Friday, September 30th, 2011
A Phase I human study using a vaccine called MVA-B has achieved an immunological response in 92% of healthy volunteers against HIV, with 85% of them maintaining immunity for at least 12 months. Researchers from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas (CSIC), Madrid, Gregorio Marañón Hospital, Madrid and ClÃnic Hospital, ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
A report in the September 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals shows that diabetics who visit a primary care clinician twice a month have greater control of blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. As per background information in the article, diabetes has ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
According to an investigation in the September 26 issue of Archives of internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, results from a survey of primary care physicians in the U.S. have revealed that several physicians believe their own patients are receiving too much medical care, and several believe that malpractice ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
According to an investigation published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, one of JAMA/Archives journals, hip fracture is connected with an increase in short-term mortality (death within one year) for women between the ages of 65 to 79 years and for healthy women aged 80 years and over, however ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
The September issue of the journals Clinical Cancer Research and Cancer Research published OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: OGXI) announcement of new data from its Phase II clinical and a pre-clinical study of custirsen (OGX-011/TV-1011), a drug that inhibits the production of clusterin, which is a protein commonly over-produced in cancer ...
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