New DeKaye Article Identifies 'Hierarchy of Greed' in Healthcare Fraud
OCEANSIDE, N.Y., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Allan P. DeKaye, MBA, FHFMA, President and CEO, DEKAYE Consulting, Inc., announced the publication of his newest article, Inside Criminal Minds . The two-part article appears in the June 30, 2009 and July 14, 2009 issues of Commerce Clearing Ho...Research identifies successful new treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, reduces long-term risks
PROVIDENCE, RI New research led by Cindy Schwartz, MD, of Hasbro Children's Hospital has identified a new chemotherapy regimen for pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients. The new treatment enhances efficacy through dose-dense drug delivery while simultaneously reducing the long-term risks prese...Finnish study identifies factors that increase death in stroke patients ages 15 to 49
Heavy drinking, being 45 to 49 years old, type 1 diabetes or having a preceding infection are associated with more than twice the risk of death in stroke patients 15 to 49 years old, according to a Finnish study. Furthermore, heart failure was associated with seven times the risk of death and ac...Study identifies potential fix for damaged knees
Investigators from Hospital for Special Surgery have shown that a biodegradable scaffold or plug can be used to treat patients with damaged knee cartilage. The study is unique in that it used serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and newer quantitative T2 mapping to examine how the plug incorpor...Blood Testing Identifies Abnormal Cells Up to Six Years Prior to Leukemia Diagnosis
Study published in New England Journal of Medicine employs Quest Diagnostics' blood-based leukemia testing MADISON, N.J., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Testing of blood specimens may detect abnormal white blood cells in patients years before the chronic form of lymphocytic leukemia (CLL...Molecular Marker Identifies Normal Stem Cells as Intestinal Tumor Source
St. Jude scientists show for the first time that normal stem cells can act as the source of tumors in mature solid tissues MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have answered a central question in cancer biology: whether n...Roskamp Institute Identifies New Class of Drugs to Treat Alzheimer's Disease
Research Uncovers New Link Between Inflammation & Alzheimer's Disease SARASOTA, Fla., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Roskamp Institute today announced that its researchers have uncovered a new link between inflammation and Alzheimer's disease and have identified a potential target for de...Agendia's Breast Cancer Test MammaPrint(R) Identifies New Subset of Low Risk HER2+ Patients
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM, December 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Michael Knauer from the Netherlands Cancer Institute today announced data uncovering a substantial group of traditionally miscategorized low risk HER2+ patients. Agendia's highly accurate breast cancer tumor recurrence tes...BD.id Patient Identification System
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... publishes Healthy People 2010 , with the goals of increasing the quality and years of healthy life and eliminating health disparities in America. It identifies sexual orientation as one of 6 demographic factors contributing to health disparities. America’s gay and lesbian population comprises a dive...U of M study identifies risk factors of disordered eating in overweight youth
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (July 29, 2009) University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents' risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and di...UTMB study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control
GALVESTON, Texas Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have identified women who are likely to gain weight while using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, more commonly known as Depo-Provera or the birth control shot. These findings dispel the myth that all women who u...ISU researcher identifies genetic pathway responsible for much of plant growth
AMES, Iowa -- Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a previously unknown pathway in plant cells that regulates plant growth. Yanhai Yin, an assistant professor in genetics, development and cell biology, examined signaling mechanisms of a plant hormone called brassinosteroids. The ...Yale team identifies key to potential new treatment for allergy-induced asthma
New Haven, Conn. In research that could lead to new asthma drugs, scientists at Yale School of Medicine, Hydra Biosciences of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of California, San Francisco have discovered that a protein may be a trigger of allergy-induced asthma in mice. They also demo...UNC study identifies genetic cause of most common form of breast cancer
The discovery of tumor-suppressor genes has been key to unlocking the molecular and cellular mechanisms leading to uncontrolled cell proliferation the hallmark of cancer. Often, these genes will work in concert with others in a complex biochemical system that keeps our cells growing and dividing...ISU researcher identifies key function in protein, cell transcription
AMES, Iowa -- When cells decide to make proteins, key building blocks of all organisms, they need to know where to start reading the instructions for assembling them. An Iowa State University researcher has figured out a mechanism involved in marking where these instructions are located in a c...ChemoCentryx Identifies Novel Small Molecule C5aR Antagonist
Development Candidate Triggers Milestone Payment from GlaxoSmithKline MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemoCentryx, Inc., today announced that it has identified an orally bioavailable small molecule antagonist of the C5a receptor, CCX168, as a candidate for clinical ...New research identifies faster detection of viruses
A more specific and faster detection of viruses has been identified in new research by Trinity College Dublin's Professor of Physics, Martin Hegner at Trinity College's Centre of Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) and an international team of researchers. These findings ha...Multinational deCODE Study Identifies New Link Between Inflammation and Heart Attack
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, February 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a paper published today, scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq: DCGN ) and academic colleagues from four continents present a novel insight into the connection between inflammation and heart disease. Through a genome-wide search in s...Bionovo Identifies and Describes ER-beta Selective Compounds for the Treatment of Vaginal Dryness
Dr. Scott Baggett to Present Results at American Society of Pharmacognosy EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI ) will present seminal information on a new drug candidate for the treatment of vaginal dryness at the 7th Annual Oxford International Co...Rabbit Anti-mTOR Monoclonal Antibody,, Clone ZMD.414 from Invitrogen
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Description:...f the human C35 protein (chromosome 17 open reading frame 37 (C17orf37 protein) XTP4. Specificity: Specific for the C35 protein. On Western blots it identifies the target band at ~15 kDa band. Reactivity: Human (positive control: full-length human C35-transfected HEK293-(DYKDDDK or DYKDDDDK) cell lysates). ...LabChip 3000 Drug Discovery System from Caliper Life Sciences
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