Five-year study by OHSU Cancer Institute shows Gleevec's excellent survival rate
...as co-developed and marketed by the pharmaceutical company Novartis. Brian Druker, M.D., is the JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research at the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute....Enhanced depression care may be cost-effective for employers
...at a constant size by replacing those who left the company or died. In the societal analysis, the enhanced depression management program cost about $19,976 more per quality-adjusted life year than usual care. In other words, for every $19,976 in costs associated with the program, including medication costs...Binghamton University researchers ready nanotechnology innovations for market
...d chief scientific officer of NanoMas, founded the company in January with fellow researchers ZhihaoYang, president and chief technology officer, and Tom Xu, vice president and chief operating officer. The NanoMas team has developed efficient, cost-effective processes for manufacturing electronic inks made o...'Inverse planning' system improves brachytherapy treatment for prostate and other cancers
A California medical software company has launched the first "inverse planning" system for helping cancer treatment specialists optimize the placement of radioactive seeds used in the brachytherapy process. Optimization improves the treatment by helping meet physician-set constraints fo...Baylor Research Institute receives $6.2 million grant to establish Center for Lupus Research
... We are currently in collaboration with a biotech company to develop a blocker for type I interferon. The goal is to control the symptom flares that are common to lupus patients by shutting off the signal that causes them. Recently Dr. Pascual was selected as the recipient of the Kirkland Scholar Award in......rld's largest pharmaceutical company, admitted the company was also in discussions with suppliers over REACH, but declined to say whether any particular products were affected. GSK is also reviewing suppliers, but a spokesman said that they had not come up against any problems to date. 'Finding a new sup...VCR -- FDA approves home discharge for US patients
...sby said. The FDA approval is conditional on the company making amendments to the labeling of the VentrAssist within 45 days, however the ability for patients to be discharged home is immediate....Vaccine for brain tumors shows promising results
... was sent to Antigenics, the Massachusetts biotech company that produces the vaccine from the patient's tumor tissue. Because of the size of the tumor, Hekkala will receive injections every other week until mid-February. So far, results are promising with no sign of tumor regrowth, according to the Parsa. "E...UCLA study reports conflict of interest policies and practices of major journals
... on a new drug also has ties to the pharmaceutical company that manufactures the drug. Media attention and public scrutiny about conflict of interest in biomedical research has increased, and journals have stressed the importance of such disclosures. "While it is healthy that doctors, patients and journals...Astrolab Industry Day to showcase European research technology on ISS
.... The hardware was developed for ESA by the Danish company Damec. Minus 80 degrees laboratory Freezer for the ISS (MELFI) MELFI was launched to the ISS on the STS-121 mission in July 2006, the same flight that brought Thomas Reiter to the ISS as the first European to become a member of an ISS Expedition...NC State start-up looks to turn 'lights out' on flu, other viruses
...Triangle Park-based start-up LaamScience, Inc. The company whose name stands for Light Activated Anti Microb...geting hospital areas including waiting rooms. The company is also developing a room air purifier that incorporates its nano-coated filter technology. Other po...Pfizer to fund doctoral study fellowships, seminars in biostatistics at Rutgers
... pharmaceutical and consumer products company. The company is also funding a series of professional seminars ...rs doctoral student focusing on biostatistics. The company is also sponsoring professional seminars for graduate students and faculty, bringing them to corpora...Telemedicine robots help improve health
...ars, thanks to a $335,000 grant provided by mining company Xstrata (Community Partnership Program), through the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation. The robot project is an extension of the telepaediatric research led by the Centre for Online Health, in collaboration with the Royal Children's Hospital in...University of Rochester spin-off secures $2 million in funding
iCardiac Technologies, Inc., a company formed earlier this year to commercialize leading ... "We are pleased to support an upstate technology company that is based on university research," said Alan Hevesi, New York State comptroller. "It is one of t...Optics tests for early Alzheimer's diagnosis make significant advances
...on, a Massachusetts-based diagnostic biotechnology company that has licensed and is developing the technology for clinical use....Free drug samples influence prescribing, say one in three doctors
...t free samples of a new drug from a pharmaceutical company rep. Similarly, just over half thought it was ethical to accept a lucrative consultancy with a company if they were a "high volume" prescriber of one of that company's drugs. One in three agreed that t...Common cold may be just a fingertip away due to environmental contamination
...N: RB), the world's number one household cleaning company (excluding laundry). The study was presented today in an oral session at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), in San Francisco, California. During daily activities, adults infected with the cold virus e...Cancer drug may be remedy for rheumatoid arthritis, Stanford study finds
...of imatinib, a drug produced by the pharmaceutical company Novartis AG. It is part of a class of drugs called kinase inhibitors, which act by blocking communication signals between cells. These signals, when they go awry, are often at the root of diseases such as cancer and autoimmune conditions. Gleevec t...Rochester researchers join federal initiative to improve drug safety
... to iCardiac Technologies, Inc., a Rochester-based company founded by Couderc that is positioning itself as a leading provider of advanced cardiac safety analysis technologies....OREXIGEN reports positive 24-week results for Contrave phase III obesity treatment study
...Inc., a privately held clinical-stage neuroscience company developing novel strategic approaches to the treatment of obesity, today announced that top line results for the company's lead obesity compound, Contrave TM , demonstrated significant advantages in weight loss in a 24-week multi-center, placebo-cont...