reports that Phillip Terrence Ragon will announce the gift to Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday.
The hospital will get $10 million a year for the next decade to bring together doctors, engineers and biologists from Massachusetts General as well as other research institutions, including Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The 59-year-old Ragon is the founder and sole owner of InterSystems Corp., a company Read the rest of this entry »

Along with the trend analysis, quantitative data includes five-year
trends (2006-2010) on number of establishments, industry and number of
employees. This data is developed through Trendologys economic model
using regression analysis based on historical industry trend data.
Forecasts are available for 2010. Quantitative data for current year
2009 is provided for the U.S., 50 U.S. states, and 900 metro areas. Read the rest of this entry »

There have been hurdles for Geron, including how the company would conduct its trials and the ethical questions and religious opposition to using human embryos.
The biggest hurdle may have been the lack of government funding for stem cell studies. Because there is no federal money for this kind of research, other than through the
, there has been little movement in the embryonic stem cell arena outside of Geron’s privately funded effort. That Read the rest of this entry »

Washington University will host a public hearing and conference March 4-6 to gather input and set priorities for federally funded women’s health research.
The National Institutes of Health is seeking public testimony from scientists, health-care providers, patients, community groups, advocacy groups and any interested parties at the March 4 hearing. To submit oral or written testimony, an online form detailing remarks must be completed by Feb. 20. Read the rest of this entry »

CHICAGO, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Internal company documents
suggest Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N:
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), maker of the antipsychotic
drug Risperdal, agreed to fund a child psychiatry research
center at Massachusetts General Hospital to generate data to
support use of the drug in children, the Wall Street Journal
reported on Monday.
The drug, known generically as risperidone, recently came
under fire from an advisory panel to the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration Read the rest of this entry »

ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2008)
— At least one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness, a condition caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, including pesticides and a drug administered to protect troops against nerve gas, and no effective treatments have yet been found, a federal panel of scientific experts and veterans concludes in a landmark report released Monday.
The Congressionally-mandated Read the rest of this entry »

Induced pluripotent stem cells are derived from an adult stem cell using genes and viruses. Researchers have tried to improve this method by developing a safer way to obtain stem cells from adult cells without using the viruses that can cause cancer. Last year, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston managed to reprogram adult skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells using adenoviruses which don’t Read the rest of this entry »

Health-care cost controls needed, says Public Interest Research Group in Michigan
Without government intervention, the cost of an average employer-provided family health care policy in Michigan will more than double by 2016, according to a report released Wednesday.
Much of the increased costs will benefit special interests and not patients, according to the report, released by the Ann Arbor-based Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, or
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Kaleida cardiac and vascular center,
A center for heart and vascular care that is to start rising on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus this spring will significantly change the hospital landscape in Buffalo.
Excluding the renovation of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, this is the first significant hospital construction project in the city in more than two decades, a period when much of the rest of the country had a hospital construction boom.
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SEATTLE, Nov 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Seattle Children’s Hospital has selected DatStat, the industry leader in
research management systems and enterprise feedback management (EFM), as
its platform to provide hospital staff members with tools that improve
enterprise research and solicit feedback from patients, patient family
members and employees. Specifically, DatStat will provide researchers at
Children’s Read the rest of this entry »