Steward T. A. Pickett, director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, honored by CERC
...rban areas. The research being conducted by BES is innovating the way cities are viewed from both an urban planning and conservation perspective. In his award acceptance speech, Dr. Pickett noted, "As human populations concentrate more and more in cities, both the promise and the risk of urban systems increase...TB Alliance and Bayer launch historic global drug trials for tuberculosis
...Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "By innovating with an existing product, Bayer and the TB Alliance could make an improved TB treatment available much faster than would otherwise be possible." Two clinical trials are being conducted by the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC) of the CDC, represen...Biosense Webster receives FDA approval for technology to treat patients with heart rhythm disease
...logy community to set new standards for developing innovating products and treating patients with heart rhythm disease. The enhancements to patient care afforded by these FDA approvals are gratifying and represent the next chapter in our product development and partnering that will benefit patients and doctors ...India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
...and prosperity in the developing world. India is innovating its way out of poverty, says co-author Peter A. Singer, MD, of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health (University Health Network and University of Toronto). With a massive and increasingly well-educated workforce, India is poised to revolut...Developed/emerging market biotech firms convene at largest-ever meeting with global health focus
...dia_health_biotech_cos_to_boom/ ) and 'India is innovating its way out of poverty' (Rediff, India) ( http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/18inter3.htm ) ...