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Medical College of Wisconsin to automate its processes for human subject testing
MILWAUKEEThe Medical College of Wisconsin announced on Tuesday that it plans to implement extranet software from to automate all phases of its research concerning human
subjects. Expected to launch by first quarter of 2005, the system is part of a long-range plan to fully enhance the institution's Institutional Review Board....
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Folic Acid Retards Mental Decline In Middle Aged Subjects
A new study conducted by scientists at Wageningen University, Netherlands has proposed// that Folic acid( also known as Vitamin B6) can slow down the cognitive decline in middle aged
subjects. Folic acid or Vitamin B9 has been known to help in the brain development of foetus and infants for a long time now. Due to this reason it is administered to pregnant women. The curre...
Parents Need Guidance to Broach the Subject of Cancer with Their Children
In a study published online, courtesy BMJ, researchers have stressed the importance of assistance to parents in talking to their children about cancer.// Cancer, common amongst women, especially during the motherhood age, has enough literature stressing the importance of communication between the patient and their families, but very little information is actually available, to help a pa...
Rare Cancer- Subject of Study
Physicians at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have developed new techniques that assist in the easy diagnosis of rare cancers. They published the results// of their study in the American Journal of Surgical Pathology. Robert F. Bradley, M.D said that tumors of the appendix that have metastasized through the abdominal cavity are all referred to as cancer. Bradley, a pathology...
Dental Health, a Much Overlooked Subject
Access to necessary dental health services and treatment is just as important as regular check up of blood pressure, cholesterol and weight, for maintaining// good health. It has been estimated that that more than $75 billion has been spent on health over the past 12 months. However it has been found that despite the investment of billions of dollars, certain individuals as...
Risk Of Death Increased In Children Of Mothers Subjected To Domestic Violence
A study conducted in India by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says that domestic violence on mothers increases the possibility of early death// for their children. The risk of death was found to be doubled during perinatal and neonatal stages for children of mothers who were
subjected to harassment. The study is published in the August 2006 edition of the American Journ...
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BV-1000 automated subjective refraction system
Description:The new FDA-Approved BV-1000 is the worlds first patient-driven automated
subjective refraction system. With the BV-1000, Topcon has introduced a new generation of refracting instruments. This innovative product combines an objective simultaneous binocular auto-refractor, auto-keratometer, automatic chart projector and patient-driven vision tester into one instrument....
Company:Topcon America Corporation
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Data Demonstrated Saxagliptin Added to Metformin Improved Glycemic
Control in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Compared to Metformin
Alone
-- Additional Findings Reported Safety & Tolerability Profilein
Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes and Healthy
Subjects -- CHICAGO, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Phase III datapresented this week at the annual meeting of the American DiabetesAssociation demonstrated that saxagliptin, an inhibitor ofdipeptidyl-peptidase-4 (DPP-4) in development by Bristol-MyersSquibb Company and A...
Data Demonstrated Saxagliptin Added to Metformin Improved Glycemic
Control in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Compared to Metformin
Alone
Additional Findings Reported Safety & Tolerability Profilein
Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes and Healthy
Subjects CHICAGO, June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Phase III datapresented this week at the annual meeting of the American DiabetesAssociation demonstrated that saxagliptin, an inhibitor ofdipeptidyl-peptidase-4 (DPP-4) in development by Bristol-MyersSquibb Company (NYSE: BMY...
First Phase II Short-Term Study on Dapagliflozin Shows Results on
Safety, Tolerability and Glycemic Markers in Subjects With Type 2
Diabetes
-- Additional Findings Reported on Glucose Homeostasis Effects inNormal and Diabetic Rats -- CHICAGO, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a 14-day,Phase IIa study of the safety profile of multiple doses of theinvestigational compound dapagliflozin, a selective inhibitor ofthe Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 (SGLT2) administered alone orconcomitantly with metformin in
subjects with Typ...
Lux Biosciences' Investigational Therapy for Uveitis, LX211, is
Subject of Two Presentations at Key Ophthalmology Meeting, ARVO
2007
JERSEY CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2007 - Lux Biosciences,Inc., a privately held biotechnology company specialized in thefield of ophthalmic diseases, announced today that the company'snext-generation calcineurin inhibitor, LX211, is the
subject of twopresentations at the Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting, being held May 6-10 in FortLauderdale...
Pharmathene's Recombinant Butyrylcholinesterase (rBChE) Program the
Subject of Promising New Alzheimer's Research
In Vitro Assays Show rBChE Suppresses Amyloid PlaqueFormation ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 3, 2007 - PharmAthene, Inc., a leadingbiodefense company specializing in the development andcommercialization of medical countermeasures against chemical andbiological terrorism, announced today that new data from itsrecombinant butyrylcholinesterase (rBChE) research program wererecently presented...
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