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Hospitalization Of The Poor Much Higher For Asthma, Diabetes And Other Potentially Preventable Diseases
Hospital admissions of Americans from the poorest communities for asthma and diabetes were 87 percent and 77 percent higher, respectively, than admissions for patients from wealthier areas for the same diseases, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Eighth International Conference On Bipolar Disorder To Be Held In Pittsburgh, June 25 To 27
Nearly 1,000 researchers, clinicians and mental health advocates are expected to attend the Eighth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, June 25 to 27, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. The event is held only once every two years and is the largest meeting of its kind solely devoted to bipolar disorder, a disease that affects almost six million Americans.
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CEL-SCI Expands Testing Of Its Vaccine To Determine Efficacy Against More Virulent Strain Of H1N1 Swine And Other Influenza Viruses
CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM) announced that it is expanding the pre-clinical testing of its flu vaccine, utilizing its proprietary L.E.A.P.S. technology (Ligand Epitope Antigen Presentation System) to determine its efficacy against the more dangerous and virulent virus strains that may arise during the up coming winter flu season. The Company has begun pre-clinical formulation, evaluation and testing of a new application of its L.E.A.P.S vaccine, which will allow the targeting of "mutated" versions of H1N1 swine and other influenza viruses. It is believed that the influenza virus may mutate and evolve between now and the winter flu season. In conjunction with the testing, CEL-SCI has produced several L.E.A.P.S. flu vaccines that focus on the conserved, non changing epitopes of the different strains of Type A Influenza viruses (H1N1, H5N1, H3N1, etc.), including "swine", "avian or bird", and "Spanish Influenza", in order to minimize the chance of viral "escape by mutations" from immune recognition. CEL-SCI"s L.E.A.P.S. flu vaccine contains epitopes known to be associated with immune protection against influenza in animal models. The Company had previously announced that it had begun pre-clinical testing of swine and H1N1 flu viruses, which were non-mutated versions of the virus.
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Science Review On Cancer Metabolism

Agios Pharmaceuticals, the first biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel cancer metabolism drugs, announced that the leading scientific journal Science has published a review article, "Understanding the Warburg Effect: The Metabolic Requirements of Cell Proliferation," authored by two of its founders, Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D., Director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor of Systems Biology and Craig B. Thompson, M.D., Director, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, and one of its scientific advisors, Matthew Vander Heiden, M.D., Ph.D., Instructor of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. "As this review highlights, there is an incredible opportunity in front of us to bring together decades of independent cancer and metabolic scientific research into an integrated approach to novel cancer therapies," said Dr. Vander Heiden, Agios scientific advisor. "It is exciting to see the broad scientific engagement that is driving this field rapidly forward to ultimately provide new options for physician and their patients." Cancer metabolism is a new and exciting field of biology that represents a breakthrough understanding of how cancer cells become addicted to using more nutrients than normal cells to ensure their survival and growth. The new understanding of a fundamental mechanism of cancer growth and survival represents a powerful Achilles" heel to target this deadly disease. The Science review article summarizes the current state of the emerging biological field of cancer metabolism and suggests that "a better understanding of anabolic cellular metabolism and how growth control impacts its regulation may lead to new targets and improved therapy for human cancer." The review, which provides a meta-analysis of the field, highlights key advancements ranging from Otto Warburg"s discovery in 1929, that cancer cells utilize sugar differently than normal cells, to a 2008 study published in the journal Nature showing that cancer cells "switch on" the same highly active metabolizing enzymes as those found in fetal cells to promote rapid growth. This latter finding explains why cancer cells are able to divide and grow better than normal cells. The vision of Agios is to lead the development and translation of cancer metabolism biology and decades of metabolic biochemistry into novel cancer therapeutics that will make a difference for patients. To date, Agios has put in place a world-class scientific team of more than 40 people, built a fully integrated cell metabolism platform within the largest research laboratory dedicated to cancer metabolism and created an emerging product development pipeline of novel Cancer Metabolism drugs. "The Agios team, pipeline, platform and business strategy that we have built in a short time is exclusively focused on developing a deep biological understanding of the nexus of cancer and metabolism as the key driver behind where, when and how to cripple and kill a cancer cell," said Michael Su, Ph.D., Agios co-founder and Vice President, Drug Discovery. "This Science review, along with many other recent scientific advancements, continues to highlight the significance of the field and Agios" unique ability and position to lead the therapeutic exploration of cancer metabolism." Kathryn Morris Yates Public Relations


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