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News From Friday, January 22, 2010
11:43:51 PM New Approach Speeds Up Differentiation of Stem Cells
Medgadget.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The business of turning stem cells into specific endothelial cells is now a fairly mature field of science, but bringing that knowledge into clinical use ... [more]

11:30:41 PM FDA To Hold Hearing On Approval Process For Medical Devices
Wall Street Journal - USA

The director of the FDA's medical device division, Jeffrey Shuren, has made revamping the pre-market approval process a priority. The FDA and an influential ... [more]

10:56:56 PM Austin church mobilizes volunteers, planes and medical supplies en route
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA

Austin American-Statesman ... Associates — said that between Wednesday evening and Friday, the doctors had gotten an "incredible outpouring of help," from Austin's medical community. ... [more]

10:37:50 PM Ann Hornaday reviews new movies 'Creation' and 'Extraordinary Measures'
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

HEROISM ON A SCIENTIFIC SCALE: Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford as two men desperately seeking a medical breakthrough in "Extraordinary Measures. ... [more]

10:33:06 PM BioOhio, LifeScience Alley ask legislators to limit medical device sales tax
MedCity News - Cleveland,OH,USA

Rumor has it that the medical device industry was conspicuously absent from the White House bargaining table this summer while other health care ... [more]

10:25:58 PM News and FDA Updates for Caleco (OTC:CAEH), Sky One Medical (Nasdaq:CSKI ...
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA

On 01/21/10, China Sky One Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSKI), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company developing and producing over-the-counter drugs in ... [more]

10:21:01 PM News and FDA Updates for Somaxon (Nasdaq:SOMX), Stem Cell Assurance
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA

American Chronicle On 01/21/10, Stem Cell Assurance, Inc. (OTC:SCLZ) and MDwerks, Inc. (OTC:MDWK) announced a financing and marketing partnership wherein MDwerks, through it's ... [more]

9:31:56 PM Tax and Spend: UN's Rx for New World Medical Order
FOX News - USA

But the report still holds out hope for substantially more money if "donors diverted current financial support" from medical research that meets their own ... [more]

9:14:54 PM GE Warned Over Misleading Claims on Imaging Drug
Attorney at Law - USA

The FDA sent a warning letter to the company saying the GE Healthcare website “is misleading because it presents unsubstantiated comparative claims and ... [more]

9:09:29 PM Biomedical scientists develop new test for pancreatic cancer
Mediplacements

Researchers at Barts, the London NHS Trust and Queen Mary University's Institute of Cancer, have collaborated on a new test, which could help identify ... [more]

8:51:03 PM Update on the healthcare reform bill for America
Dentistry IQ

By Gary Price, CEO, Dental Trade Alliance In 2009, Washington DC turned its focus on the medical device and the dental industry. ... [more]

8:11:27 PM Biogen Revises Brain Infection Disclosure Policy For Tysabri
Wall Street Journal - USA

"This [change] is driven by what the medical community needs and wants." On Thursday, the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for ... [more]

7:45:10 PM NIH recommends approval of another stem cell line
USA Today

A National Institutes of Health advisory committee Friday voted to recommend the first human embryonic stem cell line leftover from Bush administration ... [more]

7:34:50 PM URI granted funds to create biomedical engineering lab
Boston Mass High Tech - Boston,MA,USA

By Mass High Tech staff The University of Rhode Island has been awarded $116840 from The Champlin Foundations to put toward establishing a new biomedical ... [more]

7:28:51 PM Continued Smoking Worsens Lung Cancer Prognosis
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA

.... Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Economic and Social Research Council, Medical Research Council, and the National Institute for Health Research. ... [more]

7:19:37 PM device firms urge Brown to keep promise
Boston Business Journal - MA, USA

In a letter signed by Tom Sommer, president of the industry association MassMedic, medical device leaders are urging Brown to go through with his pledge to ... [more]

7:04:32 PM Chamber recognizes business, community leaders
Houma Courier - Houma,Louisiana,USA

Whether placing a special emphasis on patient care or marketing the hospital to improve its stature in the national medical community, his initiative stood ... [more]

6:54:20 PM FDA Warns of Heart Risk for Meridia
WebMD

.... the long term after stopping treatment," the UK's Medical Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says in a news release. The FDA based its warning ... [more]

6:17:39 PM Industry Outlook Q&A: Gary Ellis, Chief financial officer, Medtronic Inc.
Twin Cities Business Journal - Minneapolis,MN,USA

The medical-device industry is kind of a US industry. We're worried it's going to stifle and slow innovation not only in the United States, but in Minnesota ... [more]

5:24:22 PM $3.3 Million in New Grants to Help Diagnose and Treat Cancer
News from the University of Texas at Austin - Austin,TX,USA

George Georgiou, professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, received $2 million to continue the preclinical development of his highly ... [more]

5:22:00 PM Quitting smoking helps lung cancer patients live longer
Guardian - UK

However, many people with lung cancer are diagnosed at a later stage, and there's very little research on whether these people would benefit from quitting. ... [more]

4:23:21 PM Inovio Biomedical to Participate at Partnering and Vaccine Conferences
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Inovio Biomedical Corp., a company engaged in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced that Dr. Avtar Dhillon, Executive Chairman, ... [more]

4:12:10 PM BiomedReports: News and FDA Updates for Caleco (OTC:CAEH), Sky One
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Trading Markets (press release) For full details on China Sky One Medical Inc (CSKI) CSKI. China Sky One Medical Inc (CSKI) has Short Term PowerRatings at TradingMarkets. ... [more]

3:47:54 PM Prioritise medical science: new report challenges UK Government
PHG Foundation - Ambridge,UK

However, it warns competitors such as the US, China, Singapore and Canada are actively growing their own medical research sectors and that the UK is losing ... [more]

3:27:10 PM Snitch gets senior's licence withdrawn
Nova News Now - New Minas,Nova Scotia,Canada

.... that an accident was caused due to medical emergency, for example, a seizure, we may suspend a driver without consulting the medical community. .... [more]

2:38:42 PM 5 Major Research Reports From Studies Using Daxor's Blood Volume
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) Daxor Corporation (NYSE Amex: DXR), a medical instrumentation and biotechnology company, today announced that five major research reports derived from ... [more]

2:19:23 PM Entest BioMedical Projecting Near Term Start Up of Study on Stem Cell
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) This laser device will be used in conjunction with stem cell therapy to enhance efficacy in the regenerative treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary ... [more]

1:39:23 PM Former Seacoast physician named president of NH Medical Society
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

Robinson, 58, is well-known in the Seacoast medical community having worked as a neurologist in the Portsmouth area for 12 years until 1995 when he was .... [more]

1:21:29 PM Medical-research drama 'Extraordinary Measures' a well-told tale
Visalia Times-Delta - Visalia,CA,USA

As the movie opens, Crowley approaches prickly research doctor Robert Stonehill (Ford), who is doing promising research on curing Pompe. ... [more]

1:08:20 PM Demand For New Medical Device Jobs In The US: Survey
Pharmaceutical Jobs

A survey has indicated there might be a big shuffle in the medical device jobs this year. According to a recent online survey of 2150 medical device .... [more]

12:16:57 PM Stem cell research topic of speech
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA

By Rachel E. Sheeley • Staff Writer • January 22, 2010 In the not-too-distant future, adult stem cells from bone marrow might be used to help restore blood ... [more]

11:56:06 AM Sunshine vitamin cuts cancer risk by 40%
Daily Mail - UK - UK

.... and Imperial College London, and was funded by World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF). It comes after medical experts expressed concern yesterday about the ... [more]

11:53:50 AM Attending to UMC's woes
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA

Some in the medical community can't comprehend how this is possible. Rogers: Going back in history, the medical school has never shown a great interest in ... [more]

11:47:50 AM Llamas can help fight bio-terrorism: Scientists
The Hindu

Scientists at Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in Texas claimed to have developed the BoNT-detecting substances or the antibodies - proteins made ... [more]

10:26:37 AM Who Should Bear the Burden of Reducing Salt?
The Big Money - New York,NY,USA

The FDA currently treats salt as a generally safe food additive. Some groups, such as the influential Institute of Medicine, want the FDA to change that ... [more]

10:05:46 AM Stem cell surgery saved Waynesboro girl's life
Chambersburg Public Opinion - Chambersburg,PA,USA

By IRIS HERSH Staff writer Little charmer: Brianna Berkey, 3, of Waynesboro, has had successful stem cell surgery to counteract a genetic disorder of her ... [more]

10:00:19 AM Long-term health effects of e-cigarettes: More research needed
News-Medical.net - World

The need for more research into the long-term health effects of electronic cigarettes has been highlighted by scientists in the British Medical Journal. ... [more]

9:03:05 AM New Factor to Create Stem Cells
Bio-IT World - Framingham,MA,USA

The study was published in Cell Stem Cell. Using a transcription factor, Nr5a2, researchers were able to create induced pluripotenet stem cells (iPS cells) ... [more]

8:55:20 AM Patients' rights need to be protected
Ventura ...

We are a part of the medical community and we are legitimate businesses. There is a lot of misinformation about exactly what a patient collective is. ... [more]

8:39:29 AM US newborns are weighing less, study finds
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

"We were startled by the findings," said senior author Dr. Emily Oken, assistant professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School. ... [more]

7:57:58 AM Brevard Medical Community Teams Up For Haitian Relief
Space Coast Medicine and Healthy Living

By SPACECOASTMEDICINE.COM • January 21, 2010 BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA (Jan. 21, 2010) — Several area healthcare organizations, along with local restaurants, ... [more]

7:43:39 AM Lack of passion makes medical drama less than 'Extraordinary'
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA

.... "Extraordinary Measures" would be a terribly topical motion picture with something insightful to impart about health insurance and medical research. ... [more]

6:29:48 AM Urgently needed medical school would help state
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Research dollars amounting to at least twice the capital investment would flow to a first-class medical-research facility like this partnership project ... [more]

5:36:14 AM Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
The Procter & Gamble Company F4Q08 (Qtr End 06/30/08) Earnings ...

There will be delays and setbacks along the way, along with scientific advances and medical breakthroughs. We believe we have built a business model to ... [more]

4:50:30 AM New York Times Exposes Government Conspiracy to Prevent Medical Marijuana
Drug War Chronicle - Washington,DC,USA

Drug War Chronicle (blog) .... demonstrate the drug's medical efficacy. Marijuana is the only major drug for which the federal government controls the only legal research supply and ... [more]

4:45:17 AM City of Hope receives contract to take stem cell research from `bench to
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA

Pasadena Star-News "Embryonic stem cells just took a big giant leap into the clinic," said Larry Couture, a principal investigator for the contract at City of Hope. .... [more]

3:49:43 AM Haiti President thanks Israel for help
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel

He said that the medical community in Israel and around the world marvelled at their accomplishments and continued to follow them. ... [more]

3:29:49 AM PWRM, CBAI, PennyToBuck.com Watch List! for Friday Jan. 22, 2010, Cord
TMCnet (press release) - USA

TMCnet OB CBAI is the parent company of CorCell, which facilitates umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation for expectant parents and their children. ... [more]

3:20:06 AM Viper Day set for local HS students
Nueces County Record Star

By Staff Reports It is not every day local high schoolers have the opportunity to tour a state of the art research facility, learn about biomedical research ... [more]

3:03:20 AM Stem-cell donor approved to travel to Canada to help dying brother
Canada.com - Canada

Khan's sister and potential stem-cell donor, Zahida Haroon, was notified Thursday by Canadian Embassy officials in Pakistan that her long-awaited visitor's ... [more]

2:59:51 AM Study finds US birth weights inch down a bit
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP WASHINGTON -- US newborns are arriving a little smaller, says puzzling new Harvard research that can't explain why. ... [more]

1:35:20 AM Leukaemia cell 'breakthrough' offers treatment hope
BBC News - E,UK

"Our discovery that these cells are similar to normal stem cells explains why they are capable of surviving for long periods. "It also explains why they are ... [more]

1:08:36 AM Quertle Announces Content Expansion and Partnership with FierceMarkets
Sys-Con Italia (Comunicati Stampa)

By Business Wire Quertle, LLC has expanded the content covered by its innovative, free Web site, www.quertle.info, for searching the biomedical, .... [more]

1:01:30 AM SocialEyes: Getting the ball rolling for community health projects
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Well, the medical community will practice what it preaches at the first Medicine Ball, 6:30 pm Feb. 6 at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel ballroom. ... [more]

12:48:26 AM Lidocaine patch, generic not that significant as a medical device.
Gerson Lehrman Group - New York,USA

There have been liodcaine patches made all ready. Granted that many of them are for other uses such as lasers and other pain problems. ... [more]



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