prevent pneumococcal disease

New scoring system can help clinicians better identify non-ICU patients at risk for GI bleeding

Wockhardt receives final FDA approval for Lamotrigine to treat epilepsy

USC’s Keck Medical Center installs Aplio 500 and Viamo ultrasound systems from Toshiba

NEJM examines global disease eradication efforts

Brown University receives Irene Diamond Fund gift to launch major initiative on healthy aging

Patient requests, drug company ties likely to influence doctors' decision to prescribe name-brand drugs

Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim announce top-line results from empagliflozin Phase III trials on T2D

Viewpoints: Health care and the 'crushing federal debt;' Optimism about 'grand bargain;' Iowa's premium increase request

Tips to help maintain healthy New Year's resolution

Combination of pazopanib and paclitaxel shows promise in slowing anaplastic thyroid cancer

USAID series examines risk reduction activities in Bangladesh

IHM discusses improvement and modernisation of public services

Key link between stem cell factors that fuel ovarian cancer's growth and patient prognosis

Tunisian women more likely to suffer from obesity than male compatriots

Scientists wrestle to understand why Huntington's can produce variable symptoms

Humanitarian conditions deteriorating in CAR, aid groups warn

Dopamine-related drug exposure, Parkinson's increase risk of impulse control problems

Links between rodents' environment, climate and leptospirosis infection

Oramed files IND with FDA to begin ORMD-0801 Phase 2 trial for type 2 diabetes

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

The importance of ketones from a clinical and medical perspective

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