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New Singapore Medical School To Be Created By Imperial College London And Nanyang Technological University
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:00 +0100 | Health News from Medical News Today
A new medical school training undergraduate doctors in Singapore and awarding joint Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) degrees is to be established by 2013, it was confirmed. The medical school, an autonomous school of NTU which will be jointly managed by NTU and Imperial College London, will see Imperial developing and delivering a course overseas for the first time. The new medical school will admit its first cohort of 50 students in 2013, the majority of whom will be Singaporean... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Fortis plans to list on Singapore bourse
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:56:28 +0100 | The Economic Times
Fortis Healthcare is planning to list its shares on Singapore stock exchange and the shares of its pathology arm, Super Religare Laboratories, in India, says Fortis chairman Malvinder Singh. (Source: The Economic Times)

InSightec Treats First Prostate Cancer Patients In Clinical Trials
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:00 +0100 | Health News from Medical News Today
nSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology and the only company to receive FDA approval for its ExAblate(R) system for treating uterine fibroids, announced that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients. Seven patients with localized low-risk prostate cancer were treated worldwide so far. The patients were treated at two leading medical centers: the N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and at the National Cancer Centre at the Singapore General Hospital, Singapore... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Combined 4th Asia-Pacific Otology & Neurotology Conference & the 1st Singapore Otology & Skull Base Update
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:10:50 +0100 | NLH - ENT and Audiology - Events
(Source: NLH - ENT and Audiology - Events)

New Singapore medical school to be created by Imperial and Nanyang Technological University
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Imperial College News
Imperial set to develop and deliver a course overseas for the first time (Source: Imperial College News)

C-reactive Protein, Body Mass Index, and Diabetic Retinopathy [Clinical and Epidemiologic Research]
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:19:04 +0100 | Investigative Ophthalmology
Conclusions. Persons with diabetes who had higher levels of CRP and BMI were less likely to have DR. Further research is needed to understand the interrelationship role of inflammation, body weight, and microvascular complications. (Source: Investigative Ophthalmology)

Retinal vascular fractal dimension measurement and its influence from imaging variation: results of two segmentation methods.
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:39:19 +0100 | Current Eye Research
Conclusions: Both nonlinear orthogonal projection and curvature-based retinal vessel segmentation methods were found to be sensitive to variations in image brightness, resulting from iris shadowing associated with different angle of photographic incidence. PMID: 20795868 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Eye Research)

1st Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting In Singapore To Focus On Clinical Management Of Osteoporosis
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0100 | Health News from Medical News Today
Plenary lectures enhanced by meet-the-expert sessions, orthopaedic and diagnostic roundtables Clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals with an interest in osteoporosis and its prevention, diagnosis and management, are invited to convene in Singapore for the IOF Regionals - 1st Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting from December 10 -13, 2010. The meeting promises a stimulating scientific programme featuring plenary lectures by key international experts and thought leaders from the Asia Pacific region... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

The small molecule specific EphB4 kinase inhibitor NVP-BHG712 inhibits VEGF driven angiogenesis
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:05:22 +0100 | Angiogenesis
Abstract  EphB4 and its cognitive ligand ephrinB2 play an important role in embryonic vessel development and vascular remodeling. In addition, several reports suggest that this receptor ligand pair is also involved in pathologic vessel formation in adults including tumor angiogenesis. Eph/ephrin signaling is a complex phenomena characterized by receptor forward signaling through the tyrosine kinase of the receptor and ephrin reverse signaling through various protein–protein interaction domains and phosphorylation motifs of the ephrin ligands. Therefore, interfering with EphR/ephrin signaling by the means of targeted gene ablation, soluble receptors, dominant negative mutants or antisense molecules often does not allow to discriminate between inhibition of Eph/ephrin forwa...