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U.S. Nursing Shortage Approaches Record Levels

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:00 +0000

The American Nurses Association is celebrating the heroic and crucial care that nurses provide during this year’s National Nurses Week on May 6 through May 12. The 2008 theme is “Nurses: Making a Difference Every Day.

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Experimental Drug Shows Promise In Treating One Class Of Lymphoma

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:12 +0000

New clinical data showed some cancer patients with recurrent lymphoma benefited from an experimental drug called AME-133v, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).The data was presented during the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego.

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Connect Imaging Announces Software To Support Totoku Super High Resolution Display For Mammography

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:05:22 +0000

Connect Imaging, Inc., developer of customizable PACS (picture archiving and communication systems), has released a new version of its Mammo ViewBox software to support a super high resolution mammography display from Totoku Electric Co., Ltd., of Japan. The new software will be introduced at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Seattle May 15-18. According to Philip J.

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Promoting Dignity And Independence For People Who Suffer From Dementia

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:05:48 +0000

Two projects by South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) to promote dignity and independence for people who suffer from dementia were highly commended at this year’s East of England Health and Social Care Awards. The innovative projects ‘Lasting Memories’ and ‘My life Story’ were launched in December 2007 and work closely with patients, their carers, families and friends to improve their quality of life.

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Link Between Asthma Symptoms And Younger Siblings

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:27 +0000

Among four year-olds attending Head Start programs in New York City, those who had older siblings were more likely to experience respiratory symptoms including an episode of wheezing in the past year than those who were oldest or only children. Children with at least two older siblings were also 50% more likely than other children to have gone to an emergency department or been hospitalized overnight for breathing problems.

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Two Suppressor Molecules Affect 70 Genes In Leukemia

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:06 +0000

By restoring two small molecules that are often lost in chronic leukemia, researchers were able to block tumor growth in an animal model.The research, using human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells, also showed that loss of the two molecules affects 70 genes, most of which are involved in critical functions such as cell growth, death, proliferation and metabolism.

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Is Prostate Specific Antigen Velocity Selective For Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer In Screening?

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:29 +0000

UroToday.com - With the knowledge that screening for prostate cancer will lead to over detection and subsequent over treatment, the call for tests discriminating between non aggressive and aggressive prostate cancer is growing. If pre-biopsy data could make this distinction, a lot of unnecessary biopsies would be spared. The amount of prostate cancer specific antigen (PSA) increase in a year, PSA velocity (PSAV), has been suggested as a factor predictive for aggressive disease.

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UK Architects RMJM To Design $90m Biotech Facility In Beijing

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:05:38 +0000

UK architecture firm RMJM has been appointed design architect for a state-of-the-art $US90 million biotechnology research and development centre in Beijing , it was announced recently. The new facility is for Genzyme Corp. The facility is to be built at Zhongguancun (ZGC) Life Science Park which is dedicated to academic and government research centres as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

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New Discovery On Role Of Vital Protein That Fights Meningitus

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:05:58 +0000

A University of Leicester researcher has discovered how a protein in the blood linked to defence against meningitis plays a more vital role than previously understood in the body’s immune defence system.The published research has helped to advance medical understanding of how the body defends against disease and heals itself.

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Conference Addresses State-Of-The-Art Cancer Treatments - 2nd ESMO Symposium On Soft Tissue Carcinomas And GIST

Drug Information — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:05:56 +0000

Experts in treating a rare group of cancers that affect tissues such as muscle, fat, nerves and the gastrointestinal wall are meeting in Milan, Italy on 13-14 May to discuss the latest information on how these diseases develop and potential new avenues for therapy.

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