Jan 15, 2009 - The FDA plans to select 100 applicants to participate in the Secure Supply Chain pilot program. To qualify, applicants will need to meet the pilot program's criteria, including a requirement that they maintain control over the drug products from the read more..
Jan 15, 2009 - This draft guidance provides importers with recommendations to assist them in preventing or detecting potential problems at critical points along the product’s life cycle,” said Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., associate commissioner for policy and planni read more..
Jan 15, 2009 - Blacks make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, but account for about 70 percent of gonorrhea cases and almost half of chlamydia and syphilis cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Black women ages 15 to 19 have the highest read more..
Jan 01, 2009 - “With the MPX test, blood donor testing laboratories will be able to use nucleic acid technology to screen for additional HIV strains, further assuring that donated blood and tissue are free from infection and providing better protection for patients read more..
Dec 31, 2008 - Degarelix is intended to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer. It belongs to a class of agents called gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor inhibitors. These agents slow the growth and progression of prostate cancer by suppressing te read more..
Dec 30, 2008 - Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, is a genetic heart disease where the heart muscle is thickened, especially in the left ventricle. Although people with HCM usually display mild symptoms or are completely asymptomatic, up to 1% of affected people read more..
Dec 30, 2008 - This type of memory is impaired at an early stage during Alzheimer’s disease and so it is hoped that understanding the function of this molecule may lead to better cures and treatments for this devastating disease.
To understand human cognition is read more..
Dec 26, 2008 - A subarachnoid hemorrhage occurs when a blood vessel on the brain’s surface ruptures and bleeds into the space between the skull and brain, but not into the brain.
In a study assessing 141 men and women living in the community two to four years read more..
Dec 16, 2008 - Bigras is one of many patients at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center who participates in music therapy. The idea is to use music to help patients cope with physical symptoms, such as pain, reduce their anxiety and find an outlet f read more..
Dec 16, 2008 - The reductions in the coronary heart disease (30.7 percent) and stroke (29.2 percent) death rates mark the achievement of major milestones set by the American Heart Association to reduce coronary heart disease and stroke by 25 percent by 2010. This l read more..
Dec 13, 2008 - The research shows that women who have a duplication of chromosome 17 in their tumour will benefit from anthracycline drugs, while others can be spared the side-effects of the treatment. This group of chemotherapy drugs includes epirubicin which has read more..
Dec 13, 2008 - A study by UC Davis researchers appearing today in the journal Science reports the discovery of a new mechanism of attention in the human brain. Previous studies in animals implicated changes in the state of a portion of the brainstem, called the loc read more..
Dec 12, 2008 - The FDA has also directed the manufacturer of these products to develop a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS), distribute a Medication Guide to alert patients to the risk of acute kidney injury associated with the use of these products, an read more..
Dec 12, 2008 - The measures, which will be included in the forthcoming Health Bill, follow a consultation which attracted over 96,000 responses and revealed overwhelming support for stronger measures of tobacco control.
Health secretary Alan Johnson commented: & read more..
Dec 11, 2008 - WHO is establishing a cholera control and command centre, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MoHCW) and other health partners, to respond in a coordinated manner to Zimbabwe's health challenges. WHO is seeking donor support read more..
Dec 11, 2008 - Now, University of Michigan researchers describe their new understanding of how metabolic diseases such as fatty liver disease may develop.
The work focuses on the stress-sensing pathways of cells and what might happen when they are disrupted by e read more..
Dec 11, 2008 - “In terms of motivating people to get screened, there may be benefit in targeting wives or significant others as well as men,” said lead author Lauren P. Wallner, M.P.H., a graduate research associate at the University of Michigan.
The study appe read more..
Dec 11, 2008 - Government health authorities are taking immediate action in order to curtail the spread of the virus and is also considering the need to change the vaccine used to protect chickens against bird flu.
As Hong Kong health officials battle with the f read more..
Dec 11, 2008 - The journal Nature reports infected animals survived almost twice as long after a single treatment to raise immune response to the virus.
An independent expert said multiple doses were possible, and might eliminate the virus.
Current antiretr read more..
Dec 11, 2008 - The Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Foundation announced today that data presented at this year's American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting in San Francisco demonstrate that patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who were treated with VIDAZA ( read more..
