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Costly breeding programs for endangered species pay off

Comparative studies of captive breeding strategies conducted at Rice University bolster the case for costly and sometimes troublesome breeding programs that preserve maximum genetic variability in small populations of endangered species. Worldwide, zoos spend millions of dollars each year transporting rare animals thousands of miles in order to breed them with their most distantly related...

Amgen introduces comprehensive financial assistance programs for cancer patients

Amgen today announced Amgen (panitumumab). Through AOA, patients who are uninsured, underinsured, or unable to afford their insurance co-payments will receive help obtaining financial support...

Investment level in HIV prevention programs related to HIV incidence in the United States

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted a historical analysis to examine the relationship between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) HIV prevention budget and HIV incidence in the U.S. from 1978 to 2006. The results are published in the January 2007 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The researchers found that from t...

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British come to Madison; UW starts stem-cell programs

The British are interested in bio and life science investments in the United States and they're looking at Wisconsin. Meanwhile the University of Wisconsin-Madison is introducing two new interdisciplinary stem-cell research programs. <a href="http://www.wistech...

Stem-cell study grows too big for one department; UW builds collaborative programs

Clive Svendsen, a professor of anatomy and neurology, said the university will create a regenerative medicine program and a postdoctoral research program focusing on cell-replacement therapies via stem...

Entrepreneurs Dont RequireVenture capital, high-tech or government programs

RACINE -- Developing entrepreneurial eco-systems -- where the seeds of start-up and early stage ventures take root and bloom -- does NOT require venture capital, high technologies, and new government programs. It can happen anywhere if three ingredients are brought together, a national expert on entrepreneurial development told an audience here last week. Dr. Erik R. Pages presentation,...

Are guest worker programs causing backlash amid IT downsizing?

Last week, I heard two guests on CNBCs Kudlow Show discuss the American workforce and what was happening with various jobs. One gentleman was from the CATO Institute and the other was a Democratic representative (Pascrell) from New Jersey. The inference from the CATO Institute director that there is a shortage of skilled people in IT in the U.S. is very questionable. He is putting forth...

FDA programs encourage and expedite drug development and approval

Nearly half of all products produced by biotech companies are for orphan diseases. Two of the large...

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Advanced STD programs required

There is always a question of how effective are programs intended to reduce the number of people with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. That is the question researchers from Scotland set out to answer in a study reported //in this month's Archives of Internal Medicine. The answer they come up with is, essentially, that it'sdiifficult to say. More than 1,500 studies were g...

Disease Management Programs – Effective for Heart Patient

Coaching Programs run by nurses and dieticians have been found effective in lowering total cholesterol levels, // but further analysis has shown they work only when these health professionals are able to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs. Researchers looked at a program in which patients received their medications from their physicians and were only “coached” by nurses and dieticians...

Cardiac – Rehabilitation Programs Beneficial for Heart Patient

A new study finds people who participated in a cardiac-rehab program after a heart attack had about the same three-year survival rate // as those of the same age and sex who had not had a heart attack. Overall, researchers estimate about half of the deaths that occurred among patients in their study were due to not taking part in a cardiac-rehab program. The investigation involved about...

Programs for development of health in poor countries not effective

Millennium Development Goals Memorandum signed between 189 countries from Developed and developing countries five years ago for providing better health conditions to people in poor countries have not attained any effective in providing health relief to these people had been reported in the Journal British Medical Journal//. If these countries are to make meaningful progress on the strat...

More Polio Vaccination programs Planned for Indonesia

Mass Vaccination to children’s against polio virus is conducted in Indonesia in order to eradicate the Polio infection in Indonesia which has experienced about 290 polio cases in the last six months.// The Indonesian officials are planning the third round of vaccination program this month end and they have successfully conducted two mass polio vaccine programs which has provided vaccina...

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Clinical Proficiency Testing Programs

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Amylin Pharmaceuticals to Present New Data from Broad Diabetes and Obesity Programs at ADA 2007

SAN DIEGO, June 19, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AmylinPharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that data featuring itsapproved diabetes drugs, BYETTA(R) (exenatide) injection andSYMLIN(R) (pramlintide acetate) injection, and its pipelinecandidates will be presented at the American Diabetes Association's(ADA) 67th Annual Scientific Sessions being held in Chicago, ILfrom June 22 to 26. The...

Hana Biosciences Presents Data On Two Programs At the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting

* Preclinical study evaluating a clinically relevant model ofnormal human skin found that Menadione was the only agent capableof abrogating the cytotoxic effect of erlotinib * Phase I singleagent Marqibo(r) showed OPTISOME(tm) agent was generally welltolerated in metastatic melanoma patients with an adverse eventprofile similar to conventional vincristine SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif...

Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting to Feature Data Presentations Related to MedImmune Clinical Programs in Influenza, RSV and hMPV

GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MedImmune, Inc.(Nasdaq: MEDI) today announced that seven abstracts will bepresented at the 2007 Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) AnnualMeeting demonstrating the company's commitment to advancing thescience of pediatric medicine. Data are from studies pertaining toMedImmune's approved and development-stage products, including bothmonoclon...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Highlights Significant Advances in the Company's Clinical and Preclinical Cancer Programs Presented This Week at the AACR Annual Meeting

- New Study Demonstrated the Clinical Potential of Peregrine'sUnique Selective Anti-VEGF Antibodies, Which Were as Effective asAvastin(R) in Animal Cancer Models TUSTIN, Calif., April 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stagebiopharmaceutical company developing targeted monoclonal antibodiesfor the treatment of cancer and hepatitis C virus infect...

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Announces Data From Three Oncology Programs Presented at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting

1 EOquin Instillation Immediately Following Transurethral Resectionis Well Tolerated in Phase 2b Bladder Cancer Study IRVINE, Calif., April 19, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced results of a Phase2b study of EOquin, in non-invasive bladder cancer and thepresentation of preclinical data of SPI (IRL)-1620 and satraplatinat the annual meeting of th...

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