The death of former President Ronald Reagan has focused new attention on Alzheimer's research, which is flagging, except for a new imaging clinical trial expected to begin this fall. The National Institute on Aging NIA, which is the NIH's leading funder of Alzheimer's clinical research, has set aside $40 million...
Lockheed's $1.2B contract Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, the world's largest defense contractor, announced it received a $1.2 billion contract from the Transportation Security Administration to manage its Integrated Hiring Operations and Personnel program. Under the potential eight- year contract, Lockheed Martin will...
- The US National Cancer Institute NCI of the National Institutesof Health NIH extends cooperation with GENEART once again- Contract volume increases by USD 0.8M- Overall, NIH have placed orders with GENEART totaling USD 2.7M in2008 as part of the MGC program- The extension ...
Conformia, the market leader of product andprocess lifecycle management PPLM solutions for life sciences, todayannounced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's FDA Office ofPharmaceutical Sciences OPS has asked the Company to expand itsCooperative Research and Development Study CRADA focusing on process andproduct development to 25 companies. The...
Given extensive concerns about body weight and health, there are various efforts of several federal agencies, public and private organizations, which are working toward decreasing obesity. Most recently, research by Richard Weisinger, an associate professor in psychology, and other scientists from La Trobe, Deakin University and the Howard Florey Institute...
Mechelen, Belgium; 30 June 2008 - Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG)announces today that its service division BioFocus DPI will providecompound management and related services to Sepracor Inc. (NASDAQ: SEPR), a leader in respiratory and central nervous...
EAST SETAUKET, N.Y., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lixte Biotechnology Holdings (BULLETIN BOARD: LIXT) announced today that the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS, National Institutes of Health NIH and Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. extended their Cooperative Research and Development Agreement CRADA to...
CAGW's Pork PatrolSM takes a closer look at fiscal 2009 Homeland Security pork WASHINGTON -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW today released its preliminary analysis of the House version of the Fiscal 2009 Department of Homeland Security DHS Appropriations Act. There are 85 projects for...
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Without Increased Funding, the State's Dominance and Public Health are Threatened LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The California Healthcare Institute CHI and PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC today released a report, "The National Institutes of Health: Fueling Healthcare Innovation in California," urging legislators to support increased funding for the...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- OxyBand Technologies Inc., San Francisco, has hired Dr. Olivier Postel to lead the company's bio-medical technology development and expand the company's intellectual property portfolio. OxyBand develops innovative therapeutic gas technology for health, cosmetic and consumer care. The company's inaugural device...
SAN DIEGO -- Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN), developer of in vitro diagnostic products, announced today it has been awarded a new $10.4 million, two-year contract from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC to develop a multi-analyte molecular diagnostic assay for Influenza. This new contract...
A Quarter Century Developing Chiropractic Science Twenty-five years ago, there was not much chiropractic science, at least not that you could easily point to or get your hands on. In my view, the progress we have made since then has been remarkable and historically notable. The...
On April 7, 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy was implemented. The policy covers access to research information funded by the National Institute of Health NIH and requires investigators to submit an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed, accepted manuscripts to the National Library of Medicine's NLM PubMed Central....
WASHINGTON AFP — The US National Institutes of Health has launched a new clinical research program that will try to unlock the mysteries behind diseases that baffle the medical community. The infrastructure for the Undiagnosed Diseases Program was put in place last month and it will begin to...
Nuclear power plants, aircraft carriers, hospitals: For PETER PRONOVOST, a critical care doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, operating such establishments safely is as much about systems as it is about skill. In his work as a doctor and safety expert, Pronovost...
Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disorder affecting more than 750,000 people in the United States alone. The disease is characterized by destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas by an individual's own immune system. Insulin is an essential component required to regulate the blood levels...
THE FDA AND the NIH have agreed to develop a harmonized adverse event AE reporting mechanism for consumers, health professionals, investigators, sponsors and other parties to electronically submit reports. The project is aimed at developing a "Rational Questionnaire" and electronic prototype system for reporting. The questionnaire is intended to...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From attracting new customers through the introduction of fresh product offerings to funding grants for medical research, there are many ways for a franchise system to enhance its visibility in any industry by forming strategic partnerships with the...
Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (East Setauket, NY) and its collaborator, the Surgical Neurology Branch SNB, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS, National Institutes of Health NIH, reported that its lead compound LB-1, one of a patent-pending proprietary series of agents, has...
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