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News From Tuesday, February 02, 2010
11:54:00 PM Freeze? What freeze? FDA in line for another budget boost
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Today, FDA is relying on 20th century regulatory science to evaluate 21st medical products,” the budget document states. The goal is to keep up with ... [more]

11:19:17 PM Low production of serotonin in the brainstem a likely cause for SIDS
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

SIDS has puzzled doctors and families for decades, but once the medical community recognized that a baby's position while sleeping affects the risk for SIDS ... [more]

11:07:57 PM 3-D scaffold provides clean, biodegradable structure for stem cell growth
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

This is a magnified view of the scaffold shows the pores, each about a tenth of a millimeter wide, where stem cells can grow. ... [more]

9:40:18 PM Stem cells aid nerve cells by contact
United Press International

2 (UPI) -- A Swedish-led team of medical scientists says it has discovered how transplanted stem cells can connect with and rescue threatened neurons and ... [more]

8:17:46 PM Obama Budget Designates Billions For Medical Research, ...
Ozarks First - Springfield,MO,USA

(Washington, DC) -- President Obama's proposed fiscal 2011 budget adds $1-billion to the National Institutes of Health research allocation. ... [more]

8:16:24 PM Pig Lungs Could Be Transplanted Into Humans by 2015
FOX News - USA

Pig lungs could be transplanted into humans following an Australian medical breakthrough bringing new hope to patients awaiting life-saving operations. .... [more]

8:13:16 PM Boston Scientific Spends $480K on Lobbying in 4Q
ABC News - United States

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Business Writer AP Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. spent $480000 in the fourth quarter to lobby the federal government on ... [more]

7:59:31 PM Study: Bone marrow and stem cell transplants result in similar survival rat
Private MD

"This update comparing two important stem-cell sources did not find differences in survival after 10-year follow-up," the authors state. ... [more]

7:27:36 PM The False Prophets of Autism
New York Times (blog)

She draws the analogy that alternative biomedical treatments for autism are like chemotherapy for cancer: some patients benefit, many don't. True enough. ... [more]

6:56:16 PM Guv adds embryonic stem-cell research to agenda
The New Mexico Independent - Albuquerque,NM,USA

Bill Richardson has added embryonic stem cell research to an already-packed agenda for this year's 30-day legislative session. The governor's message came ... [more]

6:07:38 PM Allergan gets FDA approval for new Juvéderm XC
OC Metro - Newport Beach,CA,USA

The therapy is a new form of Allergan's already FDA-approved Juvéderm injectable gel product. The XC version contains lidocaine, a local anesthetic that ... [more]

6:05:03 PM ALS TDI extends partnership with Calif. stem cell firm
Boston Mass High Tech - Boston,MA,USA

By Mass High Tech staff ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) has extended and grown its collaboration with California Stem Cell Inc. (CSC) in an ... [more]

5:18:01 PM Sparton Medical Systems to Exhibit at the MD&M West
FOXNews - USA

.... point-of-care medical devices for OEMs and emerging medical technology companies within the In Vitro Diagnostics and Therapeutic medical device markets. ... [more]

4:44:02 PM Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper
Guardian - UK

Many in the scientific and medical community have been pressing for the paper, linking the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) jab to bowel disease and autism, ... [more]

3:51:06 PM Bio-Matrix Scientific Group's Majority Owned Subsidiary Entest
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) Entest BioMedical Inc. (OTCBB: ENTB) is involved with the development of stem cell therapy treatments for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), ... [more]

3:42:12 PM Ten-year post-transplant survival similar between stem cell, bone marrow ...
HemOncToday - Thorofare,NJ,USA

OS and leukemia-free survival were similar between patients with leukemia who underwent peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation and bone marrow ... [more]

3:40:21 PM The war on Dr Wakefield: only 12 years too late
Spiked - London,UK

Despite having advance warning of the Lancet paper, the government's Department of Health and the Medical Research Council were slow off the mark in ... [more]

3:26:15 PM International Stem Cell Surges Higher
Sumfolio.com

International Stem Cell Corp. (OTC:ISCO) moved sharply higher during Monday's session, extending a rally dating all the way back to the beginning of January ... [more]

3:26:08 PM Veran Medical Receives FDA Clearances to Expand Uses for ig4 Navigation
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) ... Medical Technologies announced today that it has recently received two clearances (K093146 & K093995) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ... [more]

2:17:24 PM How HeLa cells Have Changed Medicine
eFitnessNow - Venice,California,USA

In a microbiology lab at Columbia University in New York, a professor has experimented with cells that led to many outstanding medical breakthroughs within ... [more]

2:12:18 PM Skymark Research Initiates Independent Research Coverage on Stem Cell
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) SCII (soon to have its name changed to AmStem Corporation) is a company devoted to the treatment of patients with stem cell transplantation therapy as well ... [more]

2:07:08 PM California Stem Cell and ALS Therapy Development Institute Extend Their ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

This effort will build on work that has already been completed as part of this on-going partnership to understand how stem cells, and their derivatives, ... [more]

1:24:53 PM Capsule Continues to Lead the Device Connectivity World
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA

This approach didn't tie us to a specific medical device vendor and its product line and gave us more data points and more integrated devices than other ... [more]

1:12:36 PM HEALTH CARE AND DISEASE
The Cypress Times

In addition to various health plan choices and a multitude of insurance offers available in the market place, employers and the medical community must also ... [more]

1:02:19 PM Obama budget includes $38M from generics user fees
Pharma Times - London,UK

... for patients and families to realize the benefits of science that are yielding revolutionary advances in the life and biomedical sciences,” she added. ... [more]

12:39:07 PM International Stem Cell Schedules Shareholder Conference Call
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

International Stem Cell Corp., a California-based biotechnology company creating human stem cell lines from unfertilized eggs, announced that it is has ... [more]

10:50:13 AM Health Bulletin Board
The Spokesman Review

With appropriate support from both the medical community and personal relationships, living with chronic pain can be less of a struggle. ... [more]

10:21:29 AM Rofin presents lasers for medical device industry
Manufacturing Talk - UK

Rofin-Baasel will exhibit examples of welding and marking systems for the medical device industry at Medtec 2010. Rofin's Starweld Select is a ... [more]

9:39:59 AM Mayo Clinic expertise
MayoClinic.com - USA

Don't fall for every headline proclaiming a new cure or medical breakthrough. Use these tips for evaluating health news. By Mayo Clinic staff Pick up any ... [more]

9:16:03 AM Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging Summit offers an event to understand ...
Nanowerk LLC - Honolulu,HI,USA

As part of the summit, advisors from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided a regulatory framework for developing nanotechnology and targeted ... [more]

8:28:36 AM Teaching abstinence makes children delay first sexual intercourse: research
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Children aged between 11 and 15 who were given a lesson focused on abstinence were less likely to have sexual intercourse ... [more]

7:28:58 AM Recipe for Haiti relief: Brewery co-founder, local doctor team up,
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA

The Missoulian Every bit of it – from bandages to scalpels to bone-setting metal rods – comes via Missoula's medical community. Both hospitals, all three surgery centers ... [more]

7:21:36 AM Journals 'block' stem cell work
BBC News - E,UK

By Pallab Ghosh Stem cell experts say they believe a small group of scientists is effectively vetoing high quality science from publication in journals. ... [more]

6:30:52 AM Abstinence-only programs might work, study says
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The research, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, comes amid intense debate over how to reduce sexual activity, pregnancies, .... [more]

5:13:32 AM Hampton U. gets $8 million for biomedical research center
Richmond Times Dispatch

AP Officials say construction will begin within the next two months on the 20000-square-foot center, which is expected to open next summer. ... [more]

4:42:57 AM Brain fitness is also an important part of overall health
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

.... to decrease how common the disease has become, and taking responsibility for our own personal health is just as important as new medical breakthroughs. ... [more]

3:56:20 AM Fish oil pills show promise in preventing schizophrenia in young people ...
The Associated Press

The research was funded by the Stanley Medical Research Institute, a non-profit in Chevy Chase, Maryland, that supports research on schizophrenia and ... [more]

3:29:59 AM Medtronic spends nearly $1M on lobbying in 4Q
BusinessWeek - USA

.... that would increase the regulation of medical devices manufactured in foreign countries by charging additional user fees for FDA inspections, ... [more]

3:23:29 AM In the Weeds: Regulations Lag as Medical Marijuana Grows
NewsHour - USA

Basically, what Colorado has done is, it's using the medical community as a really cheap and easy -- and it's a really cheap, easy backdoor to legalization ... [more]

3:21:01 AM New approach may allow researchers to identify cancer stem cells
Private MD

by Alex Schoenfeld British researchers have reportedly developed a new method of identifying and studying cancer stem cells, a discovery that may enable ... [more]

1:41:07 AM Medtronic spent over $960000 lobbying on health care reform and other issues
Canadian Business - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

WASHINGTON (AP) - Medtronic Inc., the world's largest medical device maker, spent nearly $1 million lobbying Congress in the fourth quarter of 2009, .... [more]

1:09:09 AM Lecture on Biomedical Ethics in TCD
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland

Prof Onora O'Neill will deliver the inaugural Swan Lecture, entitled “Intelligent accountability in medical practice” today at 5.30pm in the Paccar Theatre, ... [more]

12:56:19 AM FDA Announces February Public Meeting
InjuryBoard.com (blog)

Questions have been raised over the past few years about the program's validity and if it achieves the intended goals of the FDA - to make available medical ... [more]

12:33:43 AM Obama's Budget Increases Funding for Medical Research That Compares
Kaiser Health News - Washington,DC,USA

Kaiser Health News By Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Appleby The Obama administration, in an effort to forge ahead with its sometimes-contentious effort to compare various medical ... [more]



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