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TPP Global Development Ltd (TPP) announced an agreement with the University of Edinburgh to collaborate on the development of novel pre-clinical intellectual property originated within the University. TPP and the University of Edinburgh will focus on commercialisation opportunities in the areas of nervous system disorders, immunology/inflammation and oncology. Initially the agreement will run for five years, after which it may be extended. Thomas Brown, TPP's CEO commented, "We are delighted to have entered into this agreement with the University of Edinburgh...

ImmunoSolv, a leading Edinburgh-based private company developer of immunology platform technology, is pleased to announce that it has completed a merger with Aberdeen-based Grampian BioConsultants Limited (GBC). The merged company will retain the name ImmunoSolv Limited. The merger provides ImmunoSolv with a complementary portfolio of immunology and immuno-technology expertise with which to exploit "a new biology of cell death" to target the key global emerging markets for its award-winning Dead-Cert® dead-cell removal technology platform and its anti-cancer therapeutics pipeline...

A trainee heart surgeon from the Bristol Heart Institute has received a grant of £117,166 from national heart charity, Heart Research UK, for a project to help prevent irreversible damage to the heart. Mr Simon Duggan, 32, has been awarded a Research Training Fellowship Grant for an innovative project that will investigate 'reperfusion injury.' This irreversible injury to the heart can happen when patients undergo heart bypass surgery or angioplasty. Mr Duggan will examine what causes reperfusion injury by studying heart cells and how they become damaged...

AUL Action, the legislative arm of the not-for-profit antiabortion group Americans United for Life, will become one of the first groups to take advantage of a Supreme Court ruling in January that expanded corporations and unions' ability to directly influence elections, the AP/Washington Post reports. The group's one-minute ads launched on Friday and will run for one week. AUL is incorporated as a not-for-profit organization under the federal tax code...

The deaths of four million of the world's poorest children over 10 years could have been avoided if governments had not turned "a blind eye" to the neediest children, said a report from Save the Children, released on Tuesday, the U.K. Press Association reports (9/6)...

NPR reports on post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury in troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Though thousands of soldiers are diagnosed with PTSD, many more suffer without treatment. Among those who do seek treatment, doctors are finding another, distinctly different problem called traumatic brain injury, or TBI. The two conditions have similar symptoms, but the causes are quite different...

The Seattle Times: "Whopping rate increases are coming soon for many people with individual health-insurance policies. Most insurers offering individual policies in the state have asked for and been granted rate increases, effective Oct. 1, according to the state's insurance commissioner. Regence BlueShield's rate increase - an average 16.5 percent - was one of the highest. It was topped by Asuris Northwest Health, a Regence subsidiary, with an increase of 23.7 percent. Group Health Cooperative, the fifth-largest insurer of individuals, was considerably lower, with an 8...

The fourth report of the BMA's Cohort Study, which traces the career progression of 430 medical graduates who qualified in 2006, shows that junior doctors now spend more time carrying out administrative tasks than they do in formal training. The study asked junior doctors in their first year of specialist training to indicate how much time they spent undertaking different activities at work...

There is an association between taking statins (lipid lowering drugs), and reduced risk of developing the chronic inflammatory disease, rheumatoid arthritis. These are the findings of a study by Gabriel Chodick and colleagues, published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study among the 1.8-million members of Maccabi Healthcare Services (a health maintenance organization [HMO]) in Israel to identify adults who regularly took statins and did not have rheumatoid arthritis...

The Australian Government should act on comprehensive new research and run an intensive SunSmart campaign to reduce Australia's unacceptable skin cancer burden, Cancer Council Australia said today. Commenting on today's release of the joint ACE-Prevention report - the most complex evaluation of health prevention measures conducted in Australia - the chair of Cancer Council Australia's Public Health Committee, Craig Sinclair, said the research showed skin cancer awareness campaigns were among the best five public health investments available to government in terms of cost-effectiveness...