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Repligen announces completion of RG1068 pre-New Drug Application meeting with U.S. FDA

Repligen Corporation today announced that the Company has concluded a pre-New Drug Application (NDA) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to its lead product candidate, RG1068 for improvement of magnetic resonance imaging of the pancreas.

2 Jun 2011

Positive results from Nuvilex European Phase II trial against pancreatic cancer

Nuvilex, Inc. announces the favorable results of a completed Phase II clinical trial carried out in Europe against pancreatic cancer. The treatment technology used in this trial was recently acquired by Nuvilex.

2 Jun 2011

Patients with advanced NSCLC can benefit from less toxic combination of erlotinib, bevacizumab

The standard treatment for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer is a combination of two old-fashioned cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs. The combination, however, comes with substantial toxicity.

2 Jun 2011

Experts from 16 national osteoporosis societies to meet in Dubai for IOF event

Online registration and abstract submission is now open for the largest bone meeting of 2011 to be held in the Middle-East and Africa region.

2 Jun 2011

Teva receives FDA approval to market Eisai's Alzheimer's treatment Aricept Tablets in the U.S.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application to market a generic version of Eisai's Alzheimer's treatment Aricept Tablets, 5 mg and 10 mg. Shipment of this product has commenced.

2 Jun 2011

Five organizations receive IASLC travel awards to attend 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer

Five advocacy organizations from India, Australia and the United States have been granted travel awards by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) to send representatives to the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer, July 3-7 in Amsterdam.

2 Jun 2011

New model can help determine physical fitness and cardiac health

Imagine being able to calculate one number that would tell you just how fit you are - and what that means for your heart health. Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have managed exactly that: they have developed a model that can help doctors - and individuals - determine just how fit an individual is, and what that means for overall health.

2 Jun 2011

Free online WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool now available as version 3.3

The WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX-) is an important new calculation tool, available free online at http://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX, that is being used by a steadily increasing number of physicians around the world to calculate a patient's 10-year probability of fracture based on scientifically validated risk factors.

2 Jun 2011

IMS Model to guide providers and patients toward adherence

Physicians can help their patients follow prescribed treatments and achieve healthier results - particularly in chronic disease management - by using a three-pronged strategy developed by a team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside, Texas State University-San Marcos, and La Sierra University in Riverside, Calif.

2 Jun 2011

Baseline concussion tests could increase risks to athletes

Baseline concussion tests given to hundreds of thousands of athletes might, paradoxically, increase risks in some cases, according to a Loyola University Health System researcher.

2 Jun 2011

Study finds notable prevalence of childhood abuse in migraine patients

A notable prevalence of childhood abuse - physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional - in migraine patients has been observed and documented over the last few years. In fact, it has emerged as a significant enough issue for the American Headache Society to devote an entire plenary session to it at its annual scientific conference in Washington this week.

2 Jun 2011

Fatigue and poor health may have major impact on patients with functional dysphonia

Fatigue and poor health, anxiety and depression may have a major impact on patients with functional dysphonia (FD), leading to time off work, reduced activity, and social withdrawal, all of which could further perpetuate and/or cause anxiety, low mood, fatigue and reduced voice use, according to new research published in the June 2011 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.

2 Jun 2011

Lymphocyte count serves as simple and effective prognostic indicator in renal cell carcinoma

Each year, kidney cancer is diagnosed in nearly 60,000 people in the U.S. Many of these patients undergo surgery to remove the affected kidney, but this procedure can be risky for the elderly and those who have other health problems. Unfortunately, the prognosis of kidney cancer patients often cannot be determined until tumor samples are surgically removed and evaluated.

2 Jun 2011

UV-screening sunglasses, contact lenses can protect eyes from aging and disease

Most of us know that UV-blocking sunscreen protects the skin from aging and disease but we don't realize that UV-screening sunglasses and contact lenses can protect eyes from aging and disease, according to a national American Optometric Association survey.

2 Jun 2011

PCF funds 14 new Creativity Awards for advanced prostate cancer research

The Prostate Cancer Foundation today announced that it has funded 14 new Creativity Awards for advanced prostate cancer research. These two-year awards are designed to support innovative research ideas that have the potential to achieve breakthroughs for improved prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.

2 Jun 2011

Covidien's PCOx mesh receives U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance and European CE Mark approval

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance and the European regulatory authorities have granted the CE Mark to Parietex Optimized Composite mesh.

2 Jun 2011

Daily fruit consumption helps prevent diabetes

Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "prediabetes," defined as blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. There are 79 million people in the United States who have prediabetes. Recent research has shown that even during prediabetes both heart and circulatory long-term damage to the body may already be occurring.

2 Jun 2011

New noise study aims to solve 'wind turbine syndrome'

University of Adelaide acoustics researchers are investigating the causes of wind turbine noise with the aim of making them quieter and solving 'wind turbine syndrome'.

2 Jun 2011

Adipose-derived stem cell procedure restores skull defects after brain surgery

Stem cells derived from abdominal fat—used along with a synthetic bone grafting material—are a potentially valuable new approach to repairing skull defects after brain surgery, according to a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

2 Jun 2011

Children of divorce more likely to struggle with anxiety, loneliness and low self-esteem

Children whose parents get divorced generally don't experience detrimental setbacks in the pre-divorce period, but often fall behind their peers-and don't catch up-when it comes to math and interpersonal social skills after their parents begin the divorce process, according to a new study.

2 Jun 2011

Medical Condition News

Repligen announces completion of RG1068 pre-New Drug Application meeting with U.S. FDA

Positive results from Nuvilex European Phase II trial against pancreatic cancer

Patients with advanced NSCLC can benefit from less toxic combination of erlotinib, bevacizumab

Experts from 16 national osteoporosis societies to meet in Dubai for IOF event

Teva receives FDA approval to market Eisai's Alzheimer's treatment Aricept Tablets in the U.S.

Five organizations receive IASLC travel awards to attend 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer

New model can help determine physical fitness and cardiac health

Free online WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool now available as version 3.3

IMS Model to guide providers and patients toward adherence

Baseline concussion tests could increase risks to athletes

Study finds notable prevalence of childhood abuse in migraine patients

Fatigue and poor health may have major impact on patients with functional dysphonia

Lymphocyte count serves as simple and effective prognostic indicator in renal cell carcinoma

UV-screening sunglasses, contact lenses can protect eyes from aging and disease

PCF funds 14 new Creativity Awards for advanced prostate cancer research

Covidien's PCOx mesh receives U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance and European CE Mark approval

Daily fruit consumption helps prevent diabetes

New noise study aims to solve 'wind turbine syndrome'

Adipose-derived stem cell procedure restores skull defects after brain surgery

Children of divorce more likely to struggle with anxiety, loneliness and low self-esteem

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