XenoPort, Inc. (Nasdaq: XNPT) and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced positive top-line results from the final pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial of XP13512 (GSK1838262) for the treatment of moderate-to-severe symptoms of primary restless legs syndrome, or RLS.
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Malaria is a devastating disease killing over one million people, mostly young children and pregnant women every year. There is an urgent need for new medicines to treat the disease as resistance builds to older treatments. GSK and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) are working in partnerships on a number of projects dedicated to finding new malaria treatments.
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Both insomnia patients and normal sleepers define sleep quality by tiredness upon waking and throughout the day, feeling rested and restored upon waking, and the number of awakenings they experienced in the night. Further, people with insomnia have more requirements for judging sleep to be of good quality, according to a study published in the March 1 issue of the journal SLEEP.
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A Vietnamese girl with a 16-pound facial tumor is in Miami awaiting surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak.
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Jackie Warner, star of Bravo's reality TV show 'Work Out,' offers tips to make you look great in shorts this summer.
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About 440 people now say they became ill after eating at Chipotle Mexican Grill in Kent, Ohio.
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Women's life expectancy declined significantly in 180 U.S. counties, mostly in the deep South and Appalachia, between 1983 and 1999, according to a study being released Tuesday.
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A baby born in Illinois with her abdominal organs on the outside of her body is recovering slowly.
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British researchers say they have found a link between what a mother eats at the time of conception and the sex of her child.
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A person's employment status, gender and marital status all play a part in how much sleep they get, according to new research from Statistics Canada.
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As many as 120,000 Nova Scotians do not have the money for healthy foods on a regular basis, according to a new study.
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A letter-writing campaign by the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada targets provinces, including Alberta, that refuse to pay for an expensive cancer drug.
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Flu season hasn't yet peaked in New Brunswick, according to provincial health officials.
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In letters to key House and Senate committees that oversee Medicare, the American Association for Homecare has urged a delay in Round One of bidding. The letters detail severe problems related to Round One of competitive bidding and specifically issues related to due process, fairness, and patient access to care.
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It's like turning down college applicants who forget to include their SAT scores in their applications. That's the way senior officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) described the rationale behind excluding many of the 630 bidders that were disqualified from the total of 1,005 unique companies that participated in Round One of the Medicare bidding program.
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world's largest breast cancer organization, today announced the awarding of more than $100 million in research grants, representing the largest single-year investment in research in the organization's 26-year history and a 30 percent increase over last year's award total of $77 million.
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Spreading rumors and gossiping may not cause bruises or black eyes, but the psychological consequences of this social type of bullying could linger into early adulthood, a new University of Florida study shows.
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The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) commended federal lawmakers for their efforts to establish a uniform, national system to help maintain the security of the drug distribution chain against counterfeit drugs, but said such a system should be risk-based, driven by technology
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Christine White of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas says glossy lip balms may attract ultraviolet sun rays, increasing the chance for getting skin cancer, HealthDay reports
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A sex slip-up just isn't sexy. Here is a list of bedroom blunders that men should avoid.
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With the scarcity of donated organs, transplant committees use tough standards, including whether the candidate has other serious health problems or is likely to drink or do drugs
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Contaminated children's vaccines and other potentially serious concerns were spotted by federal regulators who combed Merck & Co.'s vaccine plant in the Philadelphia suburbs, according to a newspaper report.
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A 40-year-old supermarket worker who suffered a fatal heart attack drank as many as four cans of Red Bull energy drink each night.
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Viruses may contribute to the development of lung cancer, new evidence suggests.
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Canada's newly revised Food Guide is now available in 10 additional languages.
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The former head of Eastern Health says he backed but did not initiate a move to block the release of information about flawed lab tests.
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Ottawa police Chief Vern White said the federal government should do more to help solve the city's street drug problem - but he knows what kind of help he doesn't want.
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Residents of Alberton and O'Leary in western P.E.I. will be welcoming new doctors to the area before summer, the provincial government announced Friday.
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A team of researchers at New York Medical College has discovered why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialized to generate heat. A paper published in the online peer-reviewed journal BMC Biology contains the surprising implication that the same lack of heat-generating tissue may have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but humans may have even less to work with than previously thought. University of Missouri researchers found that the average person can keep just three or four things in their "working memory" or conscious mind at one time.
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Scientists using a bionic boot found that during walking, the ankle does about three times the work for the same amount of energy compared to isolated muscles - in other words, the spring in our step is very real and helps us move efficiently.
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Why are we nice to others? One answer provided by social psychologists is because it pays off. A social psychological theory stated that we do something nice to others for a good reputation or social approval just like we work for salary.
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Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGNX) and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), announced that the U.S.
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The number of people hospitalized with a dangerous intestinal superbug has been growing by more than 10,000 cases a year, according to a new study.
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With gas prices hovering around $4 or more a gallon nationwide, some in Ohio have resorted to giving blood to pay for gas.
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