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Curis Publishes Preclinical CUDC-101 Data In Cancer ResearchCuris, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a drug development company seeking to develop next generation targeted small molecule drug candidates for cancer treatment, today announced that a research paper describing the biological activity of its HDAC, EGFR and HER2 inhibitor, CUDC-101, was published online in the journal Cancer Research and also will be published in an upcoming print version of the journal...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am IntegraMed(R) Launches AttainFertility.com To Educate Patients On Fertility IssuesIntegraMed America, Inc. (NASDAQ: INMD), the leader in developing and managing specialty healthcare networks in fertility and vein care, launched web portal AttainFertility.com, a new destination site offering comprehensive fertility information. AttainFertility.com is an interactive web platform that offers trusted fertility information from experts regarding everything from fertility issues and treatment options to cost and planning. The website also offers community support to help patients better cope with the transition to being parents...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am FDA Launches Initiative To Reduce Infusion Pump RisksThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps, which are devices that deliver fluids, including nutrients and medications, into a patient's body in a controlled manner. As part of its initiative, FDA is moving to establish additional premarket requirements for infusion pumps, in part through issuance today of a new draft guidance and letter to infusion pump manufacturers. FDA is also announcing a May public workshop on infusion pump design, and launching a new Web page devoted to infusion pump safety...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am People With Diabetes Are At Higher Risk Of Atrial FibrillationAs the U.S. population keeps aging and gaining weight, diabetes is becoming increasingly common. Some research has associated diabetes with the most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat, called atrial fibrillation , which can raise the risk for stroke and death. But results of past studies of diabetes and atrial fibrillation have conflicted. Now in the Journal of General Internal Medicine Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Experts To Men: Controversy Aside, PSA Test Can Still Save Your LifeA flurry of confusing research about the benefits of PSA testing has left many men and their physicians reticent to use a test that may be life-saving, says a panel of prostate cancer experts. The experts who gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday agreed that PSA testing, while not cancer-specific, is one of the best available tools for early detection of a cancer that kills 27,000 American men each year. "Every man has the right to know if he has cancer," said Jonathan W. Simons, MD, president and CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Advances Reported In Transitioning Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Patients To Adult ProvidersForty years ago, children born with sickle cell disease (SCD) were not expected to live past their teenage years. Today, medical advances are allowing children to live well into adulthood, raising concerns over who is going to care for these patients as adults. However, programs are underway to address these concerns, as reported in the March/April edition of Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, published by the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON). Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disorder among African Americans...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Less Is More! Nanopatch Is 100 Times Better Than Needle And SyringeNew research, led by Professor Mark Kendall, from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, demonstrates that a vaccine delivered by a Nanopatch™ induces a similarly protective immune response as a vaccine delivered by needle and syringe, but uses 100 times less vaccine. This discovery has implications for many vaccination programs in both industrialised and developing nations, which must overcome issues with vaccine shortages and distribution...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Mystic Pharmaceuticals Receives U.S. Patent For Needle-Free Vaccine And Drug Delivery TechnologyMystic Pharmaceuticals today announced it has been granted U.S. Patent 7,669,597, a key technology of its VRx2™ drug delivery platform. The VRx2™ Delivery Platform provides preservative free, precision dose delivery for ophthalmic and intranasal drugs and biologics. The issued patent covers Mystic's proprietary unit dose blister technology for packaging of drugs or biologics that have been freeze dried to powder form to improve stability, reduce the need for cold chain management and enable auto-reconstitution to a liquid form at the time of administration. Dr. C.J...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am All Nurses Need To Be Trained In Dementia Care, UKAlzheimer's Society is today calling for all nursing staff to receive mandatory training in dementia care as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) close their consultation. Alzheimer's Society has made recommendations on how dementia should be included in NMC standards. 'People with dementia occupy up to a quarter of hospital beds at any one time yet many are receiving inappropriate care and leaving hospital far worse than when they arrived. Nurses regularly tell us they're not receiving enough training in dementia. This needs to end...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Nutrition Researchers To Develop New Growth Charts For Children With Down SyndromeParents and doctors have known for a long time that children with Down syndrome tend to grow more slowly and are considerably shorter than most other children. But pediatricians needing to record growth milestones at regular office visits have an outdated set of growth charts based on data collected more than 25 years ago. Since that time, there have been major advances in the medical care of children with Down syndrome. In addition, the demographics of the general U.S. population have changed, and children are taller, but also more overweight...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am In Army’s Trauma Care Units, Feeling WarehousedWarrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate. But the units are far from being restful sanctuaries.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 10:21 pm ‘Informed Consent’ and the Ethics of DNA ResearchThere is a lot scientists can do with a swab. But their research subjects have begun to question the locked lab door.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:54 pm Book Review - Stuff - Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things - By Randy O. Frost and Gail SteketeeA study of hoarding: What drives people to compulsively collect?Source: NYT > Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:43 pm A Graying Population, a Graying Work ForceProfessional caregivers are one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. work force, and also one of the oldest.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:05 pm Food agency recalls contaminated chicken product in QuebecOTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has recalled a chicken product distributed in Quebec because of a possible listeria contamination. Cuisine Bernart Chicken Supreme "Tomate...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 7:12 pm Questions remain for N.L. doctors over meaning of government's contract offerST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador want the government to clarify its latest contract offer before they respond to it. Brendan Lewis, president of the NewfoundlandSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:23 pm States Warn of ‘Obamacare’ ScamsCon artists are taking advantage of confusion over the recent health care overhaul, with one plan offering protection against “death panels.”Source: NYT > Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:10 pm 'Leftover' veins yield stem cellsVeins left over from bypass surgery could be a source of "master" cells to help treat future heart problems, say scientists.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:03 pm Major jobs cuts 'on way in NHS'Major cuts in NHS staff which could have "disastrous" consequences are likely after the election, a nursing leader warns.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:03 pm Foods With a Surprising Amount of SaltSodium overload lurks in places you don’t expect: bread, salad dressing, chicken.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 4:57 pm Topalov takes lead against world chess champ AnandBulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov took a 1-0 lead Saturday against defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India on the first day of their duel for the world chess title to run until MaySource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:36 pm Surfing gets South Africa's homeless kids off Durban's streetsA 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and onto Durban's South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand. At the end of the day, he'll return...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:52 pm Seville's annual fair in full swingFlamenco, tapas and white wine from morning to evening: the Feria de Abril in Seville attracts thousands of tourists, despite their frustration at being excluded from private parties thrownSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:51 pm F.D.A. Is Urged to Set Maximum Levels of Salt in FoodThe federal government should declare high levels of salt in supermarket and restaurant foods unsafe, a new report urged.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 1:20 pm German nuclear protesters form 120-km human chainBERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) - Opponents of nuclear power formed a 120-km (75-mile) human chain between reactor sites in Germany on Saturday to protest against government plans to extend the power plants'...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 9:54 am Improved doping test for growth hormone on its wayNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Anti-doping agents may soon get a better shot at catching athletes who inject growth hormone to bulk up and enhance performance.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 6:32 am GSW IPO to price price shrs between 15-18.50 eurFRANKFURT, April 22 (Reuters) - Property company GSW seeks to place 140 million euros worth of shares when it lists on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on May 7, adding to a growing list of companies that...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:59 am Social smokers aren't hooked on nicotineThere's a species of smoker among us that is common, yet poorly understood.Source: CNN.com - Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 5:56 am RPT-WPP keen on digital buys but sees prices inflatedLONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - WPP , the world's biggest advertising group, is keen to buy more agencies that specialise in digital marketing but considers current prices high, its chief executive said on...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Apr 2010 | 4:17 am Spanish doctors conduct face transplantDoctors in Spain say they have carried out the world's first full face transplant on a man who severely damaged his face in an accident.Source: CNN.com - Health | 24 Apr 2010 | 3:55 am
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