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Genetics: CYP2C SNP associated with warfarin dose requirement in African American individuals
Transplantation: Alefacept does not reduce risk of T-cell-mediated rejection
Transplantation: The impact of donor CMV infection on kidney graft outcome
Discussion between two centers first ever to take place in U.S. Horsham, PA (PRWEB) June 18, 2013 Senior drug regulatory officials from mainland China and Taiwan will be in Boston on June 25 to discuss—for the first time in the U.S.—the need for more collaboration between the two agencies in getting drugs through the regulatory process in a timely manner. Representatives from the Taiwan and m...
Co prescription of statins and antibiotics linked to extra deaths
Ann Intern Med2013;158:869-76Evidence is growing of an important drug interaction between widely used statins and antibiotics. Clarithromycin and erythromycin inhibit the cytochrome P450 isoenzyme...
Domestic violence is common among women in fracture clinics
Lancet2013; doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61205-2Women attending fracture clinics report a high prevalence of domestic violence. In the latest survey from clinics on three continents, one in six women...
Inhaled adrenaline no better than inhaled saline for babies with bronchiolitis
N Engl J Med2013;368:2286-93A new trial challenges a widespread treatment for infants with bronchiolitis. Inhalations of racemic adrenaline worked no better than inhalations of saline in infants...
Conventional triple therapy as good as etanercept for uncontrolled rheumatoid arthritis
N Engl J Med2013; doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1303006bmj;346/jun18_8/f3846/FIG1F1fig1When methotrexate fails to control rheumatoid arthritis, patients can add other disease modifying drugs or opt for more...
Lives lost with every 15 minute delay in thrombolysis after acute stroke
JAMA2013;309:2480-8Adults with acute ischaemic stroke need thrombolysis within 4.5 hours, but even within that time frame those treated sooner do significantly better than those treated later,...
Tenofovir helps prevent HIV in drug users
Lancet 2013; doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61127-7A team of researchers from Thailand and the US has shown for the first time that tenofovir can help prevent HIV in injecting drug users. Daily...
HealthCare Volunteer Founder, Neilesh Patel, named National Jefferson Award winner in Washington DC
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Neilesh Patel DDS was among the awardees announced yesterday evening for the annual 2012 National Jefferson Awards. Patel along with Dolores Huerta and Elie Wiesel were named at the annual Jefferson Awards black tie affair at the Mandarin Oriental. Patel will be awarded the prestigious National Jefferson Award for Greatest Public...
Call for overhaul of drug industry business model
LONDON (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical companies need to boost the benefits of drug research by working with regulators and healthcare providers to overhaul the way medicines are approved and paid for, a thinktank backed by investors says.
Onabotulinum toxin injection in neurogenic detrusor overactivity: intradetrusor versus suburothelial
Colorectal transport during defecation in subjects with supraconal spinal cord injury
Peripheral nerve alterations after spinal cord injury in the adult rat
Improvement of the Van Lieshout hand function test for Tetraplegia using a Rasch analysis
Uscom completes acquisition of Pulsecor
Uscom (UCM) has completed the acquisition of all assets of Pulsecor in exchange for five million fully paid ordinary shares of Uscom.
Techne to acquire Bionostics for $104m
US-based Techne has agreed to buy Bionostics Holdings and its operating subsidiary Bionostics, for $104m in cash. The deal is likely to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2014
Yale University researchers this week released the findings of two independent studies of Medtronic’s Infuse bone graft products. Parker Waichman, which offers free legal consultations for victims of Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft Injuries, notes that the results indicate that Infuse allegedly can cause cancer and male infertility, and that early published data was skewed toward the positive. New Y...
Adipocyte differentiation is affected by media height above the cell layer
