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Avipaxin Is First Entrant in Medical Arsenal for Neuro-Endocrine-Immune Connection(C) Product and Testing Protocols

OSCEOLA, Wis., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- NeuroScience, Inc. has launched a new product -- Avipaxin -- aimed at decreasing elevated levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Avipaxin supports acetylcholine levels by providing substrates for its production and by inhibiting its metabolizing enzym...

Cellular Pathway Yields Potential New Weapon in Vaccine Arsenal

When a cell has to destroy any of its organelles or protein aggregates, it envelops them in a membrane, forming an autophagosome// , and then moves them to another compartment, the lysosome, for digestion. Two years ago, Rockefeller University assistant professor Christian Münz showed that t...

Commercial Real Estate Group of Tucson Unveils Online Tool that Quickly Informs Commercial Real Estate Tenants of Lease Options

...ial real estate and more than 25 years of technology and web design expertise.     Lease With Ease is one of several tools in CREGT's arsenal that helps tenants and investors find the right location at the right price. Commercial Real Estate Groups website provides step-by-step guides, thous...

Waging War on Wrinkles: Infini Cosmetic Associates Now Offers Recent FDA Approved Dysport - The Botox Alternative

...promote the Dysport™ brand as part of a U.S. sales agreement with the manufacturer, Ipsen. The addition of Dysport™ to their dermal filler arsenal positions Medic as a threatening opponent to the Allergan empire and their line of beauty treatments (Botox® and the Juvederm® - hyaluronic ac...

Pharma-Marketer.com: One-Stop Pharmaceutical Marketing Resource

...urce for industry information. Future features include a comprehensive research database where users can submit campaign stats to feed an ongoing arsenal of today's most coveted and hard-to-find data, conference listings and white papers. They have big plans to continually expand their offering by tappi...

New Drug Fights Anthrax Toxin

...rculating in their blood, and it may be too late for antibiotics alone to be effective, the researchers explained. "This drug strengthens America's arsenal against bioterrorism that would work in the face of antibiotic-resistant anthrax bacterium," said lead researcher Sally Bolmer, senior vice president ...

New Report Just Published: World Multiple Myeloma Therapeutics Market Report

... Treatment Therapies: Move Up the Learning Curve II-4 Risk-Adapted Therapy: The New Norm of Future Treatment II-5 New Generation Drugs in the arsenal Against Multiple Myeloma II-5 Velcade(R) (Bortezomib) II-5 Thalomid(R) (Thalidomide) II-5 Revlimid(R) (Lenalidomide) II-6 Alkeran (Mel...

Lung Enzyme Both Friend and Foe

...t the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said in the same release. "Many microorganisms have adapted to circumvent our current and stagnant arsenal of antibiotics. We must find new weapons so that we don't fall back to the public health problems we had prior to penicillin." The researchers plan...

Consumer Watchdog to Congress: Put Patients' Bill of Rights Back on the Table

...lth insurers have bankrupted and killed patients with the fine print of health insurance contracts. A consistent theme of the industry's anti-consumer arsenal has been the use of incomprehensibly technical language buried in insurance contracts to refuse needed care when care is needed most. Case in point: i...

New research identifies more effective tools for detection of colorectal cancer

...early detection of colorectal cancer. Perfecting the frequency of colonoscopy and identification of potentially cancerous polyps are the latest in our arsenal in the fight against this cancer," said Kenneth K. Wang, MD, AGAF, FASGE, Mayo Clinic, Rochester. More Large Polyps Are Seen on Screening Colonosc...

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First Potential Lupus-Specific Treatment in Sight

...ntific Advisory Council urge the federal government and industry to greatly step up their research efforts on lupus so that physicians have a complete arsenal of therapies at their disposal to provide the individualized treatment that lupus requires. "We are grateful to Human Genome Sciences and Gl...

King Pharmaceuticals Showcases Data From Pain Pipeline of Medicines Designed to Deter Common Methods of Non-Therapeutic Use

...ic Carter, Chief Science Officer of King Pharmaceuticals. "Our expectation is that these novel technologies could become instrumental in a physician's arsenal of safe and effective pain medicines that can help with an overall risk management plan." Highlights of King's presentations and King supported ...

Progress Against Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases Among Highlights at Annual Vaccine Conference

...ting development of a malaria vaccine, said that if results of the larger studies prove consistent with earlier findings, RTS,S will join the existing arsenal of bed nets, anti-malaria drugs and insecticides in the battle against the mosquito-borne malaria parasite. "These are all tools that need to be used ...

Human Genome Sciences Begins Delivery of First-in-Class Anthrax Treatment to U.S. Strategic National Stockpile

...e believe ABthrax offers a significant step forward in the treatment of inhalation anthrax and could play an important role in strengthening America's arsenal against bioterrorism," said H. Thomas Watkins, President and Chief Executive Officer, HGS. "From a business perspective, this announcement is strateg...

Human Genome Sciences Reports Substantial Progress Toward Commercialization and Announces 2009 Goals at JPMorgan Healthcare Conference

...ieve that ABthrax offers a significant step forward in the treatment of inhalation anthrax and could play an important role in strengthening America's arsenal against bioterrorism," said Mr. Watkins. "We expect to receive authorization to begin delivery to the Strategic National Stockpile early this year. W...

New Australian Technology: Detecting Breast Cancer With Hair

...s not aimed at replacing mammograms, ultrasound or other diagnostic technologies, but we hope it can be a test that eventually will become part of the arsenal of early detection techniques for the disease," he said. The Fermiscan Test is based on the discovery that women with breast cancer have a change in...

Early Data Presented at ASCO Show Potential of RAD001 to Enhance Efficacy of, and Overcome Resistance to, Breast Cancer Treatments

...D, PhD, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France. "If confirmed in Phase II and III clinical trials, RAD001 will be a major addition to the existing arsenal of breast cancer therapy." ABSTRACT #1057 - "Multicenter phase I clinical trial of daily and weekly RAD001 (everolimus) in combination with vinorelb...

Annual Conference on Vaccine Research to Highlight Not Only Health Benefits But Also Economic Gains

...vaccine research," said Susan J. Rehm, MD, medical director of NFID and co-chair of the conference. "We are improving vaccines that are already in our arsenal and making progress toward introducing new vaccines against emerging infectious diseases, as well as other public-health problems." Dr. Merieux Awar...

Wayne State University and Oakwood Partner in New Device to Combat Congestive Heart Failure

...uccessfully implanted a new device designed to combat congestive heart failure in a 49-year-old patient. The device could become a leading tool in the arsenal to combat a condition that kills 300,000 Americans annually. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080407/DC18745 ) The April 1 surg...

Dynamis Therapeutics, Inc. Discovers RAGE Inhibitor

...uction of RAGE, the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs). Scientists expect that a RAGE inhibitor would be an important addition to the arsenal of drugs to treat diabetic kidney disease, retinopathy, microvascular disease, Alzheimer's, inflammatory diseases, some cancers, and aging. A patent...

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A combined tooth-venom arsenal revealed as key to Komodo dragon's hunting strategy

A combined tooth-venom arsenal revealed as key to Komodo Dragon's hunting strategy. A new study has shown that the effectiveness of the Komodo Dragon bite is a combination of highly specialized serrated teeth and venom. The authors also dismiss the widely accepted theory that prey die from sept...

Vaccine blocks malaria transmission in lab experiments

...g greater than 98 percent after a booster given several months later. "This is an exciting beginning to what might become an important tool in the arsenal for malaria control and progressive elimination of malaria transmission," said Kumar. There is no animal reservoir for human malaria and in that regar...

Singapore nanotechnology combats fatal brain infections

... Doctors may get a new arsenal for meningitis treatment and the war on drug-resistant bacteria and fungal infections with novel peptide nanoparticles developed by scientists at the...

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2009

... 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] OPHTHALMOLOGY-- New precision tools . . . Surgeons treating patients with eye diseases could soon have in their arsenal three novel microfabricated surgical instruments developed through a partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009

... Fax: 905-688-1855 Email: gary.pickering@brocku.ca ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A newly discovered chemical weapon in poison frogs' arsenal Journal of Natural Products New research documents a surprising chemical weapon used by some Amazonian poison frogs. The study identified for...

George M. Whitesides receives inaugural Dreyfus prize in the chemical sciences

...ence and holds more than 50 patents. He is a member of the board of directors of Theravance, Hughes Research Laboratories, Surface Logix, Nano-Terra, arsenal Biomedical, Diagnostics for All, and Paper Diagnostics. Whitesides has served on the Harvard University faculty since 1982. He holds an A.B. degree...

Indigenous peoples at world summit to share climate change observations, coping techniques

...of carbon credits to industry, generating significant new income for the local community. Over millennia, Indigenous Peoples have developed a large arsenal of practices of potential benefit in the climate change context, including: Traditional methods of shoreline reinforcement, land stabilization ...

To fight drug addiction, UB researchers target the brain with nanoparticles

...f the National Academy of Sciences . "These findings mean that in the future, we might be able to add a powerful pharmaceutical agent to the current arsenal of weapons in order to more effectively fight a whole range of substance addictions," said Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., executive director of the UB Instit...

An underwater drugstore?

...esistance to antibiotics has become an unbelievably difficult challenge for the medical community," says Prof. Ilan. "Sponges are known for hosting an arsenal of compounds that could work to fight infections. We're now culturing huge amounts of microorganisms, such as actinobacteria, that live in symbiosis w...

Rot's unique wood degrading machinery to be harnessed for better biofuels production

...a has, over its evolution, shed the conventional enzymatic machinery for attacking plant material. Instead, the evidence suggests that it utilizes an arsenal of small oxidizing agents that blast through plant cell walls to depolymerize the cellulose. This biological process opens a door to more effective, ...

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Human Genome Sciences Announces New Order for Raxibacumab (ABthrax(TM)) from U.S. Government

...axibacumab and look forward to the continued progress of our partnership with the U.S. Government under Project BioShield to help strengthen America's arsenal against bioterrorism," said H. Thomas Watkins, President and Chief Executive Officer, HGS. "We all hope never to see a large-scale version of the inh...

Malaria: New Treatment is Upcoming

...andro, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, coordinator of one of the trials. "This novel medication expands the treatment arsenal available to us, delivers immediate benefits because it acts rapidly, and unquestionably provides help to the populations of Africa and Asia, who are ...

Duke researchers coax bright white light from unexpected source

...ent ones," said Everitt, who also works with Foreman at the Army's Redstone arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. The researchers said they are producing white ligh...iation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone arsenal by Everitt, an Army senior research scientist, and Foreman, an Army researc...

Human Genome Sciences Announces Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Key Developments

...ve that ABthrax offers a significant step forward in the treatment of inhalational anthrax and could play an important role in strengthening America's arsenal against bioterrorism." FINANCIAL RESULTS HGS reported increased revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 of $11.7 million, compared with ...

Medarex And PharmAthene Announce New Therapeutic Data for Anthrax Anti-Toxin, Valortim(R)

... Stockpile, and we look forward to working collaboratively with the Department of Health and Human Services to fulfill a critical need in the Nation's arsenal to combat the threat of anthrax." "We are pleased to have been able to refine this model for therapeutic intervention in anthrax infection, further ...

FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Priority Review Vouchers

...ing its advocacy with industry and communication with all stakeholders to ensure that the PRV program grows into a powerful incentive for building the arsenal of new medicines for global health. About BVGH BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH), a non-profit organization, is harnessing the resources of th...

Nephros Exhibiting at Maryland Ashe Conference July 20th-23rd

...ee of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other biologically hazardous elements. The Company believes the DSU can be an important addition to the hospital's arsenal in addressing water-borne hospital acquired infection (HAI) risks, and therefore help to reduce infection-related hospital costs and liability associa...

Roche Introduces Program to Facilitate Corporate Pandemic Stockpiling of Tamiflu(R)

...dvance and therefore be available when a pandemic begins." "Experience with seasonal flu has shown that antiviral drugs are an important tool in the arsenal of weapons that could be used to help contain a flu pandemic," said Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Tevi Troy. "They may play a critical ro...

Derma Sciences MEDIHONEY(TM) Helps to Save Patient's Limb

... Used As A Regular Part Of Georgetown University Hospital arsenal Against Chronic Wounds PRINCETON, N.J., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Derma Sciences (OTC Bulletin Board: DSCI), a p...

Humour is Fundamental to our Success as a Species

...al cognitive function. Clarke explains: "An ability to recognize patterns instantly and unconsciously has proved a fundamental weapon in the cognitive arsenal of human beings." Recognising patterns enables us to quickly understand our environment and function effectively within it: language, which is unique ...