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Alzheimer’s drug has been shown to improve memory and cognition in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients

A drug widely used for treating dementia in Alzheimer’s patients has been shown to improve memory and cognition in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who are mild to moderately cognitively impaired.

26 Apr 2004

UK vital ageing research

Researchers at the University of Reading are setting up a clinical database of healthy older people willing to take part in a wide range of important research projects which could help shape the future of healthcare for senior citizens.

26 Apr 2004

Students to study compounds shown to prevent cancer drug resistance and studying tomato genes and proteins

Michigan State University’s new Goldwater Scholars for 2004 have a lot of work ahead of them – studying compounds shown to prevent cancer drug resistance and studying tomato genes and proteins.

26 Apr 2004

Experimental immune-boosting drug interleukin-2 helps HIV Patients

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists report that brief, widely-spaced courses of the experimental immune-boosting drug interleukin-2 (IL-2) allow people with HIV to maintain near normal levels of a key immune system cell for long periods.

26 Apr 2004

Indiana promotes National Infant Immunization Week

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that each day 11,000 babies are born in the United States who will need to be immunized against 12 serious diseases before the age of two years.

26 Apr 2004

Anti-counterfeiting coalition supports Giuliani to protect public from fake drugs

The Partnership for Safe Medicines, a nonprofit coalition of more than 40 healthcare and anti-counterfeiting groups, today expressed support for Mayor Giuliani and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to educate Americans about the dangers of buying medicines from unknown, foreign sources and to tighten the rules for the distribution and sale of prescription drugs in the United States.

26 Apr 2004

FDA fast tracks human African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis) drug

Immtech International, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Immtech's first oral drug, DB289, fast track drug development designation for use to treat human African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis).

26 Apr 2004

Clinical trial of enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Gaucher disease

Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. today announced that it has initiated a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and clinical activity of GA-GCB, its enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Gaucher disease.

26 Apr 2004

SARS antibody sent to China

Responding to a request from a Chinese biotechnology company working closely with officials in China, Medarex, Inc. and the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have shipped to Beijing a sample of the fully human antibody to SARS developed by Medarex and MBL/UMMS.

26 Apr 2004

The FDA is issuing a proposed rule covering the use of private sampling services and laboratories in connection with imported food

The Food and Drug Administration is issuing a proposed rule covering the use of private sampling services and laboratories in connection with imported food. Once finalized, the rule will strengthen the safety and wholesomeness of the U.S. food supply by helping to assure the integrity and scientific validity of data and results submitted to FDA.

26 Apr 2004

New analytical approach that combines genetic and clinical data to give individualized prognosis of cancer recurrence

Researchers at Duke University have developed a new analytical approach that combines genetic and clinical data to give cancer patients an individualized prognosis of their cancer recurrence. The information could prove critical in deciding how aggressively to treat the disease following surgery.

26 Apr 2004

Scientists studying the adhesive properties of the neural cell adhesion molecule have found that two opposing models of cell adhesion are both correct

Scientists studying the adhesive properties of the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) -- a protein that helps bind the nervous system together -- have found that two opposing models of cell adhesion are both correct.

26 Apr 2004

Heart disease and stroke hit younger in developing countries

A new report to be released at Columbia University's Earth Institute on April 26, 2004, suggests that heart disease and stroke are far more urgent threats to global health than commonly appreciated. They are causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year in young people of productive age.

26 Apr 2004

Research yields new epilepsy guidelines

In conjunction with the AMA, the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society on April 26 jointly announced new guidelines for treating epilepsy. The number of anti-epileptic drugs has more than doubled in the last decade.

26 Apr 2004

St. Francis uses latest technology to comfort surgery patients

The old cotton patient gowns and warmed cotton blankets are history in St. Francis’ Procedural Services Department. Surgery patients can now control their warmth while wearing the Bair Paws patient adjustable warming system. The Bair Paws system combines forced-air warming and patient gowning in one step.

26 Apr 2004

New Saint Louis University research sheds light on how obesity occurs

Saint Louis University researchers believe they’ve won a major skirmish in the battle of the bulge, and their findings are published in the May issue of Diabetes.

26 Apr 2004

Smoking tobacco with a water pipe increasingly popular among women

Smoking tobacco using a water pipe - also called a hookah -- generally is viewed in a more positive light than smoking cigarettes, particularly for women, according to one of the first studies on water pipe and cigarette smoking to look at social attitudes and gender.

26 Apr 2004

Injections of adult stem cells could repair hearts

Injections of adult stem cells into damaged heart tissue significantly improved heart function in patients with severe congestive heart failure, according to results of the first prospective randomized trial of the experimental therapy presented today at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

26 Apr 2004

Irish minister empowers nurses and midwives

The Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Ireland, Mr. Tim O´Malley, T.D. today (26th April 2004) launched the final report of the Empowerment of Nurses and Midwives Steering Group - An Agenda for Change.

26 Apr 2004

UK Healthcare workers have new charitable way to protect adults and children with learning disabilities from abuse

Social workers and staff in the healthcare sector are being offered an easy way to pledge money to a national charity dedicated to the protection of adults and children with learning disabilities from the risk of abuse.

26 Apr 2004

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Alzheimer’s drug has been shown to improve memory and cognition in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients

UK vital ageing research

Students to study compounds shown to prevent cancer drug resistance and studying tomato genes and proteins

Experimental immune-boosting drug interleukin-2 helps HIV Patients

Indiana promotes National Infant Immunization Week

Anti-counterfeiting coalition supports Giuliani to protect public from fake drugs

FDA fast tracks human African sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis) drug

Clinical trial of enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Gaucher disease

SARS antibody sent to China

The FDA is issuing a proposed rule covering the use of private sampling services and laboratories in connection with imported food

New analytical approach that combines genetic and clinical data to give individualized prognosis of cancer recurrence

Scientists studying the adhesive properties of the neural cell adhesion molecule have found that two opposing models of cell adhesion are both correct

Heart disease and stroke hit younger in developing countries

Research yields new epilepsy guidelines

St. Francis uses latest technology to comfort surgery patients

New Saint Louis University research sheds light on how obesity occurs

Smoking tobacco with a water pipe increasingly popular among women

Injections of adult stem cells could repair hearts

Irish minister empowers nurses and midwives

UK Healthcare workers have new charitable way to protect adults and children with learning disabilities from abuse

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Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

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