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News From Tuesday, July 21, 2009
10:23:55 PM Does urban pollution affect your IQ?
Sideways News - London,UK

Another recent study by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council found that a lower than average IQ increases a person's risk of developing heart ... [more]

9:38:50 PM Health care – reduce costs by reducing fatigue
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

That may indeed be a part of the story; however there's another part that is completely under the control of the medical community – fatigue. ... [more]

9:25:59 PM Accent on Aesthetics Plastic Surgery Medical Center Selects ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

.... Surgery Medical Center, has selected Artefill, the first and only FDA-approved microsphere-enhanced collagen filler for the correction of smile lines. ... [more]

9:23:53 PM New ANU sequencers to help slash research time
The Canberra Times - Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,Australia

The John Curtin School of Medical Research director, Professor Frances Shannon, said the next-generation DNA sequencers would transform how scientists ... [more]

8:59:00 PM Stem cells help rescue memory in mice
United Press International

IRVINE, Calif., July 21 (UPI) -- US scientists say neural stem cells helped rescue memory in mice with Alzheimer's disease. The study, published in the .... [more]

8:26:45 PM St. Jude gets FDA approval for wireless pacemaker
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

St. Jude Medical Inc. received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for a pair of wireless-ready pacemakers. Little Canada-based St. Jude ... [more]

8:23:03 PM GIA Market Reports Project Medical Device and Drug Industry Growth
DOTmed.com (press release) - New York,New York,USA

by Becky Jacoby, Reporter Global Industry Analysts (GIA), a leader in market research and reporting since 1987, has released reports on several sectors in ... [more]

7:28:31 PM St. Jude Medical Receives FDA Approval For Accent RF, Anthem RF ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA

(RTTNews) - Tuesday, St. Jude Medical, Inc. (STJ: News ) announced that US Food and Drug Administration or FDA approved its Accent RF pacemaker and Anthem ... [more]

7:27:55 PM Detentions Follow Medical Protest
Radio Free Asia - Washington,DC,USA

HONG KONG¡XPersonnel from a medical research lab in China's southwestern Sichuan province have been detained, authorities said, following clashes between ... [more]

7:14:45 PM Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Repair Heart, Study Shows
Science Daily (press release) - USA

iPS cells are stem cells converted from adult cells. In this study, the researchers reprogrammed ordinary fibroblasts, cells that contribute to scars such ... [more]

6:48:10 PM Twinkling Nanostars Cast New Light Into Biomedical Imaging
AScribe (press release) - USA

Gold nanostars and other gold nanoparticles have recently been examined as contrast agents for biomedical imaging because of their brightness at ... [more]

6:39:29 PM A Large Number Of Canada's Healthcare Workers Averse To Flu Shots
All Headline News - USA

Aside from possibly having an ailment-prone medical community, another negative effect of that phenomenon is it could lead to higher rates of absenteeism as ... [more]

5:50:09 PM Trade group opposes national device registry in House health ...
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA

.... three House panels introduced a health care reform bill that includes a provision that would ask the HHS to set up a National Medical Device Registry. ... [more]

5:42:02 PM Stem Cell Therapeutics wins Canadian clearance for Phase IIb ...
Trading Markets - Los Angeles,CA,USA

NTx-265 is Stem Cell Therapeutics's lead therapeutic regimen of two approved and clinically well-defined drugs, human chorionic gonadotropin and ... [more]

5:24:20 PM Health Buzz: Weight-Loss Drug Shows Promise and Other Health News
US News - USA

Is a Cash-Only or Direct-Pay Medical Practice Right for You? With the unemployment rate above 9 percent and some 46 million Americans lacking insurance, ... [more]

5:20:43 PM Can The Relationship Between Doctors And Drug Companies Ever Be A ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA

Emma Darcy is the co-founder of myphid.com, an international professional networking site for the pharmaceutical industry and the medical community. .... [more]

5:11:24 PM 'Shocking increase' in animal experiments
Independent - London,England,UK

Lord West, the Home Office minister responsible for regulating animal research, said that an overall increase in the amount of biomedical research carried ... [more]

4:57:59 PM Genetic Basis For Schizophrenia
Science Daily (press release) - USA

The Morris laboratory determined that Disc1 regulates two stem cell maintenance factors that have many functions in CNC cells, including the maintenance of ... [more]

3:42:38 PM Scientists use stem cells to save memory from Alzheimer's
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA

US researchers found that injecting stem cells into the brains of mice can save memory damaged by Alzheimer's disease. A study on mouse brains showed that ... [more]

3:38:49 PM Shock as medical experiments on animals in Britain rise 14% to 3.7m
Guardian - UK

The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures. ... [more]

3:22:57 PM Synthes executives plead guilty in unauthorized medical trial case
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

.... of Norian in surgeries to treat vertebral compression fractures of the spine, despite a warning on the FDA-cleared label for Norian XR against that use. ... [more]

2:51:11 PM Students Embed Stem Cells Into Sutures for Tendon Repair
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA

One of the medical breakthroughs with the greatest promise is stem cells. Stem cell research is frowned on by many because it is most often associated with ... [more]

2:04:09 PM Skin-like tissue developed from human embryonic stem cells
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

"Researchers have been seeking methods to grow skin-like tissues outside of the body using new sources of stem cells such as hESC, with the goal of ... [more]

2:03:52 PM Former ump urges passage of medical devices act
Hartford Courant - United States

Former major league baseball umpire Mark Hirschbeck has joined advocates urging Congress to approve a Medical Device Safety Act, after hip replacement ... [more]

2:00:18 PM Stem Cell Therapeutics Receives Approval To Begin Enrolling ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA

(RTTNews) - Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. (SSS.V: News ) said it has received a No Objection Letter from the Drug Controller General of India, or DCGI, ... [more]

1:54:42 PM Simple HIV drug therapy 'could save thousands in Africa'
The Times - London,England,UK

The DART trial, which was funded principally by Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC), involved 3316 people infected with HIV who had not previously ... [more]

1:38:10 PM Hospital names new CEO
Villages Daily Sun - The Villages,FL,USA

“I need to personally spend more time with the medical community, spend more time in the community, and our (hospital) leaders,” he said. ... [more]

1:13:31 PM Incyte reaches agreement with FDA on drug trial
Reuters - NY,USA

.... for INCB18424's use in myelofibrosis in late 2010 or early 2011," Chief Drug Development and Medical Officer Richard Levy said in a statement. ... [more]

12:05:21 PM St. Jude Medical Announces FDA Approval of Accent RF and Anthem RF ...
WELT ONLINE - Germany

"The Accent RF pacemaker and Anthem RF CRT-P are representative of St. Jude Medical's dedication to providing early insight into actionable information for ... [more]

11:58:42 AM $10000 ISSAC Award for Innovation Presented to MIT PhD
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

The ISSAC Award for Innovation recognizes and promotes the achievements of biomedical scientists, designers, engineers and other researchers involved in the ... [more]

11:18:54 AM Stem Cells: UConn Professor May Improve Heart Attack Recovery
Hartford Courant - United States

"If we could home stem cells to the damaged tissue, this would be a huge area of therapy," said Marc Lalande, director of UConn's Stem Cell Institute. ... [more]

11:14:11 AM Expanded medical research institute for Swansea
Careers and Jobs UK - Byfleet,Surrey,UK

An expansion of a medical research institute for Swansea University could potentially create up to 650 jobs in Wales. First Minister Rhodri Morgan welcomed ... [more]

10:22:53 AM Published at: www.businessweek.com
Gerson Lehrman Group - New York,USA

It turns out that AMA which new polls show that does not represent all of the medical community has become govt agent than representative of medical .... [more]

10:22:16 AM GOP Health Care Plan: Stall
The Washington Independent

... supporting “bold new incentives” for medical breakthroughs, and “no life-time health care benefits and insurance for Congressmen who leave their jobs. ... [more]

10:07:51 AM AntiCancer, Inc. Demonstrates That Human Hair Follicle Stem Cells ...
2K Play and Nickelodeon Announce Dora the Explorer Debut for Wii™

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers led by a team at AntiCancer, Inc. have demonstrated that stem cells derived from human hair follicles can repair ... [more]

7:27:37 AM UCF medical school ready to run with the big docs
South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA

Burnett Biomedical Sciences building (from left) is being built next to the UCF medical school and is nearly completed. The facilities are part of the .... [more]

7:17:11 AM Synthes execs plead guilty to improper testing
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Manufacturers are forbidden to market new uses for a medical product without notifying the FDA. Winning FDA approval to use the Norian products to treat ... [more]

7:04:31 AM Spring Valley's Gilman health center reopens following violations
Lower Hudson Journal news - West Harrison,NY,USA

By Jane Lerner • jlerner@lohud.com • July 21, 2009 SPRING VALLEY - A health center for the poor that was closed nearly two months ago because of unsanitary ... [more]

5:36:38 AM Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation gets Oklahoma City woman's gift
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

When Frieda died in 2007 at age 76, she left her entire estate, in Timothy's memory, to support medical research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ... [more]

4:26:34 AM Minnesota gains in venture capital
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

By THOMAS LEE, Star Tribune Minnesota's medical device industry received a double dose of good news Monday with new venture capital reports showing an .... [more]

4:18:08 AM Coping with 'chaos'
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA

.... a year with medical breakthroughs in fighting the rare illness that keeps him from even simple tasks such as opening his gifts or blowing out candles. ... [more]

3:48:08 AM Boucher hosts conference on transition to electronic medical records
Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA

The goal of conference was to give the region's medical community information on how to obtain some of the $20 billion included in the American Recovery and ... [more]

3:30:31 AM Biomedical institute appeals for assistance
Newsnet - Harare,Zimbabwe

The African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AIBST) has pleaded with government and various stakeholders to assist in the construction of a ... [more]

3:21:28 AM Throwing more dollars at a broken health care system
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

Americans have a right to be wary of the proposals on the table in DC A growing body of medical research indicates that our health care providers are ... [more]

1:56:56 AM Medtronic Valve That Avoids Major Surgery Clears a Hurdle
Wall Street Journal - USA

The so-called Melody transcatheter pulmonary valve is scheduled to be reviewed Wednesday by the FDA's circulatory-system devices panel. ... [more]

1:42:21 AM Stem cell boost that could offer hope for dementia patients
Daily Mail - UK - UK

It is the first time that neural stem cells have been used to restore memory in late stage Alzheimer's disease. Hope: Around 500000 Britons have Alzheimer's ... [more]

1:25:51 AM Medical device sales specialist lists Eureka 4BD
Blockshopper - Chicago,IL,USA

by Jimmy Finkel, published Jul 20, 2009 · Paul J. Xenakis and his wife, Molly, have listed for sale a four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 635 Legends Bluffs ... [more]

1:00:01 AM Explanation for HIV vaccine failure eludes researchers
Ars Technica - USA

By John Timmer | Last updated July 20, 2009 7:08 PM CT It's hard to overstate the degree to which the medical community craves an HIV vaccine. .... [more]

12:10:21 AM Neural Stem Cells Offer Potential Treatment For Alzheimer's Disease
Science Daily (press release) - USA

Mice genetically engineered to have Alzheimer's performed markedly better on memory tests a month after mouse neural stem cells were injected into their ... [more]



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