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- Bradford Walters Joins RTI Health Solutions as Senior Director of…
- RTI Health Group Names Former Surgeon and VC as Senior Director
- Assessing a Failed AIDS Vaccine
- Mental health workers honoured
- Kendle’s ‘B1′ CFR affirmed; ‘B1′ on senior…

Bradford Walters Joins RTI Health Solutions as Senior Director of…
carolinanewswire.com – Nov 7, 2007
a prominent neurosurgeon with extensive clinical research and pharmaceutical experience joined RTI Health Solutions in ctober as senior director of Clinical and Medical Services. “We are very excited to welcome Brad to our clinical research and consulting team” said Allen Mangel senior vice president of RTI Health Solutions (RTI-HS). “With his previous positions as a clinician researcher and business leader Brad brings a unique and impressive combination of experience to RTI-HS and our clients. “”I welcome the opportunity to join such a distinguished team of scientists and consultants” said Walters. “I look forward to contributing to the growth and expansion of RTI-HS’ broad range of clinical research activities both in the mid- to later-stage areas for which they have become so well known and as well in the earlier stages of pharmaceutical development. “First earning an A.

RTI Health Group Names Former Surgeon and VC as Senior Director
Local Tech Wire – Nov 7, 2007
he at one time was acting chief executive officer at Kucera Pharmaceutical in Winston-Salem. Waters most recently has worked as a consultant for life science firms with an emphasis on early-stage clinical trials. "We are very excited to welcome Brad to our clinical research and consulting team" said Allen Mangel senior vice president of RTI Health Solutions in a statement. "With his previous positions as a clinician researcher and business leader Brad brings a unique and impressive combination of experience to RTI-HS and our clients. "Waters earned his medical degree at Harvard medical School and later was chief resident in neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He later taught at the UNC medical school. "I welcome the opportunity to join such a distinguished team of scientists and consultants" said Walters.

Assessing a Failed AIDS Vaccine
TIME – Nov 7, 2007
The down side to that efficiency however is that cold viruses are so common that most people have developed a certain level of tolerance to them; if the adenovirus fails to excite the immune system then any bugs piggybacked on the virus such as HIV genes will also slip past immune defenses. That’s exactly what appears to have happened in the Merck trial: People with the highest pre-existing immunity to the common cold also had the highest rates of infection with HIV. “It could be due to chance or to differences in the populations we studied or to something related to the vaccine itself” says Dr. Keith Gottesdiener vice president of Vaccine and Infectious Disease Clinical Research at Merck. “The ‘why’ is still not well known. Researchers have already set about trying to figure it out. “We have to remember that Merck’s was a single product testing a vaccine concept which is that T cell immunity can protect against HIV infection” says Nabel.

Mental health workers honoured
NEWS.com.au – Nov 7, 2007
Mental health employee: Michael Bollom of Bunbury Welfare fficer WA Country Health Service South West; Leslie Nolan Clinical Nurse Consultant lder Adult Mental Health Liaison Team Selby ld Age Psychiatry; and Dr Bernadette Wright of Shelley Clinical Psychologist Transcultural Mental Health Centre (Winner). Mental health promotion and prevention – sponsored by St John of God: Positive Mental and Emotional Health Publications – ffice for Youth (Winner); Mental Health Week Campaign – WA Association for Mental Health West Perth; and Mentally Healthy WA – The Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control Curtin University. Mental health research and education ‘A clinical pathway and guidelines for the provision of antenatal care to pregnant women with serious mental illness’ – Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry Telethon Institute of Child Health Research and Curtin University of Technology and sponsored by North Metropolitan Area Mental Health Service. Researchers: Assoc Prof Daniel Rock Dr Yvonne Hauck Ms Tanyana Jackiewicz and Prof Assen Jablensky (Winner); Prof svaldo P. Almeida – WA Centre for Health and Ageing University of Western Australia; and Mentally Healthy WA – The Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control Curtin University. Keith Wilson Award for Media Achievement – sponsored by the WA Association for Mental Health: Mental health interviews on 6EBA EthnicAbility Radio Program – Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre Subiaco; ‘The stampede to access new mental health services’ – Stateline WA; and ‘The tragedy of losing a loved one to suicide’ – Stateline WA (Winner).

Kendle’s ‘B1′ CFR affirmed; ‘B1′ on senior…
Forbes – Nov 7, 2007
The outlook for the ratings is stable. The CFR is supported by the clinical research company’s solid cash flow coverage of debt metrics and overall favorable trends in financial strength and revenue diversity since the August 2006 acquisition of CRL Clinical Services the ratings agency said. Moody’s said this is balanced however by Kendle’s limited scale versus a number of much larger market participants and a highly competitive environment in which contract research organizations compete for business awards employees and business development opportunities. The ratings are also constrained by Moody’s expectation for continued acquisition activity.