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Physorg (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has asked for a commitment from the Obama administration and the European Union to further the Society's mission to achieve the development of 10 new antibiotics within the next 10 years, known as the 10 x '20 Initiative. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified antimicrobial resistance as one of the three greatest threats to human health....
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and NOIDA, India, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jubilant Organosys, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and Southern Research Institute today announced a joint venture that will focus on leveraging their collective innovation and enabling technologies in the areas of Oncology, Metabolic Disease and Infectious Diseases. It is a unique U.S.-India arbitraged and leveraged...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A leading association of clinicians on Monday accused an "anti-vaccination movement" of breeding suspicion about the (A)H1N1 swine flu vaccine in Europe and declared public health and lives were at risk. The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) said it was worried by the slow rate of vaccination in some European countries.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
There is evidence that a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread from person to person in a South Wales hospital in the UK and it appears that some of them acquired the illness while in hospital. The National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) announced on Friday that five patients at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff have been diagnosed with swine flu resistant to Oseltamivir...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A special edition of UNICEF's annual State of the World's Children report, released 20 years after the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, shows that "fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school - but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development," the
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Infectious Diseases Society of America has asked for a commitment from the Obama administration and the European Union to further the Society's mission to achieve the development of 10 new antibiotics within the next 10 years, known as the 10 x '20 Initiative. The World Health Organization has identified antimicrobial resistance as one of the three greatest threats to human health.
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
( EMAILWIRE.COM , November 21, 2009 ) Dallas, TX - GeoGlobal Resources Inc. (AMEX:GGR) went up 51.11% to $2.72. The stock hit an intraday high and an intraday low of $3.04 and $1.75 respectively. In the last six months the stock went up over 126%. GeoGlobal Resources Inc. is an independent energy company focused on the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas reserves in India....
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- An urgent need for new medicines to treat neglected infectious diseases in the developing world has prompted a growing number of collaborations among academic researchers, non-profit product development partnerships (PDPs), and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. As noted today in a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
"Industry/public sector product development collaborations are one of the success stories for the developing world, as biopharmaceutical companies are discovering that investment in global health R&D is consistent with their broader commercial strategies," observed Dr. Christopher D. Earl, former chief executive officer of BIO Ventures for Global Health, who organized the symposium. "The...
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
( EMAILWIRE.COM , November 21, 2009 ) Dallas, TX - BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCRX) plunges 8.17% to $9.55 after the company yesterday announced pricing of a public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at $9.75 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $48.75 million. All of the shares are being offered by BioCryst pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement previously...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
PR Newswire : An emerging body of evidence suggests that the changing global climate is already affecting infectious disease transmission patterns. As noted today in a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), such changes are expected to have a profound impact on global public health. "There is concrete evidence that the global climate...
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LifeBridge Health Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I was recently interviewed by Philip and Lisa Mulford for this week's episode of their audio show, Communication 360 . From the episode description : Every day [swine flu] is in the news, often with conflicting information. Even the medical community is inconsistent. So what do you do? And more importantly what is the best decision for your child? Having already experienced the H1N1 with both their...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RemedyMD (www.RemedyMD.com), the leading provider of disease registry software, today announced the first nationwide human immunology registry for infectious disease research. The new registry was developed to help clinicians and researchers better understand the human immune response to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Details about the registry: http://www.remedymd.com/cer100/human_immunology.html...
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
# 4056 From Mike Stobbe , medical writer for the AP, we get this news report about 4 people in North Carolina who have tested positive for a Tamiflu resistant strain of the H1N1 virus. First the story and then a few comments about reports of mutations and such. I’ve just printed a small excerpt, follow the link to read the full story. Associated Press Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported...
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bharatbook | 11/09/2009
Point of Care Diagnostics 2010 and Beyond: Rapid Testing at a Crossroads report represents the most current analysis of the role of Point of Care Diagnostics in today's in vitro industry. Other reports have looked at products, companies and market forecasts, as this report does. But in her analysis Shara Rosen takes a bold look into the markets, technologies, and trends in decentralized testing with
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switbd | 10/19/2009
The fact that they eat a lot – and often – may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, showed that the elevated body temperature of mammals
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aarkstore | 09/30/2009
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), six infectious diseases—pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS—account for half of all premature deaths worldwide, killing mostly children and young adults. What’s more, threatening pandemics such as swine flu (H1N1 influenza A virus) are adding significant pressure to already strained healthcare budgets of governments...
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