Huixin He, associate professor of nanoscale chemistry at Rutgers University, Newark, and Tamara Minko, professor at the Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, have developed a nanotechnology approach that could potentially eliminate the problems of side effects and drug resistance in the treatment of cancer…
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Stories of environmental damage and their consequences always seem to take place far away and in another country, usually a tropical one with lush rainforests and poison dart frogs. In fact, similar stories starring familiar animals are unfolding all the time in our own backyards - including gripping tales of diseases jumping from animal hosts to people when ecosystems are disrupted…
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Most directors of internal medicine residency training programs would prefer not to accept pharmaceutical support for the residencies they oversee, but more than half report doing so, according to an article in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals…
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Hawaii Healthcare Professionals Inc. is rebranding itself as Hawaii Professional HomeCare and has launched a new tele-homecare service on Oahu.

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A local nonprofit that provides free pet care services in disasters has received a $20,000 grant from a Portland, Ore.-based charity that supports projects that keep pets and families together.

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Federal regulators have accepted Psyadon Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s application to start testing the Germantown biotech’s drug in patients for the first time.

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The William T. Kemper Foundation and the Kemper family plan to give $3 million to finance an endowment for the position of director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University and to support the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at the School of Medicine.

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Transmedics Inc., a developer of live-organ transplant technologies, has closed a $35.4 million financing round.

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Florida’s Medicaid program will receive $1.69 million in federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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Boca Raton Community Hospital narrowed its losses in its fiscal second quarter, leading its CEO to predict it would turn a profit this year.

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