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For several decades, intravenous Ig has been used as treatment for a variety of immune-related diseases, including immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), autoimmune neuropathies, systemic lupus erythematosus, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, skin blistering ...

  The PEM Friends (UK) met in June for their annual Away Weekend hosted by Raymond and Carolyn Blain.   Another really enjoyable and informative week-end was had by us all at Ashton-under-Lyne. It ...

WASHINGTON — Managers at the National Institutes of Health are increasingly ignoring the advice of scientific review panels and giving hundreds of millions of dollars a year to scientists whose projects are ...

Are Americans obligated to use an unproven vaccine to help protect people in other countries from the flu pandemic? That is the crux of a debate over adjuvants — a class of ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (EGMN) –Rituximab for the treatment of severe pemphigus continued to rack up impressive results in the 2-year extension of a landmark 3-year multicenter trial.   Indeed, after 5 years of follow-up, 19 ...

Pharmacogenomics is the study of how inherited variations in genes dictate a person’s reaction to a drug. In this 2004 to 2005 project, Louis F. Rossiter, Ph.D., and other researchers from the ...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, through its Pioneer Portfolio, has awarded Kaiser Permanente $8.6 million to develop one of the world’s largest and most diverse repositories of genetic, environmental and health data. Scientists ...

The use of organized chronic illness care management processes (CMPs) is discussed in this article. Cohort analysis of data from a national telephone survey conducted in 2000 and 2006 specifically looked at ...

Centric`s second annual ultra orphan conference, with Pharmaceutical Executive Magazine serving as media partner for 2009 event, offers industry guidance CHESTERFIELD, Mo. –(Business Wire)–Highlighting the role of specialty pharmaceuticals as the fastest growing ...

Randomized open comparative trial of dexamethasone-cyclophosphamide pulse and daily oral cyclophosphamide versus cyclophosphamide pulse and daily oral prednisolone in pemphigus vulgaris. Abstract Background: In various case series, pulse therapy has shown good results ...