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Some Pregnancy-Related Complications Minimized For Women Who Have Had Weight-Loss Surgery
Published on Wednesday 19 November 2008 - 11:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/Women who undergo weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, and later become pregnant after losing weight may be at lower risk for pregnancy-related diabetes and high blood pressure--...
Metabolex Announces Positive Results From Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of MBX-8025
Published on Wednesday 19 November 2008 - 09:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/Metabolex, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary new medicines for the treatment of metabolic diseases, announced positive results from a Phase 2...
United Therapeutics's oral PAH trial fails primary endpoint
Published on Wednesday 19 November 2008 - 08:37 - http://www.pharmaceutical-business-review.com/United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company, has announced the results of the Freedom-C trial of oral treprostinil, a sustained-release formulation of treprostinil, in pulmonary arterial...
Lilly Licenses U.S. Rights For Tadalafil PAH Indication To United Therapeutics
Published on Wednesday 19 November 2008 - 06:32 - http://www.pharmaceuticalonline.com/EliLilly and Company and United Therapeutics Corporation recently announced that the two companies have entered into a license and a supply agreement related to the U.S. commercialization rights...
Montville firefighter sues to get job back
Published on Wednesday 19 November 2008 - 01:13 - http://www.norwichbulletin.com/Shawn P. Ryan, a former firefighter with the Mohegan Fire Company, was fired in July 2007, four months after he was arrested for drunken driving off-duty.
G.I. woman in need of heart and lung transplant
Published on Wednesday 19 November 2008 - 01:05 - http://www.theindependent.com/By the time Kristi Veeder was 20 years old, she'd endured four open-heart surgeries. Now, at 36, she hopes for another soon. Veeder has pulmonary hypertension, a condition that creates continual...
One Person Found Dead After Rowhouse Fire
Published on Tuesday 18 November 2008 - 21:02 - http://dcist.com/View Larger Map''Fire department officials found an unidentified dead body inside the remnants of a rowhouse that caught fire in upper Columbia Heights this morning. The two-alarm fire at 1032...
Recent Data on the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: An Expert Interview With Dr. Steven Nathan
Published on Tuesday 18 November 2008 - 19:33 - http://www.medscape.com/Dr. Steven Nathan shares his expert insights into data on pulmonary arterial hypertension from the CHEST 2008 conference. ' Medscape Pulmonary Medicine
United Therapeutics Study Fails to Meet Primary Endpoint
Published on Tuesday 18 November 2008 - 18:05 - http://www.fdanews.com/Results from United Therapeutics Phase III trial studying oral treprostinil as a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) show the drug has failed to meet its primary endpoint.
Surgical Study Highlights Pros And Cons Of Gastric Bypass Surgery For Severe Obesity
Published on Tuesday 18 November 2008 - 16:11 - http://www.dlife.com/November 18, 2008 (EurekAlert) - Severely obese patients who underwent two different gastric bypass techniques had lost up to 31 per cent of their Body Mass Index (BMI) after four years, with no...
