Health Care Spending in U.S. Grew at Lowest Rate in a Decade
But consumers are still paying more for out-of-pocket expenses, reports say TUESDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Due to slower spending on prescription drugs, health-care spending in the United States grew at the lowest rate in a decade in 2007, a new federal report found. Yet despit...Nuvo Announces 2009 second quarter financial results
... the Pennsaid manufacturing facility to prepare for the U.S. launch of Pennsaid. For the six months ended June 30, 2009, gross margin on product sales grew to $1.9 million from $1.7 million in the six months ended June 30, 2008. The increase is due to higher Pennsaid sales, offset partially by higher mate...Labopharm Reports Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2009
...eased 24% compared to the first quarter of 2009. In-Market Sales in Europe Continue to Grow - In-market sales of Labopharm's product in Europe(1) grew 7% for the first five months of 2009 compared to the same period of 2008. ------------------------------------- (1) Includes France, Ger...Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research
... the television and film businesses. [A full list of SAC members can be found at www.su2c.org.] SU2C As a Movement "Stand Up To Cancer grew from two simple constructs: scientists need more money for research and easier ways to work together; and the entertainment industry has unique resour...Spherix Reports First Quarter 2009 Earnings
...lose as a novel treatment for Type 2 diabetes." Financial Results for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2009 Revenue and direct contract costs grew to $360,670 from $142,908 from the previous year's quarter. The Company's revenue improvement reflects the growth of its health sciences consulting s...Adding Steroid Drug to MS Treatment May Reduce Disease Activity
...e brain that are a sign of disease activity. For those receiving both drugs, the lesions stayed the same size or shrunk, while the size of the lesions grew for those taking only interferon. "These results indicate that these two drugs may have a synergy when taken together and provide a more benefic...CyberKnife Radiosurgery for Lung Cancer Sees Increased Interest and Continued Rapid Growth
...g cancer patients treated with CyberKnife radiosurgery in the United States grew 52 percent from calendar year 2007 to 2008 and 43 percent worldwide. Addit...ionally the overall number of patients treated with CyberKnife radiosurgery grew to more than 60,000 patients - a 14 percent increase from calendar year 200...Scientists Discover Why Teeth Form in a Single Row
...ngineered a group of mice with both the Osr2 and Msx1 genes removed. While mice without Msx1 failed to grow any teeth, mice lacking both Msx1 and Osr2 grew the first molars, but no additional teeth. Thus, without Osr2, enough BMP4 was expressed for the first molar teeth to grow, but without Msx1, the BMP4...Neanderthal teeth grew no faster than comparable modern humans'
Recent research suggested that ancient Neanderthals might have had an accelerated childhood compared to that of modern humans but that seems flawed, based on a new assessment by researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Newcastle . They found that the rate of tooth growth pres...Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge
Underscoring the value of good prenatal care, new research suggests that early infection may create a cognitive vulnerability that appears later during stress on the immune system. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have reported that rats who experienced a one-time infection as n...University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA
...d depth. Dore, along with SOEST co-authors Karl, Lukas, Matt Church and Dan Sadler, found that over the two decades of observation, the surface ocean grew more acidic at exactly the rate expected from chemical equilibration with the atmosphere. However, that rate of change varied considerably on seasona...Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators
...acted by a second snake, but when looking back he was surprised to see the "head" was facing him while the tail probed the coral. Rasmussen's surprise grew when he saw a second head emerge from the coral instead of the expected tail. It was only when the snake swam away that the first head was clearly see...Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides
...lthough more traditional herbicide resistance research takes years, it's more gene-specific. "We sampled plants, brought them back to the green house, grew them up, confirmed that they were resistant and then we started crossing a resistant plant with a sensitive plant. We look at its progeny to see if th...Antibody targeting of glioblastoma shows promise in preclinical tests, say Lombardi researchers
...astoma cells, and also showed that in mice implanted with human glioblastoma, the antibody prevented tumors from growing. For example untreated tumors grew to an average size of 350 cubic millimeters after three weeks, but treated tumors did not grow beyond their initial 25 cubic millimeters. Wellstei...US Large-Joint Reconstructive Implant Market Grew 10% in 2007
Increased use of premium-priced products, including resurfacing hips and alternative bearing surface components, boosting growth, according to Millennium Research Group WALTHAM, Mass., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Research Group (MRG) estimates that the US large-...National angel investment grew 11 percent in `06
The angel investor market is considered the spawning ground for the next wave of high-growth investments, and judging by the continued growth in the national angel market, a diversified range of opportunities await later-stage institutional investors. In its 2006 Angel Market Analysis , the Ce...Knighted Adds Industry Pioneer and Entrepreneur to Senior Management Team
...trepreneurial companies focused on leading edge supply chain and healthcare technologies. Before joining Knighted, Mr. Wilensky was a key member that grew two entrepreneurial start-up companies to over $100M in annual sales over the last decade, with his most recent endeavor leading Infologix to becoming...Shire plc: Core Portfolio of Products Delivers 20% Sales Growth
...ase of 21% compared to the same period in 2008 (2008: $44.8 million). Sales grew despite a 2% decrease in prescriptions primarily due to the impact of price...008: 8.2%) due to a 3% decrease in prescriptions. However, US product sales grew 15% as price increases offset the prescription decline. XAGRID - Thr...Genomic Health Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Business Progress
...e 30, 2009 were $55.7 million compared with $53.4 million at March 31, 2009 and $56.7 million at December 31, 2008. "In the second quarter, we grew revenue, narrowed our net loss and increased total cash, in part by expanding Onco type DX access and coverage to a broader breast cancer population,...Marinus Pharmaceuticals Adds Two Life Sciences Veterans to its Board of Directors
... United States to treat Huntington's Disease patients. Prior to that, Mr. Horner was CEO of Vicuron Pharmaceuticals, an anti-infective company that he grew from a market value of $12.8 million to a company sold to Pfizer for $1.9 billion. Additionally, he has held numerous executive, general management, b...