Nearly a third of high school students in the United States report smoking marijuana. Despite the mixed messages about the safety of marijuana, smoking grass is risky behavior for teens, who are, after all, still developing…
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Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have demonstrated a molecular strategy they say could make a much larger variety of tumors treatable with PARP inhibitors, a promising new class of cancer drugs…
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They may look and act like natural human cell membranes but the synthetic cell membranes invented by A*STAR’s IMRE have more advantages. IMRE’s patented synthetic cell membranes can be made-to-order, are easier to maintain in a laboratory environment and do not require the lengthy preparation that comes with working on live cell membranes…
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A broad group of consumers, health professionals and advocates today - including members of the Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women - joined to release a statement praising the Institute of Medicine’s Relieving Pain in America: Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Treatment and Research, tackling a major health problem that impacts 116 million Americans and […]
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CJPS Medical Systems announced today that it is releasing this week the smallest, most featured, lowest cost, portable multi-parameter vital signs monitor on the market…
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ZONARE Medical Systems, a global developer of high-end ultrasound systems, announced it ranked highest in performance across a number of clinical applications and ranked first or second in several customer support and service categories in the KLAS “Ultrasound 2011: Innovation on the Move” report…
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Results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) published online in the June 30 New England Journal of Medicine report a twenty percent reduction in lung cancer deaths among study participants who were screened with low-dose helical computed tomography (CT) versus those screened with chest X-ray…
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Many clinical treatments have multiple effects that can only be effectively captured on multiple outcome scales. Correctly modeling the inter-relationships between outcome scales is an important - but often ignored - component of a robust cost-effectiveness analysis and will influence whether a health care treatment is considered cost-effective…
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Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) reported the publication of results from a Phase 2 trial investigating OMS103HP in patients undergoing arthroscopic partial meniscectomy surgery. OMS103HP is Omeros’ product candidate being developed for use during arthroscopic procedures and is designed to provide a multimodal approach to preemptively block the inflammatory cascade induced by arthroscopy…
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A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has developed a way to uncover the evolution of human cancer cells, determining the order in which mutations emerge in them as they wend their way from a normal, healthy state into invasive, malignant masses…
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