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11:56:03 PM Study shows most deaths in Darfur war from disease
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By JASON KEYSER AP CAIRO -- New research on the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region shows that more than 80 percent of the 300000 deaths since .... [more]

11:29:02 PM Akron's biomedical corridor taking shape
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA

By Stephanie Warsmith Akron's biomedical corridor began with a map Mayor Don Plusquellic drew on a napkin. Now the idea — which many hope holds the key to ... [more]

10:34:29 PM Extraordinary Measures Review
News in Film (blog)

While Extraordinary Measures focuses on the tribulations of an important medical breakthrough, there's no cure for the movie's mediocrity. ... [more]

6:47:40 PM The Weekend Wrap: Coyotes, Stem Cell Magic, and a Bank Seizure
The SunBreak (blog)

By Michael van Baker Compared to the news from Haiti, the local stories feel a little trivial. But it's been a week of being overtaken by events. .... [more]

5:57:18 PM Babies teeth stem cells could lead to new body parts
Warrington Guardian - England, UK

By Hannah Al-Taraboulsy » A DARESBURY company is the first in the world to store living stem cells from baby teeth so that people can one day grow their own ... [more]

5:16:48 PM Ore. jury awards $4.75M for damaged shoulder
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

A jury has ordered a medical device company to pay a Portland man and his wife $4.75 million, finding I-Flow Corp. liable for damaged cartilage in Matthew ... [more]

4:58:35 PM Health Fair Aims To Break Barriers To Proper Medical Treatment
WYFF - Greenville,SC,USA

GREENVILLE, SC -- A community health festival this weekend is designed to help non-English speakers get needed care. The Latino Health Fair will include ... [more]

4:29:22 PM Is new MS research the real thing, or a media-driven frenzy?
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Indeed, the medical community seems under intense pressure to embrace the Italian research. One patient advocate in Edmonton, Ashton Embry, suggested on a ... [more]

2:22:49 PM Mich. legislators tinker with voter-approved laws
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Just over a year ago, Michigan voters put their stamp of approval on measures loosening restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and letting some sick ... [more]

1:53:11 PM Cancer Patients Who Quit Smoking Have Better Odds of Survival
eFitnessNow - Venice,California,USA

New medical research verifies what doctors have suggested for years: those who quit smoking significantly improve their chances of survival, ... [more]

1:03:43 PM Hawaii doctor improved access to breast cancer clinical trials
Honolulu Star-Bulletin

"He was a quiet man but when he spoke everybody listened," said Dorothy Coleman, manager of the Cancer Research Center's clinical trial unit and Oishi's ... [more]

11:09:47 AM Give what you can
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada

The medical community here is pitching in, with some local medical professionals actually going to Haiti to lend a hand. But others are doing their part as ... [more]

10:22:39 AM Gasoline prices decline locally, nationwide during week
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

Cord Blood America, which preserves umbilical-cord blood stem cells, held a grand opening for its new offices Friday. Its 17000-square-foot building, .... [more]

9:50:37 AM Kalispell Medical Marijuana Clinic Draws Huge Crowd
Flathead Beacon - Kalispell,MT,USA

DeBelly, who uses marijuana to treat his rheumatoid arthritis, said the caregivers are striving to achieve social legitimacy within the medical community ... [more]

9:48:29 AM Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often hidden, could be diagnosed
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News Michael Roy oversees the virtual Iraq therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, designed to help veterans cope with post-traumatic ... [more]

8:41:50 AM Possible technique to detect PTSD identified
HealthJockey.com - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India

A study from University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center claims to have identified a biological marker in the brains of those suffering from ... [more]

8:20:30 AM Invacare CEO disappointed he couldn't talk health care with President Obama
Chronicle-Telegram

Please tell the medical device industry there will be no medical device excise tax in your health care bill so we can get back to business as usual and ... [more]

7:41:13 AM Choices at the end of life
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

.... director of the Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. ... [more]

7:39:23 AM A&M's Loftin says he's learned from Ike
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

They met as graduate students during the 1970s, when Loftin was at Rice and she was earning her doctorate in biomedical sciences at the University of Texas ... [more]

6:48:54 AM New technology, new care: Cape hospitals step up fight against heart disease
Southeast Missourian

1 killer of Americans, and that fact is reflected in the local medical community. Dr. Randy Brown, cardiothoracic surgeon at Cardiac & Vascular Surgeons of ... [more]

6:22:46 AM Apparent suicide of 9-year-old boy in The Colony raises questions
Fort Worth Star Telegram

The Tarrant County medical examiner has not determined a manner of death, but police said they did not expect criminal charges. ... [more]

5:26:10 AM Union-Endicott senior excels at university-level research
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA

"It's definitely taught me a lot about research at a university level," said Ou, who plans to go into medical research. The 300 semifinalists were selected ... [more]

4:33:13 AM Nipro Medical Corporation Issues a Voluntary Recall of All GlucoPro
Twenty Peaceful Minutes - Forney,TX,USA

Twenty Peaceful Minutes This product recall was posted by Twenty Peaceful Minutes as a public service in partnership with the FDA and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. ... [more]

3:38:20 AM $1.5B for biotech so far and more needed
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

Orlando's prize in all of this — after competing for and losing Scripps — is the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, also based in California. ... [more]

3:19:44 AM Heart Patients Warned Against Using Meridia, an Anti-Obesity Drug
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

.... Medical Center, said he did not think the drug was unsafe for people who did not already have heart disease. He said he agreed with the FDA's decision. ... [more]

2:54:57 AM 'Extraordinary Measures' baby thriving in EV
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA

.... to coordinate a trip to see the movie depicting the research and development of a medical breakthrough that helped Jacob see his first birthday. ... [more]

2:43:36 AM ABMDR 10th Anniversary Celebrations Kick Off With Major Event In Artsakh
Asbarez News - Glendale,CA,USA

“We picked January 8 to further emphasize the critically important role that stem cell donors can have in helping save lives,” Dr. Avagyan said. ... [more]

2:16:01 AM BayStreet.ca Research Alert: Titan Medical Inc.
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

eResearch.ca has published a new research report on Titan Medical Inc.. The full report is available at: ... [more]

1:36:57 AM MDC hails Dewhurst's medical jobs initiative
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA

David Dewhurst's plan to create more health care jobs statewide will help Midland's medical community and the city's general economic well-being, ... [more]

1:00:18 AM Minnesota start-ups seeking venture capital suffer disastrous 2009
MedCity News - Cleveland,OH,USA

Minnesota start-ups, mostly medical device firms, raised $255.5 million in 2009, down a whopping 40 percent from the previous year of $426.5 million, .... [more]

12:15:45 AM Six university students appointed to Entrepreneurial Fellows Program
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford,MA,USA

.... a 5th-year PhD student in neuroscience at Brown University; Naside Gozde Durmus, a 1st-year PhD student in biomedical engineering at Brown University; ... [more]



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