Valeant to Acquire Tecnofarma, A Mexican Generic Company
...000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant that will allow Valeant Latin America to reduce its dependence upon third party manufacturers. Finally, Tecnofarma has eighty registered products that can be introduced into the branded generic market in Mexico. "The acquisition of Tecnofarma is consistent with our bus...Lighter Meals May Bring Longer Life
... Thirty-three monkeys are still alive, 13 of whom are allowed to eat as they like. The other 20 are allowed a diet with 30 percent fewer calories. eighty percent of the original monkeys eating fewer calories are still alive, versus half of those in the control group, the researchers reported. Among ...B-Line Medical(R) and Mentice, Inc. Announce Data Integration Partnership
... of simulation-based medical training. B-Line Medical specializes in the delivery of robust, yet easy to use web-based solutions that have helped over eighty top hospitals, medical schools and nursing programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe, operate and manage their clinical skills and simulations centers m...B-Line Medical(R) and Surgical Science Sign Data Integration Agreement for LapSim(R) Simulator
... of simulation-based medical training. B-Line Medical specializes in the delivery of robust, yet easy to use web-based solutions that have helped over eighty top hospitals, medical schools, and nursing programs in the U.S., Canada, and Europe operate and manage their clinical skills and simulations centers ...Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Might Fight Swine Flu
...researchers report. The mice were also loaded up with "memory" T-cells -- white blood cells that were programmed to react to this strain of flu. eighty percent of the treated mice lived, compared to only 50 percent of those left untreated, said Donna Farber, senior author of a paper published in the J...Guess What Most Americans Don't Want to Talk About (Hint: It's Not Sex!)
... a diet rich in fiber and maintain a lifestyle that reduces the likelihood of constipation, these efforts often aren't enough," explains Stokes. eighty six percent of adults surveyed claim they try to reduce stress in their personal and professional lives, including eating a balanced diet (70% of male...Americans Support U.S. Working to Improve Health in Developing Countries
...n public shows equally strong support for programs to fight diseases that mostly strike abroad as for programs to fight diseases that strike at home. eighty percent favor "conducting basic research on diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis that primarily affect poor countries," while as many (79%) favo...Public Lacks Awareness of Serious Disease With Life-Threatening Complications
...s unaware of the potentially disabling and life-altering health effects of lupus. According to a national online survey conducted for the Ad Council, eighty percent of young women in the United States say they have little or no knowledge of lupus, yet eight in ten new cases of lupus will develop among wome...Thoratec Announces FDA Approval of HeartMate II(R) for Bridge-To-Transplantation
... Survival to cardiac transplantation, recovery or ongoing on HeartMate II support was 80 percent at six months and 77 percent at one year. -- eighty four percent of the patients survived to hospital discharge or transplantation. -- Significant improvements were observed across all measures o...Cleveland Clinic Leading Clinical Program to Improve Early-Stage Lung Cancer Detection
...-ray CAD (Computer Aided Detection) Lung cancer kills more people in the United States annually than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined.(1) eighty million chest X-rays are taken each year for a variety of reasons including persistent cough, routine physical exam, pre-operative preparation and man...Clinical Benefits Demonstrated with Low-Dose GATTEX(TM) in Phase 3 Short Bowel Syndrome Study
..., safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of GATTEX compared with placebo in patients with parenteral nutrition (PN)-dependent short bowel syndrome. eighty three (83) patients who were enrolled in the trial were randomly assigned to receive daily subcutaneous injections of 0.05 milligrams or 0.10 milligra...MUSC Research Offers Hope for Those Resistant to Depression Treatment
...ment trials. More than 40 percent of patients experience a recurrence after two years and more than 60 percent experience recurrence after five years. eighty to 90 percent of those patients having experienced two or more episodes of depression will have additional episodes. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) i...GEN reports on alternative feedstocks for ethanol production
...o the June 15 issue of GEN ( http://www.genengnews.com/articles/chitem.aspx?aid=2942 ). "It's been estimated that fossil fuels constitute more than eighty percent of the world's main energy supply," says John Sterling, Editor in Chief of GEN. "Both economics and the concern over global warming require th...Molecule that suppresses immune response under study in type 1 diabetes
...le Diabetes Research Foundation International will enable studies in a classic model of type 1 diabetes: a normal-weight mouse that develops diabetes. eighty percent of the female mice get diabetes by age 12 to 15 weeks. MCG researchers suspect it's because they have a transient defect in their dendritic ce...A BBVA Foundation project comes up with a system enabling detection of cetacean hearing loss
...ate of an individual's auditory system and thereby its acoustic ability to negotiate its habitat. The diversity of sound signals - there are around eighty cetacean species, every one with a rich acoustic repertoire - complicates the task of extracting the key components that determine the survival of an ...News from the December 2008 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...nth study of 605 people who said they eat at fast-food places at least once per week, 92 percent cited quickness as the top reason they eat fast food. eighty percent said it was because the restaurants were easily found and 69 percent said it was because the food tastes good. About one in five participan...Amazon corridors far too narrow, warn scientists
...he 7 million km2 Amazon rainforest contains around a quarter of the worlds terrestrial species, yet is being cleared at a rate of 25,000 km2 per year. eighty per cent of this deforestation has been in Brazil and 70 per cent of that can be directly attributed to cattle ranching. Wildlife corridors are of...Cleveland Clinic leading clinical program to improve early-stage lung cancer detection
...ray CAD (Computer Aided Detection) Lung cancer kills more people in the United States annually than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined.* eighty million chest X-rays are taken each year for a variety of reasons including persistent cough, routine physical exam, pre-operative preparation and man...Vaginal reconstruction not needed for most inter-sex females, Hopkins study shows
...have vaginal surgery. Comparing those who had surgery with those who did not, researchers found that both groups had similar rates of sexual activity: eighty percent of those who chose not to have surgery were sexually active, compared to 70 percent of those who had surgery. As surgeons, we need to make...Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection
... lysin, and McCullers tested his mice. He colonized his mice with S. pneumoniae, treated some of them with the lysin and then gave them all influenza. eighty percent of the mice that did not receive the lysin came down with middle ear infections, but none of the mice given the lysin did. The treatment was 1...Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds
...pen ulcer that won't heal. For diabetics, such wounds contribute to a foot or lower-leg amputation rate 10 to 15 times higher than non-diabetics. eighty percent of diabetics who underwent amputation for chronic wounds died within five years, according to a Finnish study. The incidence of chronic w...Attacking cancer's sweet tooth is effective strategy against tumors
...thway did not survive beyond 10 weeks. In striking contrast, only two of the LDHA-deficient mice died, one at 16 weeks, another at just over 18 weeks. eighty percent of the mice outlived the four month experiment. The findings by Valeria Fantin, Julie St-Pierre, and Philip Leder appear in the June Cancer Ce...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Financial Results
... GeoVax vaccines were well tolerated with no or mild local and systemic reactions in the majority of trial participants. O eighty percent of both the low and full dose trial participants responded to the vaccine which stimulated anti- HIV T-cell (white...BioIQ Supports American Heart Month to Raise Awareness About Heart Disease, the #1 Killer of Women
...ipants can also access the BioIQ Knowledge Center to learn more about healthy living. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, eighty percent of women ages 40 to 60 have one or more risk factors for heart disease. Whatever a woman's age, she needs to take action to protect her heart ...Sentrx Exits 2008 with Strong Growth
...em hosting for clinical trials and post-marketed products in 1999. Since that time, Sentrx has provided operational and consulting services to nearly eighty unique clients. More than fifty of those companies have outsourced adverse event processing, safety system management, or risk evaluation and mitigat...Elsevier and the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions
...arch. Insight from Scopus, Elsevier's abstract and citation database of peer reviewed literature, was used to determine the winners. One hundred and eighty four scientists and researchers under the age of 40 from Southeast Asia, South Asia and Hong Kong submitted their work to one of four categories: Life...WallSt.net Updates Investment Community Through All-New Interview With ImmuCell
...treet Direct, Inc. owns and operates WallStRadio, a business and finance podcast Web site. Financial Filings Corp. is expecting to receive two hundred eighty dollars from ImmuCell Corporation for the dissemination of this press release. For a complete list of our advertising relationships, visit http://www...WallSt.net Announces Upcoming Interview With CEO of ReBuilder Medical Technologies
...ons to publicly traded companies, and WallStRadio, a business and finance podcast Website. Financial Filings Corp. is expecting to receive two hundred eighty dollars from ReBuilder Medical Technologies, Inc. for the dissemination of this press release. For a complete list of our advertisers and advertising ...