First head-to-head study to compare lidoderm patch and Celebrex in treating pain
...als is a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company with market leadership in pain management products. The company researches, develops, produces and markets a broad product offering of branded and generic pharmaceu...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...roscience group. Neurocrine is a San Diego-based company that is developing medications related to weight regulation. "We hope to advance an optimized molecule into the first stages of human clinical testing later this year." "While a lot of attention is paid to the country's obesity epidemic, researcher...Corrected metabolism leads to health benefits and weight loss
...ting program. When he began consulting for the company five years ago, SureSlim was known primarily as a weight loss clinic, where clients lose an average of 15 to 22 pounds per month. But in recent years, Dr. Morin has observed people on the program experience dramatic health benefits as well. ...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...ed in the development of the technology and if the company takes off, it could be located right here in the S...ee or four more to help hand-build polarizers. The company would probably not sell them, said Hersman, but rather provide annual service agreements to provide ...Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
...ditive allows the experiment to be successful. The company is providing her with a fellowship for spring and summer 2005....Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Increasing insurance company denials, restrictions on covered procedures and a ...th no opportunity to appeal. At least one national company has excluded breast reduction surgery as a covered benefit. Breast reduction and breast reconstructi...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...vate Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements or projections made by the company, including those made in this Announcement, are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Fact...eDocAmerica launches Hispanic Website for members
...e University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The company provides consumers with secure access to board-cer...s. The website address is www.edocamerica.com. The company today has participants from more than 300 companies who live in all 50 U.S. states and 26 foreign co...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
...nior author of the new study analyzing the tobacco company documents. Analysis of the Philip Morris documents shows that the company sought and paid an author to write an article for publication in a scientific journal, guided his wr...New substance that improves the photodetection of bladder cancer gains market approval
...l product that has been developed by the Norwegian company PhotoCure ASA. The new product will be sold under the name Hexvix. Photocure ASA won approval March 2 for market release of Hexvix in 26 European countries. Every year, nearly 200,000 cases of bladder cancer are reported in Europe and the United Stat...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
...iveness among the general population. However, the company began testing BiDil exclusively on blacks with FDA approvalafter theorizing that the drug's effect on nitric-oxide deficiency, which is more common in black heart-failure patients than in non-blacks, would be beneficial to a targeted racial populatio...'EuroVacc 02' HIV vaccine trial begins in February 2005
...ted in collaboration with Geneart GmbH - a biotech company in Regensburg Germany, and the vaccine was manufactured by Cobra Biomanufacturing Plc. About EuroVacc The European Vaccine Effort against HIV/AIDS network, funded by the European Union under the 5th Framework Programme, involves 21 leading researc...Older doctors less likely to follow current standards of care
...g or advances in treatment-similar to the way drug company representatives 'detail' physicians-is known to be a very effective way to improve the quality of care that doctors provide. What appears to be lacking is the widespread implementation of these and other knowledge translation strategies in to the pra...UCLA study: Nearly a third of drug ads in medical journals contain no references for medical claims
...lished material were available, only a minority of company data-on-file documents were provided upon request;...9 percent), which is a reference to an unpublished company document. Other sources included books; prescribing information such as the Physician's Desk Referen......lished material were available, only a minority of company data-on-file documents were provided upon request;...file (19%), which is a reference to an unpublished company document. Other sources included books; prescribing information such as the Physician's Desk Referen...Falling in love in three minutes or less
...from 10,526 anonymous participants of HurryDate, a company that organizes "speed dating" sessions, and found ...and Human Behavior . Hurry Brands LLC, the parent company of HurryDate, did not fund Kurzban and Weeden in their research, but they did absorb the costs of co...Electronic medical records reduce hours, cut cost
...nology-driven health management and data analytics company that helps health plans and self-insured employers.... Leveraging its patented CareEngine platform, the company combines clinical expertise with innovative medical information technology to enable doctors and pat...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...e brain causing massive strokes. AstraZeneca, the company that developed Exanta, had submitted a New Drug Application to the Food and Drug Administration for approval of the drug as an agent to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation as well as to prevent blood clots in other conditions. The dr...Study explores risks of obesity in children with kidney transplants
... and The EMMES Corporation, a Rockville, Md.-based company that provides operational support for clinical and biomedical research. Researchers found obese children generally got their transplants at an earlier age, 8.9 years versus 11 years; spent more time on dialysis than their leaner peers and were more f...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...udy was funded by Scios, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company and member of the Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies. The ADHERE Registry, also funded by Scios, Inc., collects observational data from across the United States in order to track and study the medical management of patients hospitalized with acu...