Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
No doubt proteins are complex. Most are “large” and full of interdependent branches, pockets and bends in their final folded structure. This complexity frustrates biochemists and protein engineers seeking to understand protein structure and function in order to reproduce or create new uses for these natural molecules to fight diseases or for use in industry.
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
Many couples who have trouble conceiving a child have turned to a process known as in vitro fertilization. The resulting embryos are then transferred back into the woman or placed in storage. More than 400,000 embryos are currently in storage in the United States. The quality of the egg is often the single greatest factor [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
The SMC has accepted Nebido® (testosterone undecanoate) for use in Scotland for the treatment of hypogonadism, when testosterone deficiency has been confirmed by clinical features and biochemical tests1.
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
Today US District Judge Edward R. Korman ordered the FDA to make the morning after pill available to 17-year-old minor girls without a physician’s visit or prescription and without parental consent.
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
Drew Armstrong, a Congressional Quarterly staff reporter, discusses the latest developments in efforts to overhaul the U.S. health care system, legislation that would give FDA regulatory authority over tobacco products and a new bill that would allow FDA to approve generic versions of biotechnology drugs in this week’s ”
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
Research conducted by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard, Medical Director of The Michael Stern Parkinson’s Research Center at The Rockefeller University, Dr. Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt in New York and colleagues in Sweden, demonstrated in the Journal of Neuroscience that the brain protein called p11 could lead pharmaceutical companies to develop anti-depression drugs that begin working within [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today the formation of ‘Merck Serono Ventures’, a strategic, corporate venture capital fund to invest in emerging biotechnology companies.
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI), a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, announced today that one lot of Propafenone HCL 225 mg Tablets sold in 100 count bottles in the United States is being voluntarily recalled to the consumer level as [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
“Facts are sometimes the first casualty in the abortion debate,” a Salt Lake Tribune editorial says. An example of this came during a January committee hearing in the Utah Legislature over a bill (H.B.
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Health News
The high rate of patient sharing among hospitals found in this study might increase the spread and transmission of infectious pathogens, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Medscape Medical News
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