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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has been awarded an $11.7 million grant to compare the effectiveness of the three leading medications for childhood absence epilepsy.

The award will fund research of muscular dystrophy therapies that have shown promise in animals, including replacing defective genes responsible for muscular dystrophy with healthy ones.

Mayo Clinic is one of six medical research centers in the United States tapped by the National Institutes of Health to study the long-term reactions of human immune systems to diseases and vaccines.NIH hopes the five-year, $100 million effort, funded by the federal stimulus law, will help researchers design better vaccines to treat diseases like [...]

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Alzheimer’s is what I like to call a black hole disease.We don’t know what cures it. We don’t know what causes it. We don’t even know for sure when we have it. The only thing we do know for certain is that you don’t want to get it.The pharmaceutical industry has spent billions of dollars [...]

The Center for AIDS Research at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center has received a five-year renewal grant of $9 million from the National Institutes of Health.The AIDS Research Center gives clinical and technological help to researchers working on HIV-related projects at the university and medical center, as well as at [...]

Cytometix Inc. has raised $1.9 million in equity to further development of a drug that treats pain, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.The company plans to use the funding to take the drug to the point at which it can file an Investigational New Drug application with federal regulators, CEO Lane Brostrom said. [...]

Case Western Reserve University researchers and their collaborators in England have taken the first image of an open K+ channel — the beginning of a better understanding of how and why heart and nerve drugs work for some people and not for others.The image and its analysis — featured in the July issue of the [...]

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine has won a $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a malaria research team in Southeast Asia that aims to eradicate the disease.The CWRU medical school will lead 10 International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research in the project to control malaria and [...]

Two recent stories in the New York Times caught my attention because they seem to represent the opposite sides of the same coin. Or as we like to call it, the American healthcare system.In a moving piece in the Sunday Times Magazine, Katy Butler describes how a pacemaker kept her elderly father alive, but at [...]