Posted on Thursday, 19th January 2012 by Marcus Gollan
Genetics / Net News / Oncology / Pediatrics by Stanley Darma on Jan 17, 2012 • 1:48 pm St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital has launched a website for published research results from its partnership with Washington University in the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP). This project aims to sequence the entire genomes of normal and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, 18th January 2012 by Marcus Gollan
Chicago, IL – This morning, dozens of AIDS advocates peacefully disrupted the U.S. Conference on AIDS (USCA) with a protest aimed at drug company Gilead Science Inc. Carrying signs that said “Occupy Gilead” while chanting: “Gilead is the 1%,” the group surrounded one of Gilead’s conference booths, circling it with red ribbon. Some of the [...]
Tags: Aids, Aids Advocates
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Posted on Saturday, 7th January 2012 by Marcus Gollan
The new UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica officially opened its doors on Sunday as 125 adult and pediatric patients were carefully transported into new hospital buildings on the Santa Monica campus, as well as into the existing Merle Norman Pavilion. Teams of doctors, nurses and moving specialists transported patients to ensure they were safely and efficiently [...]
Tags: Hospital, Santa Monica
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Posted on Thursday, 29th December 2011 by Marcus Gollan
Background To examine commonly used scoring systems, designed to predict overall outcome in critically ill patients, for their ability to select patients with an abdominal sepsis that have ongoing infection needing relaparotomy. Methods Data from a RCT comparing two surgical strategies was used. The study population consisted of 221 patients at risk for ongoing abdominal [...]
Tags: Patients, Scoring Systems
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Posted on Saturday, 17th December 2011 by Marcus Gollan
Oncology / Radiation Oncology by Jan Sinnige on Dec 8, 2011 • 12:04 pm Varian Medical Systems, Inc., a Palo Alto, California firm, received FDA clearance to update the control software of the Clinac and Trilogy targeted radiotherapy devices and for the new Pivotal Care Solution for prone breast treatment. Th Read full article…
Tags: Medical Systems, Systems, Varian Medical, Varian Medical Systems
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