Opinion Pieces Address Placebo Study Two newspapers recently published opinion pieces about a study published in the October issue of BMJ that found between 46% and 58% of physicians surveyed said they routinely prescribe placebos to their patients. Summaries appear below.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHepatitis C Therapeutic DNA Vaccine Delivered By Inovio Biomedical's Electroporation Technology Reduces Viral Load By Up To 99.7% Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO), a leader in enabling the development of DNA vaccines using electroporation-based DNA delivery, announced today that its partner, Tripep AB, reported positive additional interim results from its ongoing phase I/II clinical study of its therapeutic DNA vaccine against hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRep. Maloney Predicts Obama Will Reinstate Funding For U.N. Population Fund Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday at the launch of the United Nations Population Fund's annual State of World Population report said that President-elect Barack Obama will lift the Bush administration's freeze on U.S. funding for UNFPA's family planning programs,
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTackling Bone Rot From Inside The Genes Some 50 million people, including one in every two menopausal woman in America, are taking
drugs to reduce the dangerous effects of osteoporosis. A little known fact is that a small percentage of these people will actually have the quality of their life diminished. Some are already suing drug companies in America over it.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBreaking Study Supports Noninvasive Central Blood Pressure As A Treatment Target AtCor Medical (ASX: ACG), the developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor(R) system, which measures central blood pressures and arterial stiffness noninvasively, today announced that a new study* funded by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) found that when patients' central puls
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew York Times Columnist Discusses Barriers Faced By Minority Physicians New York Times columnist and physician Pauline Chen in her latest "Doctor and Patient" column discusses racial disparities in
health care. According to Chen, the election of Sen. Barack Obama as president indicates that in "politics, the racial barriers might have fallen, ...
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNewspapers Examine Possible HIV/AIDS Treatment Through Bone Marrow Transplant Several newspapers recently profiled the case of an HIV-positive person who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia and who has had undetectable HIV viral loads for almost two years.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMedtronic Receives European Approval For World's First Pacing System Designed, Tested And Approved For MRI Medtronic, Inc., (NYSE: MDT) announced it has received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark for the first-ever MR-Conditional pacemaker system, the EnRhythm MRI TM SureScan TM pacemaker and CapSureFix MRI TM SureScan TM pacing leads (Model 5086MRI).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRoche, Merck Serono And Abbott Join Forces In Biotechnology Cluster Rhine-Neckar (BioRN) At the opening of the BIO-Europe 2008 Partnering Conference, Roche, Merck Serono and Abbott announced today to join forces in the development of the Biotechnology Cluster Rhine-Neckar (BioRN) towards a leading position in the field of medical biotechnology in Europe.
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