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Diamyd Medical issues new shares to cover social security contributions for employee stock option plans

In connection with the exercise of employee stock options in the plans 2007/2010 and 2008/2011, Diamyd Medical is issuing 155,352 new shares of series B to cover social security contributions for the plans. The shares are issued with support of underlying warrants that covers the company's obligations within the scope of the programs.

14 Dec 2010

Early school entry lowers risk of obesity among adolescent girls

Effective strategies to fight the epidemic of childhood and adolescent obesity — one-third of kids under 20 weigh more than they should — have been elusive. A new study suggests a simple step that might help cut the problem down to size: start school sooner.

14 Dec 2010

Beta-catenin protein plays a key role in development of stem cells in acute leukaemia

Researchers at King's College London have discovered that leukaemic stem cells can be reversed to a pre-leukaemic stage by suppressing a protein called beta-catenin found in the blood.

14 Dec 2010

Go Daddy gifts $500,000 to Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS to launch Women's Health Center in Phoenix

Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS received $500,000 from Go Daddy to launch the Go Daddy Women's Health Center in Phoenix. The gift was announced by Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons at the company's annual holiday event held Saturday, December 11 at Chase Field in Phoenix. Parsons presented a 'big check' to Carol Poore, President and CEO, Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS.

14 Dec 2010

Underwriters partially exercise over-allotment option in Cadence public offering

Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that its underwriters partially exercised their over-allotment option in connection with its previously announced public offering that priced on November 11, 2010, by purchasing an additional 1,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $8.00 per share. Including the over-allotment shares purchased, Cadence sold a total of 12,500,000 shares in the offering, resulting in expected aggregate gross proceeds to the company of $100 million.

14 Dec 2010

Hospital de Clinicas de Niteroi to acquire Samaritano

Amilpar, the largest healthcare company in Brazil, in accordance with CVM Instruction 358, of January 3, 2002, informs that the Hospital de Clinicas de Niteroi Ltda. ("HCN"), a company owned by our indirect controlling shareholder, has signed an Agreement to acquire up to 100% of the shares representatives of the capital stock of Hospital Samaritano ("Samaritano") for the total amount of R$ 180 million.

14 Dec 2010

FDA to review Lantheus' DEFINITY sNDA for use in stress echocardiography

Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic medical imaging, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the company's supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for DEFINITY® (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension for use in stress echocardiography.

14 Dec 2010

Fat or obese – What’s in a name?

The question of whether the term ‘fat’ is more appropriate than ‘obese’ was raised in an Australian study that confirmed the former is the “lesser of two evils”. The study from University of NSW study which looked at public perceptions surrounding these words has found that, while both are unwelcome, obese was viewed more negatively.

13 Dec 2010

Underwriters' exercise over-allotment option in Senior Housing Properties Trust's secondary offering

Senior Housing Properties Trust today announced that the underwriters of its secondary offering have exercised, in full, their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 1,875,000 shares of beneficial interest, raising additional net proceeds of approximately $36.8 million. The settlement of the over-allotment option is expected to occur on December 15, 2010.

13 Dec 2010

New positive data on Generex Oral-lyn published in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

Generex Biotechnology Corporation announced today that the peer-reviewed scientific journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism has published new positive data in respect of Generex Oral-lyn™, the Company's proprietary buccal insulin spray product.

13 Dec 2010

Strategies for securing life insurance policy for pre-existing medical conditions

If you've ever been told that you can't buy life insurance due to a pre-existing medical condition or that your application was rated up due to one or more medical conditions, Life Quotes, Inc. offers these tips for securing a life insurance policy at a rate you can live with.

13 Dec 2010

Researchers conduct trial to study obesity-related respiratory limitations on weight loss

Tamara Ritchie lost 25 pounds in 12 weeks without breaking a sweat. She was just following doctors' orders.

13 Dec 2010

Research programs embody the promise of anti-aging medicine.

Sometimes the value of research lies as much in exposing false remedies as in discovering true breakthroughs. Scientists at the country's first school of gerontology and in laboratories around the University of Southern California do both, mindful of their responsibility to a society focused on healthful aging.

13 Dec 2010

Aastrom Biosciences prices public offering

Aastrom Biosciences, Inc., a leading developer of expanded autologous cellular therapies for the treatment of severe, chronic cardiovascular diseases, today announced that it has priced a public offering of 10,000,000 units, with each unit consisting of one share of the Company's common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of common stock, at a purchase price of $2.25 per unit for an aggregate offering amount of $22.5 million.

10 Dec 2010

Arena initiates dosing in APD811 Phase 1 clinical trial for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the initiation of dosing in a Phase 1 clinical trial of APD811, a novel oral drug candidate discovered by Arena that targets the prostacyclin receptor for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH.

10 Dec 2010

Weightlifting may help prevent lymphedema following breast cancer treatment

Weightlifting may play a key role in the prevention of the painful limb-swelling condition lymphedema following breast cancer treatment, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Combined with the team's previous findings that the exercise limits a worsening of symptoms among women who already have lymphedema, the new data cements the reversal of long-running advice that breast cancer survivors should avoid lifting anything heavier than five pounds after they finish treatment.

10 Dec 2010

Social activities most promising in prevention of depression among older adults

Interventions focused on social activities significantly decrease depressive symptoms among older adults. This is the results from a recent study.

10 Dec 2010

Incoming House Foreign Affairs Committee chair outlines views on U.S. foreign policy; House passes FY 2011 funding act

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) "moved rapidly Wednesday to put her mark on U.S. foreign policy as the incoming chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee," McClatchy reports (Clark, 12/8).

10 Dec 2010

Nuss Procedure safe and effective for chest deformity

Since 1987, when a surgeon at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters developed a minimally-invasive surgery to correct sunken chest, the procedure has been adopted world-wide as a standard of care and continually refined to increase its effectiveness and safety, according to a paper published in the December issue of the Annals of Surgery.

10 Dec 2010

News outlets report on polio outbreaks in Central, East Africa

"Bad immunisation strategy has been blamed for an outbreak of polio, which has killed nearly 200 and is believed to have caused paralysis in more than 2,000 others across Angola, Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo," the Mail & Guardian writes in a story examining the emergence of the disease in the three countries and efforts to control it.

10 Dec 2010

Exercise News and Research

Latest Exercise News and Research

Diamyd Medical issues new shares to cover social security contributions for employee stock option plans

Early school entry lowers risk of obesity among adolescent girls

Beta-catenin protein plays a key role in development of stem cells in acute leukaemia

Go Daddy gifts $500,000 to Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS to launch Women's Health Center in Phoenix

Underwriters partially exercise over-allotment option in Cadence public offering

Hospital de Clinicas de Niteroi to acquire Samaritano

FDA to review Lantheus' DEFINITY sNDA for use in stress echocardiography

Fat or obese – What’s in a name?

Underwriters' exercise over-allotment option in Senior Housing Properties Trust's secondary offering

New positive data on Generex Oral-lyn published in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

Strategies for securing life insurance policy for pre-existing medical conditions

Researchers conduct trial to study obesity-related respiratory limitations on weight loss

Research programs embody the promise of anti-aging medicine.

Aastrom Biosciences prices public offering

Arena initiates dosing in APD811 Phase 1 clinical trial for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Weightlifting may help prevent lymphedema following breast cancer treatment

Social activities most promising in prevention of depression among older adults

Incoming House Foreign Affairs Committee chair outlines views on U.S. foreign policy; House passes FY 2011 funding act

Nuss Procedure safe and effective for chest deformity

News outlets report on polio outbreaks in Central, East Africa

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

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Exercise News and Research

Latest Exercise News and Research

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