Epi in Medical News

New EPI Healthcare Study by June O'Neill Shows Uninsured 'Crisis' Wildly Overestimated

Former CBO Director and Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors' Authors New Report Titled "Who are the Uninsured?" WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new study which shows that the widely employed estimate of...

Pharma's Premier EPI Database Launches New Forecast Period and Disease Indications

Rich Data Set and Easy-to-Use Web Interface Allows Users to Manipulate Data to Create Custom Epidemiological Projections PatientBase Also Offers Treatable Pools for Its Cancer Indications WALTHAM, Mass., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and ad...

Lumping different countries together -- why the 2008 EPI is of limited use

This release is available in German . Davos/Leipzig. For countries without their own environmental monitoring systems, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) can be useful for working out where there is a need for action in environmental policy making. However, within the European ...

Walmart Foundation Commits $500,000 to Improving Emergency Preparedness for the 54 Million Americans with Disabilities

...in the emergency preparedness universe. We created epi to address the critical need to educate a wide ran... The grant from the Walmart Foundation will enable epi to: Revise and improve educatio...ionwide on this critical issue. epi has worked to bridge the divide between the disabi...

Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Commercial Availability of CREON(R) (Pancrelipase) Delayed-Release Capsules

...ate nutrition and health. Pancreatic enzyme products work in patients with epi by delivering pancreatic enzymes to the small intestine to help break down ...eplacement for digestive enzymes physiologically secreted by the pancreas. epi can occur as a complication of a variety of diseases or conditions, includi...

Frost & Sullivan Sees Opportunities in Chinese Vaccine Industry

...ease prevention, hence increases vaccine consumption. Thirdly, the self-paid rate of vaccine is expected to increase. The usage rate of self-paid epi (Expanded Programme on Immunization) vaccines is about 10 - 20 percent. POV doctors strongly recommend free vaccines. In the future, with the increasi...

Video: CREON(R) (Pancrelipase) Delayed-Release Capsules First and Only Pancreatic Enzyme Product to Receive FDA Approval Under New Guidelines

...ire.com/mnr/solvay/37345/ "Left untreated, epi causes maldigestion, malabsorption and malnutritio...lvania School of Medicine. "The goals of treating epi are to optimize digestion and absorption of food a...important component in the effective management of epi throughout a patient's lifetime." The efficac...

Mpex Pharmaceuticals Announces Series D Financing of Up to $40 Million

...classes of antibiotics. In 2008 Mpex entered into a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline focused on developing multiple drug candidates utilizing Mpex's epi technology. Company website: www.mpexpharma.com . About Investor Growth Capital Investor Growth Capital (IGC) is the wholly-owned ventur...

Digestive Care, Inc. Announces the Complete Submission of the NDA for PANCRECARB(R) (pancrelipase)

... unique bicarbonate buffered enteric-coated formulation of pancrelipase that has been an essential component of the armamentarium for the treatment of epi associated with cystic fibrosis (CF) and other diseases affecting the pancreas. We are dedicated to continuing to provide PANCRECARB(R) to CF patients...

Digestive Care, Inc. Announces the Filing of the First Module of NDA Submission for PANCRECARB(R) (pancrelipase)

...d and Drug Administration ("FDA"). The FDA has granted the product Fast Track designation. "Digestive Care has provided vital products used to treat epi for over a decade and we are committed to filing the remaining modules for the NDA for PANCRECARB(R) to meet the April 28, 2009 requirements set forth...

BAXL Technologies Partners With Epikinonia at Maternity Clinic in Athens, Greece

...ill also use the system to introduce expecting and new mothers to infant care through a series of videos played over the VoD system. Partnering with epi enables BAXL to broaden its reach into the Mediterranean region of Europe. EPI, headquartered in Greece, is a broadband systems integrator servicing t...

PA Residents Losing Employer Coverage at Rate Second Only to CA

...7,929,984 7,438,592 -491,392 15.6% Source: epi analysis of March Current Population Survey, 2001-... 2,072,948 1,874,265 -198,683 7.7% Source: epi analysis of March Current Population Survey, 2001-... 2,797,141 2,668,010 -129,131 5.9% Source: epi analysis of March Current Population Survey, 2001-...

Routine Hib Vaccination Could Save Innumerable Asian Children

...ve workshop organized in June 2006 by WHO around the introduction of the Hib vaccine into Bangladesh," said Dr. Md. Abdul Quader Mian, Deputy Director epi and Programme Manager Child Health and LCC, Ministry of Health, Bangladesh. In spite of a growing body of evidence, only 26 percent of the ...

Hib Vaccination can Prevent Pneumonia

...ild survival in Bangladesh, said Dr. Md. Abdul Quader Mian, Deputy Director epi and Programme Manager Child Health & LCC, Ministry of Health, Bangladesh. T... time for additional Asian countries to make this important addition to the epi programs. I commend the GAVI Alliance and the countries of Banglad...

Pesticides Linked to High Risk of Pediatric Cancers - a Study Unveils

...are highly contaminated with pesticides in the US. Early monitoring led the epi government and the Canadian Cancer Society to believe that the cancer incid...suspected culprit for the rise and the findings of the doctor has triggered epi for launching a probe. It is expected that the results will be reported lat...

Researchers claim That Regular Use Of Hib Vaccine In Africa Could Eliminate H. Influenza totally.

... Kenya, and lead us to conclude that many more deaths could be averted in Africa if more countries were to adopt the vaccine as part of their national epi programs." This is the first published study in East Africa to document the significant benefit of routine Hib vaccination in protecting young c...