Select Agent Program News Headlines

• Peregrine's Licensee Initiates Phase I Clinical Trial In Europe With Novel Tumor Necrosis Therapy Cancer Agent
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Bush administration defends Medicare drug program
  Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:57 EST
  
• Bush administration defends Medicare drug program
  Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:12 EST
  
• Tennessee's CoverRX Program Halts Enrollment Because Of High Demand
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Tennessee's CoverRX Program Halts Enrollment Because Of High Demand
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Pope speaks out against "designer babies"
  Reuters - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:08 EST
  
• LifeCycle Pharma Announces Positive Data From LCP-AtorFen Phase I Clinical Program
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Proposed Cuts To Medicare Advantage Plans Would Lead To Higher Costs, Reduced Coverage For Beneficiaries, BlueCross BlueShield Assoc. Officials Say
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Training program cuts drinking in college students
  Reuters - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:10 EST
  
• Montgomery Starts Sex-Ed Pilot Program
  Washington Post - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Researchers Identify New Adherence Factor, Pili, Produced By Tuberculosis
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Roche And Kosan To Initiate Phase 2 Cancer Development Program With Epothilone R1645 (KOS-1584)
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• New Screening Protocol Identifies More Case Of Lynch Syndrome
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• New Screening Protocol Identifies More Cases Of Lynch Syndrome
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:00 EST
  
• Children's Health Care on Agenda
  Washington Post - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
  
• New Data On Investigational Agent TMC278 In Anitretroviral-Naive HIV Patients
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Clash of the Weight Loss Titans
  WebMD - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Prescription drug plan unaffordable: official
  Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:05 EST
  
• MUSC Helps Turn Guidelines Into Lifelines
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Georgia's PeachCare Program Running Out Of Funds, To Freeze Enrollment
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:00 EST
  
• Empi Announces FDA Clearance Of Select(TM) TENS Device
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Michael J. Fox Foundation Award Allows Exploration Of New Avenue In Parkinson's Therapy Development
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
  
• South Africa To Revise AIDS Control Program To Address XDR-TB
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Pizza rewards for readers called bad idea
  MSNBC - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:39 EST
  
• Decline In J-1 Visa Waiver Program Results In Physician Shortage In Rural Areas
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:00 EST
  
• Connecticut Lawmakers Propose Universal Health Insurance Plan
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Avalon Pharmaceuticals Announces The Initiation Of Drug Discovery Program For The MYC Oncoprotein
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Experts Weigh Giving Up on Killing Polio
  Washington Post - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:31 EST
  
• Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood
  ScienceDaily - Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Researchers Funded By The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Studying Agent To Target Gene Linked To Many Forms Of Lymphoma
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• And Thanks to My Agent, My Skin Doctor ...
  New York Times - Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:19 EST
  
• Independent Panel To Evaluate Widely Used Chemical, Bisphenol A
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Biophysical Society Announces New And Notable Symposium Speakers
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Conn. reps seek near-universal health coverage
  Reuters - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:13 EST
  
• Governors Seek More Money for Children's Insurance
  Washington Post - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Rotary Funds New Research In Mental Health
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:00 EST
  
• Fosrenol Launches In UK Today - New Option To Control Phosphate Levels And Lower Pill Burden For Patients With Kidney Disease And Dialysis
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:00 EST
  
• MAP Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Phase 2 Results For Its Inhaled Migraine Drug Candidate
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Researchers Conducting Clinical Trials Of Diaphragm As HIV Prevention Method
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Body image key to treating eating disorders
  MSNBC - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:37 EST
  
• Body image boost key to treating eating disorders
  Reuters - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:35 EST
  
• MatTek's EpiVaginal Excels In Microbicide/HIV Research Study
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Calcium Lowers Cardiovascular Risk In People On A Weight Loss Program, Study Finds
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• ANA Publishes New Monograph On National Database Of Nursing Quality Indicators Program (NDNQI)
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Health Check Improves Outlook For People With An Intellectual Disability - Has Helped Bring About A New Medicare Rebate
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Insurer Lobbies Maryland Legislature To Allow Incentives For Employees Who Participate In Wellness Programs
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:00 EST
  
• Solo Sailing Study to Show How Humans Cope With Stress
  New York Times - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:42 EST
  
• President Bush Urges Governors To Support Tax Plan That Would Allow More People To Purchase Private Insurance, Does Not Address SCHIP Funding
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Cell Phones With Health Application
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:00 EST
  
• Initiation Of Phase III Program Using Emisphere's Eligen(R) Technology For Oral Salmon Calcitonin
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Dual-Modality Microbeads To Improve Identification Of Disease Biomarkers Created By Scientists
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Independent Panel to Evaluate Widely Used Chemical, Bisphenol A - February 26, 2007
  National Institutes of Health - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:23 EST
  
• States Are Running Out of Health Dollars
  Washington Post - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:54 EST
  
• African Scientists To Train In Latest Drug Discovery Techniques At Emory University
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:00 EST
  
• Alcohol Interventions That Teach Practical Skills Work Best With High-Risk University Students
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
  
• MRI Contrast Agent Linked To Rare Disease
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:00 EST
  
• Injection Drug Use Fueling Spread Of HIV In Mauritius
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Heart Assn. Toughens Women's Rules
  WebMD - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:12 EST
  
• New Study Shows Cough Medicine Effective Against Prostate Cancer
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• MRI Contrast Agent Linked To Rare Disease
  ScienceDaily - Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Democrats, Republicans Debate Reauthorization Of SCHIP
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:00 EST
  
• 1.7M Medi-Cal Beneficiaries, New Applicants Would Have To Prove Citizenship Under Draft Rules In California
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:00 EST
  
• Custom-Made Cancer Cell Attacks
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Biodesign Institute Takes Part In $14.4M NIH Chemical Defense Grant
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Lung Cancer Alliance Hails Veterans Service Organizations' Call For Early Lung Cancer Detection Program
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Contribution Of 11C-Choline Positron Emission Tomography/Computerized Tomography To Preoperative Staging Of Advanced Transitional Cell Carcinoma
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• First Mondays, A Monthly Event For Patients And Families Coping With Cancer
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
  
• Washington Post Columnist Examines Washington, D.C., Program Aimed At Curbing Spread Of HIV Among Injection Drug Users
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Autism Expert Creates Innovative Intervention Program
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• House Spending Resolution Contains Provision That Would Cancel Funding For Program To Expand HIV Services To Pregnant Women, Infants
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Return On Investment For Pediatric Exclusivity Program Varies Widely For Pharmaceutical Companies
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:00 EST
  
• A New Guide To Choosing The Right Vitamin Supplement: Report From Harvard Medical School Separates The Essentials From The Gimmicks
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Research Paves Way Toward Less Toxic HIV Drugs
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Cancer Patients Nationwide Can More Easily Navigate Health Care System
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Lux Biosciences Initiates LUMINATE Pivotal Clinical Trials Of Its Next-Generation Calcineurin Inhibitor, LX211, In Uveitis
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Colorado Gov. Ritter Signs Bill To Create Discount Prescription Drug Program
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• Tailored diabetes care gets results
  Reuters - Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:20 EST
  
• The Use Of Hemostatic Agents And Sealants In Urology
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Stomach Balloon Offers 'Little Benefit' To Severely Obese
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Sen. Baucus Says He Would Attach SCHIP Funding To Iraq War Spending If Needed
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Custom-made Cancer Cell Attacks
  ScienceDaily - Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• MRI Contrast Agent Linked To Complication In Renal Patients
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• New Pennsylvania Law Defines End-of-life Care Decision Making Process
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Many Eligible Beneficiaries Not In Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Subsidy Program
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Senate Committee Investigation Finds Pharmaceutical Companies Improperly Used Exception In Medicaid Drug Rebate Program
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Chile To Resume National Program Providing EC At No Cost To Girls, Women At Public Hospitals
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Medicare Pay-for-Performance Pilot Program Improves Quality Of Patient Care, CMS Says
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:00 EST
  
• Calcium Lowers Cardiovascular Risk In People On A Weight Loss Program
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Boost your brain power with exercise
  MSNBC - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:34 EST
  
• Pharmacopeia's DARA Program For Hypertension And Diabetic Nephropathy Advances Into Phase 1 Clinical Trials
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Intensive care helps smokers quit, study finds
  Reuters - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:27 EST
  
• Intensive care helps smokers quit, study finds
  Reuters - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:27 EST
  
• Intensive care helps smokers quit, study finds
  Reuters - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:27 EST
  
• U.K. pharmacy tests over-counter Viagra
  MSNBC - Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:29 EST
  
• CQ's Carey Discusses President Bush's Health Care Coverage Expansion Proposal, Entitlement Program Commission, SCHIP Program Funding
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
  
• The Current Role Of Medical Simulation In American Urological Residency Training Programs: An Assessment By Program Directors
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
  
• NHS Confederation Responds To Health Select Committee Report On Deficits, UK
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Armenian AIDS Commission Approves HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Targeting Teenagers, Young People, Official Says
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
  
• Intense Cessation Treatment Proves Successful In High-risk Smokers
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Mobile phone-based system to tackle killer diseases
  The Earth Times - Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:32 EST