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CytoDyn Completes Safety Testing Of Cytolin(R): Benchmark For Improved Treatment Of HIV/AIDS
CytoDyn, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CYDY) has completed safety testing of its current inventory of Cytolin®, the Company"s immune-system modulator for managing HIV disease and the public health crisis afflicting communities where the infection is spreading due to unprotected sex and the other risk factors for AIDS. Tests for specific adventitious agents and other quality parameters following purification were performed by the manufacturing facility, Vista Biologicals Corporation of Carlsbad, California. The other safety tests, including in vivo general safety using two animal species, were performed by WuXi AppTec, a fully integrated pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical-device company with facilities in St. Paul, Minnesota. WuXi AppTec provides R&D services to the biotechnology industry. Since the product is intended for use in a clinical trial, the tests conducted were those required for each new batch of a biologic agent manufactured for use in human research. The Company believes that the test results satisfy the current safety standards for the manufacturing of drugs belonging to the class of biologics. The results are summarized in the table below.
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AltheaDx Receives CLIA Certification
AltheaDx, a world leader in the development of companion diagnostics and biopharma services, announced that they have successfully passed the State of California survey for CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) certification. AltheaDx is offering high-quality patient and biopharma molecular testing services from their state-of-the-art, GMP, GLP, and now CLIA compliant facility located in the Sorrento Valley, San Diego.
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Protein Structures Revealed At Record Pace
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy"s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a fast and efficient way to determine the structure of proteins, shortening a process that often takes years into a matter of days.
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Poll Reveals Doctors' Concerns About Commercialisation Of NHS, UK

Doctors are extremely concerned about the impact of the independent sector on healthcare, a snapshot BMA News survey has indicated. More than nine out of ten (94 per cent) of the 124 respondents to a poll for BMA News - the weekly magazine for BMA members - said they were worried about the future of their local health services if they were left to market forces. And 86 per cent of the respondents did not think the provision of NHS services by commercial companies was a good idea. Three quarters of doctors back the BMA"s own eight principles for a future NHS which is publicly funded and publicly provided. Cornwall GP Dr Mark McCartney said: "The introduction of choice and competition has increased the cost of delivering healthcare and destabilised existing providers before the private sector can become properly established." Liverpool consultant in public health medicine Dr Richard Jarvis said: "The dogma that market forces produce the most efficient use of money has been shown to be catastrophically wrong by the credit crunch." The poll results were published as health minister Lord Darzi suggested the government could be re-examining its controversial PFI (private finance initiative) to fund hospitals and healthcare facilities. He told BMA News: "That model of funding may have been the right model but I have no doubt that the Department [of Health] will be appraising whether that it is still the model for the future or whether there are other, better models. "Quality is a moving target and PFIs have been very successful and might be in the future but it needs to be looked at." The BMA has repeatedly warned that PFI represents poor value for public money in the long term and more sustainable ways of building NHS capacity should be explored. BMA Consultants Committee Chairman Dr Jonathan Fielden said: "We would urge the Department of Health to look again at PFI. The evidence is that there needs to be a fundamental review and we need to get something sustainable in a much harsher financial climate." Doctors at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting next week will debate whether further NHS commercialisation should be abandoned. The BMA"s eight principles for a publicly funded, publicly provided NHS, have been set out as part of the "Look After Our NHS" campaign: http://lookafterournhs.org.uk/ British Medical Association


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