Albert Liou, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific Region, at PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL - News), a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, will present “What Can China Really Deliver in Terms of Cost and Efficiency Savings in Running Clinical Trials?” at the 7th Annual Partnerships in Clinical Trials Congress and Exhibition, to be [...]

After more than a year with an interim dean, the UNM College of Nursing has hired Nancy Ridenour to step in as dean by the spring semester.
Ridenour is an adult nurse practitioner and served as a congressional staff member. She was one of 19 applicants for the position.
John A. Pieper, head of the search committee, [...]

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

Lindsey McDermott, a nursing major at St. Anselm College, said she wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the economy until she went home to Norwood, Mass., for the Columbus Day break.
“Everywhere I went, people were talking about it,” she said.
Now that she has started paying attention, McDermott, a 20-year-old junior, is worried.
“I [...]

Clinical data utilizing the DRX9000 True Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression System™ will be presented at the 2nd World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy) in Athens, Greece October 23-26, 2008. The first study, is an IRB-approved, prospective multi-center phase II, non-randomized pilot study authored by Dr. John Leslie of the Mayo Clinic and others. This study [...]

Vical Incorporated today is presenting expanded clinical data and new nonclinical data demonstrating that the company’s Vaxfectin® adjuvant may be broadly applicable in DNA- and protein-based infectious disease vaccines and peptide-based cancer vaccines. Alain P. Rolland, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Vical’s Senior Vice President of Product Development, will present the data today, Wednesday, October 8, at the [...]

An early proof-of-concept study presented today shows promising results for imatinib mesylate in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe, incurable blood vessel disorder.
Preliminary findings from a 59-patient, multi-center Phase II clinical trial suggest imatinib mesylate provides a treatment benefit, as demonstrated by a significant improvement in pulmonary vascular resistance and a numerical [...]

The world leader in generic injectable pharmaceuticals, presented new data showing Retacrit® (epoetin zeta) is an effective treatment for chemotherapy-induced anaemia,1 with an acceptable safety and tolerability profile.2 Results from the Phase III trial were presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) congress.
Retacrit is a biosimilar erythropoietin approved in Europe3 for subcutaneous administration [...]

The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 Presidential Election. The ANA represents the interests of the nation’s 2.9 million registered nurses.
“As President, Barack Obama will bring real change to our health care system,” said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. “Nurses are consistently voted [...]

Lindsay Cokel just started nursing school, and she already has a job lined up.Cokel, who’s working on her bachelor’s degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Nursing, will start at Brookwood Medical Center when she graduates. In exchange, Brookwood is helping pay some of her tuition.
Deals like Cokel’s are increasingly common as [...]