American Psychiatric Foundation, Lilly Foundation And Give An Hour Join Forces To Provide Mental Health Care To Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Heeding the call of a growing public
health crisis -- the unmet mental
health needs of returning soldiers and their families -- Give an Hour (GAH) and the American Psychiatric Foundation (APF) announced a major expansion of a nationwide effort to help U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comElesclomol Study Shows Significant Improvement In Progression Free Survival For Chemotherapy Naïve Patients With Metastatic Melanoma GlaxoSmithKline and Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp announced positive Phase II clinical data for elesclomol (formerly STA-4783), an investigational agent currently in development for metastatic melanoma.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTioga Pharmaceuticals' Asimadoline Demonstrates Positive Results In A Phase 2b Clinical Trial For The Treatment Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Tioga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the results of a recent Phase 2b study of its oral kappa opioid receptor agonist, asimadoline, which demonstrated statistically significant results in the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBARC Announces Long-Term Cooperation In South African Biobanking For HIV Vaccine Trials BARC, a global central laboratory announced a broad biobanking agreement to support HIV vaccine trials currently being performed in South Africa by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). The HVTN vaccine trials are designed to answer scientific questions that will advance knowledge and ultimately lead to a safe and effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAbbott Contributes To Disaster Relief Efforts In China And Myanmar Abbott and its philanthropic foundation Abbott Fund are providing U.S. $1.5 million in humanitarian aid in response to the earthquake in Sichuan Province in China and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Abbott is working with its humanitarian aid organization partners with an established presence on the ground in China and Myanmar.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAnnual FIT Testing Detects Colorectal Cancer Two Years Earlier Than Colonoscopy Alone, Study Of High Risk Population Finds An interim analysis of a study presented at the 39th Annual Digestive Disease Week (DDW) Conference found that, among patients at increased risk for colorectal cancer who completed an annual fecal immunochemical (FIT) test, detection of cancerous lesions occurred an average of 26.5 months earlier than would have occurred during the three- or five-year study-required colonoscopy.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMulti-Million Dollar Effort To Improve US Health Care To Be Announced By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Disparate quality care nationwide spurs largest
health care philanthropy to attack the problem in communities across AmericaWhat: Announcement of a multi-million dollar investment to improve quality in 14 regions nationwide New Dartmouth Atlas data, commissioned for the Aligning Forces fo
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