Health Business Week

Mayo Clinic - Most pre- vs. postmenopausal burst-like GH secretion differences due to aging

Mayo Clinic - Single-agent dexamethasone effective for MM pre-SCT induction therapy

Medical College of Wisconsin - Interference with SONIC HEDGEHOG-GLI1 signaling inhibits prostate cancer

Medical Discoveries, Inc. - Biopharmaceutical company completes equity placement

Medical Malpractice - AMA president lobbies for tort reform

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Higher radiation doses help some lung cancer patients live longer

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Midbrain dopamine neurons were derived from embryonic stem cells

National Fibromyalgia Association - Symptom improvements with Parkinson drug found in fibromyalgia trial

National Institute of Health, Korea - Transverse myelitis reported after measles and rubella vaccination

National Institute of Public Health, Prague - Biotransformation enzyme gene variants linked to high breast cancer risk

National Taiwan University - Early ovarian cancer plus tuberculosis mimics advanced ovarian cancer

National University of Singapore - Antibacterial activity of cloth functionalized

Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology - Inhaled corticosteroids associated with lower BMD in a population-based study

Obstetrics - Enriched environment improves adverse immunologic effects of stressed pregnancy

Ophthalmic Imaging Systems - Ophthalmic digital imaging company launches two new products

Osaka City University - Combination therapy lowers high hepatitis C viremia slowly

Outcome - Quality initiative provider upgrades stroke performance measurement tool

PCOStrategies - Women with incurable hormonal disorder seek self-help services, survey shows

Paladin Labs Inc. - Pharma company launches patch for overactive bladder in Canada

Personnel - Healthvision names Alonso Perales group VP of client services

Peter MacCallum Cancer Center - Clinical benefits of reduced-intensity ASCT for CTCL are short lived

Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals - Actonel provides vertebral fracture risk reduction

Pyxis Genomics, Inc. - Genaissance to help commercialize a pork DNA traceability system

SUNY Buffalo - Study identifies factors linked with treatment after bone loss screening

Schering-Plough Corporation - Mark Kerschner named VP, assistant controller of finance by biopharm company

Shigellosis - Lansing, Michigan, area works to contain shigellosis outbreak

Siemens Medical Solutions - Turville Bay MRI and Radiation Oncology Center installs MAGNETOM Espree

Sirna Therapeutics, Inc. - Biotech company announces RNAi therapeutic development for Huntington disease

St. James's Hospital, Dublin - Airway-obstructing endolaryngeal cysts characterized

St. Jude Medical, Inc., - First European implant of annuloplasty band for heart valve repair performed

St. Thomas' Hospital - Characterization of anti-ECM1 antibodies provides insight into lichen sclerosis

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Fdn. - San Diego Susan Komen foundation affiliate presents 'Bras Down Broadway'

Technical University of Munich - Effects of tumor E-cadherin mutations on Wnt signaling determined

TeeZee, Inc. - Health & Nutrition Systems files bankruptcy, inks asset purchase agreement

Thyroid Cancer - Rehnquist hospitalized for treatment of thyroid cancer

Transplant Medicine - Iowa University Hospitals committed to transplant program

U.S. Food & Drug Administration - Mechanism of action of IL-13 antagonist in cells expressing IL-4R determined

U.S. Food & Drug Administration - Methods to manage risk assessments within risk analysis framework proposed

U.S. National Institute on Aging - Researchers discover gene mutations for PD

Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Potential public health impact of new tuberculosis vaccines discussed

University Hospital North Sweden, Umea - No relation between cell harvest and outcome success after PBSCT in MM

University Hospitals of Geneva - Beta-microprobe provides in vivo measure of glucose use in rats

University of Barcelona - Capsid region proteins referee the binding of hepatitis A virus to erythrocytes

University of Basel Hospital - Myelin and lymphocyte protein maintains the integrity of axon-glia interactions

University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Study tests transcatheter implantation of prosthetic valves in an animal model

University of Giessen Clinical Center - Virus-mediated alpha interferon transduction stops woodchuck hepatitis virus

University of Iowa - PI3K and MAPK differentially mediate sympathetic activation to insulin

University of Kuopio - Cholesterol metabolism in type 1 diabetes investigated

University of Kuopio - Protein glycosylation characterized in brains of Alzheimer patients

University of Leicester - Approach may improve estimates of associations between phenotype and disease

University of Liege - Host-derived plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 sustains tumoral angiogenesis

University of Mersin - Extraovarian nongestational choriocarcinoma reported in postmenopausal woman

University of Minnesota - Zebrafish genes offer a model for the study of pigment cell biology and disease

University of Nebraska - The Stratagene reference standard profiles an array of lymphoid tissue genes

University of Pennsylvania - Culture conditions affect the fate determination of spermatogonial stem cells

University of Piemonte Orientale -  Mycobacterium tuberculosis NAD kinase reveals a novel fold

University of Pisa - Tibolone activates nitric oxide synthesis in human endothelial cells

University of Pittsburgh - Caspase-9dn gene delivery may impede dopaminergic neuron degeneration

University of Rio Grande Sul - Contrasting findings raise questions about cardioprotective effect of alcohol

University of Surrey - Lighting up the human brain at night influences behavior

University of Uppsala - HLA class II is major genetic susceptibility locus

University of Vienna - Specific factors identified to add to vulvar cancer-specific QOL subscale

University of Washington - Familial hypercholesterolemia phenotype is influenced by other factors

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia - PharmD comments on producing flu shots

VITAS Healthcare Corporation - Bob Miller promoted to executive role at healthcare corporation

Verispan - Patient prescription tracking system more accurate, provides more data

Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharmaceutical company promotes Ann Cahill to senior management team

World Health Organization - Divergence and dispersal of yellow fever virus in Brazil described

Wuhan University - CD46 level not altered in measles virus vaccine strain-infected cells

Wyndgate Technologies - Global Med intensifies push into international markets

Yale University - Recipient CD4+ T cells that survive irradiation regulate chronic GVHD

Yokohama City University - Insulin resistance found in skeletal muscles of caveolin-3-null mice