Hospital diabetes care standards not met by US academic medical centers
Nashville, TN January 13, 2009 A benchmarking study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine evaluated contemporary hospital glycemic management in United States academic medical centers, determining glucose control practices are suboptimal and do not meet current American Diabetes Associ...Recognizing someone's name but forgetting how you met them is all in your head
Recognizing someones name but forgetting how you met them is all in your head New research from The University of Western Ontario suggests the sometimes eerie feeling experience when recognizing someone, yet failing to remember how or why, reveals important insight into how memory is wired in ...HIVMA supports public plan option to ensure patients' needs are met
Arlington, VAAs Congress drafts health care reform legislation, HIV clinicians urge lawmakers to include a public plan option to ensure affordable access to comprehensive care for HIV patientsnearly 30 percent of whom have no insurance. The HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) believes that a public p...Italian Who Met Former KBG Spy is Arrested
An Italian, Mario Scaramella who met - ex-KGB agent - Alexander Litvinenko on the day the Russian became ill from radiation poisoning was arrested.// He was arrested on Sunday in Naples while returning from London and taken to Rome, the man's father, Amedeo Scaramella said. Scaramella, ...Proposal to Build Six new Hospitals Met with Rage
While the government will approve the plan for six new private finance initiative hospitals today, the proposal has enraged those hit by cutbacks// in their budgets. The announcement has signaled the government’s commitment to continue the largest hospital building programme in the history of t...Fuel demand to be met by Bio-diesel
The Delhi College of Engineering plans to unveil a reactor with a capacity to produce over 600 litres of bio-diesel daily that would help// to meet India’s growing demand for fuel. According to Naveen Kumar, chief of the bio-diesel research department in the college the reactor would be the f...Primary Endpoint Met in Phase 2 Trial of Daclizumab in Patients With Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis
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...surface. Dubbed "global dimming," this phenomenon has been countered in the past few decades by "global brightening" as pollution control efforts have met with success. Wild reviews the evidence surrounding global dimming and brightening, addressing a number of frequently asked questions such as how and ...Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
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...scientists already in place. With support from the Gates Foundation's Global Challenges Program, the Center's cassava bio-fortification efforts have met or exceeded all targets: The levels of beta-carotene have been increased 30X. The levels of protein have been increased 10X. The levels of ir...University has grand designs to build a house of straw
...erated by people." Craig White, Director of White Design and ModCell said: "The Zero Carbon Housing challenge the industry faces is not going to be met with conventional design and materials. "BaleHaus at Bath is an entirely new and renewable way to construct homes fit for the challenge. "Made...Most older long-term cancer survivors have poor health habits
...te-to-vigorous exercise per week. This is far short of the national recommendation of more than 150 minutes of exercise per week. Also, only 7 percent met healthful eating recommendations set by national guidelines. Despite their suboptimal health behaviors, cancer survivors reported a level of mental an...Possible drug target found for one of the most aggressive breast cancers
... of Sciences U.S.A. Researchers found that the met gene may play a critical role in the development o...nstitute demonstrated that inappropriate levels of met occur in human tumors, and that cells with inappropriate met signaling dramatically impact the spread of cancer...SGX Presents Preclinical MET Data at AACR
SAN DIEGO, April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGXP ) presented abstract #4844 at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in San Diego. The poster entitled "SGX523, a potent and exquisitely selective inhibitor of the HGF...Microbix Sales Grow 22% For Nine Months
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...reatment of ADHD in children and adolescents in the US. - On May 19, 2009 Shire announced that a randomized placebo controlled trial had met its primary objective, evaluating the effects of INTUNIV on oppositional symptoms in children aged 6 to 12 years with a diagnosis of ADHD ...Optimer Pharmaceuticals Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
...ients with Clostridium difficile infection at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases meeting, which showed the trial met its primary endpoint of achieving clinical cure compared to Vancocin(R). In addition, the top-line data showed that patients treated with fidaxomicin...Cord Blood America Retires $2.53M Obligation
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...Priorities to Feed Biodiesel Industry Worldwide. The biodiesel industry has met a lot of milestones since last year's event, and a number of alternative fe...Priorities to Feed Biodiesel Industry Worldwide. The biodiesel industry has met a lot of milestones since last year's event, and a number of alternative fe...