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Manhattan Research Report Explores Online Adherence Opportunities

Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research releases its latest consumer marketing research module, "Online Adherence Programs: Evaluating Manufacturers' Opportunity to Impact Patient Adherence", as part of its Cybercitizen Health™ market research and strategic advisory service.
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EU-funded study shows that cannabis can damage DNA

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Researchers in the UK have found evidence that smoking cannabis can damage human DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of developing cancer. The findings, published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology, are an outcome of the ECNIS (Environmental cancer risk, nutrition and individual susceptibility) Network of Excellence, funded with EUR 11 million under the 'Food Quality and Safety' Thematic area of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to study how diet and hereditary factors can influence environmental cancer risk.
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New zebrafish model offers new insights into skin cancer

Friday, 19 June 2009
Scientists in the UK and Switzerland have identified a signalling pathway, PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase) that shows promise as a target for treating aggressive skin cancer. Their results, based on a study of the see-through zebrafish, are published in the journal Disease Models and Mechanisms.
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Sharing the Sights of BioMedical and Pharmaceutical Domains on Demo-DVD

Thursday, 18 June 2009
CAST PHARMA, a premier European 3D pharmaceutical and biomedical animation production company, is pleased to announce the availability of an advanced Demo-DVD to make its audiovisual material more widely available to the existing and further customers from the biomedical and pharmaceutical domains.
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European public health agencies evaluate antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus

Wednesday, 17 June 2009
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) have published today a joint Scientific Report on meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in livestock, pets and foods.
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More than Half of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Feel their Disease Controls their Lives

Friday, 12 June 2009
Results from the Rheumatoid Arthritis: Insights, Strategies & Expectations (RAISE) survey of more than 500 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients throughout Europe and Canada revealed a majority of patients still suffer from pain (79 percent), fatigue (67 percent) and joint stiffness (57 percent) on a regular basis despite current treatment, while more than half (51 percent) of RA patients feel their disease controls their life.
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Information Technology Award announced for pharmacy in 2010

Friday, 12 June 2009
First DataBank Europe (FDBE) is pleased to announce, in association with The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists (GHP) and the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA), the 2010 FDBE/GHP/UKCPA Information Technology Award.
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Regular aspirin use may do more harm than good, study warns

Monday, 01 June 2009
Can an aspirin a day keep the doctor away? New research, part of the EU-funded BIOMED (Biomedicine and health) programme, shows it can't all the time. The researchers have discovered that although regular use of aspirin can reduce the rate of non-fatal heart attacks or stroke by around 12%, there is a 33% increase in the risk of internal bleeding in people with no history of relevant disease (primary prevention). The findings are published in The Lancet journal.
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From Pioneer to the World's Leading Scientific Network

Friday, 29 May 2009
"Pioneers" was the headline when Science magazine covered the launch of the academic networking platform ResearchGATE exactly one year ago. In a very short time, a small group of pioneers in scientific communication, located at Harvard University and Hannover Medical School (Germany), has managed to create a worldwide community with more than 50,000 members from 196 countries.
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Study sheds light on H1N1 origins

Wednesday, 27 May 2009
The new H1N1 virus is only distantly related to its nearest relatives, suggesting that its genes may have been circulating undetected in pig populations for some time, according to new research published online by the journal Science.
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