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Increased Capacity For Porcine Liver Esterase

Lee Biosolutions has increased its capacity to an industrial scale of over 150 million units per batch size. Lee Biosolutions supplies Porcine Liver Esterase and other stable high purity enzymes and related proteins to major diagnostic companies used in urine tests as an indicator of blood or urine infection. Porcine liver esterase is also used [...]

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Awareness Grows For Travel Health Insurance Needs

If you are suffering from a serious medical condition during your trip, you will need immediate attention. While visiting the United States, you must take a visitor or travel health insurance plan in order to secure yourself during the trip. You cannot predict when you might have a medical emergency and may even be in [...]

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Maryland Tax Records Are Scoured for SCHIP-Eligibles

Health officials in Maryland are working with state Comptroller Peter Franchot to identify children eligible for, but not enrolled in, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The comptroller’s office will use state income tax records to locate families whose incomes qualify their children for enrollment. The heads of eligible households will then be notified [...]

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AMA Lobbies for Changes to Health Care in New Hampshire

The American Medical Association (AMA) has been promoting a reform plan in the state of New Hampshire that it says would help improve the state’s health care system. Analysts are offering mixed reviews of the plan, with some calling it %26quot;a very good step%26quot; for the AMA and for New Hampshire, and others criticizing it [...]

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Advair Provides Benefits For African American Patients With Asthma

African American patients with asthma treated with Advair Diskus, a combination of the long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) salmeterol and the inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) fluticasone propionate, had a lower rate of exacerbations when compared with patients who received treatment with the ICS Flovent Diskus (fluticasone propionate inhalation powder) alone, although the difference was not statistically significant. Patients [...]

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Heat Alert Issued For Sarnia-Lambton

A HEAT ALERT has been issued for Sarnia-Lambton by the Medical Officer of Health for Lambton County based on the latest Environment Canada. The alert is due to a combination of high heat and high humidity (greater than 40oC) that can be hazardous to your health. Dr. Chris Greensmith, (A) Medical Officer of Health for [...]

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Fastest Ever Treatment For Cancer Patients

New figures published today show that cancer patients in Wales are receiving treatment faster than ever before. Statistics for the first quarter of 2008 show that 98 per cent of patients referred by their GP as urgent suspected cancer cases started treatment within two months. They also show that 99 per cent of patients referred [...]

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eHealth Initiative Releases Guides For Rapid Expansion Of Electronic Prescribing

A new report indicates more than 35 million prescription transactions were sent electronically in 2007, a 170 percent increase over the previous year. The report, “Electronic Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream Practice,” offers a detailed examination of the progress made, obstacles that remain, and recommendations for helping the nation’s prescribers migrate from paper-based prescriptions to an electronic [...]

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Rural, Unmarried Women At Higher Risk For Depression

Mayo Clinic research suggests unmarried women living in rural areas have lower self-rated health status than their married counterparts. This lower health status often includes greater instances of self-assessed feelings of depression. The results of the study were recently published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. They suggest that primary care physicians should [...]

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APD125 Trial For Insomnia Treatment Shows Positive Results

Dr. Thomas Roth of Henry Ford Hospital presented data from Arena’s positive Phase 2a clinical trial of APD125 for the treatment of insomnia in an oral presentation at the SLEEP 2008 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Baltimore, Maryland. APD125 is an oral drug candidate discovered by Arena that is being [...]

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Insulin May Not Be Need For Some For Type 2 Diabetes

Some patients with type 2 diabetes can control their disease for years yet avoid insulin injections by using multiple classes of oral diabetic medications, a new study found. The results were presented Sunday, June 15, at The Endocrine Society’s 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Findings from the study contradict common beliefs about non-insulin diabetic [...]

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HUMIRA Effective With Combination Treatment For Rheumatoid

Seven-year rheumatoid arthritis (RA) data from open-label extension studies show that treatment with Abbott’s HUMIRA (adalimumab) resulted in clinical remission among long-standing RA patients when used in combination with methotrexate (MTX). The percentage of patients achieving clinical remission continued to increase after two or more years of continuous treatment with combination therapy. These data were [...]

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