UPMC Health Plan Sponsors 'School of Swing' with MCG Jazz
PITTSBURGH, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Manchester Craftsmen's Guild will present its annual series of School of Swing concerts for elementary schoolchildren on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, May 18, 19 & 20, 2009 . This three-day program (May 18 & 19 at 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m....Woodruff Foundation pledges $3 million toward MCG dental building
AUGUSTA, Ga. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation has pledged $3 million toward construction of a new Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry building. "This is great news for the school," said MCG President Daniel W. Rahn. "This helps demonstrate to other foundations and corporations, and...AMITIZA 8 mcg now available to treat irritable bowel syndrome
Bethesda, Md., and Deerfield, Ill., May 27, 2008 Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMP) and Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. today announced that AMITIZA (lubiprostone) 8 mcg capsules are now available by prescription in pharmacies across the U.S. for the treatment of Irritable Bo...New AMITIZA 8 mcg phase III studies demonstrated overall symptom improvement in adult women
San Diego, CA May 18, 2008 New study results indicated that treatment with AMITIZA (lubiprostone) 8 mcg lead to significant relief of overall symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation (IBS-C). These results were presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2008, the largest annual i...Verizon teams with MCG to test cutting-edge technology
A handheld device that could mean the difference between life and death for some heart attack victims is under development with input from doctors at the Medical College of Georgia. With a $50,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, the MCG Center for Telehealth is working to determine if a wire...Implantable device designed to detect, stop seizures under study at MCG
A small device implanted in the skull that detects oncoming seizures, then delivers a brief electrical stimulus to the brain to stop them is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. MCG is among 28 U.S. centers participating in a study to determine if the neurostimulator device can help p...Mylan Receives FDA Approval for Generic Version of Thyroid Deficiency Treatment Cytomel(R)
...tion (ANDA) for Liothyronine Sodium Tablets USP, 5 mcg (base), 25 mcg (base) and 50 mcg (base). Liothyronine Sodium Tablets are t...American Red Cross President to Address National Press Club Luncheon
... Gail mcg overn to Address Status of Nonp rofit Sector in Current Economic Climate WASHINGTON, July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gail J. McGov...AMA Grants New Category III CPT Code to Premier Heart's Multifunction CardioGram(TM) (MCG)
...t's Multifunction CardioGram (TM) (MCG) system. mcg is the World's first Internet based, non-invasive,...system used for interactive online diagnosis. The mcg is intended as an aid for bridging physician exper...Joseph Shen, M.D., founder and co-developer of the mcg technology. "Because of its fundamentally unconve...Novavax Completes Enrollment of Its Second Phase II Seasonal Influenza VLP Vaccine Clinical Trial
...ed a single injection of either a placebo or the VLP vaccine at doses of 15 mcg or 60 mcg per strain. The results of this study will be used to help select a dose fo...Harvard Study Shows Folic Acid, B Vitamins in Animi-3(R) May Prevent Vision Loss
... health." Each capsule of Animi-3 contains 500 mg of omega-3, (350 mg of DHA), 200 mg of phytosterols, 1 mg of folic acid, 12.5 mg of B6, and 12 mcg of B12. More information on Animi-3 ingredients is found on www.animi-3.com and on www.dhaandbvitamins.org , a resource developed by speciali...Georgia Stem Cell Initiative meets on MCG campus Feb. 10
AUGUSTA, Ga. The Georgia Stem Cell Initiative, a partnership of academia, industry and public officials to advance stem cell research in the state and educate the public about its impact, will meet Feb. 10 on the campus of the Medical College of Georgia. The free daylong symposium is open to ...Protein handlers should be effective treatment target for cancer and Alzheimer's
...tervene in both, says Dr. Mivechi, director of the mcg Center for Molecular Chaperone Biology/Radiobiolog...h brain cell communication is interrupted. The mcg center has evidence that disabling molecular chape...e are looking for better drugs," she says. The mcg center is among the first to study molecular chape...Cancer's distinctive pattern of gene expression could aid early screening and prevention
...s in order, says Dr. Kapil Bhalla, director of the mcg Cancer Center, Cecil F. Whitaker Jr., M.D./Georgia...de the field a focal point for centers such as the mcg Cancer Center, which recently recruited two new ep... methylation inhibitors already are under study at mcg and other centers for a variety of cancers and blo...Targeting helpers of heat shock proteins could help treat cancer, cardiovascular disease
... "We are trying to understand how Hsp90 folds steroid receptors into the proper conformation so they work," says Dr. Ahmed Chadli, biochemist in the mcg Center for Molecular Chaperones/Radiobiology and Cancer Virology. "The goal is to interfere with their function when they are helping cancer." Hsp9...MCG researcher among first to receive NIH stimulus funding
... of physiological and technological nursing in the mcg School of Nursing and the grant's principal invest...ultidisciplinary research team also includes three mcg School of Medicine faculty members: Dr. Peter Buck...ry Disease, and Dr. John Catravas, director of the mcg Vascular Biology Center and senior associate dean ...New evidence of how high glucose damages blood vessels could lead to new treatments
...ring protein form and function, says Dr. Rita C.Tostes, physiologist in the mcg School of Medicine. The researchers suspect increased modification of pr...that can modify proteins. Inside the blood vessel walls of healthy mice, mcg researchers found increased activity by O-GlcNAc competes with another mech...System that regulates blood pressure is amiss in some healthy, young blacks
... regulate blood pressure, prompting the kidneys to hold onto more salt and fluid if it's too low and to get rid of salt when it's high. But when mcg researchers looked at the system's activity by measuring levels of the hormones it uses to help regulate sodium excretion, the system which worked es...Drugs needed to preserve eggs for reproduction need to be given in stages
... permeability is better with these drugs which must be given at room temperature when their toxicity levels are high. With permeability rates in hand, mcg scientists used a mathematical model, developed in collaboration with Villanova University in Pennsylvania, to successfully predict optimal loading an...Agent Orange exposure increases veterans' risk of aggressive recurrence of prostate cancer
... 1990 and 2006 that also showed recurrence rates were higher and recurring cancers were more aggressive with Agent Orange exposure. Dr. Sagar R. Shah, mcg urology resident, presented the findings at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Urological Association. This new study which includes the VA M...Male impotence drugs may deserve a second look in women
... trials found essentially no response in women. mcg researchers decided to look again, first giving a ...in females, says Dr. R. Clinton Webb, chair of the mcg Department of Physiology and a study author. Scien...physiological and social-interpersonal aspects. mcg researchers have shown part of that complexity may...Schering-Plough Announces Phase II and III Data for Corifollitropin Alfa
... ENGAGE non-inferiority trial, obtained in the 150 mcg corifollitropin alfa treatment arm (38.9 percent p...E also demonstrated that a single injection of 150 mcg corifollitropin alfa achieved similar oocyte and e... the ENGAGE trial showed a single injection of 150 mcg corifollitropin alfa, compared to the daily rFSH t...FDA Approves SYMBICORT(R) for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
...(budesonide/formoterol fumarate dihydrate) 160/4.5 mcg for the twice daily maintenance treatment of airfl...strated that patients using SYMBICORT pMDI 160/4.5 mcg had significantly greater mean improvements from b... the treatment period compared with formoterol 4.5 mcg and placebo.(2) In addition, patients using S...Novavax Announces Operational Status of Its Vaccine Pilot Plant and Commercial Launch Facility
... in the facility. The facility is expected to be capable of producing 2-3 million doses of monovalent pandemic influenza vaccine per week at 15 mcg HA/dose (50 - 75 M doses in 6 months) once scale-up and validation are complete. Likewise, the facility can support up to 20 - 25 million doses of tr...