Sucampo submits new drug application for lubiprostone
...an and Europe. R-Tech Ueno, Ltd (Tokyo, Japan), a member of Sucampo Group, will manufacture and supply the drug. For the NDA application, Sucampo provided results from two Phase III pivotal efficacy studies, results of a randomized withdrawal (RW) study and three long-term safety studies, including two 12-...AACR establishes new lectureship in honor of Dr. Jane C. Wright
... the American Cancer Society, New York; a founding member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology; and in 2004 she became a 50-year member of the American Association for Cancer Research. Her leadership and mentorship have greatly impacte...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...iology as an assistant professor in 1978. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Cell and the Journal of Cell Biology.A series of awards is given annually by the AACR the world's oldest and larges...Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
... University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a member of the faculty until his retirement in 1995 and still holds emeritus status. He has been a member of the AACR for nearly 50 years and has supported the Science Education Awards for college students ...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...esearch investigator. Ubel directs, and Smith is a member of, the U-M Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine. They note that research has already shown that psychological well-being, or lack of it, can affect people's response to medical treatment, and their ability to work or care for them...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...niversity of Maryland School of Medicine and board member for the ISHLT. During discussion at the ISHLT Meeting, Mehra explains that several agencies worldwide review and address guidelines for treatment and management of heart and lung failure in patients, but adds that none are comprehensive. "Our Society...Lupus and the role of Epstein-Barr virus
...has been infected with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes family and one of the most common human viruses. Symptoms of initial infection range from a typically mild childhood illness with a fever and sore throat to mononucleosis in teenagers or adults. After the initial infection, the virus ...IOM report should end nevirapine controversy, HIVMA says
... says obstetrician/gynecologist Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, member of the HIVMA Board of Directors and an AIDS resear...of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was a member of the HIVNET Data Safety Monitoring Board. "We're fortunate to have such an esteemed group give th...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
... Philippines, Chile, and Argentina. "Resource-rich member nations of the international community have a self-interest and a moral obligation to support the development and use by less industrialized countries of these top 10 nanotechnologies to address key development challenges," says Dr. Abdallah Daar, MD...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...ns Millennium Development Goals. In 2000, all 189 member states of the UN committed to achieve eight goals - which aim to promote human development and encourage social and economic sustainability - by 2015. The study authors describe how the top ten nanotechnology applications can help contribute to thes...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...cancer are being diagnosed," said Li, an assistant member of Fred Hutchinson's Public Health Sciences Division. Li and colleagues also found a sixfold increase in a less aggressive form of ductal carcinoma in situ, a condition called noncomedo DCIS, while incidence rates of a potentially more aggressive typ...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
...a is currently available in various European Union member states for the treatment of peripheral neuropathic pain and as adjunctive therapy for partial seizures, and in Mexico for the treatment of neuropathic pain and as adjunctive therapy for partial seizures....Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...ter cardiologist Christopher Granger, M.D., senior member of the research team that published the results of their analysis in the April 13, 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The DCRI's Rajendra Mehta, M.D. was the first author of the paper. "We have found that there does not ap...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
...f America's National Memory Screening Day and as a member of the celebrity cabinet for the Red Cross Caregiver campaign....ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
...tackle diabetes, we are looking beyond our 116,000 member internists to the health care team as a whole," said Dr. Francis. "ACP is dedicated to promoting evidence-based medicine for care of all chronic diseases, and we can make a difference in improving the care of patients with diabetes." "Novo Nordisk is...APA applauds new California regulations for inpatient psychological services
...ists and psychiatrists to direct patient care as a member of the hospital medical staff, including decisions on when to admit, transfer, and discharge patients. The new regulations are a result of longstanding efforts by organized psychology to enforce laws already on the books. The new regulations resulted...NMDP welcomes IOM recommendation for fully integrated cord blood system
...To support the quality assurance activities at the member cord blood banks, the NMDP provides outcomes data directly. The IOM recommendations, issued today in a report, "Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program," come in response to a 2004 request by Congress, which asked the...Cleveland physician to receive Benjamin Spock Award
...ic for many years, as president of the Staff and a member of its Board of Governors, chairman of the Clinic's Breast Cancer Task Force, and head of the Section of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. Dr. Esselstyn graduated from Yale University, and earned his M.D. from Western Reserve University. At the 195...Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
...ctured interview of the individuals -- or a family member in the case of deceased or incapacitated persons -- to arrive at a standard diagnosis of dementia or cognitive impairment. Dr. Geda, who was blinded to the MMPI scores of the study subjects, then reviewed the results of these interviews....Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
...William E. Evans, Pharm.D., St. Jude director and member of St. Jude Pharmaceutical Sciences. "The results also give us crucial information into treatment failure that could help us design more effective treatments for the children our current treatment strategies fail to cure." Evans is senior author of ...