University of Chicago Medical Center registered nurses have voted overwhelmingly to approve a new collective bargaining contract with the University, National Nurses United said today. The RNs voted Wednesday and Thursday on the new agreement that they say achieves the nurses’ main negotiating goals with major improvements in patient care protections and economic and workplace [...]

Jason Napodano submits: Positive Top-Line RESTORE-CLI Data On June 1, 2011, Aastrom Bio (ASTM) reported a glimpse of the final top-line results from the Phase 2b RESTORE-CLI trial. The RESTORE-CLI clinical trial assessed the safety and ability of ixmyelocel-T, Aastrom’s expanded, bone marrow-derived cellular therapy, to restore damaged tissue in a lower extremity affected by [...]

by Brian D. Gushulak, Douglas W. MacPherson Further information: Article source

Title: 30 Years Into the Epidemic, a Generation With HIV Comes of AgeCategory: Health NewsCreated: 6/3/2011 10:06:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/3/2011 Further information: Article source

Background: Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are one of the major life-threatening infectious conditions in cancer patients and are responsible for prolonged hospital stays, high healthcare costs and significant mortality. Several clinical trials have reported an improved survival in patients treated with appropriate empirical broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy. Early detection of pathogens and determination of their susceptibility are [...]

The GPC’s new sessional GP subcommittee is working on a number of initiatives to reduce the isolation locums feel. Further information: Article source

Piezoelectric components and drives from PI Ceramic and Physik Instrumente (PI) are known for being employed in high-precision positioning systems. In addition, they are suitable for less accurate systems which nevertheless are small, fast, reliable and energy saving, and with that they fulfil the requirements of medical engineering and related life science disciplines. Today, the [...]

Quanticate has released a free-to-download white paper entitled ‘Bayesian Study Design: The Pragmatic Solution for Phase II Clinical Development’. Statistically powered studies in phase II clinical development can be large and expensive, and may not be appropriate at a stage in development where much remains unknown about the likely magnitude of benefit of the compound [...]

More people are dying from pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and this could be associated with parallel rises in obesity rates, researchers from the University of Adelaide Roger Byard wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia Professor Roger Byard and co-author explain that while focus should continue on illnesses and conditions linked to obesity, such as cardiac [...]

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ: SNTA) today presented results at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) from a Phase 2 single agent clinical trial of ganetespib in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that showed promising clinical activity in patients with progressive disease. Ganetespib is a potent inhibitor of heat shock [...]