Aesthetic Society Applauds FDA’s Effort To Collect Data Concerning A Rare Condition Associated With Breast Implants

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) announces its support of a new national registry for breast implants that will be compiled by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

Blogs Comment On The Abortion Rights Movement, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Birth Control Access

The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. “I Went to the March for Life, and All I Got Was This Lousy Fear for Choice,” Sarah Erdreich, Feminists For Choice: The crowd at the March for Life in Washington, D.C…

Paper Seeks Okay to Publish Docs’ Medicare Billings

(MedPage Today) — The Wall Street Journal has filed suit to overturn a ban of more than 30 years on publication of Medicare payment amounts to individual physicians by name, citing a need for independent scrutiny of potential fraud.

RXi Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Initial Results In MicroRNA Therapeutics

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq: RXII), a recognized leader in RNAi-based therapeutics, announced that, as part of its collaboration with miRagen Therapeutics, Inc., positive data were generated demonstrating that RXi’s sd-rxRNA™ technology can be used, in vitro, to specifically enhance the activity of a microRNA of high interest to miRagen…