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The Global Health Council Announces Launch of Global Health TV

...eople throughout the world. This new service is a collaborative project between HBL Media, a London-based communications agency and the Council. The Global Health TV website, http: www.globalhealthtv.com, will bring viewers three streams of information, including news and global health policies, highlights of i...

Medarex Announces Collaborative Research Agreement With Mitsubishi Pharma

Medarex, Inc. today announced a collaborative research agreement with Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation . The two companies expect to generate and evaluate fully human monoclonal antibodies against a Mitsubishi target for the potential treatm...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

...s. Re-Mission was developed by HopeLab through a collaborative process that included video game developers and animators, cancer experts, cell biologists, psychologists, and young people with cancer themselves. Re-Mission's 20 levels of game-play combine scientific accuracy with an honest depiction of young peop...

Blood Test may Help Signal Tumor's Remission, Return in Throat Cancer Patients

...neck cancer is an excellent example of the type of collaborative study between two NIH institutes that helps advance the field, said NCI Director, John E. Niederhuber, M.D. It is estimated that more than 34,000 Americans will be diagnosed with cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx (the middle part of the throat ...

Stem Cell Therapy Could Provide Cure for AMD in Five Years

... be developed by the London Project to Cure AMD, a collaborative project. Trials based on this therapy, which could start in the next five years, will be a collaborative effort by researchers and clinicians at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital,...

GAB2-A New Alzheimers Gene Identified

...ers Institute, Kronos Science Laboratory and their collaborative partners, suggests that the gene called GAB2 modifies an individuals risk for Alzheimer's disease when associated with other genes, including APOE4. Alzheimers disease is the most common form of disabling memory and thinking problems in older pe...

Research into Anti-epileptic Drugs Given to Children for Long Term Safety

...rom the Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research, a collaborative project run by the School of Pharmacy at the University of London, the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. The American Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health have been leading the process fo...

UK Researchers Call for Safety Studies of New Anti-epilepsy Drugs for Children

...00 children over a 13-year period. The centre is a collaborative project run by the School of Pharmacy at the University of London, the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Professor Wong and his colleagues found three drugs in particular - lamotrigine, topiramate and levetiracetam - ...

Younger and Violent Sex Offenders on the Rise

...ght as well, said Dr. David Kolko, director of the collaborative program for juvenile sexual offenders run by the Allegheny County juvenile probation office and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. The very fact that child offenders are that -- children -- means that they are still developing, still capable...

Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

...Hopkins Medicine International, US, to undertake a collaborative study on cardiovascular diseases in India. "We want to find out why Asians are more prone to heart diseases," he said. He said Apollo created many benchmarks since its inception. "We have performed more than 59,000 heart surgeries with a success ra...

Boffins Identify Fifth Gene Behind Joubert Syndrome

... study also exemplifies the power of international collaborative research, an increasingly important trend in biomedical discoveries....

Landmark Study Prompts Rethink of Genetic Code

...eering new treatments for inherited disease. The collaborative study focussed on 44 strategically chosen targets which together account for about one percent of the genome, or about 30 million of the three billion "rungs" in the DNA double-helix ladder. The data is being placed in the public domain to help medic...

India to Collaborate With International Vaccine Institute

...d vaccine-related activities. It has established collaborative networks throughout Asia and elsewhere for studies of vaccines, which integrate the relevant disciplines of epidemiology, clinical trials, economic analysis, behavioral science, and policy analysis.Only recently the IVI scientists developed a new lab...

BP and Prostate Problems Drug Effective in Treating PTSD Nightmares

...ut 300 veterans at 12 VA facilities. The second, a collaborative study with Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Madigan Army Medical Center, will enroll active-duty soldiers who have trauma nightmares. The third study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, will look at prazosin in the treatment of civ...

Intensive Psychotherapy Effective in Treating Bipolar Disorder

... a three-session, psychoeducational program called collaborative care. The intensive therapies were: * family... become well, compared with 52 percent of those in collaborative care therapy. Patients in intensive psychotherapy also became well an average of 110 days faster tha...

Motivational Interviewing Could Reduce Excessive Drinking by Students

...ce for its effectiveness,” Kirkley said. MI is a collaborative rather than confrontational style that incorporates empathy, respect and acceptance. Because it has worked well to help individuals reduce high-risk behavior, such as drinking, Kirkley and others decided to try the technique in a group setting. Col...

WHO Calls for Greater Efforts to Fight TB

...ing the other. So, we must rapidly scale up TB-HIV collaborative activities through formally established mechanisms and plans." Health representatives from eight countries, as well as TB are present for the conference, which ends Wednesday. Source-IANS...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...man stem cells invoked the same range of multiple, collaborative mechanisms. Neither type of human stem cell created tumors, deformation, a worsening of symptoms, or gave rise to inappropriate cells types. Neither cell type was rejected by the immune system. In fact, no immunosuppression was needed at all. Final...

New Study Suggests Special Cocoa may Lead to Sustained Improvement in Blood Vessel Function

...e of Cardiology named another study conducted by a collaborative group of researchers in Germany, the University of California, Davis and Mars examining the effects of this specific cocoa on blood vessel function to be one of the major advancements in cardiovascular research in 2005. (DeMaria AN et al. Highlights ...

Fruit Flies May Pave Way to New Treatments for Age-related Heart Disease

... death in industrialized countries, according to a collaborative study. The study reports that mutations in a mol...t Wessells and Takeshi Akasaka at Burnham. “The collaborative spirit at Burnham”, said Bodmer, “greatly facilitated interactions among the researchers that brough...

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