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1. Seaside Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2b Study Of STX209 In Autism Spectrum Disorders Seaside Therapeutics, Inc. announced today the initiation of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2b study to evaluate the effects of STX209 (arbaclofen) on social impairment in children, adolescents and adults (ages 5 to 21) with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The Company announced positive results from an open-label Phase 2a study of STX209 in September of […]...
2. Organizations Highlight Plight Of HIV-Positive Haitians, Call For Donors To Support ‘Whole Of Society’ Health System Strengthening Organizations attending the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 highlighted the plight of HIV-positive earthquake survivors in Haiti who are “still waiting for aid promised to them before” the quake as rebuilding efforts slowly move along, Agence France-Presse reports. AFP notes the sentiments of some of the organizations’ representatives…...
3. HIV Positive German Pop Star Who Had Unprotected Sex With Three Men And Infected One, Apologizes A German pop star, Nadja Benaissa, 28, from the band No Angels apologized for having unprotected sex with three men and infecting one of them – she had not told them she was HIV positive. Benaissa is facing a charge of grievous bodily harm for infecting one man and attempting bodily harm with two other […]...
4. Results Vary With Different Meditation Techniques As doctors increasingly prescribe meditation to patients for stress-related disorders, scientists are gaining a better understanding of how different techniques from Buddhist, Chinese, and Vedic traditions produce different results…...
5. Exposure To Parental Stress Increases Pollution-Related Lung Damage In Children Psychosocial stress appears to enhance the lung-damaging effects of traffic-related pollution (TRP) in children, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. The results will appear online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical […]...
6. DBV Technologies Receives IND Clearance From FDA To Begin Clinical Trial In Peanut Allergy DBV Technologies (DBV), a biotech company specializing in food allergy with innovative products for diagnosis and treatment, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application....
7. WFP Emergency Operation Enters New Phase In Drought-Stricken Niger The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun a major round of feeding in Niger for 670,000 young children and their families as part of an emergency operation to reach as many as 8 million food-insecure people in the drought-stricken West African country....
8. Mothers Of Premature Children Run Greater Risk Of Suffering Stress, Which May Affect Development Of Child In Early Years The incidence of premature babies has been stable or even increased over time. The phenomenon brings with it the possibility of neurological, sensorial, respiratory, cognitive or psychomotor consequences for the child, both in the short and the medium term…...
9. Researchers Find More Evidence That Malaria Drug Could Help Combat Cancer, And That Breaks From Treatment Could Improve Results Scientists investigating the cancer-fighting properties of artesunate a drug commonly used to treat malaria have found early evidence that combining it with an existing cancer drug has the potential to make each drug more effective than when used alone. They also found that regular treatment breaks could improve success levels. The findings, recently published in […]...
10. Share of Cost, UF Receives $4.7 Million To Study Marijuana’s Role In Immunity Among HIV-positive Adolescents HIV experts at the University of Florida, along with colleagues at the University of South Florida and the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded $4.7 million by the National Institutes of Health to study how the complex interplay between marijuana use and HIV infection can influence the development of neurological disorders in adolescents....
11. U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Announces Settlement with AMC Entertainment Inc. DOJ has reached an agreement with AMC Entertainment Inc. to settle a lawsuit filed in 1999 under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The suit claimed that the design of stadium-style movie theaters did not provide persons who use wheelchairs with the same lines of sight as other moviegoers. All AMC stadium-style theaters that are opened after the […]...