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• U.S. Biotechs to Speed Work on Nipah Vaccine as Virus Hits India A global coalition set up a year ago to fight epidemics has struck a $25 million deal with two U.S. biotech companies to accelerate work on a vaccine against the brain-damaging Nipah virus that has killed 12 people in India.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• China Says Finds No Clues to Explain U.S. Sonic Incident China has found no clues to explain what happened to an American citizen working at a U.S. consulate who reported suffering from "abnormal" sounds and pressure leading to a mild brain injury, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Efforts to Resurrect EndoBarrier for Use in Obese With Diabetes Meta-analysis findings are published as the device maker seeks FDA approval for a new US clinical trial amid efforts to obtain another CE Mark to reintroduce the device in Europe.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• IWMF 2018New Drugs Poised to Expand Treatment Horizons in WM New drug combinations and pathways continue to be mined in an effort to expand treatment horizons for control of a rare lymphoma and extend quality of life for patients over many years to come.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• FDA OKs Novel Enzyme Therapy for Rare Disease Phenylketonuria Pegvaliase-pqpz (Palynziq) helps address a significant, unmet need in phenylketonuria (PKA) patients whose blood levels of PKA cannot be controlled with current treatment options, the FDA says.
  FDA Approvals, May 2018
• EuroPCR 2018Five-Year FAME 2 Data in Stable CAD Reassuring and Surprising PCI continued to provide benefits over medical therapy alone in patients with stable angina, but results also hint at a lower rate of MI.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• More Lung Cancer in Young Women Than Men in US The incidence of lung cancer in young women has now surpassed that of their male counterparts, and the unique smoking behaviors of men and women don't explain why.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• 'Too Clean' Could Be a Trigger for Childhood Acute Leukemia A lack of microbial exposure among children in industrialized countries may contribute to the development of childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• New Study: Clues as to How Brain Stimulation Beats Food Cravings Weight loss and reduced food cravings seen with brain stimulation in obese individuals may be because of the release of neurotransmitters linked to reward pathways, say Italian scientists.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• AUA 2018CR Rate of 30% With Agent for High-Risk Bladder Cancer With a complete response (CR) rate of 30%, the experimental agent CG0070 is in a race to be the first drug since 1998 for the treatment of BCG-unresponsive bladder cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• ATS 2018Procalcitonin Assay: Effect on Antibiotic Use in Lung Infection Using a procalcitonin assay does not reduce antibiotic use among patients with a suspected lower respiratory tract infection, doctors behind a large randomized study done at 14 U.S. hospitals have concluded.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• ATS 2018Ozone Exposure Puts Kids at Risk for Asthma, Allergic Diseases Exposure to ozone in early life raises the risk for asthma and allergic rhinitis by about 80%, according to 10-year follow-up data from a Toronto birth cohort.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Adding HbA1c Test to Wellness Programs to Spot Patients at Risk Adding glycated homoglobin tests to employee wellness exams could identify people at high risk of developing diabetes, a recent study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Nearly a Third of Young Kids With Epilepsy Have Drug Resistance Three out of 10 children with epilepsy have drug-resistant disease, new findings show.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Pediatric Field Triage Tools Misclassify Many Injured Children Field triage protocols are inadequate for determining which injured children need to be transported to specialized pediatric trauma care, according to a systematic review of such protocols.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Aggressive Steroid Tx Improves Visual Outcomes in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Aggressive treatment beginning with pulsed intravenous corticosteroids appears to improve visual outcomes of new-onset acute Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease, researchers from Japan report.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Drugmakers Blamed for Blocking Generics Have Increased Prices, Cost US Billions Makers of brand-name drugs called out by the Trump administration for potentially stalling generic competition have hiked their prices by double-digit percentages since 2012 and cost Medicare and Medicaid nearly $12 billion in 2016.
  Kaiser Health News, May 2018
• Why the World Needs More Than One Ebola Vaccine In the life-and-death race to make the first effective vaccine against Ebola, one company - Merck - seems bound to win.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• 'Don't Touch the Bodies': Racing to Stop Ebola Spread in Congo Hundreds of volunteers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have set out on foot and motorbike to teach Ebola safety in a drive aid agencies say could be key to containing a deadly outbreak.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• U.S. to Send Experimental Ebola Treatment to Congo U.S. health authorities said on Wednesday they were preparing to send an experimental Ebola treatment to the Democratic Republic of Congo for use in a clinical trial aimed at stemming an outbreak in the country that has spread to Mbandaka, a city of about 1.5 million people.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018