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Osiris Therapeutics Reports Interim Data For COPD Stem Cell Study
Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIR) announced six-month interim data from a Phase II clinical trial evaluating Prochymal, the Company"s proprietary formulation of adult mesenchymal stem cells, for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Sixty-two patients were enrolled and are being followed for two years in the placebo-controlled study. At the six-month time-point, the data revealed several important findings.
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Longer, Stronger HIV Drug Regimen For Breastfeeding Women Cuts Mother-To-Child Transmission Rate, Study Finds
"HIV infection rates among babies are significantly cut when mothers are given prolonged ARV treatment during breastfeeding," according to findings released at the International AIDS Society conference in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, "Key findings from the study showed that a stronger drug cocktail administered over a longer period reduced the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission compared with the current WHO-recommended short-course ARV regimen." Tim Farley, project leader for the "Kesho Bora" study - which was conducted at five sites in Burkina Faso, Kenya and South Africa by the WHO in partnership with several other international agencies - said, "The results of this study show an almost two-fold reduction in the risk of HIV transmission during the breastfeeding period and also [show] there is no short-term toxicity (to mothers or infants)." The WHO "is reviewing its 2006 recommendations on the use of ARVs in pregnant women, including during the breastfeeding period. New guidelines are expected to be published by the end of 2009 and will take into account emerging data," Reuters reports (Roelf, 7/21).
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Long-Term Care Proposal Draws Opposition
The insurance industry opposes a long-term care proposal called the CLASS Act, currently included in two major health care reform measures.
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Obama's Proposal To Redirect Abstinence-Only Funding Renews 'Culture-War Battle,' Washington Times Columnist States

President Obama is causing the "core culture-war battle" over sex education to "come full circle" by proposing to redirect funding for abstinence-only sex education to a new Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative that "rejects an abstinence-only approach," Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes. According to Wetzstein, Obama"s fiscal year 2010 budget plan "zeroed out" the Title V abstinence-only sex education grant program, set to expire on June 30, and the Community-Based Abstinence Education program. Wetzstein continues that groups supporting comprehensive sex education have "loathed Title V from its inception" because of its "prohibition on teaching teens how to use birth-control products (i.e., no condom demonstrations) and its eight-point definition that seemed utterly unrealistic to sex educators." For example, Title V"s definition said that the ""expected standard of human sexual activity"" was a ""mutually faithful, monogamous relationship in the context of marriage,"" which Wetzstein says she has "heard many times, was insulting to gay youth who couldn"t marry" and "insensitive to minority youth who grew up in neighborhoods where marriage was rare." Wetzstein asks, "What will happen to Title V?" She writes that opponents "are staying vigilant" and working to avoid "any last-minute, back-door revivals of this program." Groups that support abstinence-only sex education are "working the phones, too," Wetzstein reports. According to Wetzstein, Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, noted that "[s]aving Title V will require some heavy lifting, but "it"s expired before and been retroactively renewed."" Wetzstein concludes that "we"ll soon see what happens with the new players in town" (Wetzstein, Washington Times, 6/23). Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You can view the entire Daily Women"s Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery here. The Daily Women"s Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company. © 2009 The Advisory Board Company. All rights reserved.


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