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<title>The Center For Science Writings Presents &#x27;The Evolution Of God,&#x27; Dec. 2</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology will present "The Evolution of God," a talk by Robert Wright, journalist and founder, Bloggingheads.tv, Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 4:00-5:30 p.m. at the Babbio Center for Technology Management, Room 122. The event is free and open to the public and the media.]]></description>
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<title>American College Of Physicians To Recognize Melvin R. Kaplan, M.D., F.A.C.P.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Melvin R. Kaplan, MD, FACP, a former Board Chair and one of the founders of the research institute that became Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed), will be honored by the American College of Physicians for his lifetime devotion to the care of patients.    At its April 22, 2010 meeting in Toronto, the American College of Physicians will present Dr. Kaplan with the Ralph O. Claypoole Sr.]]></description>
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<title>ChemoCentryx Reports Positive PROTECT-1 Study Results For Traficet-EN(TM) At The GASTRO 2009 UEGW/WCOG Conference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ChemoCentryx, Inc., announced that Phase II/III clinical data from the Company's PROTECT-1 (the Prospective Randomized Oral Therapy Evaluation in Crohn's disease Trial) of Traficet-EN(TM) (CCX282-B) in patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease demonstrated clinical efficacy with a favorable safety and tolerability profile.]]></description>
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<title>Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging Professionals Will Convene In Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 27-Feb. 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[SNM will hold its Conjoint Mid-Winter Meetings Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2010, at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M. This year, SNM joins its annual Mid-Winter Educational Symposium with the 2010 Annual Meeting and Educational Symposium of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM), the Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging Summit and the Clinical Trials Network Community Workshop.]]></description>
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<title>ASTMH Symposium Showcases Efforts To Meet The Need For New Medicines To Treat Infectious Diseases In Developing Countries</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An urgent need for new medicines to treat neglected infectious diseases in the developing world has prompted a growing number of collaborations among academic researchers, non-profit product development partnerships (PDPs), and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.]]></description>
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<title>Experts Examine Possible Links Between Climate Change And Infectious Disease Transmission</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An emerging body of evidence suggests that the changing global climate is already affecting infectious disease transmission patterns. As noted in a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), such changes are expected to have a profound impact on global public health.]]></description>
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<title>Artemisinin Resistance Threatens Efforts To Control Malaria</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Evidence of resistance to the antimalarial drug artemisinin and its derivatives threatens efforts to control malaria in Southeast Asia, and experts fear artemisinin resistance may spread from the Thailand-Cambodia border to affect other malaria endemic countries. Evidence to such effect was presented at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).]]></description>
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<title>From Toxic Dust And Algae To Ill Winds From Africa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Toxic dust: Toxins in coal-tar-based sealcoats in parking lots may be the culprit in contaminated house dust, according to a USGS study. PAHs - or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - are large molecules found in oil, coal and tar deposits, and can have toxic effects. It's long been known that PAHs are often found in house dust; however, the specific sources of these PAHs are largely undetermined.]]></description>
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<title>Special Sessions Announced For World Congress On Osteoporosis 2010 - IOF WCO - ECCEO10</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Online abstract submission opens    Researchers are invited to contribute their abstracts to the World Congress on Osteoporosis 2010 (IOF WCO - ECCEO10), the largest global meeting devoted to all aspects of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis research and patient care. The Congress will be held in Florence, Italy from May 5-8, 2010.    Abstracts can now be submitted online at http://www.iofwco-ecceo10.]]></description>
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<title>World Summit On Food Security Wraps Up</title>
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<description><![CDATA[		The U.N. World Summit on Food Security ended Wednesday in Rome with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) head Jacques Diouf calling for the global community to shift the fight against global hunger from "words to action," Agence France-Press reports.]]></description>
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<title>Economics, Neuroscience And Hormones Workshop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[    A workshop on "Neuroeconomics and Endocrinological Economics," being held Nov. 20 and 21 at UC Davis, will be the first to bring together experts in neuroscience, economics and hormone physiology in one event, according to organizers.    Neuroeconomics has emerged as a new field in recent years, as both economists and neuroscientists have used brain scanning technology such as functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how people make decisions.]]></description>
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<title>Multidisciplinary Meeting On Urological Cancers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort. Collaboration of experts from various fields is, therefore, necessary to take cancer-related research and medical practice to the next level.]]></description>
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<title>International Event At Queen&#x27;s Focuses On Male Infertility</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Male infertility and tackling falling birth rates across Europe will be among the topics addressed at this year's British Andrology Society's annual conference at Queen's University in Belfast.    World leaders in the field of andrology - the study of male reproduction - will meet at Queen's this week (Thursday and Friday) to discuss the latest developments in the field of fertility including the potential to create artificial sperm from stem cells.]]></description>
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<title>Clinical Budgeting And Contracting Excellence Strategies That Empower Investigators And Support Patient Enrollment 7-8 Dec, 2009, Princeton New Jersey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Alarming trends captured in clinical study metrics show the glaring discrepancy between the miniscule number of sites that are able to enroll the amount of patients study sponsors are requesting and the amount of sites that cannot.  This enrollment inability leads to trial stoppages, lost revenue and most importantly the delay of new treatments used to combat diseases that are available for the population.]]></description>
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<title>Mersana Therapeutics Provides Clinical Update From Ongoing Phase 1 Study Of XMT-1001 In Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mersana Therapeutics, a platform-based cancer therapeutics company, announced additional preliminary results from an ongoing Phase 1 study of its lead development candidate, XMT-1001, in patients with advanced solid tumors. The results were presented in a poster session at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Boston, MA November 15-19, 2009.]]></description>
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<title>When Diagnosing Heart Condition, EKG Can Show False Positive Readings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The electrical measurements on the electrocardiogram can often mislead physicians in diagnosing the heart condition left ventricular hypertrophy, causing other screening tests to be ordered before a definitive conclusion can be made, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.]]></description>
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<title>Scientific Meeting On Latest Breakthroughs And Techniques For Improving Success Rate Of Chronic Total Occlusion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  WHAT: The Seventh International Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit is a two-day conference featuring state-of-the-art technologies, research findings and new developments in therapeutic procedures essential for interventional cardiologists to optimize success in chronic total coronary occlusions.]]></description>
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<title>Biomedical Informatics Symposium Opens With Address From Calif. Health Care Leader</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) opened its Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics with more than 2,000 members and registrants gathered at the Hilton San Francisco to exchange new information, best practices, and cutting-edge thinking on an array of topics in this burgeoning health care field. Opening the symposium was Mark D.]]></description>
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<title>Post-Discharge, Elevated Biomarkers Lead To Diminished Quality Of Life In Heart Attack Patients</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Many heart attack patients have high levels of cardiac biomarkers in the blood for several months after leaving the hospital, with more shortness of breath and chest pain, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.    The study examined a subset of patients in a 4,500-patient heart attack registry from 24 24 U.S. hospitals and found:      9 percent had elevated levels of the biomarker troponin (TnT) after six months.]]></description>
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<title>Hollis-Eden Presents New Interim Data From Prostate Cancer Phase I/II Clinical Studies Of Apoptone (HE3235) At AACR Molecular Targets Conference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: HEPH), reported preliminary results of its ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial with Apoptone® (HE3235) for hormone-resistant prostate cancer (also called castrate-resistant prostate cancer or CRPC).]]></description>
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<title>Zargis To Release Trial Version Of Cardioscan While Exhibiting With 3M(TM) Littmann(R) At American Heart Association Conference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Speedus Corp. (Nasdaq: SPDE) announced that it will be releasing a free trial version of its Zargis Cardioscan software during the American Heart Association's 2009 Scientific Sessions conference, taking place this November 15-17 in Orlando.]]></description>
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<title>Advances In Radiation Therapy Enable Doctors To Improve The Quality Of Treatments For Patients With Head And Neck Cancer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Clinical studies suggest that advanced treatments like intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) are enabling radiation oncologists to enhance post-treatment health-related quality of life for patients with head and neck cancer.    In an educational session for radiotherapy professionals, delivered by two noted experts during the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) in Chicago last week, Avraham Eisbruch, M.D.]]></description>
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<title>Pharma&#x27;s Fourth Hurdle - Market Access</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Getting regulatory agency approval for a new drug was once the end goal of pharmaceutical drug development, but in today's healthcare environment where governments increasingly determine price and the availability of drugs to patients through formulary designation, market access has become the "fourth hurdle" in successfully bringing a drug to market.]]></description>
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<title>Tobira Therapeutics Announces Presentation Of TBR-652 Data At European AIDS Conference</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tobira Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company committed to research and product discovery for the treatment of life-threatening and life-altering infectious diseases, announced pharmacokinetic data and results from two double-blind, placebo-controlled studies of TBR-652 in eighty-four healthy volunteers.]]></description>
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<title>Nobel Laureate Claims The 2010 Herbert Tabor Lectureship</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Phillip A. Sharp, a world leader of research in molecular biology and biochemistry and an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship.    Sharp will give his award lecture, titled "The Biology of small RNAs," at the 2010 annual meeting at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 24, in Anaheim, Calif.]]></description>
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