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Date |
| JDRF Announces New Research Grants To Accelerate The Availability Of An Artificial Pancreas |
09/14/06 |
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The Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation (JDRF), the world's largest charitable funder of type 1 diabetes
research, announced today that it has funded leading researchers from
around the world to assess new diabetes technologies and help accelerate
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| Uncertainty Surrounds The Antidiabetic Glitazars, Reports Pharmaprojects |
09/14/06 |
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Pharmaprojects, the leading
database tracking pharmaceutical R&D worldwide, notes that the recent
discontinuation by Takeda of its predicted blockbuster antidiabetic drug
sipoglitazar (TAK-654), due to insufficient safety and efficacy, brings the
nu |
| New Research Set To Restore Lost Sight For People With Diabetes |
09/14/06 |
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Brand new research launched at the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester is bringing hope to hundreds of people with diabetes who lose their sight each year as a side-effect of the disease.
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| Claiming Diagnostic Tests For Diabetes Genes Is Misleading, Say Experts, UK |
09/14/06 |
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Claims that the discovery of a gene could help prevent diabetes may raise unrealistic expectations, warn doctors in this week's BMJ.
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| New SSRI Effective For The Treatment Of Moderate-to-severe Premature Ejaculation |
09/14/06 |
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A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) developed specifically for the treatment of premature ejaculation is safe and effective for men severely affected by the condition, according to an Article in this week's issue of The Lancet.
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| First WFP Food Aid Ship In More Than A Decade Arrives In Somali Port Of Mogadishu |
09/11/06 |
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A ship chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme docked yesterday in Mogadishu - the agency's first delivery in the capital's port in more than a decade.
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| Violence And Persecution Causing Insecurity And Precarious Living Conditions For 33 Million People Globally |
09/11/06 |
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MSF launches national tour of interactive exhibit to raise awareness of plight of refugees and internally displaced persons
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| Hospitals, Local Governments Have More Work To Do To Prepare For Disasters, Experts Say |
09/11/06 |
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Hospitals and local governments since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have been working to improve disaster preparedness and better equip their facilities to handle large surges of patients, though for "all the progress in improving readiness, ex |
| Nippon Paper Begins Test Farming Rice That Alleviates Hay Fever |
09/11/06 |
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Nippon Paper Group has started test farming a rice which could alleviate hay-fever symptoms. The rice was specially developed using the MAT vector system, a biotechnology for genetically extracting certain genomes, in this case an epitope in the rice. T |
| Early Trial Shows H5N1 Influenza Vaccine Safe And Effective In Humans At Low Doses |
09/11/06 |
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A vaccine in development against the H5N1 influenza virus can produce a safe immune response in healthy people at low doses, according to an Online/Article published today (Thursday September 7, 2006) by The Lancet. Vaccines that are effective at low dos |
| Sinovac Announces Its Clinical Trial Results Of A Pandemic Influenza (H5N1) Vaccine Are Published By The Lancet |
09/11/06 |
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Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Sinovac)
(Amex: SVA) announced that its paper of clinical trial results, named
'Safety and immunogenicity of an inactivated adjuvanted whole-virion
influenza A (H5N1) vaccine: a phase I randomized controlled trail", was
publish |
