Healthcare Mergers, Acquisitions and Ventures Week

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Chemotherapy useful for liver metastases from colorectal cancer

Memry Corporation - Medical device company announces members to board

Mentholatum company, Inc. - Health care products manufacturer acquires OXY brand

Misys Healthcare Systems - Eighteen practices choose company's EMR solution

Misys Healthcare Systems - Information technology company announces president of Homecare Systems group

Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences - Expression of jmj gene in hearts of mutant mice rescued morphological phenotypes

Momentus Solutions - Company introduces flavored soluble strip vitamins for adults, tweens, children

NPS, Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Pharma company names new board members

National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo - Dendritic cell vaccine has antitumor effect against pancreatic cancer

National Def Med College -  Mycoplasma pneumoniae and chlamydia may be important cofactors for CAD

National Public Health Institute - Effect of ACE gene polymorphism on insulin secretion affected by birth weight

National Taiwan University, Taipei - Mosquitoes contribute to evolutionary conservation of dengue virus

Niigata College of Pharmacy - Intrahepatic flow studied, clomipramine-mediated disruption revealed

North Dakota State University - Depth perception and drunk driving

Olive View UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles - FSH activates certain important enzymes in sterol biosynthesis pathways

POZEN Inc. - Pharma company to present MT 100 to FDA advisory committee

Partnership for Safe Medicines - Association for importing medicine hires former FDA official

Personnel - Deanna J. Fish named chief clinical officer of Linkia

Pharmos Corporation - Results from traumatic brain injury trial presented

Philanthropy - Drug, health product makers donating for tsunami victims

Plastic Surgery - Quest for beauty backfires for paralyzed doctor, three patients

Primary Care Practice - Students recruited to be country doctors

Response Biomedical Corp. - Biomedical company announces agreement with Haywood Securities

Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne - Being overweight has a significant effect on a child's quality of life

Russian Academy of Sciences - Palmitate induces oligonucleosomal DNA fragmentation without caspase 3

Seoul National University - Report describes results of intracoronary radiation therapy

Slim-Fast - Diet company introduces new program for long-term success

Stanford University - New universal linkers identify and amplify nucleic acid signals

State University of New York, Brooklyn - New modalities increase accuracy of heart failure diagnosis

State University of Rio de Janeiro - Malnourishment during lactation causes lack of anorexia after leptin

Taichung Vet. General Hospital, Taipei - Budding defect of HIV matrix mutants reversed with additional 107-matrix codons

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Anisotropic water diffusion in white matter characterized

The Quigley Corporation - Pharma company appoints members to scientific advisory board

The SCOOTER Store - Wheelchair manufacturer asks U.S. CMS to clarify current coverage policy

Tokyo Medical & Dental University - SNT-2 interaction with ERK2 studied, negatively regulation revealed

Tokyo Medical University - Toremifene provides better profiles of lipid metabolism compared to tamoxifen

Tokyo University Hospital - Immature granulocyte fraction in PBSC is indicator for CD34+ cell mobilization

Tokyo University of Agriculture - Serum uric acid and urea nitrogen suppressed by dietary fiber

Tokyo Women's Medical University - Double blockade of ICOS and CD28 has limited efficacy in mice

U.S. Agricultural Research Service - Turkish plant oils are lethal to vegetable pest

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - U.S. veterans get top care from VA, study by RAND researchers finds

U.S. Health and Human Services - Teen drug use declines 2003-2004, concerns remain about inhalants, painkillers

Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Heart failure patients treated with insulin have increase in mortality

Univ. of London Imperial College Sci. Tech. & Med - Biopsy can be very useful in detecting vaginal microbicide development

University Autonoma Yucatan - American/Asian dengue 2 virus genotype introduced into Yucatan State of Mexico

University Clinic, Aachen - Review reports use of S-100 protein in monitoring acute neurological diseases

University College of London - Leber congenital amaurosis protein modulates localization of NUB1

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Insulin facilitates muscle protein synthesis following resistance exercise

University of Athens - Novel Bayesian method reconstructs known HIV-1CRF04_cpx transmission network

University of Calgary - Peptide conotoxins can target specific forms of sodium channels

University of California Berkeley - Vertebrate odorant receptor analyzed, ligand selectivity determined

University of California, Davis - Lymphoid and nonlymphoid organs under continuous immunosurveillance

University of Chile, Santiago - Transport stress for guanacos falls comfortably within acceptable limits

University of Cincinnati - Improved model of transient drug distribution in skin developed

University of Colorado, Denver - Proliferating HIV-1-specific CD4 cells inversely associated with plasma viremia

University of Dusseldorf - Neurokinin-1 receptor antagonism elevates hippocampal ACh levels

University of Heidelberg - Receptor for advanced glycation end products plays key role in inflammation

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Microfluidic device enables

University of Insubria - Utility of percutaneous tracheostomy reviewed

University of Liege - Specific NF-kappaB inhibition in lungs: Potential pulmonary-allergy therapy?

University of London Imperial College - Statistical/mathematical approach used to analyze evolution of SARS coronavirus

University of Magdeburg - Disruption of insulin signaling in diabetes may contribute to liver cancer

University of Maryland - Estrogen mediates angiogenic induction during primate pregnancies

University of Oxford - Method enables in vivo investigation of metabolic phenotypes in the mouse heart

University of Pittsburgh - Role of c-Fes tyrosine kinase in hematopoietic and neuronal cells clarified

University of Siena - Thrombin peptide TP508 analyzed, effects of cytokine and signaling revealed

University of Toronto - Pregnancy is possible after uterine artery embolization of fibroids

Wake Forest University - Patient protection laws don't favor health providers

Washington University, St. Louis - Older women less likely to receive most aggressive treatments

Wistar Institute, Philadelphia - Cell replication/origin licensing factors required for KSHV latent replication

World Health Organization - WHO issues update on antimalarial drug supply

Yale University - BM-derived cells contribute to epithelial engraftment during wound healing

York University, Toronto - Mechanism of Nodal's protective effects elucidated in vitro

Zentaris GmbH - Pharmaceutical company receives approval to market leishmaniasis drug in Germany

Zhengzhou University - Findings support role of genistein in colon tumor prevention, growth reduction