Region in Medical Technology

Autism Genes Discovered; Help Shape Connections Among Brain Cells

... to the disorder. One study pinpoints a gene region that may account for as many as 15 percent of ... controls to have gene variants on a particular region of chromosome 5. That region is located between two genes, cadherin 9 (CDH9 ) ...

Study Shows No Standardized Approach to Epidural Steroid Injections for Back Pain

... nerves. While injections in the lumbar (low back) region are low risk, injections in the thoracic (mid back) and cervical (neck) region have the risk of injury to the spinal cord and ... In limited enclosed areas like the cervical region that volume of medicine could lead to increased ...

Gene That Causes Childhood Cancer Neuroblastoma Is Found

... Mosse and her colleagues first discovered that a region of chromosome 2 was associated with the disease. Further sequencing of that region identified mutations in the anaplastic ... reported that common DNA variations in a region of chromosome 6 raise a child's risk of ...

Pediatric Researchers Find Possible 'Master Switch' Gene in Juvenile Arthritis

... -- Researchers have found that a gene region known to play a role in some varieties of ... reported on the link between the gene region and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), formerly ... The genetic variant is on chromosome 9 in a region housing two genes, TRAF1 and C5. The TRAF1 ...

Roche Diagnostics' HIV Viral Load Test Used in Clinical Trials for Isentress, a New Class of HIV Drug

... AMPLICOR viral load test, which targets the gag region of the HIV virus genome, a different area from the integrase region where many new drugs in the HIV pipeline ... of how easily HIV can mutate. If the targeted region mutates during viral load monitoring, the virus ...

R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. Completes Phase 1 Clinical Study on RK-023

... single-dose study, 2 ml of RK-023 preparation was applied to the vertex region of 6 out of 9 healthy adult males and a placebo to that of the remaining 3 subjects. The applied drug was spread widely covering the vertex region in order to investigate the safety in the entire body and scalp. No ...

Gene Findings Unlocking Reasons for Neuroblastoma Risk

... at chromosome 1q21.1 is associated with neuroblastoma. The chromosome region contains a large family of genes that are involved in the development of ... to the rare familial form of neuroblastoma, and the other identifying a region of chromosome 6 that increases the risk of the nonhereditary form of the ...

WORLD'S First Robotic Assisted Kidney Transplant Performed at Saint Barnabas Medical Center

... Dr. Geffner is also the first renal transplant surgeon in the region to perform robot-assisted living donor kidney removal. However, prior to ... surgery to high school students by Liberty Science Center. He is the region 2 Representative on the Pancreas Transplantation Committee for the United ...

Mayo Researchers Help Discover Genetic Cause for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

... Researchers also confirmed that the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region of the genome is linked to primary biliary cirrhosis, an association which had been identified in previous research. "Although both the HLA region and the IL12 pathway are equally involved with susceptibility to primary ...

AAOMS Updates BRONJ Position Paper

... BRONJ appears as a non-healing exposed bone in the maxillofacial region and may affect patients undergoing intravenous cancer-related ... a bisphosphonate. 2. Exposed bone has been present in the maxillofacial region for more than eight weeks; and 3. There is no history of radiation ...

Cardio3 BioSciences Raises EUR13.7 Million in Series B Fundraising and Grant Funding

... has raised a further EUR6.5 million in cash advances from the Walloon region General Directorate for Economy, Employment & Research. These funds, ... was founded in July 2007 and is based in Mont-Saint-Guibert in the Walloon region of Belgium. About C-Cure(R) C-Cure is a second generation ...

ISTA Pharmaceuticals Announces Phase III Results for Once-Daily Topical Xibrom(TM) 0.09%

... trials were performed under a common protocol and designated the East region trial (ER) and the West region trial (WR). According to a preliminary analysis, integrated ...

BBK Worldwide Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Industry Leadership Through Innovation in Patient Enrollment

... agreement between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Lombardia region of Italy, and follow the recent release of BBK's comprehensive industry ... Office of International Trade and Investment to help Italy's Lombardia region attract more clinical studies and commercialize medical research. For ...

Nexavar Significantly Improves Overall Survival by 47 Percent in Asia-Pacific Liver Cancer Study

... by 47.3 percent (HR=0.68; p-value=0.014) in patients in the Asia-Pacific region with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary liver cancer ... and/or macroscopic vascular invasion. "Liver cancer in the Asia-Pacific region continues to grow because of a high incidence of chronic hepatitis B viral ...

Rapid Growth of Asia-Pacific Clinical Trials Market Focus of New CenterWatch Report

... about clinical trials, finds in a new report that the Asia-Pacific region is grabbing an increasing share of the global clinical trial market, and ... CRO market has been a great worldwide growth story and the Asia-Pacific region has been one of the hottest areas for this growth. 2007 saw more CRO ...

Ceregene Presents Long-term Follow-up From Phase 1 Trial of CERE-120 in Parkinson's Disease

... to deliver one of two dose levels of CERE-120 into their putamen -- a region of the brain affected by the degeneration of neurons in Parkinson's ... via stereotactic neurosurgery to deliver the drug into the putamen region of the brain and are being followed for 12 months for safety and efficacy. ...

Tampax and Always Launch Protecting Futures Program Dedicated to Helping African Girls Stay in School

... the sanitation, health and hygiene for the community in this region by building a four-kilometer-long water pipeline to 2 schools in this ... 2007/2008 support will expand to HERO schools in the KwaZulu Natal region of South Africa where Protecting Futures will provide sanitary ...

Game Commission Announces EHD Confirmed in Fayette County

... said. "We urge anyone finding dead deer or sick deer to contact our region offices with specific information. "Fortunately, the weather has begun to ... experienced the majority of confirmed EHD cases, Game Commission Southwest region Director Matt Hough cautiously breathed a sigh of relief. "The frost we ...

Alseres Pharmaceuticals' Announces Expansion of the Cethrin(R) Acute Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Phase I/IIA Clinical Trial

... and often result in quadriplegia; thoracic spinal injury occurs in the region of the back between the neck and the pelvis often resulting in paraplegia. ... surgery, Cethrin is delivered by a single application to the injured region of the spinal cord. Cethrin has been designated as an Orphan Drug by the ...

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic Identify Site of 'Dysfunction' in HDL, Carrier of Good Cholesterol

... Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have identified the region within high density lipoprotein (HDL), the major carrier of "good" ... of dysfunction in HDL." HDL becomes dysfunctional when a specific region on HDL is modified by myeloperoxidase (MPO), an enzyme present in white ...

Access Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on ProLindac Clinical Development Program

... in excess of $2 billion. Access has previously announced that it has licensed ProLindac to Aosaikang Medicinal Group ("ASK") for the Greater China region and to JCOM, Ltd for South Korea. Under these agreements both of these partners will be conducting Phase 2 combination studies with ProLindac in ...

Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine Herald New Agreement To Continue Forty-Plus Year Historic Relationship

... community service and ground-breaking social activism. A full-service, integrated delivery system caring for patients in the New York metropolitan region and beyond, Montefiore is a 1,491-bed medical center that includes: four hospitals -- the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, the Jack D. Weiler Division, ...

Economy is Driving Many Osteoporotic Women to Retire Later - But Their Ability to Work May Be Undermined by Sub-Optimal Management of Their Disease

... 912 postmenopausal women who did not have osteoporosis; all women were aged 50+. The data were weighted to reflect age, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' likelihood to be online. About the NOF Report ...

First Skin Cancer Patients Treated With Electronic Brachytherapy (eBx) At University of Wisconsin Riverview Cancer Center

... to a broader spectrum of patients and their physicians. The Axxent treatment platform provides a therapeutic dose of radiation directly to the region at risk with minimal radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue and without the complex handling, resource logistics and costs associated with ...

deCODE Discovers Second Common Genetic Risk Factor for Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke

... and to find new risk variants. After expanding their genome-wide association study in Iceland, the deCODE team took the top SNPs outside the 4q25 region and typed them in case-control cohorts from Iceland, Norway and the United States. This confirmed the ZFHX3 SNP as a risk variant for AF. Analysis in ...

deCODE-led Megastudy Finds New Genetic Clues to Causes of Schizophrenia

... chromosome 18, which is involved in brain development. Five of the SNPs are located very closely together in the Major Histocompatibility Complex, a region on chromosome 6 densely packed with genes regulating immune response. This lends support to previous research suggesting a possible environmental ...

MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards Hit Mid-2009 With Over $1 Million Funded in High-Risk/High-Reward Approaches to Parkinson's Disease

... they are working in a pre-clinical model of PD to assess the practical potential of modifying abnormal synchronization in the brain's basal ganglia region -- an approach that, according to preliminary theoretical studies, could result in functional improvements for PD patients. The ...

New Analysis Shows Efficacy of SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) in Anti-TNF Experienced Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

... you for signs of TB during treatment. Tell your doctor if you have been in close contact with people with TB. Tell your doctor if you have been in a region (such as the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys and the Southwest) where certain fungal infections like histoplasmosis or ...

Two-Year Data Show Patients Receiving SIMPONI(TM) (golimumab) Experienced Sustained Improvement in Signs and Symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis

... you for signs of TB during treatment. Tell your doctor if you have been in close contact with people with TB. Tell your doctor if you have been in a region (such as the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys and the Southwest) where certain fungal infections like histoplasmosis or ...

Three Surgeons in East Texas Are Successfully Integrating a Novel Stem Cell Procedure for Spine Surgeries

... Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana will benefit from these promising procedures. Dr. Dietze, Dr. Contreras, and Dr. Buono are the first surgeons in the region to utilize the new technology and look forward to working with the local surgeons and medical staff to encourage widespread adoption to benefit all ...

New One-Year Data from REMICADE(R) SONIC Trial Show Sustained Efficacy Compared with Azathioprine in Treatment of Crohn's Disease

... will check for TB with a skin test. If a patient has latent (inactive) TB, TB treatment should begin before starting REMICADE. Lived in a region where certain fungal infections like histoplasmosis or coccidioidomycosis are common. An infection that keeps coming back (or any problems ...

Optimer Pharmaceuticals Presents Results From Fidaxomicin Phase 3 Study for the Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection

... and common cause of infectious diarrhea," said Thomas J. Louie, M.D., Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control for the Calgary Health region and professor in the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology-Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary . "These findings indicate that fidaxomicin ...

BioInformatics, LLC New Report - Capitalizing on New Opportunities for Stem Cell Products, Now Available

... in this expanding market. The report includes detailed market share estimates across major stem cell product categories by market segment, geographic region and top suppliers. In this report, scientists specify percentage of stem cell culture products purchased from each of the following suppliers: ...

USAID Cooperates in Pandemic Preparedness Initiative

... Africa - Burundi, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda - who would likely lead emergency response efforts across the region during a pandemic. A review session will be conducted after the exercise in East Africa to allow participants the opportunity to reflect on lessons ...

Human Genome Sciences Reports Positive Late-Breaker Results at EASL from ACHIEVE Phase 3 Trials of Albuferon(R) in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

... -10.7%, 1.1%, p=0.0086 for non-inferiority). An unexpectedly high and still unexplained SVR rate for peginterferon alfa-2a in the Asian region fully accounted for the observed SVR difference between the two drugs in the ACHIEVE 2/3 study. In non-Asian regions, 79.8% (174/218) of ...

Worldwide Cost Estimate for Alzheimer's and Dementia Is US$315.4 Billion

... great challenge for every society." Direct costs as well as costs of informal care were estimated by combining prevalence estimates, country and region specific data on Gross Domestic Product per person, and average wage with results from previously published cost-of-illness studies in different ...

Neuralstem's Human Stem Cells Integrate into Nervous System of Rats with Animal Model of ALS

... In a study conducted at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, laboratory-grown human neural stem cells (hNSCs) isolated from a fetal spinal cord region were grafted into the spinal cord of rats with a genetic mutation (SOD-1 G93A) that gives them a disease like a particularly aggressive form of ALS. ...

Access Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive ProLindac(TM) Phase 2 Ovarian Cancer Clinical Trial Results

... Access has previously announced that it has licensed ProLindac to Jiangsu Aosaikang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ("ASK") for the Greater China region and to JCOM, Ltd for South Korea. Under these agreements both of these partners will be conducting Phase 2 combination studies with ProLindac in ...

Sanofi Pasteur Dengue Vaccine Enters Pediatric Efficacy Clinical Study

... occurs mostly in tropical and subtropical countries and is spreading to new parts of the globe each year. The WHO has warned that the Western Pacific region may be heading for a major dengue outbreak(3). Outbreaks recently have been observed in Paraguay and the Middle East. In addition, dengue affects ...

American Heart Association EMS Survey Uncovers Deficiencies in Response, Treatment and Transfer of Patients With Most Deadly Heart Attacks

... of care to decrease time to treatment for STEMI patients. In coming months, the association's staff will receive survey data for their state or region and share it with coalitions composed of EMS and hospital personnel, physicians and nurses and health policy makers. The coalitions will use the ...