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  • Boys stem cells successfully treat cerebral palsy

    Doctors have been able to successfully treat a 2.5-year-old boy who had suffered from cardiac arrest and brain damage, putting him in a vegetative state, using his own cord blood containing stem cells. The symptoms improved significantly; over the following months, the child learned to speak simple sentences and to move. "Our findings, along with those from a Korean study, dispel the long-held ...

  • Arch Grants winners receive additional grants from UMSL

    Mohit Patel Jason Atkins and Mohit Patel were among the 20 recipients of $50,000 grants from Arch Grants last week for their startup Genetix Fusion. But that wasnt the first grant the pair of researchers from the University of Missouri-St. Louis received recently. Atkins and Patel are working on their doctoral degrees in biology in the laboratory of George Gokel, director of the Center for ...

  • Aveo partner will not seek European approval for kidney cancer drug

    Tuan Ha-Ngoc, president and CEO, Aveo Oncology Aveo Oncology (Nasdaq:AVEO) remained quiet Friday after the news that its partner to commercialize its potential drug for kidney cancer is giving up plans to seek approval for the drug in Europe, and wont pay for further trials. Shares in Aveo opened Friday down 17 percent, but by noon, had risen to $2.58 a share, about 4 percent below Thursdays ...

  • Company DePinho co-founded faces more setbacks

    Dr. Ronald DePinho is the President of M.D. Anderson and co-founder of Aveo Pharmaceuticals. The biotechnology company the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center president co-founded is facing more setbacks. Boston-based Aveo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: AVEO), co-founded by Dr. Ronald DePinho, said this week its financial partner, Astellas Pharma Inc., will no longer fund future ...

  • Health Minister awaits HSE creche report

    Minister for Health James Reilly has expressed concern about issues raised in a planned RTÉ Prime Time programme on creches. He said Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald was also concerned. Mr Reilly said he would be watching the issue closely and awaited the report from the Health Service ...

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The Exorcist

The Exorcist

"The Exorcist" is a great, stunning contradiction of a movie. At once an honest, disturbing exploration of the darker aspects of religion and the spiritual world, it is also an unabashed horror movie, a drive-in splatter flick with an Oscar-winning director and expensive production values. When the film was completed, no one was exactly sure what it was: was it an art film or a exploitation shocke ... ...

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  • Palm Harbor pharmacist pleads guilty in health care fraud scheme

    Pharmacist Samuel Wahba faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Pharmacist Samuel Wahba has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, lying to a federal agency, making false claims to a federal health care program and concealing his exclusion from all federal health care programs. In 2001, he was convicted of violating the state racketeering law, Medicaid fraud and ...

  • Salus University eyes leadership change

    Dr. Thomas L. Lewis Dr. Thomas L. Lewis is stepping down as president of Salus University after leading the Elkins Park institution and its predecessor, the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, for 24 years. Rear Admiral Dr. Michael H. Mittelman, who has more than 30 years of health-care industry experience in both military and civilian posts, will take over in mid-July. Lewis will oversee his ...

  • LogistiCare cutting 64 jobs in Madison

    Affected LogistiCare positions include 33 customer service representatives, as well as managers, quality assurance specialists and facilities representatives. LogistiCare will cut 64 jobs at its Madison call center because of the loss of a contract, the company said in a letter to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development received Thursday. LogistiCare said the decision is a result of ...

  • World Health Organization Coronavirus research stalled by scientific red tape

    China's Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, WHO, leaves the podium after delivering a speech during the 66th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 20, ...

  • More outpatient clinics coming from MedStar Health

    Hospital chain MedStar Health is expanding its network of walk-in clinics, announcing plans for two more urgent care clinics not previously disclosed. MedStar officials have informed District regulators they will seek permission to open a combined urgent care clinic and doctors' office in the Anacostia neighborhood of southeast D.C. A similar operation is also planned to open this summer in ...

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