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Seattle Sutton, healthy eating expert, urges Congress and President Obama to focus more on prevention in the pending healthcare reform to battle skyrocketing obesity rates which put strain on our ailing healthcare system and will continue to further stre
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In groundbreaking research, scientists at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth have determined that rapid estrogen administration can protect the brain following brain injury. These findings are now being tested on human trau
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Johnson & Johnson Completes Initial Tender Offer for Cougar Biotechnology
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Sundia MediTech, a leading integrated pharmaceutical and biotech R&D outsourcing company in Shanghai, China announced today that Dr. Chen Chen has been appointed Senior Vice President of Chemistry Services.
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ThromboGenics NV and co-development partner BioInvent International announce that they have started recruitment of a second cohort of patients for their Phase II trial of TB-402. This follows completion of recruitment of the first cohort of 100 patients
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AfPA; HAAF Urge State Leaders to Support Principles to Govern Health Insurer Behavior
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