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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing the first replacement heart valve from donated human tissue in which the cells have been removed.Traditionally, when human tissue is recovered from a cadaver for future implantation, it is inspected, cleaned and decontaminated to prevent infection, but the allograft product remains otherwise unchanged. CryoLife Inc.

Senate Finance Committee Democrats on Wednesday “assailed the health proposals” in the fiscal year 2009 budget request that President Bush released on Monday, CQ Today reports (Armstrong, CQ Today, 2/6). During a committee hearing, Democrats questioned

Democratic lawmakers are developing legislation that would prohibit certain marketing practices used by private Medicare Advantage plans after some seniors complained of aggressive sales tactics, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the go ahead for the first decellularized human heart valve to go on the market in the US.A decellularized heart valve is a replacement heart valve made from donated human tissue with all trace of the donor’s cells removed.

Pharmaceutical company Roche and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative have partnered in an effort to increase access to HIV testing among infants in 24 sub-Saharan African countries, Rwanda’s New Times reports.

Myriad Genetics recently announced that its direct-to-consumer advertising campaign has increased sales of its breast cancer genetic test and that the company is considering expanding the campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Adelaide scientists will lead a $2 million five-year project to develop new vaccines and explore better treatment options for hepatitis C sufferers.University of Adelaide virologists Dr Michael Beard and Dr Karla Helbig will work with colleagues from the University of NSW to develop new strategies to treat and prevent hepatitis C, which infects more than 170 million people around the world.

Women face unique risks for developing hypertension and special challenges in keeping their high blood pressure under control, according to new research published in a special themed issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.The themed issue features more than 45 studies and editorials related to women and hypertension.

HIV can be transmitted to infants through food that is pre-chewed by an HIV-positive parent or caregiver, CDC researchers said Wednesday at the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, the