Clavis Pharma ASA (OSE: CLAVIS) will present results from the Phase I part of its Phase I/II study with ELACYT, within haematological cancers, at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2008, to be held in Chicago on 30 May to 3 June. The poster will be presented from 2:00PM to 6:00PM (CDT) on 1 June 2008 and includes updated results from all 77 patients treated in the study.

Active video games, such as the Nintendo Wii, are quickly becoming the most coveted gaming systems on the market. Beyond entertainment value, these systems appear to be helpful in encouraging youth to exercise, as profiled in three studies presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

The risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women is significantly increased as a result of either low cardiorespiratory fitness or higher Body Mass Index (BMI), and a combination of the two increases the risk the most, according to a long-term study presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) request that the Government Accountability Office investigate whether FDA acted appropriately in granting “accelerated approval” to a cancer drug “will have a catastrophic effect on America’s ability to develop new drugs,” Mark Thornton, a former medical officer in FDA’s

AARP has launched a multimillion dollar campaign called “Keep Medicare Fair” to lobby Congress to eliminate Medicare premium increases from a bill proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.), The Politico reports.

Summaries appear below of recent news about children’s health coverage in Arkansas and New Jersey.Arkansas: The Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families last week announced plans to launch a statewide three-year effort to increase enrollment in ARKids First by about 22,000 children, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.

Twenty percent of all federal Medicare fraud prosecutions are filed in South Florida, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 5/29). U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta and the

The results of a phase III trial comparing Herceptin with chemo against chemo on its own showed that Herceptin helped women with aggressive metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer live nearly three months longer without their cancer progressing. The findings are being presented this weekend at the 44th annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who recently was diagnosed with brain cancer, previously had begun work on legislation that would revise the 1971 National Cancer Act, and supporters hope that the “fact that Kennedy has fallen victim to this disease will generate public support and lend new urgency to the need to update the bill,” the AP/Chicago Tribune reports.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in the case of a woman who claims she was denied in vitro fertilization by her physicians because she is a lesbian, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/29). According to the