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Canine Survivor Offers Hope For Children With Severe Genetic Disorder
A dog born with a deadly disease that prevents the body from using stored sugar has survived 20 months and is still healthy after receiving gene therapy at the University of Florida - putting scientists a step closer to finding a cure for the disorder in children.
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Novartis Successfully Demonstrates Capabilities Of Cell-based Technology For Production Of A(H1N1) Vaccine
Novartis has successfully completed the production of the first batch of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine, weeks ahead of expectations. Cell-based manufacturing technology[1] allows vaccine production to be initiated once a pandemic virus strain is identified without the need to adapt the virus strain to grow in eggs, as with traditional vaccine technologies. This advance has cut weeks off the time required to begin vaccine production. This first batch of ten liters of wild type influenza A(H1N1) vaccine monobulk will be used for pre-clinical evaluation and testing and is also being considered for use in clinical trials. It demonstrates the value of the cell-based production approach, that is also being used by Novartis with reassortant influenza A(H1N1) seed.
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NACDS Retail Advisory Board Explores Social Networking Opportunities To Engage Consumers
The Retail Advisory Board (RAB) of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) met yesterday during the 2009 NACDS Marketplace Conference to discuss social networking opportunities within their businesses.

Tall Men Earn More, In Australia.

As far as earning more, it appears that size really does matter, or at least it does in Australia, where researchers recently discovered a significant link between a man"s height and his wage. An extra 5 cm of height is worth about 950 Australian dollars (roughly 760 US dollars) a year, said Australian National University economist Professor Andrew Leigh and Dr Michael Kortt, a public researcher at the University of Sydney. The researchers found there was no disadvantage as far as income was concerned if you were overweight or obese, but for men especially there was an advantage to being tall. The link between height and wage was also numerically true for women, they found, but it was not statistically significant. For the study, which has not been published in a journal, as far as we know, the researchers used data from a nationally representative sample of Australian adults. The results showed that taller people earned more, with the effect being strongest for men, said Leigh. "For example, the average man in our sample is 5 feet 10 inches tall.

The Next Health Tsunami: Non-Communicable Diseases.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and the World Heart Federation (WHF) called today on the UN"s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to take immediate action to avert the fastest growing threat by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to global health. NCDs which include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease, cause 60% of all deaths globally and 80% of these are in low- and middle-income countries. WHO projects that globally NCD deaths will increase by 17% over the next 10 years. The greatest increase will be seen in the African region (27%) and the Eastern Mediterranean region (25%). The highest absolute number of deaths will occur in the W. Pacific and S.E. Asia regions.

N.C. Senate Approves Bill To Offer Contraception, STI Information In School Sex Education Courses.

The North Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted 25-21 to approve a bill (S. 221) that would require public school systems in the state to offer a sex education curriculum that includes information on abstinence, contraceptives and sexually transmitted infections, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. Currently, only two public school systems in the state offer comprehensive sex education, with the rest teaching abstinence-only curricula. Under the bill, parents would be able to have their children removed from the comprehensive portions of the program (Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal, 6/24). The bill would apply to students in seventh through ninth grade (AP/Virginian-Pilot, 6/23).

HHS To Propose Removal Of HIV From List Preventing Foreigners U.S. Entry.

HHS this week will issue proposed regulations to remove HIV from the list of "communicable diseases of public health significance," effectively lifting the ban on HIV-positive foreign residents from entering the country, Newsday reports (Reddy, 6/29). Last year, then-President George W. Bush signed into law a provision to remove HIV from the HHS list, the Washington Post"s blog, "44," reports. The proposed rule has to be published in the Federal Register, and then undergo a 45-day comment period before becoming finalized (Hsu, 6/29). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at.


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