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• Phase Forward to Present at the 21st Annual Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference

  
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  WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Phase Forward (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced its chairman an
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• The Honor Roll: Staff Picks

  
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  Welcome to The Honor Roll! In this feature, we’ll be doing even more to help you discover some of the best music and video OurStage has to offer. From recent winners to staff picks to diamonds in the rough, what you’ll find here are killer playlists and major shout-outs. Today we’re bringing you our staff ...
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• Exciting model: AIDS treatment at home by lay counsellors gets good results

  
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  A new Ugandan study offers great hope for people with AIDS in rural areas in Africa needing antiretroviral treatment. The trial tested a model in which lay-trained counsellors, not doctors or nurses, treated people at home – and they were as healthy as the patients being treated in clinics. The cluster randomised ...
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• New class of drugs nips cancer growth in the bud

  
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  Sydney, Nov 26 (IANS) Scientists have discovered a new class of drugs that practically nips lung cancer regrowth.In pre-clinical trials, it was found that the new drug stays active for a long time, preventing tumour regrowth. The researchers are not sure why yet, but it may be attacking the tumour’s stem ...
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• Ohr Pharmaceutical Data Review Supports The Strong Potential Of Its Lead Drug OHR/AVR118 For Cachexia

  
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  Ohr Pharmaceutical Inc. (OTCBB: OHRP) is developing OHR/AVR118 for treatment of cachexia based on technology acquired earlier this year from Advanced Viral Research Corp. OHR/AVR118 has shown excellent therapeutic efficacy and safety in human clinical trials in over 100 patients with applications for cachexia in ...
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• New Oxytocin Trials Recruiting

  
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  Most of us should be able to increase our oxytocin bypracticing comfortable behaviors, which may be as simple as calling a goodfriend or going to the dog park and scratching some ears. But I know thattheres strong interest in some kind of drug we could take to either amplifyour natural oxytocin or to experience the ...
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• UF part of nationwide trials to test H1N1 vaccine in women, children, youth with HIV

  
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  The University of Florida Center for HIV/AIDS Research is taking part in national clinical trials of the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine among children, youth and pregnant women who are infected with HIV. The trials’ aim is to determine how well higher-than-usual doses of the vaccine trigger a protective immune ...
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• Novartis Parts Ways with Idera Pharma

  
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  Life Sciences , deals , Asthma Ryan McBride wrote: Idera Pharmaceuticals said this morning that it’s losing one of its three key Big Pharma partners. Swiss drug giant Novartis has told Cambridge, MA-based Idera (NASDAQ: IDRA ) that it will terminate their four-year-old collaboration to develop drugs ...
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
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  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• Medifacts Inks $1.6 Million Diabetes Study with Top Five Pharmaceutical Company

  
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  ROCKVILLE, Md. & LANGENFELD, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MEDIFACTS INTERNATIONAL, INC. one of the largest global providers of noninvasive cardiac diagnostic services today announced
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• Medifacts Inks $1.6 Million Diabetes Study with Top Five Pharmaceutical Company

  
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  ROCKVILLE, Md. & LANGENFELD, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MEDIFACTS INTERNATIONAL, INC. one of the largest global providers of noninvasive cardiac diagnostic services today announced
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• India to develop swine flu vaccine by 2010: Azad

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) India would be able to indigenously develop swine flu vaccine by June next year, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told parliament Tuesday.“Three companies are working towards developing indigenous vaccine for the swine flu and it is expected that clinical trials would start in January 2010. ...
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• Oxagen Limited Raises £16 Million in Series C Private Venture Capital Financing Led by Novartis Venture Funds

  
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  ABINGDON, UK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Oxagen Limited, a drug discovery and development company specializing in inflammation, announced today the successful completion of a £16 Million ($
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• Why circumcision cuts HIV risk

  
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  Washington, Nov 24 (ANI): Circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection in men, but this link cannot be explained by a reduction in sores from conditions such as herpes, according to a new research. Two clinical trials including more than 5,000 men in rural Uganda had shown that circumcision reduced the risk of HIV ...
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• Covance Partners with RBM to Extend Biomarker Offering

  
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  According to this article in outsourcing-pharma.com Covance will outsource biomarker activities to Rules Based Medicine, which is a US based laboratory group. Demand for biomarker services and the use of biomarker analysis in clinical trials has increased dramatically, and so this couldnt come at a better time. ...
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• Cytheris Announces Initiation of NCI/NIH-Sponsored Phase I/IIa Clinical Study of Tumor Vaccination and Interleukin-7 (IL-7) in Patients with High Risk Pediatric Solid Tumors

  
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  PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cytheris SA, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on research and development of new therapies for immune modulation, today announced the ini
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• Headline Commentary Nov 9-22

  
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  »  Linda Peitzman, CMO of Wolters Kluwer Health, on Practicing EBM with Order Sets Very good article by Linda Peitzman, MD, CMO (Medical) of Wolters Kluwer Health on benefits of order sets. Article provides some detail on how to implement order sets to ensure everyone receives latest most current version. Note, ...
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• ACT Seeks hESC Clinical Trial

  
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  Advanced Cell Technology has become the second U.S. company to seek permission to begin clinical trials for a therapy based on human embryonic stem cells.The Santa Monica, Ca., firm said yesterday that it has applied to the FDA to start trials aimed at reversing vision loss with retinal cells created from the stem ...
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• PI3K Pathway: A Potential Ovarian Cancer Therapeutic Target?

  
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  …[T]here are several PI3K signaling pathway targeting drugs in clinical development for use against ovarian cancer and solid tumors, including GDC-0941, BEZ235, SF1126, XL-147, XL-765, BGT226, and PX-866.  The results of two recent medical studies suggest that the use of PI3K-targeted therapies may offer an ...
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• Failed antidepressant is female viagra

  
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  A ‘female Viagra’ that works on the pleasure centre of a woman’s brain to restore flagging libido could be on sale within two years. Women who take flibanserin once a day have sex more often and enjoy it more, large-scale trials have shown. The pill proved so popular that its German manufacturers are poised to ...
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