Medical News Today: Health News for Sunday 14 June 2009

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Sunday 14 June 2009

Optimizing Molecular Signatures For Predicting Prostate Cancer Recurrence

Written by Steve Goodison, MD

UroToday.com - The mortality rate for prostate cancer is declining due to improvements in earlier detection and in local therapy strategies, however, the ability to predict the metastatic behavior of a patient's cancer, as...
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Series On The Status Of Public Health In Southeast Asia Launched By The Lancet

Written by Stephanie Brunner

In these difficult times, when the global health community is facing the dangers of an important new influenza pandemic, a new partnership is forming. The lancet, one of the world´s leading medical journals has announced...
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Emergent BioSolutions Meets With FDA To Review Regulatory Strategy For Recombinant Anthrax Vaccine
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced that it has met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review Emergent's regulatory strategy for the development of its recombinant anthrax (rPA) vaccine...
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Other Medical and Health News for 14 June*

New Study Demonstrates NanoScan's Novel Contrast Agent May Identify Heart Attack In Waiting

Cook Completes Patient Enrollment In REFORM Clinical Trial

Pfizer's Oral JAK-3 Inhibitor Demonstrates Statistically Significant Response For Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis, New Phase 2 Studies Show

Ardea Biosciences Announces Positive Interim Phase 2a Results For Lead Gout Drug, RDEA594

Quintiles Consulting Outlines Methods For Re-Balancing Drug Development Risks

HSPH Assistant Professor To Serve As Co-Principal Investigator Of Center In Guatemala To Combat Cardiovascular Disease

Rogers Media Partners With AstraZeneca Canada And Physical And Health Education Canada To Promote New Children's Wellness Program At My BestTM

Awarepoint Announces Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Deployment To Moores Cancer Center

Genetic Immunity, InPlay Completes Patient Enrollment In Phase II Trial Of DermaVir Patch HIV Immunotherapeutic Nanomedicine Lead Product Candidate

PharmaCom BioVet, Inc. Begins To Review The Process To Potentially Receive Minor Use/Minor Species Drug Approval From FDA

Orencia(R) (Abatacept) Demonstrates Consistent Safety And Effectiveness Over 7 Years

CMA Applauds Senate Passage Of FDA Tobacco Rules

HSE Warning On Gas Safety Following Prosecution, UK

Management Change At Actelion - Isaac Kobrin To Take Newly Created Position Of Chief Medical Officer

Walking Blood Bank, UK

International Researchers Call On Rheumatologists To Help Their Patients Stay Fit For Work

How Long Does It Take To Recover From Total Hip Replacement Surgery?

Two Pfizer Medicines Recommended For Use In NHS Wales

Bayer Completes Phase II Study On BAY 94-9172 In Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic Imaging Using Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

News From GP Conference, UK

Frontal Cerebral Hypothermia Found To Be Possible New Treatment For Insomnia

Women With Stable Marriages And New Partners Enjoy Better Sleep

Abraxis Bioscience Launches ABRAXANE(R) In China For Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer

Treatment Lightens Teenage Depression's Heavy Toll, Lowers Suicide Risk, Says Packard/Stanford Child Psychiatrist

Cannabis Science: Can Cannabis-Based Drugs Slow The H1N1 "Swine Flu" Pandemic?

World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level To Phase 6

Medtronic Receives FDA Approval For BRYAN(R) Cervical Disc System

GTx Presents Phase II Ostarine (MK-2866) Cancer Cachexia Clinical Trial Results At Endocrine Society Annual Meeting

Red Wine Ingredient Demonstrates Significant Health Benefits: Research Review

Acupuncture Aid For Diabetics, UK

Welsh Assembly Government Written Statement On Swine Influenza, Wales

Man Flu Or Meningitis? Don't Leave It Too Late To Find Out

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Lobbying Campaign At 10 Downing Street, UK

Tracking Down The Causes Of Multiple Sclerosis - New Discoveries In Immune Response

Men Can Confront Sexual Health Issues Using NHS Direct's New Symptom Checker, UK

Legislation Introduced To Tackle California's GPCI Problem, Raise Medicare Rates In Certain High-Cost Counties

Jehovah's Witnesses Face Increased Risk Of Death During Childbirth

Health Care Reform Legislation Would Expand Access To Pharmacist Patient Care Services

MS Society Commends Federal Government's Research Investment In Neurological Diseases

Numbers Of People With MS Higher Than Previously Estimated

Yeast 'DNA Damage Sensor' Provides Chemotherapy Resistance Clue

FDA Alerts Patients To Medtronic Pacemaker Recall

FDA Approves Injectable Form Of Ibuprofen

TB Testing Time And Motion Study

FDA Near To Gaining Regulatory Control Over Tobacco Products

U.S. Senate Passes Historic Legislation To End Big Tobacco's Unfettered Access To America's Youth

Mylan Again Calls For An End To Authorized Generics During 180-Day Exclusivity Period

Developing Local Systems To Support Revalidation

Laparoscopic Radical Versus Partial Nephrectomy For Tumors >4cm: Intermediate-term Oncologic And Functional Outcomes

Obesity/overweight Rates Have Doubled In South Carolina Since 1990 - June Proclaimed Obesity Awareness Month

Oregon's First Confirmed Death From Novel H1N1 (swine) Influenza Reported In Marion County, USA

Japanese Rock Pool Mosquitoes Become Established In Minnesota, USA

Oklahoma State Department Of Health Announces Results Of Triathlon Illness Investigation

New Health Secretary Sets Out Vision For A People Centred NHS, UK

Wyeth Presents New Analyses Of Data From Three Studies Of ENBREL(R) At The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Annual Meeting

New American Medical Association And Microsoft Collaboration To Enhance Patient-Physician Communication

HCL Anticipates Increasing Demand For Locums As NHS Funding Is Squeezed, UK

Economic Downturn Will Have Severe, Far-reaching Effects On Global Health

Infection Prevention Text Updated, Improved - The APIC Text Of Infection Control And Epidemiology

IDF To Host Clinical And Educational Workshops On Diabetes For Health And Government Officials In Latin America

Versartis Focusing On Extending Half Life Of Drugs For Metabolic And Endocrine Diseases

Over Half Of Eligible OGIB Patients May Benefit From Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy

Metatastic Breast Cancer - New Dosing Schedule Suggests Potential Amplified Clinical Activity Of Novel KSP Inhibitor

APHA Commends Senate Passage Of Tobacco Legislation, USA

Senate Passes Family Smoking Prevention And Tobacco Control Act - FDA To Have Unprecedented Powers To Regulate Tobacco

Lautenberg, Longtime Senate Leader On Anti-Tobacco Efforts, Hails Passage Of Fda Tobacco Bill

Depression Medications May Reduce Male Fertility

Improvements In Prevention And Cardiac Care Mean Fewer Heart Attacks And Fewer Deaths

EULAR Highlights The Impact Of Lupus On Patients' Lives

Cardiology Experts At Rush University Medical Center Successfully Use Unique Interventional Procedure To Save A Girl With A Very Rare Heart Defect

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