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Lupus Foundation of America Web Chat to Focus on Medication Adherence (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Fri Nov 20 13:17:00 PST 2009 WASHINGTON----Medications are important for managing the signs and symptoms of lupus, a serious and potentially life-threatening autoimmune disease that affects an estimated 1.5 million Americans. Read full article »
ImmuPharma PLC: Encouraging Final Phase IIb Results Seen With LUPUZORâ„¢ In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Medical News Today) Thu Nov 19 21:37:19 PST 2009 ImmuPharma PLC (LSE:IMM) the specialist discovery and development pharmaceutical company is pleased to announce the final results from a Phase IIb trial of LUPUZORâ„¢ in active patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Read full article »
ImmuPharma PLC: Encouraging Final Phase IIb Results Seen with LUPUZOR in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Wed Nov 18 23:57:00 PST 2009 LONDON----ImmuPharma PLC the specialist discovery and development pharmaceutical company is pleased to announce today the final results from a Phase IIb trial of LUPUZORâ„¢ in active patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus . Read full article »
ND grad to talk on living with lupus :She had to counteract inclination to fight (South Bend Tribune) Wed Nov 18 13:18:01 PST 2009 Sarah Gorman knew only one way to respond to being diagnosed with lupus in 2001 -- that was to fight through the pain, the fatigue and the other symptoms of the chronic inflammatory disease. Read full article »
Hospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants (New York Times) Sat Nov 21 09:09:39 PST 2009 When an Atlanta hospital closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment. Read full article »
Animal services (The Wichita Eagle) Sat Nov 21 22:03:31 PST 2009 Caring Hands Humane Society, 1400 SE Third, Newton, 67114, 316-283-0839, www.caringhandshs.org. Mission: Improving quality of life. Needs: Money, adult volunteers, house training pads. Read full article »
Eli Sercarz dies at 75; UCLA scientist made key discoveries in immunology (Los Angeles Times) Sat Nov 21 00:21:16 PST 2009 Sercarz studied the concepts behind autoimmune diseases. Eli E. Sercarz, who explored the mechanisms of autoimmunity and developed key concepts about how the body's immune system attacks its own tissues, died of renal cell cancer Nov. 3 in Topanga. He was 75. Read full article »
Immunologist Eli Sercarz dies at 75 (Newsday) Sat Nov 21 17:14:29 PST 2009 LOS ANGELES - Eli E. Sercarz, who explored the mechanisms of autoimmunity and developed key concepts about how the body's immune system attacks its own tissues, died of renal cell cancer Nov. 3 in Los Angeles. He was 75. Read full article »
All Hail the Innovators (GenomeWeb News) Sat Nov 21 11:16:32 PST 2009 Scientific American has named its SciAm 50 , the awards given out for leading research and innovation. The X Prize Foundation won for policy leader, and of course stem cell guru Shinya Yamanaka was a shoo-in. Read full article »
Gene Logic Sells BioExpress, GeneExpress Subscription to Japan s Daiichi (GenomeWeb News) Sat Nov 21 11:16:02 PST 2009 The multi-year deal gives the Japanese pharma firm broad deployment to BioExpress information as well as Gene Logic's GeneExpress software system. Read full article »