Aging and Elder Health Week

ADViSYS Inc. - Plasmid-based hormone therapy could improve disease or age-induced wasting

Austrian Academy of Sciences - T cells from elderly adults respond to stimulation with IL-2 production

Business Update - Provider Synergies manages Medicaid pharmacy programs in Florida

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - CMS and NCI collaborate to bring new drugs, better treatment to cancer patients

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Initiative helps low-income beneficiaries sign up for drug discount card

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - ACCC calls on CMS to allow for exceptions to ASP reimbursement

Drug Discount Card - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri offers drug card

Duke University - Elderly, diabetics, women at risk for postsurgery infection

Emory University - Synthetic hormone in contraceptives, HRT causes negative effects in monkeys

Facilities - MaineGeneral board to build cancer center

Hacettepe University, Ankara - Celecoxib is a potent chemopreventive agent

Health Protection Agency, London - Pneumococcal vaccine not cost-effective for all elderly adults

Health Protection Agency, London - Pneumococcal vaccine prevents pneumococcal disease but not pneumonia

Healthcare Coverage - State eliminates some co-pays in the Oregon Health Plan

Hormone Replacement Therapy - Long-term tibolone therapy appears to benefit lipid profile

Advanced Magnetics, Inc. - Study initiated for ferumoxytol under company's agreements with NCI

Aerogen, Inc. - Distribution deal signed for Aeroneb Professional Nebulizer System

Aesgen, Inc. - L-glutamine formulation helps prevent, treat common chemotherapy side effect

Alpharma, Inc. - Pharmaceutical firm announces changes to its board of directors

American Society of Gene Therapy - New research on the progress of gene therapy presented at meeting

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Genital HPV infections very low in northern Greece

Babraham Institute - CD45 isoform expression compared in T-cell subsets

Bayer HealthCare, LLC - ITP study finds Gamunex safe and efficacious for patients

Bayer Vital GmbH - Ciprofloxacin therapy is efficacious for UTI treatment

Bio-One Corporation - Majority interest acquired in $10M Chinese company

BioCrossroads - Sports medicine/exercise group joins Indiana's life sciences initiative

Biolex, Inc. - Development of a Centocor therapeutic protein candidate advances

Breast Cancer - Increased access to high-quality mammography needed to reduce cancer deaths

British Columbia Cancer Agency - BCR-ABL has distinct biological effects in primary human hematopoietic cells

Cancer Research UK - Preclinical drug studies in rodents can predict phase I starting dose

Cardima, Inc. - FDA issues non-approvable letter for Revelation Tx

Case Western Reserve University - Gene therapy tested to protect bone marrow during chemotherapy

Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. - Joint marketing, assay validation agreement signed

Center Nacl. Biotecnol., Madrid - pVP2 precursor C-terminal domain essential for VP2-VP3 interaction

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Economic analysis of two-dose MMR vaccination program in U.S. reported

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination recommended at 12 to 15 months of age

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Surveillance is adequate to detect endemic measles in the U.S.

Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia - Vaccine encoding hepatitis C antigens elicits specific immune response

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Immunohistochemistry with INI1 Ab assesses INI1 loss in pediatric CNS neoplasms

Chinese University of Hong Kong - Study assesses treatment-seeking behavior of Chinese women in Hong Kong

Cholestech Corporation - Diagnostics company names Kenneth F. Miller as VP of sales, marketing

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Flu vaccine may prevent respiratory illness in patients with COPD

Clearant, Inc. - Tissue implants made safer with pathogen inactivation process

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Loss of circadian genes results in epilepsy

Cutting Edge Information - 38% of pharma companies involve thought leaders in clinical trial kick-offs

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Unique genes or gene products profile hepatocellular carcinomas

Do-Coop Technologies - Water-based buffer for enzyme stabilization, storage available

Environmental Toxins - Groups tout study showing lives lost to power plant pollution

European Prospective Investigation of Cancer - High vitamin C intake might protect against rheumatoid arthritis

Fitness & Wellness - U.S. candy makers slim down their treats

Fresenius Kabi - Hospira expands manufacturing capacity

Healthcare Coverage - Humana introduces health offering that caps premium increases

Heart Failure - QMed provides heart failure management to Humana South Florida Medicare members

Home Diagnostics Inc. - TrueTrack Smart System receives FDA approval for alternate site testing

Hospital Clinic de Barcelona - Transcriptional networks controlling beta cell function identified

INSERM, Nice - SerW3 cell assay useful for identification of reproductive toxins

INSERM, Paris - Aldosterone signals modify bone marrow endothelial cell organization