A list of the best children’s hospitals has been published by US News and World Report. Below you can see some of the rankings and links to the full lists-General Pediatrics1. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 2. Children’s Hospital Boston 3. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center 4. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center (Baltimore) 5. Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital (Cleveland)

For patients with type 2 diabetes, a condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) may be an important risk factor for diabetes-related chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study in the August Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).”Identifying patients with NAFLD would highlight a subgroup of type 2 diabetic individuals who should be targeted with more intensive therapy to decrease their risk of developing CKD,” comment lead authors Dr.

New data presented today showed that Zometa(R) (zoledronicacid) offered a significant anticancer benefit for premenopausal women withhormone-sensitive, early-stage breast cancer. The study found that Zometawhen added to hormone therapy, following surgery, significantly reduced therisk of cancer returning or death by 36% beyond clinical benefits achievedwith hormone therapy alone.

Treatment with the trifunctional antibody catumaxomabsignificantly prolongs puncture-free survival in patients with malignantascites, according to the results from a Phase II/III trial presented at the44th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) congress. The prolongedtime to next therapeutic puncture and reduced ascites signs and symptomsemphasize the clinical relevance of catumaxomab treatment.

Data from three observational studies reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting evaluated transfusion-related outcomes in cancer chemotherapy patients with various hemoglobin (Hb) levels prior to or during administration of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs). Two analyses were conducted using observational data from the Dosing and Outcomes Study of Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Therapies (DOSE) Registry. The first study (Larholt et al.

New data presented at ASCO 2008 from TRUST1, the largest non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Phase IV trial ever conducted, show that a broad range of NSCLC patients treated with Tarceva (erlotinib) experience clinical benefits including longer survival, better quality of life, control of disease symptoms and control of cancer progression. NSCLC is the most common and deadly form of lung cancer suffered by over one million people worldwide2.

A Florida State University researcher has received a major scientific grant to study the chemical processes within the human body that may lead to the development of diabetes. Knowledge gained from Michael Roper’s research could lay the foundation for future treatments of a disorder that is reaching pandemic proportions throughout the world, especially in the United States and other developed countries.

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company leveraging breakthrough discoveries in cancer biology to discover, develop and commercialize targeted oncology therapies, today announced that they have completed enrollment in their 200-patient Phase 2 clinical trial of AV-951 in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) welcomes the findings of the research by Weber MA et al, Infection and sudden unexpected death in infancy: a systematic retrospective case review published in The Lancet on 31 May 2008. The research, funded by FSID, reviewed autopsies undertaken between 1996 and 2005 at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children of 507 infants, aged one week to one year, who died suddenly and unexpectedly.

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