Healthcare Mergers, Acquisitions and Ventures Week

Medical Malpractice - Doctors are being encouraged to say they are sorry to avoid malpractice suits

Mental Health Reform - Michigan Senate passes mental health reform legislation

Mergers and Acquisitions - IDEXX Laboratories completes acquisition of Vet Med Lab

Ministry of Health, Jakarta - Diarrhea episodes in slum area of north Jakarta, Indonesia, studied

Mirus Corporation - Temporary limb pressure drives short interfering RNA into skeletal muscles

National Defense Medical College, Saitama - TTV infection is not associated with the onset of pediatric liver disease

Natl. Inst. of Medical Research, London - Trim5-cyclophilin A fusion protein from owl monkey kidney cells restricts HIV-1

Netherlands Natl. Institute of Public Health - Beijing/W lineage of M. tuberculosis defined on the basis of genetic markers

Northwestern University - IgG treatment in pregnancy reduces severity of rare liver condition in newborns

NsGene A/S - Protein moves to research to development for treatment of neuropathic pain

PDI, Inc. - Healthcare sales and marketing company reports third quarter results

PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED - Pharmaceutical company announces revenues of $1M due to Plenaxis sales

Panjab University - Fluoxetine attenuates thermal hyperalgesia in diabetic mice

Pennsylvania State University - Pain often overlooked in neuromuscular disorder patients

Pfizer Inc. - Pharma company purchases California discovery and development campus

PolyMedica Corporation - Medical products provider announces losses resulting from hurricanes

Precis, Inc. - Services and membership based programs company announces financial results

Quality Assurance - Recommendations to improve racial disparity in Michigan's healthcare system

Quantros, Inc. - Web-based healthcare quality company included in JCAHO acceptable systems

Rankings - HealthAmerica, HealthAssurance receive top scores in HEDIS 2004 results

Research and Markets - Research analysis organization reviews transgenic manufacturing, licensing contracts

Roche - Pharma companies report outcomes for MabThera in rheumatoid arthritis

Roche Oncology - Oral targeted colon cancer drug shown to improve outcomes, cut post-op costs

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - British pharmaceutical group warns against the overuse of antibiotics

SFBC International, Inc. - Drug development company to merge with PharmaNet, Inc.

Schering-Plough - Data on drug for treating invasive fungal infection in at-risk patients reported

Sertanty, Inc. - Software, service distribution agreements signed by U.S.-, Japan-based companies

Sichuan University - Therapy bearing atrial natriuretic peptide DNA arrests rodent renal dysfunction

Specialty Laboratories Inc. - Clinical reference lab contracts for group purchasing services

Synthetech, Inc. - Fine chemicals company reports second quarter fiscal 2005 results

Syracuse University - Support groups help women through pregnancies after loss

Telik, Inc. - Biopharmaceutical company announces third quarter 2004 financial results

Transgene - Biophharmaceutical company reports cash position, net cash expenditures for Q3

Tufts University - Mechanisms of E2 reduction of cardiomyocyte apoptosis elucidated

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - Internet Alert Project spreads word about high-risk sexual activities

UCL Hospitals, U.K. - Higher estrogen dose reduces intima media thickness in women with TS

Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill - Studies in male monkeys demonstrate that immunocontraception could work

Univ. of California, Santa Barbara - Researchers discover living nanoscale "necklace"

Univ. of Naples Federico II - In vitro sperm-oviduct interaction may advance sperm selection techniques

Univ. of Texas SW Medical Center - GATA transcription factors modulate myocardin activity in a gene-specific manner

University Hospital Bern - Leukemic fusion gene AME suppresses CEBPA in AML by calreticulin activation

University of Amsterdam - Heart transplants are too costly and only beneficial if patients are young

University of Berne - Vioxx should have been withdrawn 4 years ago

University of California, Irvine - Effects of exercise on PBMC gene expression characterized

University of California, San Diego - Remembering the cholesterol controversy may help avoid mistakes in the future

University of Helsinki - Itraconazole doesn't alter pharmacokinetics of inhaled lidocaine

University of Illinois - Money is a big motivator for teens trying to quit smoking

University of Jena - Gene expression profiles can differentiate cervical precancers

University of Osaka Prefecture - Pinched flow fractionation assay developed for particle separation

University of Otago - Lipid-core-peptides increase adjuvant activity of T cell peptides

University of Oxford - Alterations to norovirus capsid structure explains 2002-2003 outbreaks

University of Padua - Cellular models attempt to explain defects associated with muscle diseases

University of Perugia - Mucoadhesive patch developed for buccal ibuprofen administration

University of Pittsburgh - Antiestrogenic DTACs inhibit estrogen receptor alpha-mediated transcription

University of Pittsburgh - Inhaled CO has anti-inflammatory effects against ventilator-induced lung injury

University of Sao Paulo - Autoimmune encephalomyelitis cured by Trypanosoma cruzi infection

University of South Florida - Neuroscientists awarded $1.1 million grant to improve Alzheimer vaccine

University of Sydney - A few HIV-infected men in Australia are still having unprotected sex

University of Texas - Novel process devised for powder coating sustained-release pills

University of Ulm - Transgenic EPO expression overcomes lethality caused by c-Kit(w/w) mutation

University of Virginia - Gestational hormones may play etiologic role in breast cancer

University of Wisconsin - Mutations lead to catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

University of Zurich - Prenatal origin of leukemia characterized in identical twins

Victoria University of Wellington - Genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis in Africans is polygenic

Walter Reed Army Research Inst. - Natural antibodies can promote ischemia/reperfusion injury seen in SLE

Washington University - DHEA may help decrease abdominal fat in elderly

Washington University - Role of EGR-1 in liver regeneration elucidated

Washington University - Scientists closing in on nerve proteins' contributions to memory, hearing loss

Washington University School of Medicine - Radiolabeling affects the biodistribution of angiogenesis-targeting ligands

World Health Organization - New online tool kit launched on HIV/AIDS prevention for sex workers

Xavier University of Louisiana -  E. bieneusi genotype D spores transmitted to SIV-infected macaques