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BEERSE, Belgium, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today sees the launch of Janssen Therapeutics EMEA, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, dedicated to bringing the investigational protease inhibitor TMC435 to hepatitis C patients in the EMEA region. Approximately 130-210 million people are infected with hepatitis C worldwide,1 with three to four million people newly infected each year.2 An estimated nine million people are infected with the disease in the WHO European...

Dr. José Esparza, senior adviser for vaccines at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will present the inaugural Distinguished Lecture of the Center for Globalization at Baylor College of Medicine. His talk, “Harnessing Science to Solve Public Health Problems,” will be followed by a panel discussion led by Dr. Bobby Kapur, director of the Center for Globalization. The presentation begins at 4 p.m. on Monday, April 23, in Cullen Auditorium. "As an innovative physician scientist...

ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA ASKS: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CANADA? TORONTO, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Landmark data released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) in their first-ever report on the global impact of dementia: Dementia: A Public Health Priority show that around the world a new case of dementia occurs every four seconds. That is the equivalent of 7.7 million new cases each year. In the words of global health expert...

Global Health R&D Forum convenes global health advocates, researchers and industry leaders New York voters recognize the importance of global health research and are concerned about the United States' ability to compete globally, according to a new poll commissioned by Research!America, yet an overwhelming majority (93%) of those polled don't know where global health research is conducted in their own state. The majority of New Yorkers (64%) think that New York residents should be...

BEERSE, Belgium, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Not Intended for US Journalists - Analysis to be presented at European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) 2012 shows clinical and cost-effectiveness regardless of IL28B subtype - Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (Janssen) will present a cost-effectiveness analysis for INCIVO(telaprevir) at the 47th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) in Barcelona. The analysis...

Decision Comes as WHO Meets to Discuss Global Treaty on Mercury Use WASHINGTON, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Chile has become the first developing country to stop the use of mercury in vaccines. In meetings with the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD) held last week in Santiago, Chile, the current Vice President of the Chilean Senate, Alejandro Navarro Brain, committed to adopting legislation in the Senate that would prohibit the mercury-based preservative...

KIRKLAND, Wash., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Evergreen Healthcare today announced it has renewed its five-year designation as a Baby-Friendly Hospital, demonstrating the organization's commitment to adopting new policies and procedures that lead to improved health outcomes for newborns and families. The designation is awarded by Baby-Friendly, USA, an accrediting body that implements the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) Baby-Friendly...

Looking at the current state of TB knowlege and new cases we have come a long way, but dont think that this is over. Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) March 24, 2012 Consequences of Underfunding TB "Looking at the current state of TB knowledge and new cases we have come a long way, but don't think that this is over," says Alex Frankel director of whatistbweb.com. "We really believe that the internet has allowed us to cover more ground quickly and get the message out." Decline in burden of TB "In many...

Recent widespread news coverage heralded the success of a United Nations’ goal of greatly improving access to safe drinking water around the world. But while major progress has been made, a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicates that far greater challenges persist than headline statistics suggested. Earlier this month (March 6), UNICEF and the World Health Organization issued a report stating that the world had met the U.N.’s Millennium Development...

WHO-endorsed test deployed in battle against tuberculosis in Malawi. Millwood, VA (PRWEB) March 23, 2012 On World TB Day, global NGO Project HOPE says new technology has the potential to revolutionize the speedy and accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, one of the deadliest public health threats which claims about six million lives each year. About one-third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb), the bacterium that causes TB. Tuberculosis is...