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Immunization Awareness Month: The importance of recommended vaccinations
August is National Immunization Awareness Month. As children prepare to return to school, it is important for them to receive nationally recommended vaccines against diseases such as measles. While reduced incidence of measles in the U.S. has led to widespread complacency about the disease, there were 118 reported cases of measles in this country from January 1 to May 20, 2011 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Measles is a serious disease Read More >
Stopping ALS: An interview with Dr. Perrin from ALS TDI
What is ALS? How widespread is the disease? Are there any treatments for ALS? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and outside the US as Motor Neuron Disease (MND) or Charcot’s Disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks motor neurons in the brain (upper motor neurons) and spinal cord (lower motor neurons) and affects muscle function. Dr. Steven Perrin is the CEO, CSO and Vice Chairman of the ALS Therapy Read More >
When RARE is not so RARE!
By Nicole Boice, Founder/President, RARE Project Did you know that there is a community of sick and disabled women, children, and men that is so large that it outnumbers all of those with cancer and AIDS combined worldwide? Scary to think about? Can you guess what it is? Staggering Statistics The Rare Disease Community is made up of over 7,000 known rare diseases and over 350 million people worldwide. Here in the US, over 35 Read More >
Biologics & Biosimilars: What is the Science Telling Us?
Panelists from the varied backgrounds of academia, business and regulation agreed on the highest scientific standards of biosimilar regulation. Each panelist emphasized the need for the most stringent of standards in order to ensure patient safety and efficacy within the emerging biosimilars market. As Brian Liang, Executive Director of the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western School of Law, summed it up, “the need in biosimilars is to focus on science, not cost. These are Read More >
Managing Biotech Technological Innovation in a New Era
Written by Kelly Cappio, BIO. This session focused on technological innovations and how they can be used to prevent, identify, or respond to new natural or man-made threats. As stated by Dr. Alan Rudolph, “We face a very dynamic threat space.” Dr. Rudolph, Director of the Chemical and Biological Technologies Directorate at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, discussed the strategic thrust of the agency and its recent focus on new diagnostic technologies, such as MIMIC, Read More >
