Woman is first to have baby after ovaries frozen as a child

A 24-year-old Dubai native has become the first woman to give birth after having her fertility restored from ovarian tissue frozen during her childhood. She is the first person in the world to have had a successful pregnancy using ovarian tissue that was harvested before the onset of puberty and the only person to have her ovaries transplanted back after 13 years in storage.

Advertisers and crib manufacturers fail to adhere to safe sleep recommendations for infants

A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows that national magazine advertisements and manufacturers of infant cribs continue to depict unsafe sleep environments, despite longtime guidelines established by the American Academy of Pediatrics to protect against SIDS and other sleep-related deaths. “It is important that health care providers, advertisers and crib manufacturers come together to educate parents and caregivers about safe sleep environments for children,” said Bradley Troxler, M.D., assistant professor and director of the UAB Pediatric Pulmonary Center who treats patients at Children’s of Alabama.

DPP IV Inhibitors

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Home buyer plan short-term gain for long-term pain

Premier Christy Clark’s home-buyers plan is short-term gain for the B.C. Liberal Party and long-term pain for both those who borrow money from the government, taxpayers and the entire B.C. housing market . But for Clark this is all about getting re-elected next May. Who cares if some first-time home buyers can’t make their mortgage payments and lose their houses down the road? What’s it to her if housing prices go up for everyone because the B.C. government plan will reduce already limited supply? As flimflams go, this one is impressively slippery and a lucrative Christmas present to the B.C. Liberals’ biggest donors the real estate industry .

Elder Cosmetic Surgery

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Hepatitis C is commonly spread by sharing needles and can hide for years without producing symptoms

HEPATITIS C remains a ‘major public health problem’ in the North West with more than 1,400 people infected in Bolton. According to Public Health England’s latest figures, it is estimated that 2,063 people in Bolton have been infected with Hep C. A proportion clear the infection themselves but the latest figures, collated in 2014, show 1,423 still had the infection and 388 received treatment.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals and National Cancer Institute to Collaborate on Drug Candidate TH-3424

Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for cancer, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health , to study TH-3424, the company’s new drug candidate for the treatment of cancer. The collaboration will explore the effects of TH-3424 against T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia xenograft cell lines with high AKR1C3 expression.

Catalyst Biosciences Completes Manufacturing Agreements for its Novel …

Catalyst Biosciences, Inc. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel medicines to address hematology indications, today announced it has secured all rights to the manufacturing process for marzeptacog alfa from Wyeth LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pfizer. Marzeptacog alfa is a next-generation Factor VIIa product that was designed to allow for the effective, long-term, subcutaneous prophylaxis in hemophilia patients with inhibitors.

This drugmaker is taking an unprecedented approach to getting its cancer treatment approved

As researchers look for new approaches for tough-to-treat cancer, many are looking into genetics – more specifically, they’re looking at the type of genetic mutations found in cancerous tumors. One company in particular, called Loxo Oncology is building drugs that act on those mutations, so that the type of cancer someone has wouldn’t matter so much as the genetic information gleaned from sequencing the tumor.

WebMD Predicts Cold and Flu Symptoms to Rise During the Holidays

Visitors can see a county-by-county breakdown of the cities currently impacted by cold and flu symptoms, as well as those cities expected to see an increase in the weeks ahead, on the WebMD Cold and Flu Interactive Map. According to the WebMD Cold and Flu Map, the top five cities anticipated to experience the highest levels of cold and flu symptoms are Sponsored by RB, a leading consumer health and hygiene company, the WebMD Cold and Flu interactive map leverages various data sources, including millions of WebMD Symptom Checker checks per month, to present a real-time analysis of the spread of cold and flu so that consumers can take preventative measures to keep themselves and their families healthy during the holidays.

Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Provides Regulatory and Clinical Update for Eravacycline

Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibiotics to treat life-threatening multidrug-resistant infections, today provided a regulatory and clinical development update for eravacycline, the Company’s lead antibiotic candidate with potent activity against MDR pathogens, which is being developed for the treatment of serious and life-threatening bacterial infections. During the second half of 2017, Tetraphase plans to submit a Marketing Authorization Application to the European Medicines Agency for IV eravacycline for the treatment of cIAI.

Poultry culled in Germany after bird flu found on 2 farms

About 30,000 turkeys and ducks were culled in Germany over the weekend after bird flu was found on two farms, authorities said on Monday. Some 21,600 turkeys were culled on a farm in Soest in North Rhine Westfalia and 9,500 ducks were culled on a farm in Moeser in Saxony-Anhalt after the virulent H5N8 bird flu strain was discovered on both farms, regional authorities said.

South Korea, Japan step up poultry cull to contain bird flu

South Korean health officials disinfect a stream which migratory birds stay in winter temporarily, to prevent spread of bird flu in Pohang South Korea and Japan have ordered fresh culls of poultry stocks to contain outbreaks of avian flu, authorities in the two countries said. The South Korean Agriculture Ministry said on Monday it had ordered the cull of an additional 2.4 million birds, taking the total number to a record 18.4 million since the first outbreak of avian flu was reported at a farm on Nov. 18. It has called the outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of bird flu more severe than the H5N8 strain that spread across the country in 2014 and 2015 before being brought under control.

Poultry culled in German after bird flu found on two farms

Dec 19 About 30,000 turkeys and ducks were culled in Germany over the weekend after bird flu was found on two farms, authorities said on Monday. Some 21,600 turkeys were culled on a farm in Soest in North Rhine Westfalia after the virulent H5N8 strain was discovered and 9,500 ducks were culled on a farm in Moeser in Saxony-Anhalt, regional authorities said.

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AL teacher posts ill student’s wish to meet Cam Newton

PHENIX CITY, AL – One Alabama teacher is hoping she helps grant the wish of one of her students who’s bravely battling a rare childhood disorder. Courtney Cooper, a teacher at Lakewood Elementary school in Phenix City wrote an emotional Facebook post on Tuesday about her student, Austin Deckard.

AL teacher posts ill student’s wish to meet Cam Newton

PHENIX CITY, AL – One Alabama teacher is hoping she helps grant the wish of one of her students who’s bravely battling a rare childhood disorder. Courtney Cooper, a teacher at Lakewood Elementary school in Phenix City wrote an emotional Facebook post on Tuesday about her student, Austin Deckard.

DepEd says condom distribution program not yet final

The Department of Education has denied giving the “green light” for the Department of Health to distribute condoms in schools. MB FILE-Health secretary Paulyn Ubial holds a condom during a press conference commemorating World AIDS Day at Pasay City on Thursday, December 1, 2016.

New push to fight Lyme disease plaguing NJ

There’s good news for New Jerseyans suffering with Lyme disease, and those who may be exposed to it in the future. Congress has passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which calls for the establishment of a Lyme disease working group comprising 14 federal officials, patient advocates and doctors specializing in treating Lyme.

SK Chemicals’ hemophilia drug approved in Canada

SK Chemicals, the biopharmaceuticals unit of South Korea’s SK Group, has obtained regulatory approval to sell its hemophilia treatment in Canada, marking another step forward in breaking into overseas markets. SK Chemicals said Sunday that Health Canada, the country’s drug regulator, has granted marketing and sales approval for Afstyla, a biologic drug for hemophilia developed by SK Chemicals and licensed out to Australian biotech firm CSL Ltd. in 2009.