07/28/2010
The Global Health Group of the University of California San Francisco's Global Health Sciences is hosting the first annual Bay Area Global Health Summit on Wednesday, October 13. Join leading health ...
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07/15/2010
National Institutes of Health released a press release today stating that researchers and grantees have found that gene variants in APOL1, more common in African Americans, come with both health risk ...
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07/15/2010
In the last two years, biotechnology companies, especially the smaller ones, have gone through a dramatic restructuring of priorities and focus. Mark Schwartz takes a look at what that means for the ...
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07/08/2010
French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA (SNY) said Thursday that the European Commission has granted Orphan Drug status for rifapentine for the treatment of tuberculosis or TB, reports Fierce Biotech. R...
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07/08/2010
GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK.LN), a global healthcare group, announced Thursday it has created a new operating unit dedicated to expanding access to medicines for people living in the Least Developed Coun...
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06/21/2010
UNAIDS welcomes the announcement of the first round priorities for new Global Health Initiative (GHI) of the United States Government. This six-year US$ 63 billion initiative seeks to improve health...
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06/21/2010
Little has been known as to how malaria parasites escape from an infected red blood cell to spread around the rest of their human host. US researchers have reported that they have identified two steps...
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06/18/2010
Roche Holding AG, Johnson & Johnson and Biogen Idec Inc. are being urged by U.S. regulators to see if existing medicines may help neglected disorders, after an incentive program failed to spark rese...
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06/17/2010
Innovating for health is about more than drug development. It means new ways of delivering and using existing technologies, says Priya Shetty of Scidev.net. Read More...
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06/17/2010
The world is rapidly losing its ability to treat malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis, as well as more common diseases such as dysentery and respiratory infections because of drug resistance, according to a...
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