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8 Feb 2010 at 5:00am
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8 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
A new study of young children in orphanages in Bucharest, Romania, has found that children placed in foster care before age 2 were more apt to develop secure attachments to their foster parents than those who entered foster care after age 2...
8 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
High-coverage human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations among adolescents and young women may result in a rapid reduction of genital warts, cervical cell abnormalities, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, researchers report in a new study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
7 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
ArQule, Inc...
7 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
Bioheart, Inc., (OTCBB:BHRT) announced that the company has commenced work on its REGEN trial, a Phase I Clinical Trial to test genetically modified MyoCell® in patients suffering from Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). Bioheart's MyoCell® is a regenerative cell therapy that uses myoblasts, or muscle stem cells,that are grown from a patient's own muscle...
7 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidance on Bayesian statistical methods in the design and analysis of medical device clinical trials that could result in less costly and more efficient patient studies. The Bayesian statistical method applies an algorithm that makes it possible for companies to combine data collected in previous studies with data collected in a current trial...
6 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc...
6 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
In a landmark study in children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes, JDRF-funded researchers at the University of Cambridge showed that using a first-generation artificial pancreas system overnight can lower the risk of low blood sugar emergencies while sleeping, and at the same time improve diabetes control...
6 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
In the USA each year, 200,000 cancer patients suffer from a malignant pleural effusion development of excessive fluid (pleural effusion) in the chest. Several litres of such fluid can accumulate, and many patients suffer from significant breathlessness and distress...
6 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
Ipsen (Euronext: FR0010259150; IPN), an innovation-driven global specialty pharmaceutical group and Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs, announce the launch by Ipsen in France of Decapeptyl(R) LP 22...
6 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
PharmAthene, Inc...
6 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
Tenaxis Medical has completed enrollment of its pivotal US study for the ArterX Vascular Sealant™. The study was designed to enroll up to 220 patients who were scheduled to receive a synthetic vascular graft or patch at 12 investigational sites within the US...
6 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
Adolescents with suicidal thoughts and elevated depression had stronger and faster reduction of symptoms when treated with family therapy than with standard treatment in the community. Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia reported these findings this month in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry...
6 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
The involvement of healthy volunteers (HV) in clinical and preclinical research, especially in gastroenterology, has grown dramatically over the past few years. However, many issues of ethical, methodological or even legal concerns have not been systematically studied. A research article published on January 28, 2010 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this problem...
6 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
The drug pazopanib (Votrient) slowed the progression of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a form of kidney cancer, in patients by 54% percent, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology...
