Sue Barker MBE Presents Awards At MDC National Conference The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's National Conference took place on 27 September at Birmingham's Hilton Metropole. Charity President, Sue Barker MBE, was there to present outstanding achievement awards to Muscular Dystrophy Campaign supporters from all over the UK.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMSF Still Blocked In Maradi Despite A New Memorandum Of Understanding Ten weeks after Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) authorization to treat malnutrition in the Maradi region was suspended, the French section of MSF is no longer providing any medical-nutritional treatment on site there. A new memorandum of understanding was drafted between the Ministry of Public
Health and MSF, but the authorities of Niger have yet to sign it.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNIH Funding For New Epigenomics Initiative The National Institutes of
Health (NIH) announces funding for the new NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program. Epigenetic processes control normal growth and development, and epigenomics is a study of epigenetic processes at a genome-wide scale. The NIH will invest more than $190 million over the next five years to accelerate this emerging field of biomedical research.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHSP90 Inhibitor To Advance To Clinical Development - Prominent In Tumor Cells Where It Promotes Activity Of Proteins Controlling Growth And Survival Exelixis, Inc. (Nasdaq:EXEL) announced today that it has submitted an investigational new drug (IND) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for XL888, a novel anticancer compound. XL888 is an orally available small molecule inhibitor of HSP90, which is a chaperone protein that promotes the activity and stability of a range of key regulatory proteins, including kinases.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com'Invisibility Cloak' To Protect Coastlines Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMedicare Publishes Billing Edits To Reduce Payment Errors The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that, it will publish most of the edits utilized in its Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) program to improve the accuracy of claims payments. "It is always our aim to ensure that CMS pays for appropriate services, at the same time protecting the Medicare Trust funds and the American taxpayer," said CMS Acting Administrator Kerry Weems.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCSHP Selects Jay Rho As 2008 Pharmacist Of The Year And Mirta Millares For Distinguished Service, California Drs. Veronica Bandy, Daniel Dong and Maria Serpa Designated as 2008 Society Fellows and Darren Besoyan to Receive Technician Achievement Award.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStudy Suggests Inter-Species Collaboration May Be Common In Many Ecosystems, Potential Agricultural, Medicinal Uses Humans living in communities often rely on friends to help get what they need and, according to researchers in the lab of Cameron Currie at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, many microbes, plants and animals benefit from 'friendly' associations too. The Currie team's study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the Oct.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPsychological Impact Of Gene Test For Breast Cancer Personal beliefs about inconclusive DNA testing for hereditary breast cancer are associated with cancer-related worry, and such beliefs are an especially strong predictor of whether women had been able to leave the period of DNA-testing behind, reports a study in the October issue of Genetics in
Medicine, official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG).
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