Managed Care Business Week

Leiden University - High-capacity hybrid viral vectors garner transduction stability

Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest - Selected peptides functionally represent the Fc-gammaRII-binding part of IgG1

Louisiana State University - Human prostaglandin F synthase reigns in respiratory and digestive tract tumors

McMaster University - Consensus determines principles of screening and prevention of vCJD

MedPanel, Inc. - Life sciences research and information company launches new publication

Medical Services International Inc. - Additional results from Europe available for TB test; kits shipped to China

Mental Health - Mental illness federal outreach program to be tested in Texas

Mergers & Acquisitions - Boston Scientific to acquire Advanced Bionics

Mergers & Acquisitions - Pediatrix acquires California-based neonatal physician group practice

Myogen, Inc. - Ambrisentan phase II results presented at ATS 2004

Natl. Research Institute, Tokyo - Web-like structured novel sheet promising for custom-shaped bone regeneration

Newcastle University - Researchers discover gene that causes rare disorder

Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Medicine - Embryonic stem cells are an alternate marrow donor source

Obstetrics - Women who frequently use air travel may receive excess radiation exposure

Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans - Angiotensin II provides cerebroprotection against stroke

Oregon Health & Science Univ. - Caregivers at risk for deteriorating health

Oscient Pharmaceuticals Corporation - Biopharmaceutical company announces participation in NASDAQ Biotechnology Index

Ottawa Heart Institute - Mechanical support pumps can be a bridge to cardiac transplantation

Palatin Technologies, Inc. - FDA requests and approves new name for infection imaging product

PamGene International - New agreement will help develop diagnostic tests in oncology and other diseases

Pan American Health Organization - Air pollution affects preterm delivery and intrauterine growth restriction

Personnel - Medical software company hires information technology strategist

Physical Disabilities - The Hartford and Paralympic skier promote hiring employees with disabilities

Puerta Hierro Clinic, Madrid - B-type natriuretic peptide is useful in diagnosing heart failure

Queensland Institute of Medical Research - Inactivation of Men1 gene causes pancreatic and pituitary tumorigenesis

San Carlos Hospital Clinic, Madrid - Expression of p185 protein has prognostic value

Snakebites - CroFab snakebite antivenom supply expected to meet 2004 demand

Somanetics Corporation - Cerebral oximetry associated with lower stroke rate after cardiac surgery

Temple University - Virologist receives NIH grant to continue investigation of HIV dementia complex

ThermoGenesis Corp. - Application submitted to FDA to market autologous thrombin processing device

Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Phase II clinical studies to study Pivanex in leukemia and melanoma

Turku University - Protection against infection may depend upon healthy host-microbe interactions

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - More effort needed to get low-income smokers to quit

U.S. Food & Drug Administration - S-adeno-syl-L-methionine in dietary supplements characterized

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Pancreatic islet cell tumors have non-islet origin

Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Nursing home residents spend most of their day bedridden

University College Cork - c-Jun NH₂ -terminal kinase opposes prostate cancer apoptosis

University Hospital, Dusseldorf - Choroid plexus involved in host defense

University Hospital, Uppsala - Model prevents inaccurate surgical staging of ovarian carcinoma

University of Auckland - 2-Amine is major bystander metabolite when CB 1954 is activated by NTR in tumors

University of Colorado - Epidemiology of prostate cancer outlined

University of Debrecen - Transdermal estradiol can reduce bone loss with no increase in SLE activity

University of Edinburgh - Study seeks to improve quality of life for heart failure patients

University of Massachusetts - Many genes synergize with Cbfb-MYH11 to produce acute myeloid leukemia

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia -  Dermatophagoides atopy patch tests are highly reproducible

University of North Carolina - Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus K1 protein stimulates invasion factors

University of Tokyo - Inoculation of plasmid DNA induced expression of LacZ gene

University of Verona - Calcaneal ultrasound helps identify premenopausal women at risk for bone loss

University of Wisconsin, Madison - Need for sleep indicates underlying cellular demands

Washington University - MRI can detect primary lung tumors in rodents

World Health Organization - United Nation's agencies call food safety a risk in Asia and the Pacific