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New guidance may help minimize risks to patient privacy in clinical trials

New guidance published in the open access journal Trials and bmj.com this week sets out how personal information from clinical trials should be shared to help minimize risks to patient privacy.

29 Jan 2010

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $10 billion for vaccine research and development

Bill and Melinda Gates announced today that their foundation will commit $10 billion over the next 10 years to help research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world's poorest countries.

29 Jan 2010

BioCentric Energy to grow algae strain with high EPA/DHA oil content in V3 Algae-Pro systems

BioCentric Energy is pleased to announce that the final engineering on the V3 Algae-Pro Photobioreactor system is now complete. We have received via shipment from China the 32 Corners for the V3 Alga-Pro system. Also received at the Santa Ana headquarters are the 8,000 lineal feet of proprietary, seven layer tubing. Installation of the V3 Algae-Pro system will commence over the next two weeks.

29 Jan 2010

ECCO supports its member organisations' proposals for adapting the EU Clinical Trials Directive

In response to a European Commission consultation on the EU Clinical Trials Directive, ECCO - the European CanCer Organisation - has supported proposals by its member organisations for adapting the Directive's requirements to reflect practical necessities in cancer research and treatment.

29 Jan 2010

ChromoCure retains Patent & Intellectual Property Attorneys to assess its Intellectual Property portfolio

ChromoCure, Inc. -- The Company announced today, based on the recent validation of its cancer detection approach and efficacy of its proprietary Chromosomal Scanning Technology, that it has retained Patent & Intellectual Property Attorneys to assess its growing Intellectual Property portfolio and secure necessary filings and Patent protections.

29 Jan 2010

Sexual infidelity or emotional infidelity - which is more distressing?

When South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was caught red-handed returning from a tryst with his Argentine mistress last June, he told the Associated Press that he had met his "soul mate." His choice of words seemed to suggest that having a deep emotional and spiritual connection with Maria Belen Chapur somehow made his sexual infidelity to his wife Jenny Sanford less tawdry.

29 Jan 2010

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award granted to Robert J. Lefkowitz

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category goes in this second edition to Prof. Robert J. Lefkowitz (1943, New York, United States), investigator in the Department of Medicine at Duke University (United States).

29 Jan 2010

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing: Research news

Bridging a Cultural Healthcare Gap—Like other new immigrant groups, Korean Americans' health risks—diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer—increase after arriving in the U.S. Unfortunately, too many also miss out on needed healthcare services until they are seriously, often chronically ill.

29 Jan 2010

Homeland security research initiatives to be discussed at DHS University Network Summit

The Department of Homeland Security's research arm, the Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), invites you to the fourth annual DHS University Network Summit sponsored by S&T's Office of University Programs, March 10-12 at the Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, D.C. Registration is free but space is limited. (http://www.orau.gov/dhssummit)

29 Jan 2010

Best Practices offers tools and resources to build integrated quality systems

Quality in today's business environment has expanded to more than just overseeing production and conducting safety audits.

29 Jan 2010

Global market for oncology drugs is forecast to reach $80 billion by 2050

New Medicine's Oncology KnowledgeBASE (nm/OK) residing at http://nmok.net became available on the Internet 10 years ago and, since then, the oncology field has evolved into one of the most challenging, complex and promising drug development sectors, both in terms of its potential contribution to medicine and to its market opportunities.

29 Jan 2010

Blood flowing with force protects against dangerous clogs in blood vessels

It is second nature for most of us that exercise protects against heart attack and stroke, but researchers have spent 30 years unraveling the biochemistry behind the idea. One answer first offered by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center is that athletic hearts push blood through arteries with greater force, which alone triggers reactions that protect against dangerous clogs in blood vessels.

29 Jan 2010

Should medical workers participate in the development of "medicalized" weapons?

(Garrison, NY) The latest issue of the Hastings Center Report features articles on "medicalized" weapons that temporarily incapacitate targets, sharing the benefits of newly found biological resources, and applications of GINA (the Genetic Information Nondisclosure Act).

29 Jan 2010

Hitachi High-Technologies to begin shipment of Tabletop Microscope TM3000 from April

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation today announced the development of the Tabletop Microscope TM3000. Shipments of the compact, affordably priced, and exceptionally user-friendly TM3000 are scheduled to start on April 1, 2010.

29 Jan 2010

Nectar of almond tree produces amygdalin

The nectar of the almond tree produces an extraordinary and dangerous poison. This is the only known plant to have this poison in its flowers' nectar. A study carried out at the University of Haifa has revealed that bees are mysteriously drawn to the toxic substance.

29 Jan 2010

GMC's findings against Dr. Wakefield unjust and a threat to researchers investigating autism

Parents of children with autism around the world are calling the findings against Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) unjust and a threat to researchers investigating autism as a medical condition. The verdict comes less than a month after an article in the journal Pediatrics urged further study of a link between gastrointestinal disturbances and autism originally pointed out by Dr. Wakefield in 1988.

29 Jan 2010

New XtraCredit application provides physicians with CME credit for online clinical research

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of medical information, has launched XtraCredit®, an iPhone® and iPod Touch® application that provides physicians with continuing medical education (CME) credit for clinical research done online.

29 Jan 2010

Researchers use sophisticated brain-imaging techniques to predict Alzheimer's before symptoms appear

Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives.

29 Jan 2010

UCLA researchers predict brain's progression to Alzheimer's before symptoms are visible

Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and, ultimately, their lives.

29 Jan 2010

Econiche vaccine cited in February, 2010 issue of Scientific American

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that Econiche(TM), the world's first vaccine developed to reduce the shedding by cattle of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157, has been cited in the February, 2010 issue of Scientific American (Vol. 302, # 2).

29 Jan 2010

Research News and Research

New guidance may help minimize risks to patient privacy in clinical trials

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $10 billion for vaccine research and development

BioCentric Energy to grow algae strain with high EPA/DHA oil content in V3 Algae-Pro systems

ECCO supports its member organisations' proposals for adapting the EU Clinical Trials Directive

ChromoCure retains Patent & Intellectual Property Attorneys to assess its Intellectual Property portfolio

Sexual infidelity or emotional infidelity - which is more distressing?

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award granted to Robert J. Lefkowitz

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing: Research news

Homeland security research initiatives to be discussed at DHS University Network Summit

Best Practices offers tools and resources to build integrated quality systems

Global market for oncology drugs is forecast to reach $80 billion by 2050

Blood flowing with force protects against dangerous clogs in blood vessels

Should medical workers participate in the development of "medicalized" weapons?

Hitachi High-Technologies to begin shipment of Tabletop Microscope TM3000 from April

Nectar of almond tree produces amygdalin

GMC's findings against Dr. Wakefield unjust and a threat to researchers investigating autism

New XtraCredit application provides physicians with CME credit for online clinical research

Researchers use sophisticated brain-imaging techniques to predict Alzheimer's before symptoms appear

UCLA researchers predict brain's progression to Alzheimer's before symptoms are visible

Econiche vaccine cited in February, 2010 issue of Scientific American

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