Health Press Release – Weekly Newsletter for February 15-22, 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010

Chiltern Opens New Office in Argentina

LONDON, February 17, 2010 – Chiltern International Limited (Chiltern), a global clinical contract
research organization (CRO) announced that it has opened a new office in
Argentina.

Oscar Podest??, Chiltern Executive Director, Latin America, leads this
endeavor. "Our office, strategically located in suburban Pilar, is a natural
next step to our development in Argentina. The office's [...]

Pipeline/Commercial Insight: Supportive Care in Oncology – Innovation and Market Growth Limited to Bone Metastases Management and Emerging Supportive Care Challenges Reports Now Available on ReportsandReports

ReportsandReports announce to have Pipeline/Commercial Insight: Supportive Care in Oncology – Innovation and market growth limited to bone metastases management and emerging supportive care challenges ( https://www.reportsandreports.com/market-reports/pipeline-commercial-insight-s upportive-care-in-oncology-innova/) Market Research Report in its store

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Rising Popularity of Home Care Underlines Rise of Care Management Markets Across Europe, Finds Frost & Sullivan

LONDON, February 16, 2010 – Europe's patient population is moving towards long-term care and homecare
from hospitals and other clinical settings. Consequently, the significance of
nursing and residential care services is on the rise. Unlike the past decade,
therefore, the number of care homes in Europe has shown an increase. At the
same time, care managers have been [...]

IPA Helps Researchers Utilize and Share Current Disease Knowledge Through New Dynamic Reporting Capability

REDWOOD CITY, California, February 16 – Ingenuity(R) Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for
life science researchers, today announced the addition of dynamic reports,
new weekly content updates, and metabolomics workflow support in the latest
release of IPA(R) software.

Life science researchers need to keep up with increasingly complex
developments in the diagnosis, treatment, [...]

Oncolytics Biotech(R) Inc. Receives Approval from the U.K. MHRA to Conduct Phase 3 Trial for REOLYSIN(R) in Head and Neck Cancers

Company to Host Clinical Update Conference Call
CALGARY, Canada, February 16, 2010 – Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) today
announced that it has received a letter of approval from the U.K. Medicines
and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to conduct its Phase 3 trial
examining REOLYSIN in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients
with platinum-refractory head and [...]

EU Recognizes Importance of ASI’s Research on Developing New Smart Imaging Molecular Tools for Combating Neurodegenerative Diseases

The European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7) Research on the Brain and Related Diseases Funding the Framework Program for Research and Technological Development (RTD)

MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, February 16, 2010 – Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's set a challenge
for modern medicine, as their origins are unclear and the comprehension of
the progression of symptoms often relies [...]

MEDai and Shared Health(R) Partner to Offer Tennessee Robust Health Information Exchange Platform

ORLANDO, Florida, February 16, 2010 – Shared Health, Inc., Tennessee's largest public/private health
information exchange (HIE) has partnered with MEDai, an Elsevier company, to
provide a rich, interoperable, clinically relevant HIE platform to the state
of Tennessee. This partnership delivers best in class solutions and
technologies that support clinical excellence and operating efficiencies. It
comes at a time when [...]

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Becomes First NHS Facility to Acquire a CyberKnife System

Government Purchase Enhances Patient Access to Whole Body Radiosurgery
SUNNYVALE, California, February 15, 2010 – Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of
radiosurgery, announced today that Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in the United
Kingdom has become the first National Health Service (NHS) hospital to
acquire a CyberKnife(R) Robotic Radiosurgery System.

The [...]

Dutch Public-Private Partnership Invests 28 Million Euro on Research Into Personalized Medicine

GELEEN-EINDHOVEN-LEIDEN, The Netherlands, February 15, 2010 – The Netherlands' three Top Institutes for life-science research (the
BioMedical Materials program, the Center for Translational Molecular Medicine
and Top Institute Pharma) today announced a joint investment of MEUR 28 on
innovative research targeted at bringing personalized medicine closer to
reality. The projects funded by the group will focus on developing [...]

Chocolate Industry Leaders Sign Agreement, Align on Path Towards Increasing Consumer Availability & Consistency of Beneficial Cocoa Flavanols

Cooperation expected to yield a standard for active natural cocoa compounds
MCLEAN, Virginia and ZURICH, February 15, 2010 – The unique and good-for-you cocoa flavanols – the natural compounds found
in the cocoa fruit linked to important circulatory and other health benefits
- will soon be easier to identify and obtain when making nutrition choices.
Mars, Incorporated and [...]

25th International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International March 10-13, 2010 – Thessaloniki, Greece

LONDON, February 12 – SAVE THE DATE and REGISTER NOW for the 25th International Conference of
Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI). The theme is "Dementia: Making A
Difference." The location is the Grand Hotel Palace, 305-307 Monastiriou
Str., Thessaloniki, Greece.

"We welcome you to create connections, share experiences, gather
knowledge and make a difference to the [...]

De La Rue to Provide East Africa’s First eID Project

LONDON, February 11 – De La Rue Identity Systems, a world expert in secure e-government
identity solutions, today announced that it will design and roll-out East
Africa's first national eID project for the Government of Rwanda, as part of
the ongoing Rwandan National ID project (NID). The plans for systems
integration, to combine data from the current ID [...]