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11:54:25 PM SABCS: Stem Cells a Promising Target in Breast CA
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA

By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today SAN ANTONIO -- Targeting breast cancer stem cells with experimental "Notch" inhibitors appears ... [more]

11:21:43 PM Scientists Hope Zombie Pigs Will Save Lives on the Battlefield
Switched

According to ABC News, a recent medical breakthrough funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which involves putting the body in a ... [more]

9:53:08 PM FDA: Benefits of cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor outweigh its risks
TopNews - Little Rock,Arkansas,USA

Citing the findings of AstraZeneca's last-November study, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical reviewer posted online on Friday said that the .... [more]

9:15:26 PM Allergan Leading Campaign Against 'Botax'
Orange County Business Journal - Irvine,California,USA

By VITA REED Orange County's biggest drug maker is following local medical device makers in the fight against a proposed tax in emerging healthcare reform ... [more]

9:06:43 PM New Book on Adult Stem Cells for Heart Treatments
Family Research Council (blog)

Bodo Strauer and his group have been developing adult stem cell therapies for heart disease, and actually using the cells to treat many patients ... [more]

8:59:22 PM Animal-to-human transplants in Australia
Sydney Morning Herald

Last week, Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) announced it would lift a five-year ban on clinical trials of animal-to-human ... [more]

8:39:49 PM Dangerous Potential Malfunctions of Sterilizer
InjuryBoard.com (blog)

The STERIS SYSTEM is a low heat medical sterilizer. The FDA did not specify the modifications made to the device. There have been reports of STERIS SYSTEM ... [more]

8:23:48 PM Menopause, as Brought to You by Big Pharma
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

... of estrogens on the heart was able to spread like wildfire through the medical community,” says Dr. Avorn, who is not involved in the Wyeth litigation. ... [more]

7:11:48 PM UAB's Whitley new head of infectious disease group
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA

He has been involved in important medical breakthroughs and is also trying to use a genetically engineered version of the herpes simplex virus to fight ... [more]

6:59:35 PM Osteoporosis drug cuts breast cancer risk
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran

.... both osteoporosis and breast cancer," said lead researcher and chief oncologist from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute Rowan Chlebowski. ... [more]

6:48:07 PM Iran Says It 'Explicitly' Accepts UN Uranium-for-Fuel Swap Deal
Bloomberg

... medical research reactor,” Mottaki said today at a regional security conference in Bahrain, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. ... [more]

6:44:21 PM Sure, It's Treatable. But Is It a Disorder?
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Articles in medical journals with high estimates on the prevalence of the issue help convince doctors and journalists of its scope. FDA approval of the new ... [more]

4:49:32 PM Mottaki: Iran ready for uranium fuel swap
Axis of Logic

.... Mottaki said on Saturday that Iran is ready to swap 400 kilograms of enriched uranium with fuel for Tehran medical research reactor in Kish island. ... [more]

4:38:21 PM Cytori Says Early Results of its Breast Reconstruction Treatment Are
xconomy - USA

Xconomy Cytori said in July that the FDA had determined that its Cellution stem cell concentration system should be regulated as a medical device. ... [more]

3:22:01 PM Stem cells offer hope to 8 million people
TopNews - Little Rock,Arkansas,USA

Sight of eight patients was improved by cultured stem cells from eyes with Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency, a painful, blinding disease, British doctors said. ... [more]

2:24:30 PM Adult Cells Turned Stem Cell
The Santa Barbara Independent - Santa Barbara,CA,USA

First created in 2007, human iPS cells are a very recently created type of stem cell with great potential. iPS cells are virtually identical to human .... [more]

1:05:51 PM Poorer Neighborhoods May Bring Worse Health
US News - USA

.... vice provost for diversity at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, said in a news release from the American Association for Cancer Research. ... [more]

12:14:40 PM UK Swine Flu Death Toll not as High as Expected
Merchant News

The study has been published online for the public in the British Medical Journal which has stated that the low death rate indicated by the research .... [more]

11:07:56 AM Researchers develop stem-cell breast-growth technique
Modern Medicine - Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA

Melbourne, Australia — Scientists here are researching a stem-cell breast-growing technique that could help cancer victims regrow their breasts, ... [more]

10:11:19 AM Greg Bredlau, 55
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA

Raised in Owen, Greg received his degree in biomedical engineering from lacrosse Technical Institute. He married his high school sweetheart, ... [more]

8:48:15 AM Light curing adhesives offer advantages to medical device assembly
plastemart.com - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India

Over four decades ago, use of plastics was in its nascent stage in the medical device industry which relied on glass, rubber and metal. ... [more]

8:30:10 AM HORSE RACING Stem-cell-aided rehab has Lava Man ready for comeback
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

The stem cells Lava Man received in his ankles were extracted from his sternum in a process Herthel began using in 1995 and has used on numerous horses. ... [more]

7:29:40 AM Pediatrician lauds 'extraordinary' study
The Daily News - Batavia,NY,USA

It will have to take place at a medical research facility that would have the staff and resources to perform the studies, he said. ... [more]

6:26:15 AM Smiths Medical's Arden Hills division to absorb 40-50 Wis. jobs
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA

The medical device company already employs about 450 people in Arden Hills, where the company makes medications pumps for use with patients in hospitals, ... [more]

5:28:59 AM $2 million donated to hire researcher
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

The Ewing Halsell Foundation will donate $2 million to Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research to hire a senior infectious disease researcher. ... [more]

4:37:41 AM High costs block some Bahamians from cancer prevention treatment
The Tribune

New research on breast cancer has driven them to act. Dr John Lunn, Medical Director of the BBCIF, is also a lead researcher on the combined Bahamian and ... [more]

2:58:22 AM U. of California Hires Auditor in Dispute With Ex-Dean
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Eric Risberg/Associated Press Dr. David A. Kessler, former commissioner of the FDA The university gave the dean, Dr. David A. Kessler, a former commissioner ... [more]

2:03:34 AM Determining when one form of medical therapy trumps another
Twin Cities Finance and Commerce - Minneapolis,MN,USA

And that has become the bone of contention among companies, including medical-device companies like Medtronic, who do not want to see one therapy winning ... [more]

1:13:33 AM Staying clear of the Dark Ages
Pahrump Valley Times - Pahrump,NV,USA

For generations the answer to many women's health issues by the medical community seemed to be, "We'll do a hysterectomy." Doctors seemed to perform them at ... [more]

12:35:40 AM Ameliorating Alzheimer's with Adult Stem Cells
Family Research Council (blog)

by David Prentice An international research team has published results showing that injection of bone marrow adult stem cells into the brain can ameliorate ... [more]



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