Posted on May 31st, 2010 by Health News
“With half of all men in some developing countries already hooked on cigarettes, the tobacco industry is now courting lucrative new customers - young women,” according to a report published Thursday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the Associated Press/Los Angeles Times reports…
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Posted on May 31st, 2010 by Health News
Lancet Infectious Diseases Calls For Sustained Effort To Eradicate Polio A Lancet Infectious Diseases Leading Edge article examines the history of the global efforts to control polio and the challenges associated with targets to globally eradicate the disease…
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Posted on May 31st, 2010 by Health News
Michigan State University researchers are studying the role that statins - lifesavers for tens of millions of Americans trying to lower their cholesterol - play in causing disabling tendon ruptures. Francesca Dwamena, an associate professor in the College of Human Medicine’s Department of Medicine, is leading the study, which will analyze more than 100,000 Blue [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Health News
In 1989 a 29-year-old Michael Schrader had it all: steady job, a wife, and two wonderful children - daughter Courtney and son Cameron. He couldn’t envision wanting more - that is, more children. Taking steps to keep his nuclear family intact, he underwent vasectomy - a procedure so routine he was back on the golf [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — A 21% cut in Medicare reimbursements to physicians takes effect June 1, the FDA mulls criminal action stemming from a spate of OTC drug recalls, and the Obama administration responds to a healthcare reform lawsuit.
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Health News
Of the more than 38,000 Americans diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma each year, approximately 20 percent have non-clear cell forms of the disease. New findings shows that a non-clear cell form of kidney cancer known as papillary RCC, which accounts for 12 percent of all RCC, responds differently to sunitinib - a standard frontline treatment [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Health News
CytRx Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in oncology, today announced initiation of a Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical trial to evaluate the preliminary efficacy and safety of its oncology drug candidate bafetinib in patients with high-risk B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL).
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Health News
VIVUS, Inc. (Nasdaq: VVUS) announced that phase 3 data on avanafil, a next generation oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor therapy being investigated for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), will be presented next Tuesday at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2010 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. Irwin Goldstein, M.D…
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Health News
Repligen Corporation (Nasdaq: RGEN) announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have approved the Company’s proposal to re-analyze the images from our Phase 3 study to establish the utility of RG1068, synthetic human secretin, in improving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the pancreas (Phase 3 re-read)…
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Health News
Tengion Inc. (Nasdaq: TNGN) announced that its scientists have presented new research data in three podium presentations at the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) which was held May 23-26 in Philadelphia…
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