New Quintiles Resource for Cancer Patients Wins Third Health Award for...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cancer patients looking for clinical trials of oncology therapies in their own areas plus information and news to help them understand the disease and...
View ArticleUTHealth awarded millions for cancer research and prevention (The University...
(Source: The University of Texas System) UTHealth faculty member Hua Xu, Ph.D., is using information extracted from electronic health records to explore new cancer treatments. HOUSTON - (Dec. 17,...
View ArticleBiogen Idec Forms First-of-Its-Kind Research Consortium to Identify ALS Drug...
Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced today that it has created a new research consortium in collaboration with several leading academic research centers that will leverage a range of scientific...
View ArticleWarwick and Queen Mary award academics £230,000 for new collaborative...
(Source: The University of Warwick) New research into type 2 diabetes, social media, space plasma, and cabbage genetics that could boost crop production are just some of the collaborative projects to...
View ArticleKnight Diagnostic Laboratories launch new line of next-generation,...
(Source: OHSU - Oregon Health & Science University) 12/21/12 Portland, Ore. GeneTrails™ provides focused molecular testing of tumors to optimize DNA sequencing for clinical use today; the test...
View ArticleUCSF Celebrates Top Honors, Achieves Funding Successes, Continues Expansion...
(Source: University of California) UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, set to open in February 2015, continues to draw visitors from around the world wanting to learn more about the project. Here,...
View ArticleBowel cancer gene discovery cracks mystery of families with a strong history...
(Source: University of London) 23 December, 2012 Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have discovered that two gene faults increase the risk of bowel cancer in families with a strong history of...
View ArticleUCSF Researchers Collaborate to Translate Discoveries into New Solutions for...
(Source: University of California) UCSF is a health-sciences research powerhouse -a premier academic medical center that values not only the physician who designs clinical trial protocols for...
View ArticleOver $1.8m to Medical Researchers
Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 4:51 pm Press Release: Auckland Medical Research Foundation Media Release 19 December 2012 Auckland Medical Research Foundation Awards over $1.8m to Medical Researchers...
View ArticleAdam de la Zerda, PhD (Stanford University)
(Source: Stanford University) December 2012 Adam de la Zerda, PhD De la Zerda, assistant professor of structural biology, has been named one of Forbes Magazine's "30 under 30." Each year, the magazine...
View ArticleAcademics get 'well deserved' promotions
The University of Otago has promoted 24 of its leading academics to full professorships. The new professors specialise in a diverse range of subjects, from dolphins and whales to cancer treatments....
View ArticleOtago announces professorial promotions (University of Otago)
(Source: University of Otago) OCTYPE html> Accessibility Otago announces professorial promotions Thursday, 20 December 2012 The University of Otago has promoted 24 of its leading academics to full...
View ArticleOtago announces professorial promotions
Thursday, 20 December 2012, 1:28 pm Press Release: University of Otago Otago announces professorial promotions The University of Otago has promoted 24 of its leading academics to full professorships....
View ArticleHealth notes: Mayo study links dementia and Lou Gehrig's disease
Mayo researchers find link in dementia process Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville have uncovered a toxic cellular process by which a protein that maintains the health of neurons becomes...
View ArticleThe factor that could determine future breast cancer treatment (The Garvan...
(Source: The Garvan Institute of Medical Research) Alison Heather Tel: +61 (2) 9295 8128 The factor that could determine future breast cancer treatment Embargoed until 27 December 2pm Pacific Time /...
View ArticleMedical sciences news highlights of 2012
Want to live longer? Well, evidence from a study this year suggests that getting castrated before you're a teenager could gain you a couple of decades. In fairness that would be some of the worst...
View ArticleEntia Receives Canadian Patent Notice of Allowance for Use of Ergothioneine...
SHERWOOD, Ore., Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Entia Biosciences (OTCBB: ERGO), a food science biotechnology company and emerging leader in the fields of Nutrigenomics and Targeted Nutrition, has...
View ArticleBaldwin Fund supports five new breast cancer research activities (SUNY - The...
(Source: SUNY - The State University of New York) December 21, 2012 Darryl Geddes 315 464-4828 Baldwin Fund supports five new breast cancer research activities SYRACUSE, N.Y.- Since 2002, the fund has...
View ArticlePacemaker could help treat Alzheimer's
Pacemakers regulate the beat of a weak heart and ease the tremors caused by Parkinson's disease, and now Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers hope the devices also will slow down the symptoms of...
View ArticleNew Quintiles Resource for Cancer Patients Wins Third Health Award for...
(Source: Quintiles Transnational Corporation) Press Release - Dezember 17, 2012 New Quintiles Resource for Cancer Patients Wins Third Health Award for ClinicalResearch.com Select one of the options...
View ArticlePeek into the natural future of functional medicine
TAKE out your crystal ball for a peek in the future of modern medicine, and the picture that emerges is bright. Science fiction is becoming fact as modern medicine embraces hi-tech advances, along...
View ArticleRBS Morgans – initial coverage on Invion Limited (ASX:IVX) (Invion Limited)
(Source: Invion Limited) Biotechnology AUSTRALIA December 19,2012 Invion Ltd COMPANY NOTE IVX AU / IVX.AX Current A$0.048 SHORT TERM (3 MTH) LONG TERM Market Cap Avg Daily Turnover Free Float Target...
View ArticleNYU Intelligence (NYU - New York University)
(Source: NYU - New York University) Two Silver School of Social Work Faculty Appointed by National Academy Two members of the faculty at the Silver School of Social Work have received appointments by...
View ArticleDrug shortage linked to greater risk of relapse in young Hodgkin lymphoma...
Tweet National study connects higher rates of relapse in pediatric cancer patients to drug shortage, offering first example of patients hurt by shortages and renewing calls to protect patient access...
View ArticleHollywood Legends Give Back to the Kids at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Legendary Filmmaker Billy Wilder and Wife Audrey Donate $11 million to California’s Best Children’s Hospital LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children's Hospital Los Angeles announced today that the...
View ArticleIn the lab: Research roundup
Following is a list of some of the medical research grants awarded to scientists in the area. St. Louis University School of Medicine • The scientists: Dr. Terry Moore, director of rheumatology and...
View ArticleHolistic health and research on olive leaf extract
Sacramento's various holistic health food events, stores, and trends each year have focused on various extracts that have studies related to anti-microbial properties of olive leaf extract. Some...
View ArticlePositive Response from European Regulatory Procedure Supports Approval of...
Tweet NYON, Switzerland, December 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG) today announces a positive outcome from the European Decentralised Procedure (DCP) for Elvanse® (to be...
View ArticleA treatment for ALS? Neural stem cell transplants slow progression of disease
Researchers say progress in treating ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, may be made by targeting new mechanisms revealed by neural stem cell-based studies. "This significant research will help...
View ArticleLeading Dermatologist Michael P. Heffernan, M.D. and Renowned Rheumatologist...
Drs. Heffernan and Koch reinforce Lilly commitment to supporting autoimmune pipeline INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced that Michael P. Heffernan,...
View ArticleMedicine: the appliance of science
A cure for HIV? A new approach to obesity? Tailor-made therapies for cancer? Medical science surges ahead Trials of a new technique called genome editing may offer a way to tackle the HIV virus....
View ArticleGift advances Cornell veterinary medical research (Cornell University)
(Source: Cornell University) CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE FOR RELEASE: Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 Contact: Joe Schwartz Phone: (607) 254-6235 Joe.Schwartz@cornell.edu $6M gift advances Cornell...
View ArticleVertex Outlines Corporate Strategy and Defines Key 2013 Business Priorities
Tweet Get Alerts VRTX Hot Sheet Price: $45.85 +1.55% Overall Analyst Rating: BUY ( Down) Revenue Growth %: -49.0% -2013 investment focused on key development programs in cystic fibrosis, hepatitis C...
View ArticleARIAD and the U.K. National Cancer Research Institute to Collaborate on...
Evaluation of the Impact of Switching CML Patients Treated with a First-line Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor to Ponatinib ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA) and Newcastle University, U.K., on behalf...
View ArticleBiogen Idec Retools After ALS Drug Trial Failure
Biogen Idec (BIIB) encountered a setback this week, when a late-stage clinical trial of its drug to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS], also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, failed to show...
View ArticleFewer brain cancer deaths among children aim of biology researcher...
(Source: University of Windsor) A biology researcher hopes her studies will result in fewer brain cancer related deaths among children. Elizabeth Fidalgo da Silva, a research associate and adjunct...
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