The Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), a non-profit organization based at the University of California, San Diego with affiliates across North America, urges pregnant women to receive the influenza vaccine as…
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Trophos Initiates Pivotal Efficacy Study Of Olesoxime In Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Trophos SA, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation for indications with under-served needs in neurology and cardiology, announced today the initiation of the pivotal efficacy…
EuropaBio Welcomes SME-Focused Enhanced Patent System
EuropaBio welcomes commitments made at this week’s Competitiveness Council of Ministers in Luxembourg on an enhanced patent system to boost innovative European industry with a special focus on the needs of SMEs…
Cellular Structure’s “Enforcer” Role Discovered By Johns Hopkins Scientists
When cells make the proteins that carry out virtually every function of life, it’s vital that the right things happen at the right times, and – maybe more importantly – that wrong…
BioSante Pharmaceuticals To Present At Cancer Immunotherapy Conference
BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) will present at the Cancer Immunotherapy: A Long Awaited Reality conference taking place on October 21, 2010, at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York….
Medtronic Clinical Trial Receives FDA Approval To Evaluate New CoreValve(R) System For Aortic Valve Implantation
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conditional approval for its Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application and pivotal clinical trial protocol to begin evaluating the Medtronic CoreValve…
Scientists Discover Miraculous Effects of Right Food
Scientists announced that the results of their recent diet study showed that multiple, rather than just single, foods with anti-inflammatory effects greatly reduce inflammation in the body, decrease bad cholesterol by 33%,…
Investigation into baby and child deaths at three heart surgery units
The probe was triggered after The Sunday Telegraph disclosed that the centres had far higher death rates than other units performing paediatric cardiac operations. At one hospital, death rates for one type…
Lilly osteoporosis drug regrows jaw bone
Eli Lilly and Co’s osteoporosis drug Forteo can regrow bone in jaws damaged by severe bone-destroying conditions called osteonecrosis and periodontitis, doctors reported on Saturday. The research, reported at the annual meeting…
Arthritis bitters sleeping pattern
Arthritis might prove a grave nightmare for many as patients feels depressed and uneasy combined with sleepless nights, as per the latest study. Dr. Grant Louie of Johns Hopkins University Medical School…
Breast cancer and the ways to cure
Women who maintain a proper health regime can easily cut down upon the risk of breast cancer, even if a close relative has had the disease, a new study finds. The activities…
Cases of Dengue warns of Global Threat
The number of cases for Dengue has doubled in number, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Dengue outbreak proves to be a major issue for global public health. The UN health…
Health centre work on track
CONSTRUCTION work on a second health centre in Isa Town is progressing well, it has been declared. Health Ministry engineering and maintenance director Mohammed Al Qahtani said the BD2 million facility, the…
Waist size key predictor of heart risk
Waist circumference is the best predictor of a child’s future cardiovascular risk, Australian and U.S. researchers suggest. Researchers at the University of Georgia in Athens, the Menzies Research Institute in Hobart, Australia,…
Many obese people see no need to lose weight
Among more than 2,000 obese Dallas County residents surveyed in 2000-2002, 14 percent of African Americans and 11 percent of Hispanics — but just 2 percent of whites — believed that they…