Immigrants arriving in the U.S. from Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America have high rates of active or latent tuberculosis, highlighting a need for improved screening of the disease, according to a CDC study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
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The University of Oxford and Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) has announced that they have formed a joint venture, The Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium Ltd. (the "Consortium"), to further develop MVA85A, the world's most clinically advanced vaccine candidate for the prevention of tuberculosis.
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TOPIGEN Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company specialized in developing products for respiratory disorders, has announced the completion of patient enrollment in a Phase II safety and efficacy study in asthma with one of its lead product candidates, TPI ASM8. The current clinical study builds on prior efficacy and safety data in a three-day study of TPI ASM8 in an allergen challenge model.
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As the world watches China prepare for the Olympic Games, Cornell researcher Max Zhang has his eye on less visible matters -- the particles in Beijing's air that millions breathe every day, and that many more will be breathing when they descend on the city this summer. The assistant professor in Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is leading a project to study the air quality before, during and after the Olympic Games, which begin Aug. 8.
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This study examined the effects of continuous administration of sivelestat sodium hydrate (sivelestat) on guinea pigs induced with intestinal paralysis and hypotension. Findings suggest that sivelestat - a neutrophil elastase (NE) inhibitor- can effectively reduce intestinal dysfunction and attenuate hypotension. NE is a protease released in response to inflammation and is believed to trigger acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and ARDS-related lung injury.
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center appear to have solved at least a piece of a puzzle that has mystified physicians for years: why so many patients with asthma also suffer from GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. Clinicians first noted a relationship between the two diseases in the mid-1970s. Since then, studies have shown that anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of patients with asthma experience some aspect of GERD.
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Babies exposed to cigarette smoke before birth or during the first months afterwards run a greater risk of developing asthma and allergy. This according to a doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. It is a well known fact that babies are harmed by tobacco smoke in numerous ways, but it has always been difficult to separate the effects of the mother smoking during pregnancy and passive smoking after birth.
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The following summarizes efforts that seek to address racial health disparities. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania Asthma Partnership will award a total of $35,000 to community-based and not-for-profit groups that work to address asthma in the community, the
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Information relevant to Indiana's current pandemic influenza preparedness plan was presented July 16 during a symposium convened by the Indiana State Department of Health and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, "The Ethics of Pandemic Influenza Planning in Indiana: What Have We Done and
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Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee voted in favor of the efficacy and safety data for DORIBAX(TM) (doripenem for injection) for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, or nosocomial pneumonia (NP), and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
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