Biovail Corporation (NYSE:BVF)(TSX:BVF) today announced that, effective immediately, Kenneth G. Howling has been promoted to Senior Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer. Charles Rowland, Biovail’s former Senior Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer has left the firm to assume a senior position with another pharmaceutical company.
Different reactions in the brain to two common allergy triggers — allergens (pollen and dust) and histamine (allergy cells within the body caused by foods, drugs or infection) — may shed some light on the itch-scratch cycle. Allergen-induced itch intensity ratings were higher compared to histamine and perception of itch and changes in blood flow were significantly greater when allergen induced. Itch intensity and changes in blood flow were perceived to exist for significantly longer periods.
Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Duke University Medical Center have pinpointed a fungal gene that appears to play an important role in the development and virulence of Alternaria brassicicola, a destructive fungal pathogen that results in considerable leaf loss in many economically important crops worldwide, including canola, cabbage and broccoli.
Living in a home with multiple dogs may help reduce an infant’s risk for developing wheezing in the first year of life, according to new research from the University of Cincinnati (UC).
Results from one of the largest HIV/AIDS treatment trials ever conducted show that a specific strategy of interrupting antiretroviral therapy more than doubles the risk of AIDS or death from any cause. In the study, the investigators used two predetermined levels of CD4+ T cells, the primary immune cell targeted by HIV, to guide them in respectively suspending or restarting the study participants on antiretroviral therapy.
It sounds like the stuff of a campy ’50s horror movie (“It Came from the Ice!”), but a Bowling Green State University biologist believes it’s a very real possibility.
Children who were allergic to eggs were able to essentially overcome their allergy by gradually consuming increased quantities of eggs over time, researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have found in a small pilot study.
New research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that certain inhaled asthma medications ? as well as similar chemicals our bodies produce during times of high stress ? may worsen diseases such as asthma, heart failure and lupus that involve inflammation.
Current Issues in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – this event will be hosted in Manchester at the Victoria and Albert Hotel on Tuesday 21 November 2006. This conference will aim to assess the latest trends in asthma and COPD. and the keynote speech will be given by Professor Peter J Helms, ‘Chair of CHM Resp & Allergy Expert Advisory Group”.
An observational study of more than 64,000 asthma patients demonstrated that patients receiving treatment with Advair Diskus (fluticasone propionate and salmeterol inhalation powder) had a significant risk reduction in emergency department visits due to asthma versus patients treated with fluticasone propionate (FP) alone.