17 Nov 08 Enrollment In EMERALD 1 Complete, 3rd Of 4 Phase 3 Clinical Trials Of Hematide™ To Treat Anemia In Chronic Renal Failure Patients
Affymax, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFY) today announced that enrollment has been completed in EMERALD 1, one of its Phase 3 clinical trials of its lead investigational therapy, Hematide™, which is being evaluated for the treatment of anemia in chronic renal failure patients. EMERALD 1 includes over 800 dialysis patients from over 90 sites in the United States.
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Tags: Affy, Anemia, Chronic Renal Failure, Clinical Trials, Dialysis Patients, Emerald, Failure Patients, Hematide, Lead, Nasdaq, Phase 3, Treatment Failure, Treatment Of Anemia, United States
17 Nov 08 Enrollment In EMERALD 1 Complete, 3rd Of 4 Phase 3 Clinical Trials Of Hematide™ To Treat Anemia In Chronic Renal Failure Patients
Affymax, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFY) today announced that enrollment has been completed in EMERALD 1, one of its Phase 3 clinical trials of its lead investigational therapy, Hematide™, which is being evaluated for the treatment of anemia in chronic renal failure patients. EMERALD 1 includes over 800 dialysis patients from over 90 sites in the United States.
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Tags: Affy, Anemia, Chronic Renal Failure, Clinical Trials, Dialysis Patients, Emerald, Failure Patients, Hematide, Nasdaq, Phase 3, Treatment Failure, Treatment Of Anemia, United States
15 Nov 08 A New Way To Predict Outbreaks: Replikin Peptide Concentration In H5N1 Influenza Virus Genome As A Marker For Lethal Outbreaks
WHO and CDC have stated that the predictive accuracy of their annual formulations for human influenza vaccines is “suboptimal” — often correct less than 50% of the time, especially for seniors. Perhaps in part because we are not yet accurate in our predictions of upcoming influenza strains, approximately 36,000 people die each year of flu in the United States alone.
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Tags: Cdc, Concentration, Flu, Influenza, Influenza Strains, Influenza Vaccines, Influenza Virus, Marker, Peptide, Predictive Accuracy, Seniors, United States, Virus Genome
15 Nov 08 A New Way To Predict Outbreaks: Replikin Peptide Concentration In H5N1 Influenza Virus Genome As A Marker For Lethal Outbreaks
WHO and CDC have stated that the predictive accuracy of their annual formulations for human influenza vaccines is “suboptimal” — often correct less than 50% of the time, especially for seniors. Perhaps in part because we are not yet accurate in our predictions of upcoming influenza strains, approximately 36,000 people die each year of flu in the United States alone.
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Tags: Cdc, Concentration, Flu, Influenza, Influenza Strains, Influenza Vaccines, Influenza Virus, Marker, Peptide, Predictive Accuracy, Seniors, United States, Virus Genome
14 Nov 08 A New Way To Predict Outbreaks: Replikin Peptide Concentration In H5N1 Influenza Virus Genome As A Marker For Lethal Outbreaks
WHO and CDC have stated that the predictive accuracy of their annual formulations for human influenza vaccines is “suboptimal” — often correct less than 50% of the time, especially for seniors. Perhaps in part because we are not yet accurate in our predictions of upcoming influenza strains, approximately 36,000 people die each year of flu in the United States alone.
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Tags: Cdc, Concentration, Flu, Influenza, Influenza Strains, Influenza Vaccines, Influenza Virus, Marker, Peptide, Predictive Accuracy, Seniors, United States, Virus Genome
14 Nov 08 ‘Airport Malaria’ A Cause For Concern In The US
In a global world, significant factors affect the spread of infectious diseases, including international trade, air travel and globalized food production. “Airport malaria” is a term coined by researchers to explain the more recent spread of malaria to areas such as the United States and Europe, which some scientists credit to warmer climate changes.
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Tags: Air Travel, Climate Changes, Europe, Food Production, Global World, Infectious Diseases, International Trade, Malaria, Scientists, United States
14 Nov 08 65-Year Old Gunshot Victim Received Complex Procedure To Avoid Life-Threatening Ulcers
In what is believed to be the first time in the United States, a nerve transfer was performed on a paraplegic to relieve life-threatening pressure ulcers - a common side effect associated with wheelchair-bound patients. The surgery took place on November 11, 2008, at Monmouth County Medical Center, and was performed by a team of medical professionals led by Dr. Andrew Elkwood, M.D. of the Plastic Surgery Center in Shrewsbury, NJ.
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Tags: County Medical Center, Dr Andrew, Elkwood, Gunshot Victim, Medical Professionals, Monmouth County, Nerve, November 11, Paraplegic, Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery Center, Pressure Ulcers, United States, Wheelchair
10 Nov 08 Increases in imaging tests widespread: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of diagnostic imaging tests in the United States has increased across the board in recent years, with more patients getting the tests and more tests being ordered per patient, researchers said on Monday.
Tags: Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Tests, Reuters, United States
10 Nov 08 Leprosy: Forgotten, But Not Gone
Long believed to be a disease of biblical times, leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, continues to be seen in the United States. “Approximately 150 cases are diagnosed each year with 3,000 people in the U.S. currently being treated for leprosy, says James Krahenbuhl, Ph.D., director of the Health Resources Service Administration’s National Hansen’s Disease Program (NHDP) in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Tags: Baton Rouge, Health Resources, Krahenbuhl, Leprosy, National Hansen, Nhdp, Resources Service, Service Administration, United States
10 Nov 08 Increases in imaging tests widespread: U.S. study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of diagnostic imaging tests in the United States has increased across the board in recent years, with more patients getting the tests and more tests being ordered per patient, researchers said on Monday.
Tags: Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Tests, Reuters, United States
08 Nov 08 Domestic Violence A Growing Problem For Veterans
“The increasing number of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) raises the risk of domestic violence and its consequences on families and children in communities across the United States,” says Monica Matthieu, Ph.D., an expert on veteran mental health and an assistant professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. “Treatments for domestic violence are very different than those for PTSD.
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Tags: Assistant Professor, Consequences, Domestic Violence, Matthieu, Mental Health, Monica, Posttraumatic Stress, Ptsd, Risk, Social Work, Stress Disorder, United States, Washington University In St Louis
06 Nov 08 Breast Cancer Prevention Strategies In The United States Examined By Review
A new review outlines potential pharmaceutical, dietary, surgical, and other approaches to reducing the risk of breast cancer among women in the United States, and examines the evidence for specific recommendations. The review says risk reduction strategies for women at average risk of breast cancer should focus primarily on lifestyle factors.
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Tags: Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Prevention, Focus, Lifestyle Factors, Pharmaceutical, Prevention Strategies, Risk Reduction Strategies, Risk Strategies, United States
06 Nov 08 Latino Health Is Focus Of New HIV-Reduction Initiative
Education has found its way onto the soccer fields of North Carolina - in the form of a social experiment that may have all the right ingredients to change the direction of Latino health in the United States. Despite overall advances in medical care and treatment, Latinos with HIV in the United States have higher mortality rates than whites, a medical fact especially significant in North Carolina, which has one of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the country.
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Tags: Direction, Education, Focus, Health New, Hiv, Latino Populations, Latinos, Medical Care, Medical Fact, Mortality Rates, North Carolina, Reduction Initiative, Soccer Fields, Social Experiment, United States
05 Nov 08 Wart virus caused 25,000 cancers a year: CDC (Reuters)
Reuters - The human wart virus HPV caused 25,000 cases of cancer a year in the United States between 1998 and 2003, including not only cervical cancer but also anal and mouth cancers, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
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Tags: Anal, Cdc, Centers For Disease Control, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Cervical Cancer, Disease Control And Prevention, Human Virus, Human Wart Virus, Mouth Cancers, Reuters, United States, Virus Hpv
05 Nov 08 Many biological medicines draw safety warnings (Reuters)
Reuters - About a quarter of biological medicines approved in the United States and Europe since 1995 have triggered safety warnings in the years after entering the market, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
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Tags: Biological Safety, Dutch Researchers, Europe, Medicines, Reuters, Safety Warnings, United States
05 Nov 08 One-Quarter of Biologic Drugs Have Had Safety Issues (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) — New research shows that
almost one-quarter of biologic therapies approved in the United States and
Europe since 1995 have been the subject of at least one safety-related
regulatory action in the decade since they were approved.
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Tags: Biologic Therapies, Decade, Drugs, Europe, Healthday News, Regulatory Action, Safety Issues, United States
05 Nov 08 Gene trawl throws up new culprits in lung cancer (AFP)
AFP - Scientists in the United States have identified 26 genes whose mutation plays a role in the commonest form of lung cancer, including genes that may be receptive to novel drugs or existing treatments used to tackle other tumours.
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Tags: Cancer Genes, Culprits, Lung Cancer, Mutation, Novel Drugs, Plays, Scientists, Trawl, Tumours, United States
05 Nov 08 Use of Kids' Meds on the Increase (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) — Medication use among children across
the United States is dramatically increasing as more kids are being
treated for diabetes, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), researchers report.
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Tags: Adhd, Asthma, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd, Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd, Diabetes, Healthday, Hyperactivity, Medication, Meds, United States
05 Nov 08 Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases (AP)
AP - The nation’s obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday. The highest rates were in the South, according to the first state-by-state review of new diagnoses. The worst was in West Virginia, where about 13 in 1,000 adults were diagnosed with the disease in 2005-07. The lowest was in Minnesota, where the rate was 5 in 1,000.
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Tags: 10 Years, Adults, Diabetes, Diabetes Cases, Obesity Epidemic, United States, West Virginia
05 Nov 08 Use of Kids' Meds on the Increase (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) — Medication use among children across
the United States is dramatically increasing as more kids are being
treated for diabetes, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), researchers report.
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Tags: Adhd, Asthma, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd, Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd, Diabetes, Healthday, Hyperactivity, Medication, Meds, United States
