Tengion Inc., a clinical stage regenerative medicine company focused on the development of neo-organs and neo-tissues, today announced that the results of a preclinical research study conducted with its Tengion Neo-Bladder Augment™ were published in the September issue of the Regenerative Medicine, Vol. 3, Issue 5. The paper, “Long-term durability, tissue regeneration and neo-organ growth [...]

 Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY) and IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. announced today that they will collaborate to develop inter-operability between the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System and the MOSAIQ® oncology information system. Using DICOM standard interface protocols, both treatment plan and delivery information from the CyberKnife System will automatically feed directly into the IMPAC electronic medical [...]

The feds are signaling that there needs to be more attention paid to competition in health care as states reconsider certificate-of-need laws — those regulations that say hospitals and clinics can only expand or build new facilities if state regulators agree.

We noted recently that Sarah Palin has weighed in on the issue, pushing to get [...]

People with dementia should be able to end their lives if they feel they are a burden to others or to the NHS, according to a respected ethicist.

Baroness Mary Warnock, who has made similar calls in recent years, first made her remarks in a Church of Scotland magazine.

She told the BBC she believed there were [...]

 Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ:NYMX) is pleased to announce two separate presentations of new data by independent clinical investigators involved in U.S. clinical trials of NX-1207, Nymox’s investigational drug for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The first presentation was at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American Urological Association in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM; [...]

  Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer, announced the
publication of a risk assessment for venous thromboembolism,
recommended for all patients admitted to hospital in England.
Venous thromboembolism in hospitalised patients is responsible for
around 25,000 deaths in England each year. The risk assessment being
published today will be [...]

CALGARY: A Canadian researcher has
discovered what is believed to be North America’s smallest dinosaur, a
70-million-year-old chicken-sized beast that was also unusual for its diet of
insects.
Called the Albertonykus borealis, the odd-looking creature
had bird-like features including slender legs, jaws like pincers and stubby arms
with big claws.
Its bones were excavated near Red Deer, in
fossil-rich Alberta, [...]

 
A practice within some Kenyan fishing communities in which young female fish sellers develop sexual relationships with fishermen and middlemen in exchange for fish is exposing a new generation to HIV, IRIN/PlusNews reports. According to statistics from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, HIV prevalence among Kenyans in the fishing industry was 30.5% in [...]

 Acurian, Inc., a leading provider of patient recruitment solutions, announced today that its database of 50 million opted-in disease sufferers now includes over 50% of the 16 million diagnosed type 2 diabetics in the United States. According to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, there are 17.9 million diagnosed diabetics in the United States, 90% of [...]

Young black gay men suffer the heaviest burden of new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men nationwide, according to a government report out today.
Those men lead a list of hard-hit groups that also includes white gay men in their 30’s and 40’s, Hispanic gays and black women.

The report, by the Centers for Disease Control [...]