The Molecular Profiling Institute, Inc. and IBM advance technology
...general public." Molecular Profiling has licensing agreements with several firms for new diagnostics and offers its testing principally through its partner AmeriPath, one of the leading anatomic pathology laboratory companies in the United States. "AmeriPath's partnership with MPI allows our pathologists to c...Microbicide field praises agreement to license new AIDS drugs
...aid Polly Harrison, director of the Alliance. "The agreements are a big step forward for the kind of public-private partnerships we need to expedite microbicide development, and I hope to see other companies with promising candidates do likewise." "This advances the goal of developing microbicides that are n...No single strategy effective to control antibiotic prescribing in hospitals
...But Gonzales said similar coordinated campaigns or agreements have lagged for hospitals. Drug-resistance problems differ from hospital to hospital, Gonzales said. Each hospital has its own culture, he said, so the best resistance-reduction strategy may be linked to each facility's prescribing problems and goals...NIAID awards $47 million to develop medical countermeasures against radiological, nuclear threats
... $47 million for grants, contracts and interagency agreements as part of a new National Institutes of Health (NI... Twelve grants, four contracts and two interagency agreements have recently been formalized through this new NIH research program. While each award has a specific...Experts on global nursing shortage provide recommendations to stem crisis
...retaining nurses; Evaluating the impact of trade agreements on nurse capacity; Stabilizing visa/work permit quotas offered by destination countries to support effective supply planning in source countries; Creating a high-level governmental body to coordinate and recommend national and international nursin...Penn study documents access to trauma centers in the United States
... with access to trauma centers, and establish more agreements that allow residents injured in one state to use the trauma centers and ambulances in another. "A concerted effort between hospitals, the air medical industry, and state policymakers is needed if we're going to expand rapid access to life-saving trau...Location, access to trauma centers often inadequate, inefficient
... medical helicopter bases, and establishing formal agreements for sharing trauma care resources across states should be considered to improve access to trauma care in the United States," the authors conclude....Survey of academic medical centers' standards for clinical-trial agreements with industry
...the respondents handled 100 or more clinical trial agreements per year. On some issues, research administrators ...viewed as acceptable or unacceptable provisions in agreements with industry sponsors of clinical research. The variation raises the possibility that industry spo...Personalized immunosuppression with leading organ transplant therapy may optimize patient care
.... Roche has alliances and research and development agreements with numerous partners, including majority ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai. Roche's Pharmaceuticals Division offers a portfolio of leading medicines in therapeutic areas including cancer, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, transplantation, dermatolog...Children need better cancer drugs, says expert panel
... fibrosis. That program, begun in 1997, has forged agreements with government and industry to form a "virtual" research and development pipeline. In addition to proposing a coordinated pediatric oncology drug pipeline, the IOM proposes to speed up the drug development process by setting priorities to determine ...Steroid-free regimen with CellCept found comparable to standard therapy in liver transplantation
.... Roche has alliances and research and development agreements with numerous partners, including majority ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai. Roche's Pharmaceuticals Division offers a portfolio of leading medicines in therapeutic areas including cancer, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, transplantation, dermatolog...... program through the use of commitment statements, agreements signed by parents that show that they received and understood the educational materials. Nurses at the hospitals were trained by nurse educators to provide pamphlets, discuss them with parents and show a short video. Nurses were to specifically seek...