BMJ Group provides authoritative update on swine flu vaccination
The latest guidance on swine flu vaccination for healthcare professionals is now available. It will be published as a learning module on BMJ Learning and as a downloadable audio file on the BMJ's pandemic flu microsite.
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MarkMonitor Finds Online Drug Brand Abuse is Growing
MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the company's latest Brandjacking Index, which finds a parallel online system of pharmaceutical supply and demand fuelled by continued growth in listings for pharmaceuticals on business-to-business (B2B) exchange sites as well as increased traffic to illicit pharmacies.
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EU-funded researchers hunt down tumour killers using bacteria
Infamous bacteria impacting our lives are Salmonellae, usually found in chicken and eggs. But are they getting too much of a bad rap? EU-funded researchers in Germany may have actually succeeded in putting a positive spin on Salmonellae following the discovery that the bacteria can migrate into solid tumours and destroy them.
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EU Veterinary Week 2009
This year's edition of the EU Veterinary Week (28 September to 4 October 2009), organised by the European Commission in partnership with Federation of Veterinarians of Europe, aims once more to promote the work and the role of EU veterinarians for animal and public health.
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Skin formation mechanisms revealed, promise progress in cancer fight
Scientists in Italy have discovered two proteins that control the formation of skin cells from stem cells deposited at the base of the skin. The discovery raises hopes for the fight against a variety of epithelial cancers. Now published in Nature Cell Biology, the study received partial financial support from different projects funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
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EU-funded study finds pandemic swine flu infects cells deep inside lungs
Which type of flu infects cells deep inside the lungs: pandemic swine or seasonal? EU-funded researchers say pandemic swine flu wins hands down. Published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, the findings of a new study suggest that humans infected with the pandemic strain of swine-origin H1N1 influenza will probably experience more severe symptoms than patients infected with the seasonal strain of H1N1 because of how the swine virus attaches to specific receptors in the body.
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IBM Study Reveals Drug Companies Struggle to Improve Supply Chain
Reducing the risk of counterfeit drugs and contaminated medications amidst the complexity of global manufacturing are among the top concerns of the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries today, according to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study. More than 50 percent of executives polled say their companies fail to respond quickly enough to pandemics and other emergencies because of lapses in their supply chain.
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