LA BioMed Researchers Among Southern California Super Doctors In a statewide survey of medical professionals, 38 physician-scientists from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) are honored for being among Southern California Super Doctors, according to the December issue of Los Angeles magazine. Key Professional Media, Inc.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBayer Announces Upcoming Presentations Of Campath(R) And Leukine(R) Data At The 50th Annual Meeting Of The American Society Of Hematology Bayer
HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that data on Campath(R) (alemtuzumab) and Leukine(R) (sargramostim) will be presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) from December 6-9, 2008 in San Francisco, California.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGenVec Announces Multiple Presentations At The American Society Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene Meeting GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC) announced that the company will present on GenVec's malaria vaccine program at the American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 57th Annual Meeting, which will take place in New Orleans, LA on December 7-11, 2008. Two presentations, highlighting research conducted in this program, will be given by GenVec scientists.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFRC: New Mental Health Studies Dispel Myth That Abortion Is A 'Non-Event' Two new studies out this week add to the body of research evidence clearly showing again that abortion is associated with increased risk of adverse mental
health effects. The two peer-reviewed papers were published in the British Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of Psychiatric Research. Both had strong methodology and controls for confounding or alternate variables.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOrexigen(R) Therapeutics Announces Changes To Its Clinical Programs And Management Team Orexigen(R) Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) announced changes to conserve the Company's resources, focus its efforts on its late-stage obesity programs and realign its management team.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMobile Phones Affect Memory In Laboratory Animals Can radiation from cell phones affect the memory? Yes, at least it does so in rat experiments at the Division of Neurosurgery, Lund University, in Sweden. Henrietta Nittby studied rats that were exposed to mobile phone radiation for two hours a week for more than a year. These rats had poorer results on a memory test than rats that had not been exposed to radiation.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNIH Grant Awarded To Jefferson Researcher Studying Antiepileptic Seizure Medications. Scott Mintzer, M.D.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWyeth Submits European Marketing Authorization Application For Its 13-Valent Vaccine For The Prevention Of Pneumococcal Disease Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), announced that it has submitted a marketing authorization application (MAA) to the European
Medicines Agency (EMEA) for approval to market its investigational 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) for infants and young children.
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