New family of biodegradable polymers shows promise for intracellular drug delivery
...eorgia Tech, Emory and the University of Rochester filed two provisional patent applications on the polyket...livery system. Murthy noted that a Japanese patent filed in 2001 described the same polymerization process, but used it to make photo resists, rather than a ...Pregnancy research leads to progress on premature delivery
The University of Rochester has filed a patent on several ideas to help prevent early labor and the premature delivery of low-birth-weight babies. The discovery is an incremental step in an area of obstetrics that has seen little improvement in 20 years. Mark Plessinger, Ph.D., assistant...Efficacy of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate may depend on level of osteoarthritis pain
...cted under an Investigational New Drug application filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Thus, all of the products used in the study were subject to the FDA's pharmaceutical regulations and evaluated and manufactured by an FDA-licensed clinical research pharmacy center. The glucosamine and chon...MIT thinks small to find safer metals
...eking alternative materials for plating. Schuh has filed for two patents on the technology. An article on the new method is to appear this summer in the Materials Research Society Proceedings....New vaccine for condition that kills 500,000 children a year
....S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Merck has filed for licensure of RotaTeq in 50 other countries and plans to evaluate the use of RotaTeq in the developing world. The Merck study appeared in the same issue of the New England Journal of Medicine as a study of a rotavirus vaccine developed by GlaxoSmi...GroPep to pursue promising asthma drug following preclinical study results
...al Coast Area Health Service. In May 2005, GroPep filed a new International Patent Application on the use of the drug for the treatment of asthma, based on the work of Professor Enk at the University of Mainz, Germany Asthma affects more than 15 million people in the US alone and 100 million people worldw...Growth factor protects brain against damage from stroke
...oduce any obvious side effects in rats." Ford has filed two provisional patents for the uses of neuregulin-1 as a stroke treatment and promoting the growth of endogenous neural stem cells to replace damaged neurons. Ford was recently awarded a five-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurologi...Resonance Health Goup patent for diagnosis of liver fibrosis
...ealth Group (ASX: RHT) today announced that it has filed a new US patent application claiming a novel non-invasive measure of liver structure with direct application to the non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis. Chronic liver disease is responsible for over 1.4 million deaths annually and is among the t...Doctors sue Safeway and other dairy retailers
...CRM's associate general counsel. The case is being filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Defendants include Giant of Maryland; Safeway; Horizon Organic; Dean Foods; Nestle Holdings; Farmland Dairies; Shenandoah's Pride; Stonyfield Farm; and Cloverland Farms Dairy. "Imagine a child of 8 o...LSUHSC innovation in patient safety training to improve surgical outcomes
...st training scenarios. LSU Health Sciences Center filed a patent on this intellectual property and the patent is pending. A training session begins as the surgical team is oriented to the virtual OR and briefed on the patient's case. They then perform the surgery. What happens to the patient is primarily...Mayo Clinic researchers use ultrasound to describe subtle heart muscle motions
... heart performance." A patent application has been filed based on this research. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic Translational Ultrasound Research Unit study the mechanical, biochemical and electrical aspects of these transitions which occur between phases of relaxation -- when the heart ventricles fill wit...Doctors sue Merck over Vioxx animal tests
WASHINGTON--In a lawsuit to be filed this week, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and plaintiff Nancy Tufford allege that Merck wrongfully relied on animal tests that showed Vioxx to be safe while setting aside mounting evidence that Vioxx increases risk of cardia...US still spends more on health care than any other country
...ther countries or the elevated number of law suits filed in the United States," said Peter S. Hussey, PhD, co-author of the study and a recent graduate of the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management. "As in previous years, it comes back to the fact that we are paying ...Researchers discover 'window on the brain' that could help treat disorders
...ional science doctoral student. The university has filed for a preliminary patent on the process. "This new computational advance gives us a window on the brain that could be a breakthrough in the precision of localizing the brain's electrical activity," says Tucker. And that, he says, could be helpful in ...Nanoparticles carry cancer-killing drugs into tumor cells
...l Cancer Institute. The University of Michigan has filed a patent application on targeted nanoparticle technology. A licensing agreement is currently being negotiated with Avidimer Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company in Ann Arbor, Mich. Baker holds a significant financial interest in the company. Ot...National medical and public health groups sue EPA
...re than 300,000 public health professionals, today filed a challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection A...rule to protect Americans' health. (Copies of the filed legal documents and state-specific fish advisories will be posted on www.mercuryaction.org on June 1...Tercica presents pharmacokinetic and safety data from several studies at Endocrine Society Meeting
...ncertainties disclosed fromtime to time in reports filed by Tercica with the SEC, most recently Tercica'sForm 10-Q filed on May 16, 2005 and Form 8-K filing on May 19, 2005; (2)the results from the studies may not extrapo...GroPep news: Key psoriasis patent granted in Japan and new asthma patent filed for GroPep drug
...ases, including asthma. On 27th May 2005, GroPep filed a new International Patent Application on the use of the active ingredient for the treatment of asthma. The application is based on research conducted by scientists at the University of Mainz, Germany and confirmed in studies conducted independently ...Hebrew University researcher develops compounds to control bacteria
...ty would be beneficiary. A U.S. patent has been filed based on the compounds developed by Jabbour, and further commercialization is being negotiated through the Hebrew University's Yissum Research Development Company. Jabbour, 32, lives in Upper Nazareth with his wife Banan, a pediatric resident in at ...... Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, who filed a civil rights lawsuit on November 22 2002 "to preserve my job and my right to speak out." Jones explained that he had investigated an account into which pharmaceutical companies were paying money that was being accessed by state officials. These ...