WASHINGTON — Imaging agents currently in development that could detect the abnormal amyloid plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease could help doctors diagnose the condition, a Food and Drug Administration panel of medical experts said Thursday.
Such agents, which would be used in combination with positron-emission tomography scans, are designed to essentially “light up” areas of the brain that contain amyloid on imaging scans, Read the rest of this entry »
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – (Business Wire) Targanta Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: TARG) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee will review the Company
s New Drug Application (NDA) for oritavancin on November 19, 2008.
Targanta submitted the NDA in February to obtain approval for oritavancin for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — Talk to the chief executives of America’s pre-eminent health-care institutions, and you might be surprised by what you hear: When it comes to medical care, the United States isn’t getting its money’s worth. Not even close.
“We’re not getting what we pay for,” says Dr. Denis Cortese, president and chief executive of the Mayo Clinic. “It’s just that simple.”
“Our health-care system is fraught with waste,” says Dr. Gary Kaplan, Read the rest of this entry »
After spending their Thanksgiving week competing in Maui, the Hoosiers returned home Sunday to defeat reigning Ivy League champion Cornell 72-57. IU (4-2) stayed undefeated at home, never trailing against Cornell.
Although IU never trailed, the majority of the two teams exchanged a series of runs. IU would open sizeable leads only to see Cornell come back to bring within one possession.
Keeping Cornell in the game was its defensive pressure. Cornell Read the rest of this entry »
Israel shells Gaza U.N. warehouse, hospital, news bureaus
The Israeli military punched deeper into Gaza City on Thursday with a series of strikes that hit the United Nations’ headquarters, a major hospital and the offices of international news media groups, even as Israeli leaders weighed an Egyptian initiative for ending the 20-day-old conflict.
For the second time in the offensive, Israel said it had killed a top Hamas political leader in the Read the rest of this entry »
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My wife, Laurie, and I had always planned to have more children, and in the late 1990s we decided to try to employ preimplantation genetic diagnosis in an attempt to conceive a baby free of the deadly disease who would be a perfectly matched cord-blood donor for Henry. Cord blood is usually disposed of after birth, and harvesting it causes no problems or discomfort for a baby.
We were among the first families attempting the technique, but after Read the rest of this entry »
It’s obvious now, John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate to give Tina Fey a reason to come back to Saturday Night Live.
It worked! Just the right lipstick on just the right pit bull to open the season. Now if only they could’ve found something for Michael Phelps to do… (Here’s a hint – get him to take his shirt off. What do you think people were watching him for?)
Sarah Palin’s name was taken in vain repeatedly in the Sept. Read the rest of this entry »
A southwest Missouri man was listed in critical condition Saturday at the University of Missouri-Columbia Hospital, following a crash on Saturday.
And a Sunrise Beach woman's condition was not known Saturday after she was thrown from a motorcycle in a separate wreck.
* Melody J. Maxwell, 41, Sunrise Beach, was flown to UMC Hospital after she and Roger C. Maxwell, 52, Sunrise Beach, both were ejected from the southbound 2004 Yamaha motorcycle Read the rest of this entry »
VITAMIN C supplements could reduce the effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs, according to a new study in Cancer Research.
While cancer patients undergoing treatment should eat a healthy diet, including foods rich in vitamin C, the authors caution against taking high doses of vitamin C supplements. Researchers pre-treated cancer cells with vitamin C in the laboratory, and then tested their response to a range of chemotherapy drugs designed to kill Read the rest of this entry »