Month: July 2011
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Trial Shows Drug Combo Extends Time Without Tumor Growth
The global pharmaceutical company Novartis says its drug everolimus, when used in combination with exemestane, extended the time without tumor growth, when compared to placebo plus exemestane, in women with advanced breast cancer. The study included postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer whose disease has progressed, despite initial endocrine therapy. Novartis says the clinical trial…
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Anti-Smoking Drug Raises Risk of Heart Problems
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, and University of East Anglia in the U.K. found healthy tobacco users that take a leading smoking cessation drug face a notably greater chance of hospitalization from heart problems, compared to those taking a placebo. The findings appear in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association…
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Light Posting Today
Because of the Independence Day holiday today in the USA, we will have fewer items than usual. For those in the USA, enjoy your Fourth. We’ll be back tomorrow. * * *
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Foods with Baked Milk Can Build Children’s Dairy Tolerance
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have found that adding increasing amounts of foods with baked milk into the diets of children who have milk allergies helped most of them outgrow their allergies. The findings appear in the 23 May issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The team…
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University Spin-Off to Develop Semiconductor Power Devices
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd, a company created by University of Warwick in Coventry, U.K., will develop silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor power switches that promise to be smaller and more efficient than devices built on traditional silicon. The company was founded by Warwick engineering faculty Phil Mawby and Peter Ward, who designed the company’s development technology in…
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Venture Exits Down, Capital Volumes Up in Second Quarter
The number of companies backed by venture capital achieving liquidity fell in the second quarter of 2011, but the amount of capital raised in the process rose significantly in that period. These data on venture-backed exits — companies gaining financial independence, usually through merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public offering (IPO) — are compiled…
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Software Helps Reduce Battery Drain on Mobile WiFi Devices
A graduate student at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina has developed software that coordinates mobile devices competing for WiFi signals and extends the battery lives of those devices. Computer scientist Justin Manweiler (pictured right) presented details about the software at the Association for Computing Machinery’s conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, held this…