Shares of both companies were up about 3 percent in trading before the market opened." To read the entire Reuters article, click here.
]]>Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder in which a person stops breathing when the airway closes. Common reasons are blockages to the airway, either by tissue in the back of the throat collapsing or the tongue falling back into the throat. An effective treatment involves using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine, which forces air into the throat to keep it open. " To read the entire Wall Street Article, written by Laura Johannes, click here.
]]>New approaches are being tried that can dramatically speed up the recruiting process and reach more patients from groups frequently underrepresented in studies.
At the heart of these new methods is the shift to electronic medical records, which makes patient searches faster and more methodical—in part by also allowing researchers to involve patients in trials from day one of their treatment." To read the entire WSJ article, written by Jennifer Corbett Dooren, click here.
]]>The loss poses a daunting challenge for Pfizer, one shared by nearly every major pharmaceutical company. This year alone, because of patent expirations, the drug industry will lose control over more than 10 megamedicines whose combined annual sales have neared $50 billion."
To read the entire New York Times article written by Duff Wilson, click here.
]]>The decision, issued by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr, leaves the city with limited power to control pot stores, which opened by the hundreds, angering neighborhood activists when city officials failed to enforce a 2007 moratorium.
Near the end of his 40-page ruling, Mohr acknowledged "there is a good chance that a large number of collectives could open once this injunction takes effect," but said his order was warranted because the dispensaries that sued the city are highly likely to prevail in a trial." To read the entire LA times article, click here.
"Up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected on Friday.
The numbers are certain to go up as the population gets older, but they will accelerate even more unless Americans change their behavior, the CDC said.
"We project that, over the next 40 years, the prevalence of total diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) in the United States will increase from its current level of about one in 10 adults to between one in five and one in three adults in 2050," the CDC's James Boyle and colleagues wrote in their report.
"These are alarming numbers that show how critical it is to change the course of type-2 diabetes," CDC diabetes expert Ann Albright said in a statement.
"Successful programs to improve lifestyle choices on healthy eating and physical activity must be made more widely available because the stakes are too high and the personal toll too devastating to fail."
The CDC says about 24 million U.S. adults have diabetes now, most of them type-2 diabetes linked strongly with poor diet and lack of exercise." To read the entire Reuters article, click here.
]]>The Phase I trial at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center currently focuses on testing the safety of the agent HSV1716 in patients. The study includes young patients with solid tumors such as rhabdomyosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma. These cancers have limited treatment options and survival rates under 30 percent when the cancers recur and spread to other parts of the body." To read the entire press release, click here.
]]>Gail Pearson, MD, of the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., said that research in the pediatric population is needed because this group of patients has special needs that require more than just “hand-me-down” information derived from studies conducted in adults." To read the complete Pediatric article, click here.
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