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4th Annual Pharmaceutical Reimbursement And Market Access Conference, 27-28 August 2012, Philadelphia, PA

Date: Jul-18-2012
This August in Philadelphia, PA, Q1 Productions follows on its previous success in pharmaceutical reimbursement and market access. Bringing together representatives from all perspectives, from government and private payers to pharma's most successful companies, this year's event looks deep into reimbursement structures and informed coverage strategies. With impending healthcare reform, beyond its outcome, government, payers and consumers continue to put pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to lower costs...

Commercial Effectiveness Of Pharmaceutical Sales And Marketing Conference, 27-28 August 2012, Boston, MA

Date: Jul-18-2012
This August, Q1 Productions will host today's and tomorrow's pharmaceutical sales and marketing leaders in discussing changes happening on all sides of industry and how they are changing the nature of an effective sales and marketing role for pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Held over August 27th and 28th in Boston, MA, the seat of America's pharma industry, evolving sales and marketing methods will be explored, making new and adapted methods more familiar and strategic...

Medical Device Safety Conference: Regulations, Reporting & Tracking, 27-28 August 2012, Baltimore, MD

Date: Jul-18-2012
This summer in Baltimore, MD, regulatory and quality executives from all areas of the medical device industry will convene, sharing their insights into product safety. As medical technologies continue to grow in complexity and dynamics, the need to track and measure the safety of these products in both the short and long term has also increased...

Risk For Breast Cancer Increased By Giving Birth To Large Infants

Date: Jul-18-2012
Delivering a high-birth-weight infant more than doubles a woman's breast cancer risk, according to research from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The researchers suggest that having a large infant is associated with a hormonal environment during pregnancy that favors future breast cancer development and progression. Marking the first time that high birth weight was shown to be an independent risk factor, the finding may help improve prediction and prevention of breast cancer decades before its onset...

Risk Of Developing Rheumatoid Arthritis May Be Reduced In Women By Moderate Drinking

Date: Jul-18-2012
A follow-up study of more than 34,000 women in Sweden has shown that moderate drinkers, in comparison with abstainers, were at significantly lower risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an often serious and disabling type of arthritis. RA is known to relate to inflammation, and it is thought that this inflammation is blocked to some degree by the consumption of alcohol...

MS Drug Interferon Beta May Not Slow Progression

Date: Jul-18-2012
Interferon beta, a group of widely-prescribed drugs for treating multiple sclerosis (MS), may not slow long-term progression of the disease, according to a new study of patients with relapsing-remitting MS that is due to be published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA. Afsaneh Shirani, of the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues concluded there was no strong evidence that interferon beta had a measurable impact on the long-term disability progression of MS...

Why Online Self-Diagnosis Could Be Bad For Your Health

Date: Jul-18-2012
Consumers who self-diagnose are more likely to believe they have a serious illness because they focus on their symptoms rather than the likelihood of a particular disease, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. This has significant implications for public health professionals as well as consumers. "In today's wired world, self-diagnosis via internet search is very common...

Study Reveals Brain Functions During Visual Searches

Date: Jul-18-2012
You're headed out the door and you realize you don't have your car keys. After a few minutes of rifling through pockets, checking the seat cushions and scanning the coffee table, you find the familiar key ring and off you go. Easy enough, right? What you might not know is that the task that took you a couple seconds to complete is a task that computers - despite decades of advancement and intricate calculations - still can't perform as efficiently as humans: the visual search...

Discovering How Muscles Are Paralyzed During Sleep May Suggest New Treatments For Sleep Disorders

Date: Jul-18-2012
Two powerful brain chemical systems work together to paralyze skeletal muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, according to new research in the July 18 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The finding may help scientists better understand and treat sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, tooth grinding, and REM sleep behavior disorder. During REM sleep - the deep sleep where most recalled dreams occur - muscles that move the eyes and those involved in breathing continue to move, but the most of the body's other muscles are stopped, potentially to prevent injury...

Reducing Geriatric Deaths From Chronic Illnesses With The Help Of A Nursing Program

Date: Jul-18-2012
A community-based nursing program delivered in collaboration with existing health care services is more effective in reducing the number of older people dying from chronic illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, than usual care according to a study by US researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine...