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- Burzynski Research Institute Partners with Premier Research to …
- NIH awards Case Western Reserve University $1.33M
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Publishes UltraShape’s Basic …
- Medical Mystery f 9-month-old Infant Solved: Breastfed Baby Had …
- MDS Pharma Services Scientific Experts Join FDA and NIH on …
- Quanticate Appoints Andrew MacGarvey to President of US perations …

Burzynski Research Institute Partners with Premier Research to …
MarketWatch (press release) 
Premier Research delivers high quality clinical trial services for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies and has a successful track record providing services for covering a wide spectrum of cancer-related therapeutic indications. Premier Research’s oncology expertise ranges from small dose findings and proof-of-concept studies to large multi-national Phase III trials and as such is well suited to partner with BRI on this study. In addition to oncology the company leads in the management of clinical research for analgesia CNS and infectious disease and has deep experience in medical device and pediatric research. Premier Research maintains a well-established network of dedicated clinical sites with 30 offices and operations in more than 30 countries throughout North America and Europe. Burzynski Research Institute Inc.
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NIH awards Case Western Reserve University $1.33M
EurekAlert (press release) DC 
the co-principal investigator from the Case School of Engineering includes investigators from the Marshfield Clinic University of Wisconsin Madison and the University of Michigan. This team will develop Multi-Modality Multi-Resource Environment for Physiological and Clinical Research (Physio-MIMI) an informatics infrastructure for collecting managing and analyzing diverse data types across institutions. “The software developed will provide easier collaboration between investigators from diverse disciplines and help them better address complex health problems that affect multiple aspects of health such as the heart brain (sleep) and genomic data” said Redline. “By enhancing the ability of investigators to access combine and analyze research information from physiological testing questionnaires and other sources the hope is that novel markers of disease will be identified leading to new approaches for screening diagnosing and treating illnesses. Researchers will be able to more effectively and efficiently collaborate in national studies that include many complex data sources and types such as heart or brain monitoring data and genomic information. A key component of the system will allow secure safe and regulated transfer of information from clinical care systems and research databases.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Publishes UltraShape’s Basic …
Canada NewsWire (press release) Canada 
Vice Chairman and Professor of Plastic Surgery atthe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Chairman UltraShapeMedical Advisory Board. “UltraShape is the first non-invasive aesthetictechnology to be scientifically validated by such comprehensive pre-clinicalresearch. “The publication of our extensive scientific and pre-clinical research inplastic surgery’s premier peer-reviewed journal is yet another significantmilestone for our company. This research further validates our non-thermalfocused ultrasound technology and its unique ability to target and selectivelydestroy fat cells for non-invasive fat reduction and body contouring” saidAssaf Eyal President and Chief Executive ffice of UltraShape Ltd. “Thecombination of this new peer-reviewed published scientific research ourpreviously published clinical results and over three and a half years clinicalexperience outside the U.

Medical Mystery f 9-month-old Infant Solved: Breastfed Baby Had …
Science Daily (press release) 
Examination showed a bulging soft spot and a prominent forehead. Laboratory studies determined hypocalcemia hypophosphatemia and elevated alkaline phosphatase. "In arriving at a diagnosis we needed to consider the causes of seizures and the consequences of breast feeding without vitamin supplementation" said article author Michael Holick MD PhD director of the General Clinical Research Center and professor of medicine physiology and biophysics at BUSM and senior author of this case study. According to Holick who is an internationally recognized expert in vitamin D and skin research this child had marked hypocalcemia which could have caused his seizure. "Hypocalcemia has numerous causes and although rickets is a rare cause for this condition it did merit consideration" he added. Holick also pointed out that the child had received breast milk exclusively as his major nutrition for almost 9 months which could result in several nutritional deficiencies including iron and the fat soluble vitamins A D and K. Vitamin D deficiency as well as rickets have become resurgent in this country in recent years particularly in infants who are solely breast fed.

MDS Pharma Services Scientific Experts Join FDA and NIH on …
PharmaLive.com (press release) PA 
He joined MDS Pharma Services in June 2008 from Caprion Proteomics where he was Executive Vice President Research and Development. He spent six years with PRCREA BioSciences first as the Vice President of Scientific Research and then as Chief Scientific fficer. Earlier he worked for the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (Montreal Institute of Clinical Research). Hugo holds a Master of Science in Immunotoxicology from the University of Quebec and a PhD in Immunology from McGill University in Montreal. He also conducted five years of post doctoral training in Australia and the United States.

Quanticate Appoints Andrew MacGarvey to President of US perations …
MSNBC 
operations headquartered inCambridge MA. The appointment signals the company’s mission to furtherexpand its clinical trial service capabilities with MacGarvey managing thecompany’s initiatives in support of existing and new U.