New Parkinsons drug found effective
...ed later this year. Teva Pharmaceuticals will then market the new drug. Research participants were randomized in the double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Participants were given 1 or 2 milligrams a day for one week, followed by a 25-week maintenance period. The treatment's effectiveness was measured ...Newly approved psoriasis drug invented and tested at Univ. of Michigan
...me Amevive. Biogen, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., will market the drug. Alefacept traces its roots to research done at the U-M in the mid-1990s by a team led by former dermatology faculty member Kevin D. Cooper, M.D. The University and Biogen share the patent on the engineered molecule with Cooper, who is now c...Brief exposure to Mandarin can help American infants learn Chinese
...ning products aimed at children and already on the market for their effectiveness." She added, "Babies are very sophisticated language learners who use every clue provided to learn the sounds they hear, their statistical distribution and even the social clues provided by speakers to crack code. The babie...Ann Arbor chemist wins national award for drug discovery
...lenge in 1985. Between his discovery and Lipitor's market debut in 1997, however, were 12 years of more work: first, to make the drug in pure form, then to scale up from laboratory to cost-efficient manufacturing. Only then came the decision to begin human clinical trials. Along the way were entire teams of...For markets of the future, success depends on advanced materials
...rcial opportunities. Adds Savitry, "The expanding market for biodegradable polymers - especially in the medical and pharmaceutical industries - is only restrained by relatively high production costs." Research laboratories are attempting to make these superior materials affordable. In addition, researcher...Health Affairs forum explores new hospital-tier insurance plans
...d hospital tiering is one product of a health care market that's trying to respond to higher cost and a soft economy. While tiered-network products may seek to reduce overall health-care system costs, Yegian writes, the roundtable participants warn that it may only result in shifting more costs to consumers...Drug reduces deaths and hospital stays in heart attack patients with heart failure
... patients who take eplerenone once it comes on the market -- just as they should be doing with patients taking spironolactone -- and adjust doses or diuretic usage accordingly. Some patients with kidney problems or low creatinine clearance may not be able to take eplerenone. Interestingly, eplerenone seems...Competition among Medicare health plans not a cure-all
...efits. Medicare+Choice also suffered from the same market backlash as commercial managed care. As a result, ...rts alone to create markets won't succeed if other market conditions are unfavorable; that not all health care markets have the right mix of demographics, pro...St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to manufacture investigative drugs and vaccines
... drugs through final development and bring them to market so children can benefit from them. Any royalties from such products would be put back into research that will help us develop more cures for childhood diseases." The facility has a modular design that allows it to adapt quickly to new demands as ongo...Researchers making cell phones user-friendly for people with disabilities
... Toshiba phones designed for the Japanese domestic market that will be marketed in the United States. As part of the study for Toshiba, the researchers and their graduate students are using product interactive focus groups and usability testing to target the needs of users with the following disabilities: ...Conference considers compensating organ donors
...es of organ allocation. "Though there already is a market for bodily parts, gametes, tissues, corneas, etc., it's not clear how ready people are to agree with the selling and buying of organs," added Kristina Orfali, sociologist and ethicist at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the Universit...Graduation may be hazardous to your health
...en who stay in school, graduate, and enter the job market are simply dropped from the health care system." ".... This is because young adults who enter the labor market do not have access to university health plans, and few are likely to be eligible for their parents' ...Secret documents reveal how tobacco industry targeted gay men
...author of the paper, "Philip Morris wanted the gay market but didn't want to be publicly associated with the community." In a related analysis appearing in the June issue of Tobacco Control, UCSF School of Nursing researchers describe the beginnings of Philip Morris' relationship with the gay community thro...Physicians not 'easy marks' for drug sales reps, argues O.R. study
...ing medications and helping manufacturers maintain market share. The papers are being presented today at the...different therapeutic areas; they have been on the market from less than 1 year to 11 years; and they have achieved different levels of commercial success th...Trends in private Medicare+Choice plans provide warnings for Medicare debate
...ally. With continued participation in the Medicare market less financially attractive, plans have reduced their service area or simply withdrawn from local markets altogether, disrupting health care for more than 2.4 million beneficiaries from 1999 to 2003. Any new Medicare program that depends on private p...OneWorld Health licenses compounds from Yale, U of Washington to treat major parasitic diseases
... well. The licensing agreement also creates a dual market opportunity in which the universities could seek a...and founder, OneWorld Health, explained, "The dual market concept is a 'win-win' for all parties. We will focus on the developing world while for-profit compa...Preventing stray chemicals in food, pharmaceutical and industrial products
...C partners have put together a spin-off company to market the new software. MUSAC also provided the impetus for the development of a related system to quantify uncertainty in physical measurements, such as component length and electric current....Texas A&M, ECOR sign deal to produce health-related proteins
...o have the new recombinant protein products on the market within four years. "In the future we expect transgenic plants to be the method of choice for the production of low-cost, high-volume industrial-type proteins," he said. ECOR's president and CEO, Michael A. Zito, said, "ECOR is focused on becoming a....... "This product would have a potential widespread market throughout veterinary medical, and human medical and dental practice," he said....Rheumatoid arthritis patients caught in middle of doctors' disagreement over hand surgery
...vailable for new medications that have come on the market in recent years -- data from the major controlled studies required for drug approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As those new medications come into widespread use to help control the damage caused by the inflammation of rheumatoid arthr...