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International Journal of Emergency Medicine

The road to death or differentiation follows a similar course in embryonic stem cells, said researchers at Baylor College of medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the journal Cell Stem Cell. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

Finbarr Cotter, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Barts and The London School of medicine, today presented in an oral session 'Clinical Caspase Activation in CLL by GCS-100: a Phase 2 Study' at the 10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (10-ICML).

The Society of Hospital medicine (SHM) unveiled its Hospital medicine 2008 video archives. Over 40 video presentations from the Society's 2008 Annual Meeting, held this past April in San Diego, are available online.

Axxonis Pharma AG announces the submission of a marketing authorisation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for Nenad(R) (lisuride transdermal patch as add-on therapy for Parkinson's Disease and for Restless Legs Syndrome, and subcutaneous (sc) lisuride infusion fo

Data published in this week's New England Journal of medicine demonstrate that the first-in-class direct renin inhibitor Rasilez® (aliskiren), known as Tekturna® in the US, may have potential kidney-protective benefits that are independent of its already proven ability to provide powerful blood pressure reductions1,3. Damage to the kidneys caused by diabetes is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease in developed countries, affecting more than 1.

In many resource-poor countries, infants born to mothers with HIV receive a single dose of nevirapine (NVP) and a one-week dose of zidovudine (ZDV) to prevent transmission of HIV from the mother to her newborn. The results of a randomized trial led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health and the University of Malawi College of medicine found that extending the routine antiretroviral regimen can significantly reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a drug development company focused on seeking to develop the next generation of proprietary targeted medicines for cancer treatment, announced that a presentation entitled, 'A First-in-Human, First-in-Class, Phase I Study of Systemic Hedgehog Pathway Antagonist, GDC-0449, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors,' was given by Patricia LoRusso, D. O., yesterday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.

Sun exposure and vitamin D levels may play a strong role in risk of type 1 diabetes in children, according to new findings by researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Department of Family and Preventive medicine. This association comes on the heels of similar research findings by this same group regarding vitamin D levels and several major cancers.

(Boston University) Researchers from Boston University School of medicine have found that primary care visits reduce hospital utilization among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. The recently published study appears in the Journal of General Internal medicine.