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UCLA Study Shows One-Third of Drug Ads in Medical Journals Do Not Contain References Supporting Medical Claims

UCLA investigators reviewed pharmaceutical ads in American medical journals and found that nearly one-third contained no references for medical claims; while the majority of references to published material was available, only a minority of company data-on-file documents were provided upon request; and the majority of original research cited in the ads was funded by or had authors affiliated with...

Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine

When the most common adult leukemia in the United States was last reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1995, it was seen through the eyes of theories that dated back to the 1960s. As such, the journal recently invited three of the world's foremost experts on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) to write an authoritative update covering the transformation in the scientific commu...

Leukemia Drug Breakthrough Study In New England Journal Of Medicine

Alan List, M.D., leader of the Hematologic Malignancies Program at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, recently conducted a phase I/II trial of the experimental drug Revlimid showing promise as an innovative way to treat patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a form of pre-leukemia. Given in pill form, Revlimid simultaneously blocks the growth of new blood vessels th...

Automatic extraction of gene/protein biological functions from biomedical text

With the rapid advancement of biomedical science and the development of high-throughput analysis methods, the extraction of various types of information from biomedical text has become critical. Since automatic functional annotations of genes are quite useful for interpreting large amounts of high-throughput data efficiently, the demand for automatic extraction of information related to gene func...

Vital step in cellular migration described by UCSD medical researchers

A vital molecular step in cell migration, the movement of cells within the body during growth, tissue repair and the body's immune response to invading pathogens, has been demonstrated by researchers in the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. Published in the March 27 online edition of Nature Cell Biology and the journal's upcoming April print edition, the study describ...

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Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium - high glucose (DME) from Sigma-Aldrich

Description:Many modifications of Eagle's medium have been developed since the original formulation. The most widely used modification is Dulbecco's Modified Eagle'sMedium. DME is a modification of Minimum Essential Medium Eagle [MEM] that contains a higher concentration of vitamins and amino acids, as well asadditional supplementary components....
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Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium (IMDM) from Sigma-Aldrich

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Murashige and Skoog Basal Medium with Gamborg's Vitamins from Sigma-Aldrich

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Improve Lipid- or Calcium Phosphate-Mediated Transfection of Human Dermal Fibroblasts

reagent Genetic Applications LLC Stratagene transfection reagentpromotes efficient transfection of human dermal fibroblasts. Twenty minutes...

Low-Toxicity, Lipid-Mediated Transfection of Mammalian Cells

Stratagene Cloning Systems Clonetics Corporation, Walkersville, Maryland LipoTAXI transfection reagent is a novel liposome reagent that offerslow cellular toxicity and high transfection efficiencies for adhe...

Mycoplasma Contamination Reduces the Effect of Lipid-Mediated Transfection of Mammalian Cells

Mycoplasma PCR Primer Set for fast and easy detection of mycoplasmacontamination Yale University Genetic Applications LLC Stratagene Mycoplasma contamination of mammalian cell cultures can substantiallyreduce the potenc...

Comparison of Growth Techniques and Media for the Purpose of Plasmid Isolation from E. coli Using the Eppendorf Perfectprep Plasmid Mini Kit

Comparison of Growth Techniques and Media for the Purpose of Plasmid Isolation from E. coli Using the Eppendorf<sup > Plasmid Mini Kit BioSystems Laboratory, Brinkmann Instruments, Inc., We...

Efficient RNAi-mediated gene silencing in neuronal cells using QIAGEN siRNA and TransMessenger Transfection Reagent*

Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Genetic manipulations using neuronal cells are notoriously difficult. Therefore, efficient delivery of short interfering RNA (siRNA)...

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Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

A minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) procedure was performed at Pittsburgh while the patient was awake. The operation was done under thoracic epidural anesthesia. This approach may help in discharging the patient early from the hospital. Dr. Zenati from the team of doctors who performed the surgery said that patients who are operated in this way may not have to go t...

Check if your “Favourite medical web-site” is indulging in Quackey

Frauds has become an ever-growing menace on the Internet. Now a millennium project by like minded people have listed 500 health related web-sites that are such havens of quackery! This information should serve as a guideline for surfers to be weary of tall claims made out by such sites. The information can be accessed on http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/categories.htm Statutary...

Nobel Prize for Medicine shared by Three scientists

Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries concerning "signal transduction in the nervous system." The three Nobel laureates will share the 9 million kronor ($915,000) prize for their pioneering discoveries "concerning one type of signal transduction between nerve cells, referred to as slow synaptic transmission," according to the...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

Have you ever wondered how the dosages of drugs are determined? How drugs are being tested? On whom are these tested and who tests them? What happens if the dosages are unwittingly missed? Or worse still if harmful drugs are tested on unwitting patients what happens? Who answers these questions? In a shocking revelation, a study in the U.S.A. has revealed that in many instances about a th...

Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

In an open show of support to Alternative Medicine, Britain's Prince Charles has urged the government to allocate 10 million pounds ($14.21 million) to fund a five-year research program into the effects of alternative medicine. The world is now sitting up and taking notice of holistic medicine and Prince Charles’s support to fund research in this field has come as a shot in the arm for th...

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Gene Chips to Detect CYP Variations: A New Step Toward Customized Medical Therapy.

The FDA approval of BiDil for heart failure in African American patients has underscored the concept that two patients can respond differently to the same medication. This concept holds true for a wide variety of everyday medications, and in many cases is due to individual gen...

Diagnosing Diabetes: Immediate HbA1c Results Improve Glycemic Control

According to the American Diabetes Association, the total annual economic cost of diabetes in 2002 was estimated to be $132 billion, or one out of every 10 health care dollars spent in the United States. A chronic disease with no cure, diabetes is a group of diseases (including Type 1, Type 2, and gestational) marked by...

AVI BioPharma Partner Cook Medical Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment for APPRAISAL Phase II Clinical Trial for Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 10, 2007 - AVI BioPharma, Inc.(Nasdaq:AVII) announced today that its partner Cook Medical hascompleted target patient enrollment and released six-monthfollow-up data from a Phase II clinical trial known as Appraisal.The trial, currently being held in Germany, was designed to studythe effect of the Neugene(R) antisense drug Resten-MP(TM), whenused in conj...

Insmed Inc. to Present at C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Growth Conference

RICHMOND, VA., July 9 /CNW/ - Insmed Inc. (NASDAQ:INSM), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and approvalof drugs for the treatment of metabolic diseases with unmetmedical needs, today announced that it will present at thisweek's C.E. Unterberg, Towbin (CEUT) Emerging GrowthOpportunities Conference in New York City. The conference, to be held at the Mandarin...

NexMed Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment in Two Pivotal Phase 3 Studies for Anti-Fungal Product

EAST WINDSOR, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 2007 - NexMed, Inc.(NASDAQ: NEXM), a developer of innovative transdermal treatmentsbased on the NexACT(R) drug delivery technology, today announcedthat Novartis Pharma AG has completed patient enrollment for PhaseIII clinical trials for NM100060, a topical treatment foronychomycosis (nail fungus). Pursuant to the terms of the licensingagreement w...

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