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Message on the occasion of World AIDS Day

On this World AIDS Day we are filled with both hope and concern.
Hope because significant progress has been made towards universal access. New HIV infections have dropped. Fewer children are born with HIV. And more than 4 million people are on treatment.
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High salt intake means more strokes and heart disease

A high salt intake is linked with a significantly increased risk of both strokes and cardiovascular disease, according to a new EU-funded study published this week in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The collaborative research was carried out by teams at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and the University of Warwick in the UK.
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85% of Online Europeans Use the Internet for Health Information

In 2009, 85% of online Europeans in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain turn to the Internet and other technologies for health and prescription drug information, according to the latest Cybercitizen Health® Europe v9.0 study from healthcare and pharmaceutical market research company Manhattan Research. The collaboratively-edited Wikipedia again proves to be a top online health resource for consumers in all of the countries surveyed.
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First DataBank partners with unique medication management provider

Protomed, the world's first provider of a total medication management platform catering for both liquid and solid medications, has signed an agreement with drug knowledge base and clinical decision support provider First DataBank (FDB). Protomed and FDB have signed a contract in which FDB will provide its Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) to enable safer and easier identification of medications within Protomed’s Biodose™ Total Medication Management System (ToMM®).
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British Innovation Shines at the iawards

The iawards ceremony at the Science Museum saw the teams behind this year's best British innovations. Topping the honours list was Horizon Discovery Ltd, a technology start-up company which scooped the iaward of the Year for its hi-tech, 'X-MAN Model Cancer Patient'; a product that identifies patients most likely to respond to particular cancer treatments.
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Researchers follow spread of HIV between cells

A team of German researchers has successfully tracked a key protein in the HIV (human immuno-deficiency virus) intercellular infection and virus assembly process in real time. Their partly EU-funded research now published in the open-access journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Pathogens has improved our understanding of the Gag (group-specific antigen) protein's infectious route from cell to cell, and might lead to new treatments.
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Parliament urges joint EU action on neurodegenerative diseases

The European Parliament (EP) on 12 November adopted a resolution supporting the pan-European coordination of research on neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The ultimate goal is to combine funding, skills and knowledge, and to capitalise on the efforts being carried out across the EU.
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More Pharma News ...

  1. Progress on alternative approaches to animal testing
  2. International Diabetes Federation drives global action ahead of World Diabetes Day
  3. Oncodesign(R) to Develop Experimental Cancer Models for sanofi-aventis
  4. Enzyme could help regeneration of nervous systems, study finds
  5. Advanced Semantic Knowledge-Based Bio-Medical Search Solution
  6. Study reveals deep evolutionary roots of programmed cell death
  7. Imperial College London's Institute of Biomedical Engineering Wins Top Prize For Innovation