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HHS Purchases Additional H1N1 Vaccine Ingredients
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the department will commit $884 million to purchase additional supplies of two key ingredients for potential H1N1 vaccine to further prepare the nation for a potential resurgence of the 2009 H1N1 virus.

The Downside Of Microtubule Stability - Study Shows Stalled Microtubules Might Be Responsible For Some Cases Of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
Stalled microtubules might be responsible for some cases of the neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, Tanabe and Takei report in the June 15, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. A mutant protein makes the microtubules too stable to perform their jobs, the researchers find.
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G8 Off Track On Aid Commitments To Africa; France, Italy Responsible For 80% Of Shortfall, Report Says
The Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations are "collectively off course in delivering on a 2005 pact to more than double aid to Africa through 2010," according to an annual report released Thursday by the One Campaign, Reuters/Washington Post reports (Wroughton, Reuters/Washington Post, 6/11).
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Intraoperative Radioguidance With A Portable Gamma Camera: New Technique For Laparoscopic Sentinel Node Localisation In Urological Malignancies

UroToday.com - Our first results of sentinel node mapping with intraoperative radioguidance in urological tumors are described in our abstract. We selected this movie to show the whole imaging procedure. In a patient with prostate cancer, the radiopharmaceutical is injected in 4 depots into the prostate. After tracer administration, planar lymphoscintigraphy is performed after 15 minutes and in 2 hours is followed by a SPECT/CT. After fusion of corresponding SPECT and CT slices, the two-dimensional fusion images show the location of the sentinel nodes. These images are also available during surgery. For intraoperative sentinel node localization a laparoscopic gamma ray detection probe and a portable gamma camera are used. The portable gamma camera visualizes the radiopharmaceutical within the sentinel nodes as well as a Iodine-seed used as pointer. This Iodine-seed is attached to the top of the gamma probe before laparoscopy, enabling visualization of this Iodine-seed on screen of the portable gamma camera (shown as a green circle). If this green circle matches with the sentinel node (radiopharmaceutical signal) on screen, exact localization of the sentinel node is found and this sentinel node can be excised. Post-excision monitoring shows if the signal of the sentinel node has disappeared and will also show if there is remaining radioactivity. In this way accurate excision of the sentinel nodes can be confirmed. After excision, the portable gamma camera is used for ex-vivo monitoring, showing the amount of radioactivity within each excised node. Written by L.Vermeeren, R.A. Valdē©s Olmos, W. Meinhardt, A. Bex, H.G. van der Poel, W.V. Vogel, F. Sivro, C.A. Hoefnagel, and S. Horenblas as part of Beyond the Abstract on UroToday.com. UroToday - the only urology website with original content written by global urology key opinion leaders actively engaged in clinical practice. To access the latest urology news releases from UroToday, go to: www.urotoday.com Copyright © 2009 - UroToday


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