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Source: www.medicinenet.comSupreme Court Should Rule In Favor Of Plaintiff In Pre-Emption Case, Editorial States "If the U.S. Supreme Court were in the business of compensating victims of medical error because of the poignancy of their plight, Diana Levine wouldn't be in suspense about whether the justices would rule in her favor," but the court "usually doesn't take cases out of sympathy for -- or hostility toward -- an individual," a
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLink Between Mental Health And Stillbirth, Newborn Deaths Women with a history of serious mental illness are much more likely to have babies that are stillborn or die within the first month of life, new research reveals. Researchers at the Centre for Women's Mental
Health at The University of Manchester studied almost 1.5 million births in Denmark between 1973 and 1998, including 7,021 stillbirths.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRaptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. Announces Positive Phase IIa Clinical Study Results For Convivia(TM) Program Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. ("Raptor" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: RPTP), announced positive results in its Phase IIa study of oral 4-methylpyrazole ("4-MP") in subjects with ALDH2 deficiency, or ethanol intolerance, as the initial development stage of its Convivia(TM) program. Convivia(TM) is Raptor's proprietary oral formulation of 4-MP designed to reduce systemic acetaldehyde exposure and related symptoms in ALDH2 deficient persons following alcohol consumption.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTemple Sociologist Identifies Patterns Of Suicide In Las Vegas Every day 85 Americans die by suicide and hundreds of thousands more make attempts every year. The vast majority of recent studies on suicide have focused on identifying psychiatric risk factors. However, a new study by Temple University Sociology Professor Matt Wray, published online this month in Social Science and
Medicine, explores time and place as factors in suicide by closely analyzing the patterns of suicide in a single geographic area - Las Vegas - over a 30 year period.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDronedarone (Multaq(R)) Reduced The Incidence And Duration Of Hospitalization In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation New data from the landmark ATHENA trial showed that dronedarone significantly reduced the incidence and total duration of hospital stays among patients with atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter (AF/AFL). This post-hoc analysis was presented at the 2008 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana. In this new analysis, dronedarone significantly reduced the total number of hospital days by 28 percent (p
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCalcium, Vitamin D Won't Prevent Breast Cancer Title: Calcium, Vitamin D Won't Prevent Breast Cancer
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Source: www.medicinenet.comCell Therapeutics' Pixantrone Phase III (EXTEND) Pivotal Trial Successful In Achieving Primary Endpoint Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced that it achieved the primary efficacy endpoint of its phase III EXTEND (PIX301) trial of pixantrone (BBR2778) for patients with advanced, relapsed aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) based on a preliminary intent to treat efficacy analysis.
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