- Pharmacopeia gets $500,000 payment from Glaxo (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
- June 04, 2008 at 08:09 AM
- Biopharmaceutical company Pharmacopeia Inc. said Wednesday that it received a $500,000 payment from GlaxoSmithKline PLC for identifying a compound to treat respiratory disease.
- Amicus Therapeutics Begins Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of AT2220 In Pompe Disease (Medical News Today)
- June 04, 2008 at 07:11 AM
- Amicus Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FOLD), a biopharmaceutical company developing small molecule, orally-administered pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of human genetic diseases, today announced that it has initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial of AT2220 (1-deoxynojirimycin HCl), for the treatment of Pompe disease.
- Private Foster Care Program for Teens Associated with Better Mental and Physical Health in Young Adulthood (Kansas City InfoZine)
- June 04, 2008 at 09:23 AM
- Adults who were placed in a private, enhanced foster care program as teenagers appear to have significantly fewer mental disorders, ulcers and cardiometabolic problems (diabetes, hypertension or heart disease) but more respiratory disorders than those who were placed in public programs.
- More Girls Than Boys Benefit From Breastfeeding, Hopkins Children's Research Shows (Medical News Today)
- June 04, 2008 at 04:13 AM
- Challenging the long-standing belief that breast-feeding equally protects all babies against disease, research led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center investigators suggests that when it comes to respiratory infections, the protective effects of breast milk are higher in girls than in boys.
- Paralyzed Israeli paints with his eyes (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- June 04, 2008 at 10:40 AM
- First his arms and legs stopped working, then his respiratory system. Now Rahamim Melamed-Cohen can hardly speak and sits motionless in a wheelchair except for the barely visible flicker of his eyes.
- Breast-Feeding More Protective for Girls Than Boys (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
- June 02, 2008 at 02:04 PM
- MONDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- Breast milk's protection against respiratory infections is stronger in girls than in boys, says a U.S. study that challenges the long-held belief that immune system chemicals passed from mothers to newborns during breast-feeding offer babies equal protection from disease.
- More Girls Than Boys Benefit From Breastfeeding, Research Shows (Science Daily)
- June 02, 2008 at 11:29 PM
- Challenging the long-standing belief that breast-feeding equally protects all babies against disease, new research suggests that when it comes to respiratory infections, the protective effects of breast milk are higher in girls than in boys.
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