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 Evergreen Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 205 Chestnut Hill Road, Stafford Springs, Connecticut 06076 Ratings: Phone: (860) 684-6341 |
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ARVO Foundation for Eye Research to present Dr. David L. Epstein Award at ARVO 2016
To honor the memory of a longtime leader in glaucoma treatment and research, the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research will present the Dr. David L. Epstein Award. The new award — a $100,000 prize — was established by the late Dr. Epstein's family and will be presented annually to a senior-level glaucoma researcher at the ARVO Annual Meeting.
Promising results from MGH's BCG Phase I trial on type I diabetes
Promising results of the Phase I clinical trial of the generic drug BCG to treat advanced type I diabetes were announced today at the American Diabetes Association scientific sessions in San Diego.
Celldex announces pricing of underwritten public offering of common stock
Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,500,000 shares of its common stock, offered at a price to the public of $3.85 per share for an aggregate offering of $40,425,000 of common stock.
Pioneering work with human embryonic stem cells could speed up development of new treatments for Parkinson's and diabetes
Pioneering work with human embryonic stem (hES) cells could speed up the development of new treatments for a range of degenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes according to Dr Stephen Minger of King's College London, speaking today at the BA Festival of Science.
Also in Global Health News: Retrovirus enzyme; audit of USAID program; Africa's agriculture
A study published on Sunday in the journal Nature has shed light on the enzyme integrase, "which is found in retroviruses like HIV and is a target for some of the newest HIV medicines," Reuters reports. Scientists at the Imperial College London and Harvard University grew a crystal of integrase in the lab allowing them to see the enzyme's structure. According to the news service, the scientists "said that having the integrase structure means researchers can begin fully to understand how integrase inhibitor drugs work, how they might be improved, and how to stop HIV developing resistance to them," according to the news service (Kelland, 2/1).
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