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Abreu btt 700 System for continuous temperature monitoring launched at ASA Annual Meeting

Conquering the last frontier for monitoring vital signs, Brain Tunnelgenix Technologies Corp. is introducing the Abreu btt™ 700 System for continuous temperature monitoring at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today. The Abreu btt 700 System sensor is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for placement on the skin and to be used during surgical procedures, recovery room, intensive care and general patient monitoring.

18 Oct 2010

ABCs of cardiopulmonary resuscitation re-arranged

The American Heart Association is re-arranging the ABCs of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in its 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

18 Oct 2010

Free margin of 2mm from area of invasive breast cancer minimizes residual disease: Study

Removing an extra two millimetres around an area of invasive breast cancer is sufficient to minimise any residual disease in 98 per cent of patients, according to research published in the November issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

18 Oct 2010

Phase III study influences WHO to change guidelines for HIV-infected women receiving nevirapine

Findings from a study, which appear in the Oct. 14, 2010 New England Journal of Medicine, helped influence the World Health Organization (WHO) to change its guidelines this year for the treatment of HIV-infected women who receive a single dose of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to prevent HIV transmission to their babies.

18 Oct 2010

New study on Retinopathy of Prematurity

A new clinical trial at The Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center will focus on ways to catch a debilitating eye disease before it's too late.

18 Oct 2010

Researchers to identify protein-recycling mechanism of TB bacteria

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a key difference in the way human cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB, deliver unwanted proteins marked with a "kiss of death" sequence to their respective cellular recycling factories.

18 Oct 2010

ASTRO honors founder of The Oral Cancer Foundation

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has named Brian Hill of Newport Beach, Calif., as its 2010 Survivor Circle Award winner. Hill will be recognized with a trophy and a $1,000 prize during the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, during ASTRO's 52nd Annual Meeting in San Diego. He has chosen to donate the funds from the award to benefit The Oral Cancer Foundation, the nonprofit he started a decade ago.

18 Oct 2010

Health law's new patient-centered outcomes board takes shape; More insurance waiver requests expected

The Washington Post reports on a new entity: the Board of Governors of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. "If you're not familiar with the board, you're not alone. Created by the health-care overhaul law, it's one of the newest and least known panels in government. But the work of its 21 members, if successful, could increase the public's knowledge of medical treatments for everything from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder to cancer.

18 Oct 2010

Study: 2.5% of Americans have food allergy

An estimated 2.5 percent of Americans — 7.5 million people — have at least one food allergy and young black children with asthma appear to be at the highest risk, according to findings from what is believed to be the largest food allergy study to date. The research was conducted by investigators at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.

18 Oct 2010

UT Dallas researcher receives NIH grant

For the second time this year, a postdoctoral fellow in UT Dallas' Center for Vital Longevity has earned a prestigious, highly competitive career-development grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

18 Oct 2010

New discovery raises hopes for women with tamoxifen resistance

SCIENTISTS in London have found a potential new way of boosting the effectiveness of the anti-breast cancer drug, tamoxifen.

18 Oct 2010

ACR Image Metrix hosted Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development event

ACR Image Metrix, a global imaging contract research organization (CRO) with expertise in imaging trial design, techniques and data extraction, hosted the Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development Methods, Technical Issues and Case Studies event, which took place at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, in Cambridge Massachusetts, on September 16, 2010.

18 Oct 2010

Bioniche's research scientists give presentations at Modern Vaccine and Adjuvant Formulation Conference

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. a research-based, technology driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that two of its senior research scientists gave presentations at the Modern Vaccine and Adjuvant Formulation Conference in Cannes, France this week.

18 Oct 2010

Major advance in treatment of brain disorders with external genes

In the October 17 issue of Nature Methods, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University describe how they can transfer genes into brain neurons intravenously, using a viral gene delivery vehicle (vector) that causes no side effects.

18 Oct 2010

IDRI's TB vaccine protects against drug-resistant tuberculosis

The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) announces it has developed a new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine that protects against TB including drug-resistant strains of the disease in animal studies. The results of these studies are published in Science Translational Medicine today.

18 Oct 2010

Paper presented at HBPR 2010 highlights relationship between BMI and blood pressure in children

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) welcomes the findings of a paper presented today at the American Heart Association's High Blood Pressure Research 2010 Scientific Sessions (HBPR 2010) held in Washington, DC, USA.

18 Oct 2010

Botox receives FDA approval for treatment of chronic migraine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Botox injection (onabotulinumtoxinA) to prevent headaches in adult patients with chronic migraine. Chronic migraine is defined as having a history of migraine and experiencing a headache on most days of the month.

18 Oct 2010

Shrink reveals image of StemDisc450 biomedical research tool

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the alternative energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, revealed an image of its first product offering the StemDisc450, a high-yield, low cost, patent-pending cell culturing biomedical research tool.

18 Oct 2010

Research on gut flora may lead to new treatment strategies for atherosclerosis

New findings suggesting that bacteria in the mouth and/or intestine can affect the the outcome pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and lead to new treatment strategies, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

18 Oct 2010

Biogen, Elan announce clinical utility data of two-step ELISA to detect anti-JCV antibodies

Biogen Idec and Elan Corporation, plc today announced data further supporting the potential clinical utility of an investigational assay that detects anti-JC virus (JCV) antibodies in human plasma or serum.

18 Oct 2010

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Abreu btt 700 System for continuous temperature monitoring launched at ASA Annual Meeting

ABCs of cardiopulmonary resuscitation re-arranged

Free margin of 2mm from area of invasive breast cancer minimizes residual disease: Study

Phase III study influences WHO to change guidelines for HIV-infected women receiving nevirapine

New study on Retinopathy of Prematurity

Researchers to identify protein-recycling mechanism of TB bacteria

ASTRO honors founder of The Oral Cancer Foundation

Health law's new patient-centered outcomes board takes shape; More insurance waiver requests expected

Study: 2.5% of Americans have food allergy

UT Dallas researcher receives NIH grant

New discovery raises hopes for women with tamoxifen resistance

ACR Image Metrix hosted Novel Medical Imaging Approaches for Early Drug Development event

Bioniche's research scientists give presentations at Modern Vaccine and Adjuvant Formulation Conference

Major advance in treatment of brain disorders with external genes

IDRI's TB vaccine protects against drug-resistant tuberculosis

Paper presented at HBPR 2010 highlights relationship between BMI and blood pressure in children

Botox receives FDA approval for treatment of chronic migraine

Shrink reveals image of StemDisc450 biomedical research tool

Research on gut flora may lead to new treatment strategies for atherosclerosis

Biogen, Elan announce clinical utility data of two-step ELISA to detect anti-JCV antibodies

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