The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) announced today that they entered into a research collaboration agreement to provide financial support for a clinical proof-of-concept study to investigate the effects of metreleptin, an analog of...
Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Arthritis Advisory Committee voted overwhelmingly (13 to 2) to recommend BENLYSTA® for approval as a treatment for the autoimmune disease lupus. If FDA approved, BENLYSTA would become the first new treatment for lupus in 52 years. While today's...
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation announced it has been selected as an initial grantee in and will play a major role in the new Together on Diabetes®: Communities Uniting to Meet America's Diabetes Challenge. The $100 million initiative, funded by the Bristol-Meyers Squibb...
Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) - such as influenza, pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - cause 4.25 million deaths each year often among young children in developing countries, according to the Acute Respiratory Infections Atlas, which was released on Tuesday by the World Lung...
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced that it will partner with CVS/pharmacy and Warner Home Video for the second year to raise critical funds for cystic fibrosis through the sale of classic family movies this holiday season. From now through Dec. 28, 2010, CVS/pharmacy will sell four...
The National Blood Foundation (NBF) Board of Trustees recently announced the recipients of the 2010 NBF Scientific Research Grants. Each grant recipient will receive up to $75,000 to pursue either a one- or two-year research project in the field transfusion medicine and cellular therapy. To...
The Cardinal Health Foundation announced that, for the fourth consecutive year, it will award more than $1 million in grant funding to help U.S. hospitals, health systems and community health clinics improve the efficiency and quality of care. Earlier this year, the Cardinal Health Foundation...
The Lupus Foundation of America, Inc. (LFA) congratulates John Harley, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, who has received a $1.1 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Congressionally Directed Peer Reviewed Medical...
The Hormone Foundation recently released a patient guide on congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) as a companion piece to The Endocrine Society's clinical practice guideline for physicians. The patient guide describes this genetic disorder that interferes with the adrenal glands' ability to make...
The Care Quality Commission has lifted some of the conditions which had been imposed on Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in response to concerns over its maternity services. When CQC introduced a new registration system in April, the trust was registered with conditions because it was...
...in the trust built by faith? It can be argued that the foundation for community support for law enforcement is in the trust built by faith that the police follow the law and adhere to the U.S. Constitution. For example, criminal investigative questioning must be guided by Fourth Amendment...
CodePlex Foundation, the open source foundation launched with support from Microsoft in 2009, today announced it has rebranded and adopted a new name: the Outercurve Foundation.
The American Pain Foundation (APF), in partnership with professional baseball player LaTroy Hawkins, acknowledges those suffering from Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN), as it recognizes the second annual PHN Awareness Day. PHN Awareness Day was created to raise awareness to the pain caused by...
I've been to almost every drugstore and I can't find Maybelline Pure Makeup Foundation, which happens to be my favorite! Did they stop selling them? If so, why?
Anyone recommend a new foundation? I've got oily skin, especially towards the end of the day. I need something that will last all day...
Nurse-Family Partnership®, a leading non-profit organization addressing the needs of low income, first-time parents and their children, has received a $210,000 grant from the WellPoint Foundation. The WellPoint Foundation, a private, non-profit organization wholly funded by WellPoint, Inc...
The medical team organized and sponsored by Incheon City and Gacheon Gil Foundation visited the Viet-Czech Friendship Hospital in Haiphong, Vietnam, a sister city of Incheon, on August 24 (Tue) as part of the "2010 Asian District Sister City Support Project", which sought to pre-treat 50...
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) announced that Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust has addressed concerns linked to the trust's clinical governance arrangements for infection prevention and control. The regulator will now lift the remaining condition imposed on the trusts licence on 1...
The time is right for foundation trusts to be freed of the vestiges of state micromanagement and become mutuals, says the NHS Alliance In a newly published paper, Building new mutuals from the foundation trusts?, the NHS Alliance states that, by devolving power to local people and placing...
The Endocrine Society has named Patricia S. Green the director of its public education affiliate, The Hormone Foundation. Green leads the Foundation in its mission to serve as a key informational resource for the public in the prevention, treatment and cure of hormone-related conditions. Green...