Editor’s ChoiceAcademic Journal Main Category: Heart Disease Also Included In: Women’s Health / Gynecology Article Date: 22 Feb 2012 – 8:00 PST email to a friend printer friendly opinions Current Article Ratings: Patient / Public: Healthcare Prof: A study in the February issue of JAMA, reports that female heart attack patients are [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., Feb 22, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Immunomedics, Inc. /quotes/zigman/73672/quotes/nls/immu IMMU -0.28% , a biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development of monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer, autoimmune and other serious diseases, today announced that the Company’s senior management will be presenting at two upcoming healthcare conferences: — [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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Massachusetts-based Repligen Corporation has announced that it is one step closer to winning pharmaceutical sales approval for its new pancreatic cancer diagnostic drug after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted its filing for new drug application (NDA) for priority review. Dr. Walter C. Herlihy, president and chief executive officer of Repligen, said the FDA [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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Electronic health records and embedded tools can alert and direct pediatricians so they can better manage the weight of children and teenagers, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published online in The Journal of Pediatrics. Researchers analyzed visits for nearly 740,000 children and adolescents ages 2 to 17 to evaluate the impact of computer-assisted [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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Published: Feb. 22, 2012 at 12:33 AM CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Feb. 22 (UPI) – Children later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders have distinct patterns of brain development in the first two years of life, U.S. researchers said. First author Jason J. Wolff and senior author Dr. Joseph Piven, both of the University of North Carolina, [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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CHICAGO (CBS) – The next time you think you’re suffering from a cold or the flu, your real problem might be this mild winter. Seasonal allergies are expected to start earlier this year. CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez reports the warm weather could lead to a lot of aching, sniffling and sneezing soon for allergy sufferers. [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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Released: 2/13/2012 1:00 PM ESTEmbargo expired: 2/21/2012 10:00 AM ESTSource: Northern Arizona University EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE 8 A.M. MOUNTAIN STANDARD (ARIZONA) TIME,10 A.M EASTERN, FEB. 21, 2012 Newswise — FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (Feb. 21, 2012) — A strain of the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as MRSA has jumped from livestock to humans, according to a [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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Photo: Getty Images Nearly 40,000 Americans have been diagnosed with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder triggered by gluten, the protein in grains like wheat, barley and rye. With celiac disease, also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy, celiac sprue, and non-tropical sprue, the protein behaves like a toxin, damaging the villi. The villi are small projections from [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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21 February 2012 Last updated at 21:32 ET By Dominic Hughes Health correspondent, BBC News Women are more likely to die from a heart attack Fewer women than men suffering from a heart attack appear to experience chest pain symptoms, according to a study of more than one million people in the US. Overall men [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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A class of drugs being investigated to treat Alzheimer’s disease may actually have the opposite effect of the original intent — they may impair memory, a new study in animals suggests. The drugs, known as BACE1 inhibitors, are designed to prevent the formation of the protein plaques in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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