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  • Lo studio ATHENA dimostra che dronedarone riduce del 24 per cento i ricoveri e i decessi cardiovascolari nei pazienti con fibrillazione atriale 17 May 2008 00:30 GMT
    ... saranno presentati alla sessione dei late breaking clinical trial di Heart Rhytm 2008, 29degrees Congresso ... TIMI Study Group al Brigham and Women's Hospital di Boston, Massachusetts (USA) e non coinvolto nello studio. >. ...

  • Analysis: First ladies in waiting 16 May 2008 23:38 GMT
    ... and public relations officer for Chicago University Hospitals. This weekend, all four Obamas will campaign in ... 1988 Democratic contender and then governor of Massachusetts, was targeted by the infamous “Willie Horton” ... her habit by stealing pills from a medical charity she had founded. She confessed to ...

  • Community Notes (May 15) 16 May 2008 23:25 GMT
    ... given to eye research institutions through the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund and to help ... caregivers receive specialized training based on a clinical assessment and Plan of Care. Linkages to ... help create a warm, welcoming atmosphere for hospital patients and visitors. Volunteer greeters are needed ...

  • Primary care shortage undermines the health of everyone in the U.S. 16 May 2008 23:17 GMT
    ... of potential problems ahead is seen in Massachusetts, which recently instituted universal coverage by way ... and one at the Group Health Factoria Medical Center -- have shown encouraging results. They appear ... number of specialized settings such as day-surgery clinics. Some have simply picked up the pace, ...

  • Xceed Molecular Features Ziplex Automated Gene-Expression System at the Biomarker World Congress, Booth 16 16 May 2008 22:24 GMT
    ... gene-expression biomarkers from basic science into routine clinical use for patient diagnostics) -- and the ... Bioinformatics Core, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. Zhe Zhang is also ... Toronto, Ontario, with executive offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts. For more information, visit CONTACT: Media, Caroline ...

  • Losing Thoroughbreds Killed at Racetrack 16 May 2008 21:53 GMT
    ... More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by lethal injection at a clinic tucked behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, chief ... Park on May 4, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Jim Rogash, Getty Images) New York Rangers ...

  • Carver woman who underwent lung transplant to join classmates at Stonehill graduation 16 May 2008 21:18 GMT
    ... Lindsay Briggs was in a Pittsburgh hospital bed less than three months ago, battling for her ... had been on a waiting list in Massachusetts — then Pennsylvania — for about a ... is take 14 pills — most anti-rejection medications — a day, undergo physical therapy twice ...

  • Sports notes (May 16) 16 May 2008 21:15 GMT
    ... educate, cultivate, and support life long personal health changes and improvements. The second, Shape Yourself ... June 23. Adults, choose one or more clinics, join a round robin or enroll in ... a Pedal Partner of the 29th annual Pan-Massachusetts Challenge. As a PMC Pedal Partner, Koufos ...

  • First Ladies in waiting: candidates' wives enter the calculations 16 May 2008 21:14 GMT
    ... and public relations officer for Chicago University Hospitals. This weekend, all four Obamas will campaign in ... 1988 Democratic contender and then governor of Massachusetts, was targeted by the infamous “Willie Horton” ... her habit by stealing pills from a medical charity she had founded. She confessed to ...

  • Street Tips: Market Review on Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 16 May 2008 20:59 GMT
    ... annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) on its Phase I clinical trial ... specializing in the emerging field of molecular medicine, applying innovations in the identification and targeting ... Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its website address is: www.molecularinsight.com. Streetinvesting.com ...

  • Streetinvesting.com: Market Review on Saba Software Inc. 16 May 2008 20:59 GMT
    ... led by the faculty and staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners AIDS Research Center, uses Saba ... Webcast, Dr. Raj Gandhi, director of HIV Clinical Services and Education at the Massachusetts General ...

  • Boston Scientific's SpyGlass(R) Direct Visualization System to Be Prominently Featured at Digestive Disease Week(R) 16 May 2008 20:37 GMT
    ... multi-center patient registry documenting the safety and clinical utility of the SpyGlass(R) Direct Visualization System ... Binmoeller, M.D., Interventional Endoscopy Services, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, and principal investigator in ... NewsBlaze, Tags: Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Health, massachusetts, california Boston Scientific`s SpyGlass(R) Direct Visualization System ...

  • New Data Support High Complete Remission Rates With VELCADE(R) (Bortezomib) for Injection Based Therapies in Patients Wi 16 May 2008 19:57 GMT
    ... today announced that new data from VELCADE clinical studies are scheduled to be featured at ... Trial -- Lead investigator: Jean-Luc Harousseau, M.D., Hospital Hotel-Dieu, Nantes, France -- Abstract #8505: Oral ... Tags: Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Health, , massachusetts New Data Support High Complete Remission Rates ...

  • Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval of New Heart Failure Lead 16 May 2008 19:57 GMT
    ... the heart through veins. "In the U.S. clinical trial, the ACUITY Spiral fixation design provided excellent ... a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a ... NewsBlaze, Tags: Tags: Healthcare, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, , massachusetts Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval of New ...

  • Losing Horses Killed at Puerto Rico Track 16 May 2008 19:53 GMT
    ... More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by lethal injection at a clinic tucked behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, chief ... Park on May 4, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Jim Rogash, Getty Images) New York Rangers ...

  • Xceed Molecular Features Ziplex(R) Automated Gene-Expression System at the Biomarker World Congress, 16 May 2008 19:51 GMT
    ... Englert and Dr. Zhe Zhang of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will present data at a ... gene-expression biomarkers from basic science into routine clinical use for patient diagnostics) -- and the ... Toronto, Ontario, with executive offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts. For more information, visit Xceed Molecular Copyright ...

  • Around Town: May 16 to 23 16 May 2008 19:30 GMT
    ... Partners HealthCare is a non-profit health system founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to its two academic medical centers, the Partners system includes community and specialty hospitals, community health centers, a physician network, ...

  • Xceed Molecular Features Ziplex(R) Automated Gene-Expression System at the Biomarker World Congress, Booth 16 16 May 2008 19:30 GMT
    ... gene-expression biomarkers from basic science into routine clinical use for patient diagnostics) -- and the ... Bioinformatics Core, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. Zhe Zhang is also ... Toronto, Ontario, with executive offices in Wellesley, Massachusetts. For more information, visit Copyright (C) 2008 ...

  • Partners net income dips in Q1 16 May 2008 19:26 GMT
    ... -- the state's largest group of hospitals -- reported a sizable drop in net income during ... rise. The care provider, whose network includes Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals, reported ... Partners noted the quarterly shortfall between federal Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements compared to annual costs. ...

  • Embryonic pathway delivers stem cell traits 16 May 2008 18:53 GMT
    ... characteristics, offering potentially major implications for regenerative medicine and for cancer treatment. Some cancer cells ... Kutok, pathologists at Bostons Brigham and Womens Hospital, Mani went on to study FOXC2 expression in normal ... is also a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One could imagine, for ...

  • Theratechnologies Explores Tesamorelin in Growth Hormone Deficient Abdominal Obesity 16 May 2008 17:20 GMT
    ... today a strategic agreement with both the Massachusetts General Hospital ("MGH") and Dr. Steven Grinspoon to explore ... Dr. Grinspoon, will sponsor and conduct a clinical trial with tesamorelin in subjects that have ...

  • Pete Stark endorses Obama 16 May 2008 15:46 GMT
    ... that he doesn't like mandates in universal health care." Stark, chairman of the House Ways ... that if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, both of whom are ... offered to build us a new county hospital — I was holding out — or ...

  • Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. To Present Interim Phase 1 Data at ASCO on Azedra in Malignant Pheochromocytoma/Paraganglioma Patients 16 May 2008 15:13 GMT
    ... specializing in the emerging field of molecular medicine, applying innovations in the identification and targeting ... Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its website address is: www.molecularinsight.com. Statements ... the progress, timing, cost, and results of clinical trials and product development programs; difficulties or delays ...

  • Dismantling Alzheimer's Disease: Small Molecule Can Take Apart Disease-Associated Protein Fibers 16 May 2008 13:34 GMT
    ... co-author Vernon Ingram, Shorter's collaborator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In a test ... University of Pennsylvania Health System includes three hospitals -- its flagship hospital, the Hospital of ... the nation's first hospital; and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center -- a faculty practice plan; a primary-care ...

  • Webcast to Showcase Saba Centra and The Hope Program--Globally Training Physicians in HIV Medicine 16 May 2008 13:33 GMT
    ... led by the faculty and staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners AIDS Research Center, uses Saba ... Webcast, Dr. Raj Gandhi, director of HIV Clinical Services and Education at the Massachusetts General ...

  • Antisoma plc (UK) - Antisoma to Acquire Boston-Based Xanthus Pharmaceuticals 16 May 2008 13:32 GMT
    ... in registration among seven drugs in the clinic * Linked fundraising of GBP 20.9 million gives the ... its current pipeline to address significant unmet medical need in oncology and autoimmune diseases. Xanthus ... autoimmune diseases. Xanthus is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional facility in Montreal, Quebec. ...

  • HIV Infection Stems from Few Viruses 16 May 2008 13:32 GMT
    ... Ph.D., professor in the UAB departments of Medicine and Microbiology and senior author on the ... the failure of a major HIV vaccine clinical trial. "We can now identify unambiguously those viruses ... Institute in New Mexico, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, the University of North Carolina, ...

  • BioVex to Report Phase II Clinical Trial Results of OncoVEX GM-CSF in Metastatic Melanoma at the 2008 American Society o 16 May 2008 13:31 GMT
    ... BioVex to Report Phase II Clinical Trial Results of OncoVEX GM-CSF in Metastatic ... Copyright © 2008, NewsBlaze, Tags: Tags: Biotechnology, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, , Health, massachusetts, illinois BioVex to Report Phase II Clinical ...

  • Dean-Lopez admits to lying about injuring baby 16 May 2008 13:30 GMT
    ... unresponsive. Then he called 911. At the hospital, doctors determined the baby's brain was bleeding, ... life in death at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Dean-Lopez admitted he left the hospital and ...

  • Trial closes in baby-abuse case 16 May 2008 13:30 GMT
    ... Dean-Lopez called Jean Armstrong and then dialed 911. Zoie was taken to a local hospital and then flown to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Even as Zoie hovered between life in death at the UMass Medical ...

  • Greater Lowell health experts sound alarm: 'Super bug' can kill 16 May 2008 12:36 GMT
    ... Sidebottom, an infection-control consultant at Lowell General Hospital and Saints Medical Center. "It's a different strain (from staph in ... people infected in 2005, 18,000 died. In Massachusetts, about 500 people were killed by MRSA ...

  • Bay State jobless rate is lowest in seven years 16 May 2008 12:36 GMT
    ... BOSTON -- The unemployment rate in Massachusetts has dipped to its lowest level in ... March. Gains were seen in educational and health care services, which remains the fastest-growing sector ... state. Declines were seen in leisure and hospitality, which showed big gains the month before; ...

  • Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. To Present Interim Phase 1 Data at ASCO on Azedra(TM) in Malignant Pheochromocytoma/Paraganglioma Patients 16 May 2008 12:33 GMT
    ... specializing in the emerging field of molecular medicine, applying innovations in the identification and targeting ... Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its website address is: Statements in ... the progress, timing, cost, and results of clinical trials and product development programs; difficulties or delays ...

  • Beverly Hospital doctors vote 'no confidence' in Laverty 16 May 2008 11:32 GMT
    ... Beverly Hospital doctors vote 'no confidence' in Laverty BEVERLY ... surgeries. It drew formal protests from the Massachusetts Nurses Association and prompted an investigation and ... successes, including opening a wound center, pain clinic, a center for senior adults, a new ...

  • The GI Company Reports Significant Reduction in Occurrence of Oral Mucositis in Phase II Study; Abstract Posted Online a 16 May 2008 11:29 GMT
    ... today reported that the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) published an abstract containing a ... 2008, NewsBlaze, Tags: Tags: Financial Services, , Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, massachusetts The GI Company Reports Significant Reduction in ...


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