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11:46:39 PM Lower Household Transmission of H1N1 in US Than in Past Pandemics
Medscape - USA

The Medical Research Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the European Union Framework 7 program (FluModCont), and the Models of Infectious ... [more]

10:57:06 PM Influential study slams FDA regulation of medical device industry
MedCity News - Cleveland,OH,USA

A major study published in the most recent issue of Journal of the American Medical Association or JAMA, criticized the FDA for using shoddy, ... [more]

10:21:56 PM Popular back pain treatment doesn't work
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

.... Medical Center. However, there is good evidence showing TENS can be effective in treating diabetic nerve pain, the researchers said. More research is ... [more]

10:06:14 PM Senate Health Care Bill Helps Patients, Promotes Innovation, Encourages Job
True/Slant

True/Slant The bill establishes: For the first time ever, a pathway to allow for US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of biosimilars, sometimes inaccurately ... [more]

9:29:42 PM For MAX Endoscopy, $250000 investment from JumpStart means 'fresh breath'
MedCity News - Cleveland,OH,USA

MedCity News ... but there's not a good way to treat them through the scope,” said Stuba, who has led design and manufacturing efforts at other medical device companies, ... [more]

9:12:35 PM FDA to study safety of drugs taken during pregnancy
Reuters - NY,USA

Citing a lack of clinical trials to determine how medications affect mothers and unborn children, the FDA said it will collaborate with other researchers in ... [more]

8:28:54 PM Health for the holidays: Hangover cures - a 7-step medical review
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Research DOES show that, in general, the darker the drink (as in red wine, port, etc.), the more likely it is to cause migraines in those people susceptible ... [more]

8:23:25 PM Tarantula Venom, New Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy?
FOX News - USA

In collaboration with Dr. Eric Hoffman, director of the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, .... [more]

8:00:26 PM Group rallies for donors at stem cell drive honoring Cupertino librarian
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

Do has dedicated much of his time since then trying to raise awareness about the need for stem cell donors so others may benefit. ... [more]

7:40:41 PM Sophia Gran-Ruaz, Former Homeless Child, Honored For Her Charity Work
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

She hopes to study biomedical science at the University of Ottawa. "I'm really honoured and I'm glad to hear that despite what you hear on the news, ... [more]

7:26:31 PM JumpStart Inc. invests in 2 Northeast Ohio startups
Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland,OH,USA

By CHUCK SODER Business development organization JumpStart Inc. has announced investments in two startup companies: medical device maker Max Endoscopy Inc. ... [more]

7:15:21 PM Stem Cells Might Reverse Heart Damage From Chemo
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA

But a new study in rats finds that injecting the heart with stem cells can reverse the damage caused by a potent anti-cancer drug. ... [more]

7:04:48 PM Scientists: Embryonic Stem Cell Research Showing Little Progress 28 Years
LifeNews.com - Helena,MT,USA

LifeNews.com by Steven Ertelt Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In the 28 years that scientists have been toying with embryonic stem cells in animals and humans, ... [more]

6:56:03 PM Georgia to help doctors get e-medical records [Chattanooga Times Free
Behavioral Health Central (blog)

Behavioral Health Central (blog) Still, many in the medical community have deep misgivings about how easy and affordable it will be to get such a paperless system up and running. .... [more]

6:25:02 PM Nigeria: Yar'Adua Can Sign Budgets Anywhere - Senate
AllAfrica.com - Africa

There is not a major medical facility and medical research centers in the world that does not have a Nigerian either as a Professor of Medicine or students ... [more]

6:20:42 PM Prevention better than promise of a cure
Financial Times

This was in large part a medical breakthrough of the 1990s. But in the past decade in the developing world the treatment has saved many more millions of ... [more]

6:09:06 PM Determining the Ethnic Origin of Stem Cells
Forbes

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor At this point in time, various lines of stem cells have become available in hospitals for a host of medical procedures, .... [more]

5:10:25 PM Basilea, J&J Row Evolves With FDA Response Letter
Wall Street Journal - USA

In a separate statement, Johnson & Johnson said it planned to discuss "the best path forward" with the FDA as soon as possible. ... [more]

4:34:57 PM Ginkgo Doesn't Stop Cognitive Decline
ABC News - United States

23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "It's pretty safe and it's cheap, and it's not like some of the things that are either ... [more]

4:10:47 PM The Wisconsin economy: Ten trends to follow in 2010
WTN News - Madison,WI,USA

Stem-cell technologies finally come of age. The promise of stem-cell research was oversold in the short run, as most researchers realized it would be years ... [more]

3:33:38 PM Telemedicine Fails to Improve ICU Outcomes
MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ,USA

Many in the medical community have looked to telemedicine as a way to stretch the limited number of intensivists. Thomas and colleagues noted that onsite ... [more]

3:20:33 PM Researchers Call for Greater Ethnic Diversity in Stem Cell Lines
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA

An international team of researchers claim stem cell lines with a greater breadth of ethnic genetic diversity must be developed to optimize the use of such ... [more]

3:04:52 PM Problems with FDA Medical Device Approval Process Identified in New Studies
AboutLawsuits.com - USA

Two new studies have been published that are highly critical of the way the FDA approves medical devices for human use, saying that the agency requires too ... [more]

2:40:55 PM future of brain-controlled devices
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

In both cases, the devices interact with a computer to produce a wide variety of applications, ranging from medical breakthroughs and military-tech advances ... [more]

2:33:21 PM The five biggest local stories of 2009
Mass Device - USA

MassDevice lists the top five stories for the local medical device industry, including Jim TObin stepping down from the top job at Boston Scientific, ... [more]

2:31:35 PM Cryo-Cell CEO Mercedes Walton Invites Women to Share Their Ideas on
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) "Never in history have we experienced a time of such rapid advances with stem cells, including the use of stem cells from menstrual blood and how they may ... [more]

2:13:11 PM Is the FDA Too Easy On Medical Devices?
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

By Jacob Goldstein Sounds like the FDA is about to get tougher on new medical devices: The acting director of the agency's device division tells the WSJ and ... [more]

1:56:26 PM Entest BioMedical Files Grant Application With the National Heart, Lung
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) Entest Biomedical Inc. (OTCBB: ENTB) announced that it has filed a grant application with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for the ... [more]

12:21:58 PM Living — well — with bipolar disorder; It's all about focusing on the
Kelowna.com - Kelowna,British Columbia,Canada

Kelowna.com People living well with BD tend to be the ones who have the least contact with the medical community. "They might drop in twice a year to have their lithium ... [more]

11:27:02 AM Brain wave research advances
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

The research team was led by Gerwin Schalk, associate professor of neurology at Albany Medical College and research scientist at Wadsworth, and included Dr. ... [more]

11:24:20 AM Stem Cells Can Reverse Retinal Degeneration
Dr. Cutler

A new study suggests human embryonic stem cell therapy may help treat a host of vision-related conditions that can eventually lead to blindness. .... [more]

10:04:39 AM How to Keep Stem Cells Young This could be useful during implantation
Forbes

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Stem cells hold great promise in the field of medicine, as they could potentially be used to treat severe wounds, ... [more]

10:02:31 AM Showcase: Yes They Did
New York Times (blog)

... and put the baby's name in this,'” said Barack's father, Amadou Ndiaye, 43, a biomedical engineer who came to the United States from Senegal in 1994. ... [more]

9:43:08 AM This Year Brought Legal Changes for the Medical Community in Texas
Fast Pitch! (press release) - USA

The men and women who are members of our medical community are no exception in their need to adjust to some changes brought by the government. ... [more]

9:39:36 AM Research Update
CNN/Money - USA

Novo Nordisk today announced that formal feedback from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding liraglutide, a once-daily human GLP-1 ... [more]

8:45:25 AM Nation/World briefs
The Detroit News - Detroit,MI,USA

.... patient information was missing, according to one study conducted by researchers from the FDA and Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. .... [more]

8:36:06 AM Rapid Flu Testing
Science Daily (press release) - USA

30, 2009) — Researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Children's Research Institute, and the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin have developed a ... [more]

7:14:45 AM Color-changing contact lenses alert diabetics to glucose-level changes
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia

The latest medical breakthrough - contact lenses that change color when glucose levels vary – could signal the end of the sometimes painful and inconvenient ... [more]

7:10:53 AM Essel Propack exits medical device biz to focus on core biz
Moneycontrol.com (press release) - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India

A: The medical device business was a business which we ran out of US mainly in the US West Coast, Minneapolis and Singapore . We invested in this business ... [more]

6:55:27 AM Lemons Help Reprogram Adult Cells These cells revert to their stem state
Forbes

In the scientific paper, which appears in the December 24 issue of the respected scientific journal Cell Stem Cell, researchers at the Chinese Academy of ... [more]

6:43:19 AM FDA is too quick to OK heart devices, report finds
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA

.... devices such as those manufactured by large companies in the Twin Cities have been approved for use without sufficient support from medical research. ... [more]

6:15:00 AM Memphis medical device maker SurgiVision plans to go public
DeSoto Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA

By Toby Sells Memphis medical device maker SurgiVision Inc. plans to go public with a $30 million initial public offering, according to a filing with the ... [more]

5:14:20 AM Analyst Reiterates “Hold” on Medtronic (MDT)
Benzinga

Argus Research reiterates a “Hold” on Medtronic Incorporation (NYSE: MDT) even as it remained concerned that the medical device company is vulnerable to ... [more]

4:21:57 AM Fort Worth surgeon was respected for his skills and personality
Fort Worth Star Telegram

By TRACI SHURLEY Dr. Robb Rutledge gained a lot of recognition in his more than 50 years in Fort Worth's medical community. But it was his interaction with ... [more]

4:17:32 AM FDA seeking tougher heart device studies
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

One review was performed by the FDA and researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The other, published in the Journal of the American ... [more]

3:59:34 AM 10 Questions: Timothy Church
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report - Baton Rouge,LA,USA

By David Jacobs (Contact) Officially, Timothy Church is the John S. McllHenny Endowed Chair in Health Wisdom at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. ... [more]

3:22:08 AM On The Money: Stem Cell Controversy
CBS 13 - Sacramento,CA,USA

Art Torres, the vice chairman of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is now making $225000 a year to head up the state's stem cell facility. ... [more]

3:17:09 AM FDA Cautions Nestle to Remove Misleading Nutritional Labeling
Citizens Report

The agency took issue with language that labeled the products as “medical” foods. In a Dec. 3 letter, the FDA said that Nestle mislabeled its Boost drink as ... [more]

2:28:51 AM Nestle “medical food” claims misleading, FDA says
Food and Drink Digital

The FDA has declared the label is false or misleading, and does not meet the statutory definition of a medical food under the definitions in the Orphan Drug ... [more]

2:15:56 AM Implanted cardiac device testing is scant, study finds
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Medical device studies, however, are much more difficult to carry out and cannot be compared with drug studies, said Mark Leahey, president and chief .... [more]

1:37:51 AM Health Cuts With Little Effect on Care
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

At the heart of the health care debate is the question of whether it's possible to cut medical costs without harming patients. What has happened here in ... [more]

12:11:48 AM Cardiovascular Devices Often Approved by FDA Without High-Quality
Science Daily (press release) - USA

Science Daily (press release) To uphold the FDA's mission of ensuring 'safe and effective' medical devices, it is essential that high-quality studies and data are available." [more]

12:11:06 AM Pro-Life News: Stem Cell Research, Catholics, Northern Ireland, Abortion ...
LifeNews.com - Helena,MT,USA

The chemical severely scarred Turnbull's cornea, the clear membrane that covers the front of the eye, and destroyed stem cells that usually help keep the ... [more]



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