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...

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Epi in Medical Technology

Two New Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine Show Malaria Vaccine Candidate Advancing in Africa

... trial early next year." Infant Study: Effective Co-Administration with epi Vaccines(1) The infant study enrolled 340 infants under 12 months o... responses when administering the RTS,S/AS02 vaccine in conjunction with an epi schedule. It was a randomized double-blind trial with participants simultan...

Mpex Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation of a Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Aerosol MP-376 in COPD

...lasses of antibiotics. Mpex recently entered into a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline focused on developing multiple drug candidates utilizing Mpex's epi technology. Company website: http://www.mpexpharma.com . ...

Mpex Pharmaceuticals Presents New Data on MP-376 in Cystic Fibrosis

...lasses of antibiotics. Mpex recently entered into a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline focused on developing multiple drug candidates utilizing Mpex's epi technology. Company website: http://www.mpexpharma.com . ...

Eurand Announces Positive Phase III Clinical Study Results

...ancreatic enzyme replacement therapy used to treat epi and was designed to meet FDA guidelines for pancre...here are no FDA approved PEPs for the treatment of epi on the market in the US. "We are excited to p...ld alleviate serious malabsorption associated with epi in both a pediatric (younger than 7 years) and an ...

Eurand to Present Zentase Phase III Data

...fibrosis, chronic pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer -- epi results in poor digestion and reduced absorption of nutrients whi... on its lead product candidate, Zentase(TM), for the treatment of epi -- Eurand expects to initiate a rolling submission of its new drug...

Eurand's Zentase Effective in Treating Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, Studies Show

...sorption, common measurements for malabsorption in epi patients. In the pivotal study, the mean CFA after...stration (FDA) for Zentase as a treatment for EPI. epi is a potentially lethal disease marked by the defi... no known alternative therapies to PEPs for EPI. epi can occur as a complication of a variety of diseas...

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Epi in Biological Definition

Neurotransmitter

...in the order of their synthesis): from phenylalanine and tyrosine : dopamine ( da ) norepinephrine ( ne /noradrenaline) epinephrine ( epi /adrenaline) from tryptophan : serotonin ( 5ht /5-hydroxytryptamine) from histidine : histamine ( ? ) Polypeptid...