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News From Monday, February 22, 2010
11:33:50 PM Doctor touts successes in breast cancer research
Green Valley News - Green Valley,AZ,USA

A medical oncologist at the Arizona Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Arizona, Downey said molecular profiling ... [more]

11:12:44 PM A High Blood Pressure Mystery
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

"Hypertension is in a no-man's land, somewhere between public health and the medical community, but neither community has full control of the problem," he ... [more]

10:51:38 PM Ban diabetes drug?
Times of India - India

The drug, used by millions of diabetics in India, was found by the US FDA to increase the risk of heart disease and death. The committee, being formed by ... [more]

10:47:43 PM Cord Blood Banks Called "Wrong" -- But Who's Right?
(Except ...

There were ads in every pregnancy magazine, on every parenting website, on the side of my Facebook page: “Cutting edge stem cell technology! ... [more]

10:38:29 PM Unilife Corporation Donates First Shipment of Unitract(TM) Safety Syringes
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) Unilife Corporation is a US-based medical device company focused on the design, development, manufacture and supply of a proprietary range of retractable ... [more]

10:35:57 PM Ohio Announces Centers Of Excellence In Biomedicine And Health Care
Gov Monitor

The Centers at 14 universities throughout the state are committed to focusing their academic and research activities on biomedical and health care to create ... [more]

10:09:50 PM Government Agencies Among Those Hacked in Massive January Botnet Attack
Government Technology

"I don't think you would ever see a report in the medical community about one system in the human body shutting down after another," he said. ... [more]

9:55:42 PM XenoPort Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Financial Results
MarketWatch - USA

The receipt of a Complete Response letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the new drug application (NDA) for Horizant(TM) ... [more]

9:44:23 PM Genetic Differences for 'Test Tube' Babies?
WebMD

.... of pathology and laboratory medicine and acting director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia. ... [more]

9:19:42 PM Syneron wins US approval to market eMatrix device to smooth facial lines
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times By AP NEW YORK (AP) — Skin treatment and aesthetic medical device maker Syneron Medical said Monday its heat-based system has received US regulatory ... [more]

8:55:52 PM Researchers Using Unconscious Patients as Medical Guinea Pigs Without
FOX News - USA

FOXNews "We're not a nation of research subjects," said George Annas, a bioethicist at Boston University. "It's simple: You shouldn't do research on people without ... [more]

7:31:00 PM Report shows ups, downs of Maryland's stem cell program
Baltimore Business Journal - Baltimore,MD,USA

Funding for Maryland's stem cell research program is under siege in Annapolis, and a report released Monday could give those on both sides of the debate ... [more]

6:58:14 PM Marketing health: Local hospital administrators talk about the impact ...
Southeast Missourian

Instead, he hopes patients engage intentionally with the medical community so they can build relationships with medical professionals based on trust. .... [more]

6:47:15 PM Brain Research Finds Music Key to Improved Speech and Reading
Tonic

According to researchers Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard Medical School, Nina Kraus of Northwestern University and Aniruddh Patel of The Neurosciences .... [more]

6:34:52 PM $20 billion device tax lives on in new White House healthcare proposal
Mass Device - USA

A 10-year, $20 billion tax on medical device makers would begin in 2013 under President Barack Obama's new healthcare reform proposal. ... [more]

6:21:17 PM UH Case Medical Center spins off Fluence Therapeutics to commercialize ...
MedCity News - Cleveland,OH,USA

Fluence Technology is housed at the Akron Global Business Accelerator, which is part of the city's Biomedical Corridor District. ... [more]

5:42:30 PM Obama's health care bullet points
Abortion politics: Biden never refused communion

Can anyone exlain the difference between the medical device manufacturer's Medical Device Fee and the newly proposed Excise Tax? ... [more]

5:41:29 PM Salix Pharma Down Ahead Of Panel Meeting On Rifaximin
Wall Street Journal - USA

Tuesday's FDA panel of medical experts is being asked to make recommendations about whether it thinks rifaximin should be approved to treat hepatic ... [more]

5:33:24 PM Warning Over Fraudulent Stem Cell Banks
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

A top US scientist is making accusations that clinics that offer to “bank” stem cells from the umbilical cords of newborns for use later in life in the ... [more]

5:12:17 PM Pioneering Initiative Will Enable Children Born at Risk for Brain Injuries
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) The program is being jointly launched in Tucson by Cord Blood Registry, the world's largest stem cell bank; Save the Cord Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy ... [more]

5:09:22 PM Weissman discusses how cancer stem cells evade body's defense mechanisms
at ...

Article Ant (press release) BY KRISTA CONGER There are many different types of stem cells — embryonic, which can become all tissues of the body; tissue-specific or “adult” stem cells ... [more]

4:54:51 PM NIH Chief Stresses Economic Impact of Federal Biomedical Funding
xconomy - USA

Collins says cancer is a disease of the genome, and federal funding for biomedical research is not only advancing on a cure but also helping to sustain the ... [more]

4:26:04 PM FDA Launches Initiative to Reduce Radiation Exposure from Medical Exams
AboutLawsuits.com - USA

In response to growing concerns about the side effects of radiation exposure during medical procedures, the FDA has launched a new initiative designed to ... [more]

4:10:42 PM Stem cell treatment improves Jaide's life
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

By KAY BLUNDELL - The Dominion Post A severely disabled girl who travelled to Mexico for experimental stem cell treatment is eating normally for the first ... [more]

3:54:01 PM Histostem Participates in Clinical Trials Demonstrating the Effective Use
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) The Company is devoted to the treatment of patients with stem cell transplantation therapy as well as providing the supplies of biological solutions ... [more]

3:53:13 PM Unpacking condensins' function in embryonic stem cells
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

If cancer progenitor cells—which function similarly to stem cells—are shown to rely on these regulatory proteins in the same way, it may be possible to ... [more]

3:23:15 PM Court Maintains Medtronic Heart Valves Don't Infringe
Orange County Business Journal - Irvine,California,USA

Lemaitre Joins VC Co. to Start Medical Device Fund; Apria Cuts, Outsources Jobs in Fla. By VITA REED Medtronic Inc. recently said a German appellate court ... [more]

3:13:31 PM Experienced Global Neuroscience Expert Joins Board of Directors of biOasis
MarketWatch - USA

.... the Medical Research Council (Canada), the Human Frontiers Science Program (International) and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and ... [more]

3:05:25 PM Another Unwarranted Avandia Scare
Forbes - NY,USA

What is available is the press release and the full report of their two year investigation into the FDA and GSK's handling of Avandia safety. ... [more]

1:49:31 PM Vycor Medical Completes Recapitalization and Secures Funding
CNN/Money - USA

Vycor is a revenue-generating innovative medical device company with approximately 800 surgeries having been carried out utilizing its VBAS (ViewSite Brain ... [more]

1:42:42 PM Metabolic Syndrome: A leading cause of weight gain
Aurora Beacon News - Aurora,IL,USA

By Dr. Scott Morris MD of Complete Clinics Metabolic Syndrome, a topic that is increasingly becoming popular in both the medical community and the popular ... [more]

1:35:54 PM IVF may raise risk of diabetes, hypertension and cancer in later life
Guardian - UK

While IVF is generally considered to produce healthy babies, doctors have identified subtle genetic changes that may raise the risk of particular medical ... [more]

1:25:00 PM Vivakor's VivaThermic Division Announces Major Advancement in Stem Cell
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release)  Select leading stem cell researchers and institutions have begun testing this new method. To accommodate the response to this major advancement in ... [more]

1:16:13 PM Syneron Receives FDA Clearance for Expanded Indications of eMatrix(TM ...
CNN/Money - USA

Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), the leading global aesthetic device company, announced today expanded clearance from the US Food and Drug ... [more]

12:41:09 PM DNA Deception
Texas Tribune

.... infant blood samples without parental consent, they said it was for medical research into birth defects, childhood cancer and environmental toxins. ... [more]

12:34:29 PM BrainStorm Enters into Collaborative Agreement with Hadassah to Conduct ...
MarketWatch - USA

Hadassah is an internationally recognized medical facility and has vast medical expertise in treating patients through the use of stem cell therapies. ... [more]

12:24:21 PM Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Steven Nissen again thrust in spotlight
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

Plain Dealer .... at Harvard Medical School in the division of medical ethics in a phone interview Sunday. "The rest of us have to regulate it. It's really the FDA that's ... [more]

12:14:04 PM Wellness Day for Women set at Pennington
Baton Rouge Advocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA

By ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT The Pennington Biomedical Research Center will hold a free health expo, the Irene W. Pennington Wellness Day for Women, .... [more]

12:11:36 PM Prostate cancer battle breakthrough
Pharmacy Europe - London,England,UK

Scientists have duplicated the self-renewal of stem cells to artificially create prostate cancer in a bid to find the root causes of the disease. ... [more]

11:22:54 AM Cord Blood America Visits China; Sets 2010 Goals: Acquisitions ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

Cord Blood America (OTC Bulletin Board: CBAI) is the parent company of CorCell, which facilitates umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation for expectant ... [more]

11:18:55 AM DHMC codes to target ghostwriting
The Dartmouth

Such regulations are necessary to help eliminate ghostwriting's negative implications for the medical community and consumers, Lacasse said. ... [more]

10:28:32 AM Solving life's final mysteries
Brandon News and Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA

The board arranges for unclaimed bodies to be used for medical research and teaching. Unless the body is crushed, has a contagious disease, is overly obese, ... [more]

10:01:27 AM NIH grant funds study on stem cells from ALS patients
The JHU Gazette

Using stem cells developed in a laboratory from skin cell samples taken from 20 ALS patients and five control subjects, Rothstein and his colleagues will ... [more]

9:50:12 AM Health Care Reform's Real Eco Impact
Earth911.com - Scottsdale,Arizona,USA

This means incorporating high-quality foods and healthy lifestyles, elements that Verkerk says the medical community has been “banging on about for years ... [more]

9:49:52 AM Clinical Research Associate
InfoGrok

Medical Device experience is an absolute necessity, CV therapy experience is preferable. You will have at least 1 years monitoring experience and you will ... [more]

9:05:22 AM Study reveals promising cure for prostate cancer
TheMedGuru - Chandigarh,India

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles genetically altered human stem cells to obtain an improved understanding of the spread of cancer in ... [more]

8:36:53 AM Minicamp gives girls a look at math, science careers | Philadelphia
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Philadelphia Inquirer By Miriam Hill Angel Hambrecht likes math and science and is pondering a job in biomedical engineering, but not many of her female friends at West Deptford ... [more]

8:26:51 AM Novartis receives FDA approval of Menveo(R), a vaccine to prevent ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

.... which is very reassuring," said Keith S. Reisinger, MD, Medical Director, Primary Physicians Research, Inc., Pittsburgh, Penn. "With the FDA approval of ... [more]

8:17:11 AM Challenges and Opportunities Facing Stem Cell Scientists
Science Daily (press release) - USA

20, 2010) — The United States government's decision last year to lift restrictions on federally-funded stem cell research has helped the nation's stem-cell ... [more]

7:39:36 AM Stress 'increases the risk of memory loss in diabetics'
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

The team, funded by the Medical Research Council, now plan to investigate other factors which affect diabetics which they believe could also be linked to ... [more]

7:27:58 AM Annie Hopper meets with neuroplasticity author Norman Doidge, MD
Planet Thrive - Long Beach,NY,USA

.... the physicians and scientists who know firsthand that important medical breakthroughs are usually scoffed at by the medical community when first .... [more]

6:13:24 AM Could Your Baby's Umbilical Cord Blood Save Their Life?
InjuryBoard.com (blog)

There is also an ongoing, FDA-approved clinical trial, testing cord blood stem cell therapy as a treatment for pediatric cerebral palsy. ... [more]

4:55:58 AM Athletes embrace cutting-edge doctors, methods to speed recovery
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

Puckett has used prolotherapy, a relatively new technique not fully embraced by the medical community, to treat a right knee that has endured six operations ... [more]

3:09:44 AM The next step in dementia policy
Australian Ageing Agenda - Sydney,NSW,Australia

Last year a report commissioned by Alzheimer's Australia predicted that without a major medical breakthrough, more than a million Australians will live with ... [more]

2:59:06 AM Hemet woman gets a rare chance to help a sick girl
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

Andrea Castro holds Mara Tyrrell, to whom she donated stem cells when Mara was just over 8 months old. Last month they met for the first time in Los Angeles ... [more]

2:43:34 AM How the GOP Can Fix Health Care
El Paso Inc

It won't change anyone's behavior, and it will eventually lead to rationing, which undercuts innovation and medical research. This is not rocket science. ... [more]

1:10:50 AM Umbilical cord banking catching up in metros
Economic Times - India

“Approval for full-scale trials for treating cerebral palsy and juvenile diabetes in the US using stem cell therapy has given a boost to cord blood banking ... [more]

12:19:24 AM Diabetes drug Avandia may raise risk of heart attacks and stroke
Food Consumer - Manitowoc,WI,USA

The FDA should have banned Avandia, Dr. David Graham, a scientist at FDA, and Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen told the FDA advisory panel. ... [more]



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