Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trial And Research Centre Launched Sir Bobby Robson, who used to be manager of the England football team, has launched the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trial and Research Centre, a charitable foundation aimed at combating cancer. Sir Bobby, who was first diagnosed with cancer in 1991, said his aim is to raise £500,000 (about $1 million). The new research centre is being built at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle (England).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHalsa Pharmaceuticals Receives 250,000 Dollars From Texas ETF To Develop Therapeutic Weight-Loss Treatment Houston-based Halsa Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has been awarded $250,000 from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to continue development and pilot manufacturing of a therapeutic treatment for obesity. The TETF may provide up to $1 million total investment if the company meets certain performance benchmarks.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comProject Is The First Clinical Trial Spawned By The Virginia Israel Bioscience Commercialization Center The Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center will open a Phase I pancreatic cancer study later this year in conjunction with leading researchers from Israel, marking the first time cancer researchers at VCU have partnered with their counterparts in Israel.The study is supported by a $950,000 grant from the U.S.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPotential Malaria Vaccine From Fertilization Discovery International investigations of an organism that one UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher calls a "silly little green scum" have led to key insights into the basic mechanisms of reproduction.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comM.D. Anderson Researchers Target Minorities For Cord Blood Donations To Address Bone Marrow Shortages Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are using donations of umbilical cord blood -- which is quickly "emerging as an alternative to treat" at least 50 diseases such as cancer, cell anemia and Tay-Sachs disease -- to help offset a "shortage of transplant material for minority patients," the Houston Chronicle reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWorkshop Focusus On Ensuring Food Security In A Changing Climate Climate change may limit global agricultural productivity and economic development by placing crops under stress due to rising temperatures and increased demand for water. Changing environmental conditions may also increase plant stress by intensifying plant pests and diseases.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comU.S. Should Fund HIV/AIDS Strategies 'That Work,' Not 'Expensive Vaccine Research,' Opinion Piece Says The U.S. should invest in proven HIV/AIDS treatment, testing and prevention strategies and not in "expensive vaccine research that over 20 years has yielded little of promise other than discovering how not to make an AIDS vaccine," Homayoon Khanlou and Michael Weinstein of the AIDS
Healthcare Foundation write in a Baltimore Sun opinion piece.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMedicare Trustees To Issue Annual Report On Financial Status Of Program; Third Consecutive Funding Warning Likely The board of trustees for Medicare and Social Security on Tuesday will issue an annual report on the financial status of the programs that likely will "kick off a fierce round of debate," the AP/Houston Chronicle reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comKaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Recent Presidential Campaign News Summaries of developments related to
health care in the presidential election appear below.NFIB campaign: Reuters last week examined a multimillion-dollar campaign launched earlier this month by the National Federation of Independent Business that will ask presidential and congressional candidates to address the concerns of small businesses in their
health care proposals.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comEurope's Largest Forum On Breast Cancer What is EBCC?The most exciting breast cancer conference in Europe, it is the only one that involves all the major players in breast cancer.
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