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New Software To Improve Clinical Trial Performance
TranSenda International, LLC announced today that it is developing a new solution, Cortex, designed to improve an organization"s ability to manage a clinical trial"s performance. Based upon patent-pending ClinBUS® data interchange technology already in use in TranSenda"s Office-Smart solutions, Cortex will enable organizations to leverage the power of access to centralized operational data from all applications used across all clinical studies. For years the industry has struggled with an increasingly fragmented environment of disconnected clinical applications, sites and partners. TranSenda"s Cortex, with its proven ClinBUS technology, represents a breakthrough in managing and controlling studies within a common environment-independent of study data formats and clinical trial applications.
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New Insights Into Health And Environmental Effects Of Carbon Nanoparticles
A new study raises the possibility that flies and other insects that encounter nanomaterial "hot spots," or spills, near manufacturing facilities in the future could pick up and transport nanoparticles on their bodies, transferring the particles to other flies or habitats in the environment. The study on carbon nanoparticles - barely 1/5,000th the width of a human hair - is scheduled for the Aug. 15 issue of ACS" Environmental Science & Technology, a semi-monthly journal.
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New Information About DNA Repair Mechanism Could Lead To Better Cancer Drugs
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shed new light on a process that fixes breaks in the genetic material of the body"s cells. Their findings could lead to ways of enhancing chemotherapy drugs that destroy cancer cells by damaging their DNA.
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Physician Discusses HIV Testing, 'Frank' Conversations With Teenagers

The Baltimore Sun"s blog "Picture of Health" features comments from Allison Agwu, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins Children"s Center, who discussed HIV awareness and testing among teenagers. According to the blog, Agwu said doctors and parents "need to do a better job talking frankly to teens about sex and the risk for HIV, particularly in a city like Baltimore with higher than average rates of the disease." The blog states, "There"s no easy way to combat this, Agwu admits. But engaging teens in a constant frank conversation about the disease is a start" (Brewington, 7/8). This information was reprinted from dailyreports.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at dailyreports.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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