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11:33:18 PM Biomedical Company Investigates Stem Cell Therapy for COPD
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Now a biomedical company offers hope for a cure. Entest Biomedical Inc, a subsidiary of Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc, has begun studies of the company's ... [more]

10:46:50 PM Strengthening Ties Between Research And Clinical Communities
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Even if it is not brilliant cinematically, it effectively educates the audience about how medical research is conducted and financed. ... [more]

10:46:44 PM Baxter Lobbying Budget Tops $1 Million for 4Q
ABC News - United States

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Business Writer AP Drug and medical device maker Baxter International Inc. spent over a million dollars lobbying on the health care ... [more]

10:29:07 PM More Doses of MS Drug Raise Risk of Brain Infection
US News - USA

In an advisory sent to health-care professionals and patients, the FDA warned that the risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), ... [more]

10:07:34 PM Garden project part of Kilgore's focus on customer and community service
Columbia Business Times

When Kilgore's Medical Pharmacy decided to create a community garden for the kids at Nora Stewart Early Learning Center, Kilgore's co-owner Ann Bromstedt ... [more]

8:53:54 PM Medical Breakthroughs With Biotechnology
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 – A recent article in the Scandia Journal reported that biotechnology is helping to improve our knowledge of many devastating illnesses, ... [more]

8:33:50 PM FDA To Use Computer Program To Assess Risk of Food, Drug Imports
iHealthBeat - Oakland,CA,USA

This year, about 20 million shipments of food, medicine, medical devices and cosmetic products are expected to arrive at ports nationwide, compared with six ... [more]

8:12:49 PM Medical Research Council Technology's Centre for Therapeutics Discovery
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA

PharmaLive (press release) (subscription) LONDON, February 4/PRNewswire/ -- A major centre created by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and MRC Technology (MRCT) in order to fast-track the .... [more]

8:04:52 PM Aaron's, Inc. to Donate Solar-Powered Electric Systems to Haiti Relief
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) ATLANTA, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aaron's, Inc. (NYSE: AAN) will donate two solar-powered electric systems, arriving in Haiti today and valued at ... [more]

7:20:22 PM FDA looks to speed medical device trials
Mass Device - USA

The Food & Drug Administration issued new guidlines for medical device clinical trials it says can speed the process. Companies looking to get medical ... [more]

7:03:43 PM Stem Cell Research - Market Trends, Investment Trends and Pipeline Analysis
Online PR News - La Quinta,CA,USA

Online PR News – 04-February-2010 – GBI Research analysis suggests that stem cell therapies have immense market potential, driven by a strong pipeline that ... [more]

6:00:55 PM NC Biomedical Innovation Network Launches With February 26 Symposium
PRLog.Org (press release) - Bucuresti,Romania

PR Log (Press Release) – Feb 05, 2010 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – The North Carolina Biomedical Innovation Network will officially launch with a ... [more]

5:48:18 PM USC Stem Cell Researchers Receive Funding
USC News

In 2008, researchers at the Keck School led by Ying derived rat embryonic stem cells for the first time in history. The investigators found that stem cells ... [more]

4:14:45 PM Volcano says jury reaches verdict against co in lawsuit
Reuters - NY,USA

Feb 5 (Reuters) - Medical device maker Volcano Corp (VOLC.O) said a jury reached a verdict against the company and its unit Axsun Technologies in a .... [more]

4:05:21 PM FDA Issues Guidance to Help Streamline Medical Device Clinical Trials
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

The FDA has approved a number of medical devices whose approval applications submitted to the FDA included clinical studies that used these statistical ... [more]

2:23:11 PM Autism and vaccines: Bogus study hurts research
The Gloucester County Times - Woodbury,NJ,USA

Another casualty of the Lancet study is trust of medical research. Some parents were always skeptical about the study — after all, since it appeared, ... [more]

11:57:27 AM Cincinnati Children's opens stem cell center
Cincinnati Business Courier - Cincinnati,OH,USA

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has opened the Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility to provide a central source for human stem cell technologies to ... [more]

10:42:29 AM Vital signs: FDA's concern over potentially harmful plastic ingredient
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

Houston Chronicle 15, the FDA reversed itself, announcing that it is “giving more credence” to recent studies showing “the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and ... [more]

10:42:02 AM The damage of the anti-vaccination movement
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By Michael Fumento The doctor who launched the modern anti-vaccine movement acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly," Britain's General Medical Council has ... [more]

9:58:40 AM Medical community reviving new program at IUSB Med School
WNDU-TV - South Bend,IN,USA

The medical community is reviving a new program at South Bend's IU School of Medicine before it's dead on arrival. The IU School of Medicine is expanding ... [more]

8:26:24 AM Liverpool scientists discover new CPRS treatment
England's Northwest - UK

Scientists from the University of Liverpool have made a medical breakthrough with a treatment for sufferers of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). ... [more]

8:13:05 AM Linden LLC Acquires Hycor Biomedical Inc
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA

Linden LLC has announced the acquisition of Hycor Biomedical, Inc form Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A). Hycor is engaged in the development, manufacture, ... [more]

7:24:08 AM Fate Therapeutics, MIT Scientist Jaenisch Gets Stem Cell Patent
BusinessWeek - USA

.... a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist, will be granted a US patent for conceiving a way to turn cells from mammals' bodies into stem cells. ... [more]

5:57:56 AM FDA Wants $4 Billion to Overhaul Medical Device, Food Safety Monitoring
DOTmed.com (press release) - New York,New York,USA

But a significant chunk of the budget request, $100.8 million, would be earmarked for its devices, drugs and vaccines division, bringing the FDA's medical ... [more]

5:53:37 AM Vaccine to Protect Pregnant Women from Contracting Malaria?
Science Daily (press release) - USA

"In collaboration with scientists at The Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Research, we've tested the antibodies that were produced in the laboratory ... [more]

4:33:00 AM Groups Urge State To Fix Medicaid Issue
KETV.com - Omaha,NE,USA

Members of the Nebraska medical community and child advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to find a solution to the state's program with prenatal Medicaid ... [more]

3:27:54 AM A Medical Solution and Dramatic Treatment for Adult Dyslexia
HealthNewsDigest.com

Quite clearly, in the absence of a coexisting medical breakthrough and therapeutic, preventative solution for Dyslexia and what I termed “Occupational ... [more]

3:15:54 AM Genes for 1 in 5 mean exercise won't improve endurance
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

.... says co-author Tuomo Rankinen, a scientist in the human genomics laboratory at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge. ... [more]

2:47:37 AM New Episodes Of Scientists Behaving Badly
Wall Street Journal - USA

But only after Britain's General Medical Council found that the author of that article had been "irresponsible and dishonest" in his research, ... [more]

2:38:35 AM New medical device energizes 'miracle child'
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA

Thanks to a new medical device approved by the Food and Drug Administration a week and a half ago, Miller is back to playing the drums in his Gilbert Junior ... [more]

1:40:11 AM Biodel Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results
MarketWatch - USA

In December 2009, Biodel submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market VIAject(R) as a ... [more]

1:28:34 AM Local medical community concerned about doctor shortage
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA

The local medical community is concerned, and if you ever have to see a doctor, you should be too. We all know how long it can take to see a doctor .... [more]

1:06:41 AM A blistering, rambling, entertaining attack on the biomedical disease model
Psychology Today (blog)

Psychology Today (blog) We have to track that he is making several different cases against the biomedical disease model. There's the historical case. The disease model was not ... [more]

1:00:26 AM International Stem Cell Corporation Opens Facility for Development and ...
MarketWatch - USA

ISCO will implement its parthenogenic stem cell processes at this facility during 2010 and adopt current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) standards. .... [more]

12:25:04 AM Adult Stem Cells May Reverse Heart Attack Damage
CitizenLink - Colorado Springs,CO,USA

Adult stem-cell therapy continues to prove useful for treating heart disease patients, according to researchers at the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute ... [more]



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