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March 12, 2010
Omni Bio Pharmaceutical, Inc. (“Omni Bio”) (OTCBB: OMBP) announced that its acting Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Charles A. Dinarello, will moderate a panel at the 8th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation and Sepsis (“TSIS”) (http://www.tsis2010.org) in Munich, Germany on Friday, March 12, 2010. The panel on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (“AAT”) as a Novel Therapeutic in Inflammatory Diseases will feature the following presentations: “Introduction and Background for AAT Safety in Humans and Experimental Models of AAT Protection,” by Dr…
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March 12, 2010
The majority of new cancer tests coming to market are proprietary assays with the test services being provided by certified labs opened by the IVD companies that developed the tests. All the major reference labs in North America and Europe are also offering a slew of in-house developed diagnostic tests. This shift is leading to greater profits for those companies offering test services, notes healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information in its new report “The Worldwide Market for Cancer Diagnostics, 4th Edition.” Test services are not a new business model…
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March 12, 2010
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled Friday that votes on a health care overhaul could come by the end of next week. Politico: During a Friday meeting with Democratic members, Pelosi told lawmakers to “clear their schedules for next weekend.” She also promised “to stay in session until the landmark vote, people present said afterwards.” Speculation continues that Pelosi doesn’t yet have the votes lined up to pass a reform bill, but that she’s close. “In addition, it looks like House Democrats won’t have to vote directly on a Senate bill they really don’t like. The speaker hasn’t made a final decision, but she told her… Continue reading
March 12, 2010
Roll Call: After initially indicating ”the Senate-passed health reform bill must be signed into law before Congress acts on companion reconciliation legislation, the Senate Parliamentarian has acknowledged that there are perhaps ways to draft a reconciliation measure that could move first.” But, if Democrats choose to pursue this approach, “they likely would have to narrow the scope of the reconciliation bill.” The Parliamentarian has noted that moving a broad reconciliation measure without the Senate measure first being signed into law “could create challenging procedural hurdles for Senate Democrats.” This week, Senate GOP leadership received word from the Parliamentarian’s office that… Continue reading
March 12, 2010
The government warned Friday that those chic baby slings that hip moms and dads are sporting these days can be dangerous, even deadly for their little ones. Go to Source… Continue reading
March 12, 2010
There are some harsh words for Democrats trying to overhaul health care in the Washinton Post this morning.
Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears possible, Democrats will face the brunt of the electorate’s reaction. If it passes, however, Democrats will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. Wishing, praying or pretending will not change these outcomes.
Such rhetoric is common coming from Republicans these days, but this is different. The broadside comes in an opinion piece from Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen, pollsters for the last two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and… Continue reading
March 12, 2010
Most youngsters grow out of having otherwise unexplained bone and muscle aches known as growing pains, researchers from Israel report.
Of 35 children who originally had growing pains, Dr. Yosef Uziel, at Meir Medical Center in Kfar-Saba, and co-investigators found that 18—or 51 percent—no longer had growing pains 5 years later, when they were about 13 years old.
Fourteen of the 17 who still had growing pains after 5 years said their episodes had decreased and become milder, the researchers report in The Journal of Pediatrics. Go to Source… Continue reading
March 12, 2010
A $6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has funded the creation of ORBIT: Obesity Related Behavioral Intervention Trials to focus on reducing obesity and obesity-related deaths in New York City’s African-American and Latino communities.
“African-Americans and Latinos have been disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, and its related risks for diabetes and heart disease,” says Dr. Mary Charlson, the center’s director, the William T. Foley Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and chief of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluative Sciences Research in the Department of Medicine and executive director of… Continue reading
