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(DH) New Primary Care Approach Boosts Referrals To NHS Stop Smoking Services By 49%, Uk
The Department of Health is rolling out a new systems-based approach to improve stop smoking interventions in primary care. This new approach has increased referrals to local NHS Stop Smoking services by up to 49% in pilot areas.
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Response Genetics To Present New Data On Lung Cancer Supporting The Use Of Gene Expression To Help Personalize Cancer Therapy Selection
Response Genetics Inc. (Nasdaq: RGDX), a company focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer, will announce the results of separate analyses of KRAS gene mutations and TS and RRM1 gene expression in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) during the 13th World Conference on Lung Cancer, which will be held July 31 to August 4. Results will provide insights into which patient subtypes are most likely to benefit from the commonly prescribed chemotherapies pemetrexed and gemcitabine.
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U.S. To Commit Additional $1B To H1N1 Vaccine Development
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday the U.S. has agreed to put an addition $1 billion towards ingredients for the production of a vaccine that offers protection against the H1N1 (swine flu) virus, Reuters reports. "There"ll be another $1 billion worth of orders placed to get the bulk ingredients for an H1N1 vaccination. Congress has agreed with the president that this is the number one priority, keeping Americans safe and secure," Sebelius said (7/12).
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'World First' Shows Heart Can Recover, Says British Heart Foundation

In response to the publication of the story of heart transplant patient Hannah Clark in the Lancet , Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation (BHF), described the operation as "an exciting and important event". He said: "Cardiologists have long wondered whether a heart which is failing because of cardiomyopathy might be able to recover if rested. "This seems to be exactly what has happened in Hannah"s case in which the donor heart allowed her own heart to take a rest and recover. This is an exciting discovery since it proves that, in some instances, a weakened heart has the capacity to recover if it can be helped" "This breakthrough provides a great boost to ongoing efforts to perfect a mechanical heart, called a "ventricular assist device", that can be used temporarily to take over the work of a weak heart while it recovers. "This is a great example of how a pioneering and novel approach to a medical problem can lead to surprising results that tell us a lot about how some heart diseases progress. It also opens the way for new research on just how damaged hearts manage to recover, which in turn may lead to new treatments for heart failure." The British Heart Foundation


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