The News Review:

- Fighting To C. Difficile With Soap And Warm Water
- Impact | Sundayobserver.lk – Sri Lanka
- VLST Corp Bolsters Executive Team.(appointments of Consuelo M. Blosch…
- FDA Appoints Coté To Head rphan Products Development ffice
- Subjects are sought for imaging study
- Brief cases: New dermatology clinic

Fighting To C. Difficile With Soap And Warm Water
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Sep 23, 2007
Located in Montreal Quebec the institute is the research arm of the MUHC a university health center affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The institute supports over 500 researchers nearly 1000 graduate and post-doctoral students and operates more than 300 laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical research. The Research Institute operates at the forefront of knowledge innovation and technology and is inextricably linked to the clinical programs of the MUHC ensuring that patients benefit directly from the latest research-based knowledge. For further details visit:.

Impact | Sundayobserver.lk – Sri Lanka
Sunday bserver – Sep 23, 2007
and one in Italy and found that screening for lung cancer with low dose CT may increase the rate of lung cancer diagnosis and treatment but may not meaningfully reduce the risk of advanced lung cancer or deaths from lung cancer (JAMA March 7). They argued that until more conclusive data are available asymptomatic individuals should not be screened outside clinical research studies that have a reasonable likelihood of further clarifying the potential benefits and risks. Conclusions opposed These results contradict the conclusions of the International Early Action Lung Cancer Programme which claimed that CT screening of high risk individuals could prevent 80 per cent of lung cancer deaths (New England Journal of Medicine 2006). After reviewing these two papers Drs William C. Baron concluded thus: "Although expensive and time consuming rigorous trials for cancer screening are far more cost-effective than what might be the alternative" widespread adoption of costly screening interventions that cause more harm than good (JAMA March 7 2007).

VLST Corp Bolsters Executive Team.(appointments of Consuelo M. Blosch…
Free with registration – Wireless News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 23, 2007
as Vice President of Clinical and Regulatory and Dan Allison Ph. D as Senior Director of Therapeutic Design. Blosch joins VLST from the. CPYRIGHT 2007 M2 Communications Ltd.

FDA Appoints Coté To Head rphan Products Development ffice
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Sep 23, 2007
“Tim brings a plethora of experience confronting emerging health issues in the United States and abroad coupled with a commitment to public service. Coté’s experience ranges from medical epidemiology to clinical research. Coté a captain in the U. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps most recently served as the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) country director for the African nation of Rwanda.

Subjects are sought for imaging study
Deseret News – Sep 23, 2007
a Salt Lake-based developer of ultrasound technology for breast imaging is recruiting subjects for a clinical research study. It is looking for women who have had a recent call-back for a diagnostic mammogram or ultrasound pertaining to an area of interest in their breasts and who would like to participate as volunteers. TechniScan is working on a new imaging procedure that uses conventional ultrasound (no radiation) and is gentle (no compression). The study will take about one hour and TMS will compensate each participant $50 plus the costs of obtaining copies of her mammography or ultrasound images and reports.

Brief cases: New dermatology clinic
nline Athens – Sep 23, 2007
Potter served her residency her dermatology residency and dermatological surgery at the Medical College of Georgia. She is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology and is a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology. She also has memberships in the American Society of Dermatological Surgery the North American Society of Phlebology the Medical Association of Georgia the Medical Association of Atlanta the American Medical Association the Georgia Society of Dermatology and the Drug Information Association for Physicians in Clinical Research as well as other local and national organizations. The phone number is (706) 353-4570.