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Cardium Provides Update On Phase 2b Excellarate Clinical Study And Plans For Additional Tissue Repair Applications
Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE Amex: CXM) and its subsidiary Tissue Repair Company (TRC) provided an update on the completion of their MATRIX Phase 2b clinical study and announced plans to provide detailed safety and efficacy data for their Excellarate(TM) product candidate around the end of September. The MATRIX trial, a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, has enrolled 124 diabetic patients with non-healing, lower extremity neuropathic ulcers.
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Novel Cell Therapies To Treat Cancer
Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development, a unit of Centocor Research & Development, Inc., has announced that it has entered into a five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., chief, Surgery Branch, serving as the NCI principal investigator, to research and develop novel cell therapy technologies as potential treatments for a variety of cancers. These adoptive immunotherapy technologies are designed to work by helping the immune system fight cancer. Standard cancer treatments still have not progressed much beyond surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, which are effective at killing tumor cells but also can harm or kill healthy tissues. Adoptive immunotherapies have the potential to spare healthy tissue because they are designed to directly find and destroy cancerous tumor cells using a patient"s own immune system T cells.
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St. Jude Medical Completes Implants In U.S. Study Of Deep Brain Stimulation For Parkinson's Disease
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced the completion of patient implants in its U.S. pivotal clinical study of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the symptomatic treatment of Parkinson"s disease, a neurological disorder affecting approximately 6.3 million people worldwide that progressively diminishes a person"s control over his or her movements. The announcement was made at the Movement Disorder Society"s 13th International Congress of Parkinson"s Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris.
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New Viral Video Tackles Diabetes Bullies

Diabetes UK has released a short, gritty video called "Setting the record straight", to show schoolchildren and young people about Type 1 diabetes. The two-minute film aims to dispel common myths about Type 1 diabetes and stop young people with the condition from experiencing bullying based on ignorance and misconceptions. It shows a group of teenagers in a classroom teasing a girl for reasons unknown to viewers. The girl then turns to the camera and explains that she has Type 1 diabetes and dispels myths and inaccuracies. Reflecting the real issues All comments based on real experiences Before developing the video, Diabetes UK invited young people with diabetes to share their experience of bullying so that the campaign could accurately reflect the issues they face. All the comments in the film are based on real experiences. Some young people who responded reported incidents of being called "drug addicts" by their peers and of being shunned because some think that diabetes is "contagious". Another common misconception is the belief that a young person has diabetes because they "ate too many sweets". Receptive to new technologies "The anti-bullying viral video is a different way of letting young people know more about Type 1 diabetes and helping them understand that other young people with the condition should not be singled out or victimised," said Amanda Neylon, Digital Media Manager at Diabetes UK. "We know that young people are especially receptive to new technologies and we are always keen to use the internet and social networking sites to communicate with them." Share the video with family and friends A viral campaign aimed at young people, the video is designed to be shared among family and friends. The film is available on Diabetes UK"s YouTube channel , pages on social networking sites such as Facebook , MySpace and Bebo, and here on the Diabetes UK "My life" website for teenagers with diabetes. You can also read a news story about the video on the BBC News website. Diabetes UK


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