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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Commences Phase 1 Trial With EntreMed's Selective Kinase Inhibitor
192 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
EntreMed, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENMD), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases, announced that Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has joined the University of Colorado Cancer Center in conducting a Phase 1 study of ENMD-2076 in advanced cancer patients. Dr. Geoffrey Shapiro, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Dr. ... more
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Fungus Resistance At Molecular Level Keeps Tomatoes From Wilting
192 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoSPathogens, researchers at the University of Amsterdam havediscovered how to conquer the wilting tomato. Dr. Martijn Repand colleagues reached their conclusions by studying the molecularlevel of the tomato. ... more
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Globus Medical Completes Enrollment Of SECURE(R)-C Cervical Artificial Disc Clinical Trial
192 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
Globus Medical, Inc., the largest privately held spinal implant manufacturer in the world and a recognized leader in motion preservation technology, announced the completion of enrollment in its SECURE(R)-C Cervical Artificial Disc IDE study. ... more
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Naturally Occurring Protein May Be Effective In Limiting Hart Attack Injury And Restoring Function
192 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
Medical College of Wisconsin researchers in Milwaukee have shown for the first time that thrombopoietin (TPO), a naturally occurring protein being developed as a pharmaceutical to increase platelet count in cancer patients during chemotherapy, can also protect the heart against injury during a heart attack.The study, led by John E. ... more
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Overview Of Asenapine Data From Olympia Trial Program Presented At American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
192 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) announced that an overview of asenapine clinical trials from the Olympia program was presented at the 161st Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C., May 3-8. Data from the studies, involving patients with bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia, were presented in two oral presentations (Abstracts # 44 and # 80). ... more
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Skin Flaps Deliver Cancer Fighting Therapy, ASPS Study Reveals
192 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
Using gene therapy, plastic surgeons have delivered cancer fighting proteins through skin flaps placed on cancerous tumors on rats with a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume, according to a study in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery(R), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). ... more
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Vitamin D Linked To Reduced Mortality Rate In Chronic Kidney Disease
192 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
For patients with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease (CKD), treatment with activated vitamin D may reduce the risk of death by approximately one-fourth, suggests a study in the August Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.Many patients with advanced CKD take the drug calcitriol, an oral form of activated vitamin D, to treat elevated levels of parathyroid hormone. ... more
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Limited Access To Myanmar Frustrates And Disappoints The United Nations
198 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General, Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, has expressed disappointment at the inadequate progress made in gaining access into Myanmar, where Cyclone Nargis has left tens of thousands of people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, without food, drinking water, medical attention and medicines. ... more
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Survival Of Extremely Premature Babies Is Not Improving With Modern Medicine
200 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
Just a week before the House of Commons is projected to debate the timelimit on abortion in the United Kingdom, a study has been released thatindicates that over the past 12 years, no improvement has been seen inthe survival rates of babies born before 24 weeks gestation, thecurrent legal limit for abortion in the country. According to theauthors of the study, published on BMJ. ... more
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Influential School Students Can Help Lower Peers' Smoking Rates
200 hours ago
Source: Medical News Today
Reduction of smoking rates among teenagers can be achieved by trainingmore influential students in secondary schools to promote anti-smokingmessages in everyday conversations with their friends and peers,according to an article released on May 9, 2008 in The Lancet. ... more
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