Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Health News
HeartWare International, Inc., a leading innovator of less invasive, miniaturized circulatory support technologies that are revolutionizing the treatment of advanced heart failure, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an IDE (Investigational Device Exemption) Supplement that allows HeartWare to enroll a second allotment of 54 patients in its “ADVANCE” bridge-to-transplant clinical trial under a Continued Access Protocol (CAP).
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Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Health News
Members of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable, consisting of America’s Leading Prostate Cancer Organizations, are asking President Obama to place a blue ribbon on the White House and light the White House blue in the evenings in recognition of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in September. This visible show of support for prostate cancer awareness by the White House will be a major tribute to the 2…
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Filed under: Men's Health
Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Health News
Lupus Research Institute-funded researcher Betty Tsao, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that humans - males in particular - with a variant form of the immune receptor gene “Toll Like Receptor 7 (TLR7)” are at increased risk of developing the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus)…
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Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — Wide-scale disclosure of clinical errors seems intuitively to be the ethical choice for hospitals and physicians, but researchers from the University of Washington suggest that disclosure should be decided on a case-by-case basis rather than a one-size-fits-all solution
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Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — Older veterans with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at increased risk for developing dementia, even if they had not been wounded in battle, researchers found.
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Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — This year workers paid 14% more for their employer-sponsored healthcare coverage than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a new survey.
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Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — Nearly half of all Americans — 48% — took at least one prescription drug in a one-month period in 2007-2008, a four percentage point hike over a decade, researchers found.
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Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — A warning that the intravenous antibiotic drug tigecycline (Tygacil) is associated with increased risk of death, compared with other antibiotics, will be added to the product’s label, the FDA said.
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Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Health News
As the summer comes to a close, I wanted to update you on the Company’s accomplishments this year, which set the stage for an exciting fall. The first eight months of the year have been very successful, with the Company attaining many of its goals, despite a very difficult economic environment, which has created challenges for many small biotechnology companies. Today, IMUC is in its best financial position ever and well positioned to validate the success it achieved in a Phase I trial for ICT-107, its dendritic cell-based cancer vaccine product candidate.
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Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Health News
Additional Analysis of 18 Month Data of the SORT OUT III Trial Provides Detail on Safety and Efficacy Outcomes in Patients With Diabetes, Acute Coronary Syndrome, or Treatment of Multiple Lesions
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