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03.11.10
Hoyer Pledges To Work With Stupak To Address Abortion Coverage In Health Reform

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday pledged to work with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to resolve the dispute over abortion-coverage language in the Senate health reform bill (HR 3590), CQ Today reports. Hoyer said the issue "has to be resolved," adding, "I think it will be resolved one way or the other, and the bill will be passed...

02.26.10
Prevention of heart attacks: Resveratrol appears to exhibit broader action than aspirin

With the realization that half of the people experiencing a sudden mortal heart attack were taking aspirin on the day of their demise, and the fact that higher-than-recommended doses of aspirin are needed to prevent blood clot formation in coronary arteries, coupled with an announcement that the red wine molecule resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trawl) may protect from sudden mortal heart attack in a superior fashion to aspirin, suggests re-evaluation of cardiology's current instruction regarding prevention of heart attacks, says Nate Lebowitz MD, cardiologist with the Advanced Cardiology Institute in

11.26.09
Study Provides First Direct Evidence Of Cigarette Smoke's Role In The Death Of Transplanted Hearts

A study conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore provides the first direct evidence that cigarette smoke exposure prior to a heart transplant in either the donor, recipient, or both, accelerates the death of a transplanted heart...

11.21.09
Study Finds Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France...

04.13.09
FDA stops Neilgen Pharmaceuticals and Advent Pharmaceuticals from making unapproved drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it had obtained a permanent injunction barring Neilgen Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Westminster, Md., its parent company, Advent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Advent), of East Windsor, N.J., and two of their officers, Bharat Patel and Pragna Patel, from manufacturing and distributing any unapproved, adulterated or misbranded drugs.

04.13.09
FDA stops Neilgen Pharmaceuticals and Advent Pharmaceuticals from making unapproved drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it had obtained a permanent injunction barring Neilgen Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Westminster, Md., its parent company, Advent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Advent), of East Windsor, N.J., and two of their officers, Bharat Patel and Pragna Patel, from manufacturing and distributing any unapproved, adulterated or misbranded drugs.

04.10.09
2008 Tuberculosis Cases Increase In Maryland; Drop Seen In Baltimore City

Tuberculosis, the infectious lung disease that the American Lung Association was founded to fight, remains active in Maryland. In 2008, there were a total of 278 cases of TB throughout the state, up from 270 cases in 2007. While the majority of localities saw their TB numbers increase or stay the same, Baltimore City was one of six localities in Maryland where the number of tuberculosis cases decreased.

04.09.09
Cancer Vaccines Get Coveted Orphan Go-Ahead

Two experimental vaccines from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) recently received a federal orphan drug designation for advanced head and neck cancer, according to a company official.

04.07.09
Children and teens being prescribed significantly more diabetes and blood pressure drugs

Between 2004 and 2007, Joshua N. Liberman, Ph.D. and colleagues of CVS Caremark in Hunt Valley, Md., reveal that the number of children and teens prescribed with high blood pressure or diabetes medications have increased.

04.06.09
Obama Announces Two Federal Appeals Court Nominees

President Obama on Thursday announced the nomination of two federal judges for U.S. appeals courts -- Andre Davis of Maryland and Gerard Lynch of New York -- choices that would "change the political balance of both courts," the AP/Google.com reports. Davis and Lynch are Obama's second and third picks for the federal appeals courts, joining U.S.

04.05.09
New Antibiotic Moxifloxacin Could Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment

A phase II study has shown that the new antibiotic moxifloxacin, in combination with other drugs, could shorten the time needed to cure tuberculosis by several months. The findings are reported in Article in this week's edition of The Lancet, written by Professor Richard E Chaisson, Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, and colleagues.

03.28.09
Discovery Of Tuberculosis Bacterium Enzyme Paves Way For New TB Drugs

A team of University of Maryland scientists has paved the way for the development of new drug therapies to combat active and asymptomatic (latent) tuberculosis infections by characterizing the unique structure and mechanism of an enzyme in M. tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes the disease.