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New lifespan extension genes found

New genes tied to lifespan extension in yeast have been identified by researchers from UC Davis and Harvard Medical School. Drastically reducing calorie intake, or caloric restriction, is known to extend the lifespan of species including yeast, worms and rodents. Previous research linked a gene called Sir2 with lifespan extension due to caloric restriction, but worms and yeast that lack Si...

Growth factor stimulates rapid extension of key motor neurons in brain

A growth factor known to be important for the survival of many types of cells stimulates rapid extension of corticospinal motor neurons ?critical brain cells that connect the cerebral cortex with the spinal cord and that die in motor neuron diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). In the November 2006 issue of Nature Neuroscience, two investigators from Massachu...
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No word on NASDAQ extension for Merge

Chairman Michael Dunham, joined by interim co-CEOs Brian Pedlar and Robert White, said...
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Extension Education for Blood Pressure advice!

As an extension education effort the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), has launched a $3.7 million three year project to improve high blood pressure. The education would be given by 150 physicians in 34 states// and Washington, DC, who have been trained to educate other physicians in their communities. The aim of this initiative is to help doctors and patients prevent...

Provigil Patent Extension Accorded To Cephalon

Cephalon has been accorded a further six months of patent extension by the FDA for its pediatric sleep disorder treatment medication//, Provigil. Cephlaon had complied with the terms of an explicit written request that entailed the provision of clinical studies data after studying the effects of provigil on pediatric patients. Cephalon has settled the ‘provogil’patent inf...

The Secret Behind Extension of Earthly Life

If you are a regular with religious services, ‘regular’, defined as a weekly ritual in the least, you can be rest assured of adequate// life-benefits, according to a new study. Are the heavens opening up to increasing people’s life on earth, after the regular interaction, but a US study has suggested that Weekly attendance at religious services can add up to three years to your life. The findings...

Food Safety Extension Specialist Provides Spinach E. coli Advice

AMES, Iowa -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an alert about a nationwide outbreak of E. coli traced to packaged spinach//. The alert advises consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach at this time. Sam Beattie, a food safety extension specialist and assistant professor of food science and human nutrition at Iowa State University, tells consumers that it's almost impossible...

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

President Bush on Wednesday called on Congress to double current funding levels for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to $30 billion for five years after the program's original mandate expires next year, the New York Times reports. PEPFAR directs an authorized $15 billion over five years for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis primarily to 15 focus countries and provides funding to the Global...
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Progenics and Wyeth Announce Positive Results from Three-Month Clinical-Extension Study of Subcutaneous Methylnaltrexone for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation in Patients with Advanced Illness

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. & MADISON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 28, 2007- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNX) and WyethPharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), today announcedpositive results from a three-month open-label extension study ofsubcutaneous methylnaltrexone for the treatment of opioid-inducedconstipation (OIC) in patients with advanced illness. The resultsare sched...

CytRx Reports Promising Data from Its Open-Label Extension Clinical Trial of Arimoclomol in ALS

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - CytRx Corporation(NASDAQ:CYTR), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in thedevelopment and commercialization of human therapeutics, todayannounced promising data from the six-month, open-label extensionof its completed Phase IIa clinical trial with arimoclomol in ALSvolunteers. While the clinical trial was not placebo-controlled,arimoclomol at a 1...

Opexa Therapeutics Reports Positive Top-line Data in Phase I/II Extension Trial with Tovaxin for Multiple Sclerosis

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 21, 2007 - OpexaTherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPXA), a company involved in thedevelopment and commercialization of cell therapies, todayannounced positive top-line data in an open-label Phase I/IIextension clinical trial of the investigational T-cell vaccine,Tovaxin(TM), for multiple sclerosis (MS). In this one-year,8-subject extension clinical trial...

Long-Term Extension of Ulcerative Colitis Study Shows Remicade Responders Maintained Improvement Through Two Years of Follow-Up

Separate Survey Underscores Impact of Disease on Work Status andProductivity WASHINGTON, May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Findingspresented today at Digestive Disease Week(R) 2007 (DDW), fromlong-term extensions of the ACT trials (Active Ulcerative Colitis 1& 2) show that subjects with moderately to severely activeulcerative colitis (UC) who had responded to REMICADE(R)(inflixi...
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(Date:11/18/2008)... different molecular mechanisms, scientists show ,...Pain and itching are regulated by different molecu...ty study that challenges the long-held belief that...esponse to pain. , This finding could prove imp...nd pain. , Zhou-Feng Chen, of Washington Univer...
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(Date:11/18/2008)... Research (NWO) and the Netherlands Royal Academy ...h colleagues in China to launch a new research pro...gramme (JSTP). It is the first time that NWO and t...ral cooperation with Chinese ministries and academ...t research programme during their recent working v...
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