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Cenix BioScience and Debiopharm Group Collaborate to Identify Predictive Biomarkers

LAUSANNE, Switzerland and DRESDEN, Germany, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cenix BioScience, a leading preclinical contract research provider and technology developer specialized in RNAi-, miRNA- and high content-driven pharmacology, and Debiopharm Group™ (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of prescription drugs that target u...

American Clinical Solutions Adds Ritalin to Their Drug Test Panel

Boca Raton, FL, May 23, 2013 --(PR.com)-- American Clinical Solutions now offers drug tests for both methylphenidate and ritalinic acid in urinary or oral fluid samples. Ritalin (methylphenidate) is the most commonly prescribed drug for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a major neurobehavioral disorder in childhood. ADHD is characterized by hyperactivity, limited attention span, an...

UC Irvine chemists create new method to identify clinically usable markers for prostate cancer in urine

Early screening for prostate cancer could become as easy for men as personal pregnancy testing is for women, thanks to UC Irvine research published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Patients At Risk Of Heart Disease Set To Benefit From Clinical Trial

Patients suffering from high blood pressure - the single most important risk for death worldwide - could be helped by a UK-wide clinical trial aimed at improving treatments. Clinicians have recruited the 500th patient to the trial, which is evaluatin...

Small molecule inhibition of the KRAS–PDEδ interaction impairs oncogenic KRAS signalling

The KRAS oncogene product is considered a major target in anticancer drug discovery. However, direct interference with KRAS signalling has not yet led to clinically useful drugs. Correct localization and signalling by farnesylated KRAS is regulated b...

Edwards’ Success With Go-Slow Sapien Launch

Transcatheter heart valves (TAVI) arrived in Europe in 2007 with the introduction of Medtronic Inc.’s CoreValve, followed shortly thereafter by Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’s Sapien. (See"CoreValve: A Surgeon Moves Heart Valves to the Cath Lab" —...

Blood Screening

Vigilance is the key to keeping ahead of emerging pathogens in blood donor testing

Global Cell Culture Market Forecast to Hit $16.85B in 2018

Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest growing region, growing at a high CAGR of 15.6%, due to the emergence of many small regional players, lower operating costs and growing economies.

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Identifying Women Who Should Be Screened For High Cholesterol

National guidelines recommend that at-risk women be screened for elevated cholesterol levels to reduce their chances of developing cardiovascular disease. But who is 'at risk?' The results of a study by investigators at the Centers for Disease Contro...

New screening approach uncovers potential alternative drug therapies for neuroblastoma

(Cell Press) Nearly two-thirds of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma -- a common tumor that forms in the nerve cells of children -- cannot be cured using tumor-killing cancer drugs. A study published in Chemistry & Biology reveals a new genomic ap...

Bacterium from Canadian High Arctic offers clues to possible life on Mars

(McGill University) The recent discovery by a McGill University led team of scientists of a bacterium that is able to thrive at -15ºC, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, is exciting because it offers clues about some of the...

Improved chemo regimen for childhood leukemia may offer high survival, no added heart toxicity

(American Society of Hematology) Treating pediatric leukemia patients with a liposomal formulation of anthracycline-based chemotherapy at a more intense-than-standard dose during initial treatment may result in high survival rates without causing any...

Shares in NZ's F&P Healthcare jump after record profit

WELLINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Shares in New Zealand's Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd jumped to a two-year high on Thursday, after the medical equipment manufacturer reported record full-year profits and forecast an even brighter 2014.

Agilent Technologies, University of Rouen and A*STAR’s Bioprocessing Technology Institute to Further Innovation in Biopharmaceuticals and Glycomics

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A), the Glyco-MEV laboratory at the University of Rouen, in France, and the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in Singapore, have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together in order to develop tools to effectively analyze biologics and vaccines....

Navy's unmanned ocean recon craft makes 1st flight

An unmanned jet built for U.S. Navy high-altitude maritime surveillance missions has made its first flight. Northrop Grumman Corp. says the MQ-4C Triton took off from Palmdale, Calif., Wednesday and completed a 90-minute flight. The aircraft is desig...

Children With Abdominal Pain Have Poor Prognosis

Children who present to primary care with abdominal pain have a high risk of developing chronic abdominal pain and long-term functional impairment. Medscape Medical News

Biochemical screening and PTEN mutation analysis in individuals with autism spectrum disorders and macrocephaly

Nutritional risk screening of patients scheduled for rehabilitation after treatment for ischemic or valvular heart disease

Flux-freezing breakdown in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

The idea of ‘frozen-in’ magnetic field lines for ideal plasmas is useful to explain diverse astrophysical phenomena, for example the shedding of excess angular momentum from protostars by twisting of field lines frozen into the interstellar mediu...

Shear-driven dynamo waves at high magnetic Reynolds number

Astrophysical magnetic fields often display remarkable organization, despite being generated by dynamo action driven by turbulent flows at high conductivity. An example is the eleven-year solar cycle, which shows spatial coherence over the entire sol...

NZ's F&P Healthcare FY profit hits record high on strong demand

WELLINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - New Zealand medical equipment manufacturer Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Ltd. reported a 20 percent rise in full-year net profit on Thursday, on higher sales and improved margins, and said it saw profits increasing in the...

Online tool helps control blood pressure long term

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended.

Vitamin C may not treat gout: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Daily vitamin C supplements don't lower uric acid as much as drugs used to treat high levels of the acid that's responsible for gout, says a new study from New Zealand.

NLST Reveals Details of First Round of Lung Cancer Screening

The National Lung Screening Trial unveils details on the results of its first round of screening and what they mean to clinicians and patients in terms of diagnostic procedures and treatments. Medscape Medical News