Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D), President Obama’s nominee for HHS secretary, on Friday signed a bill (S.B. 238) that requires abortion providers to offer women seeking abortions the option of viewing an ultrasound and listening to a fetal heartbeat monitor, the
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Self magazine in its April 2009 issue examines issues surrounding multifetal reduction, a procedure used to reduce the number of fetuses in pregnancies with triplets or more, typically as a result of infertility treatments.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday said that women’s reproductive health and rights are key issues in the Obama administration’s foreign policy and important parts of U.S. efforts to develop democracy abroad, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. Speaking at the
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British regulators on Thursday proposed changing the country’s advertising rules to allow organizations that provide abortion advice and referrals to run television and radio ads for the first time, the AP/Google.com reports. The proposal is part of a larger review of the country’s advertising rules and is subject to public review and the approval of [...]
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA is warning Americans not to eat pistachio products until it locates a million pounds of roasted nuts from a California producer that may be contaminated with salmonella.
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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (”Takeda”) announced a reorganization of its corporate structure, as part of its 2006-2010 Medium-Term Plan vision to become a global pharmaceutical company with highly integrated global operations.
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Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IXIARO(R), a new vaccine for the prevention of Japanese Encephalitis (JE). The initial target for use of Intercell’s vaccine - the only such product currently manufactured for the U.S. market - will be adult travelers and military personnel who visit or [...]
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In a study presented at the 58th annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology and simultaneously published by The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers reported that a strategy using an upstream, investigational dose of INTEGRILIN(R) (eptifibatide) routinely in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), at least 12 hours prior to angiography, failed [...]
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GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) provided the following update regarding its application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of CERVARIX(R), its vaccine to prevent cervical cancer and cervical pre-cancer related to human papillomavirus types 16 and 18. GSK has submitted final data from its Phase III pivotal efficacy study, [...]
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Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARNA) announced positive top-line results from BLOOM (Behavioral modification and Lorcaserin for Overweight and Obesity Management), the first of two pivotal trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of lorcaserin for weight management. Statistical significance (p
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