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Cardium Presents Gene Activated Matrix Technology And Update On Excellarate Clinical Development Program At ASGT Annual Meeting
Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE Amex: CXM) and its subsidiary Tissue Repair Company (TRC) announced a presentation entitled "Phase 2b Study of GAM501 (Ad5PDGF-B/Collagen) in the Treatment of Diabetic Ulcers" at the Late Stage Industry Clinical Trials Symposium at the American Society of Gene Therapy (ASGT) Annual meeting in San Diego, California, on May 27, 2009. Dr. Barbara K. Sosnowski, Cardium"s Vice President of Biologics Development and the Chief Operating Officer of Cardium"s Tissue Repair Company Operating Unit, provided an update on TRC"s Phase 2b MATRIX clinical trial and the new formulation of the Excellarate(TM) product candidate, as well as an overview of the prior clinical study of Excellarate.

New Drug Application For Exenatide Once Weekly Accepted For Review By FDA
Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: AMLN), Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Alkermes, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKS) announced that the New Drug Application (NDA) for exenatide once weekly has been accepted for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Looking Criminal Could Get You Arrested

Weak eye-witnesses pick the most criminal looking faces in identity parades. This is one of the findings of Heather Flowe and colleagues from the University of Leicester who will present their research at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference today, Wednesday 24th June 2009. The conference is being held the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. A stereotypically criminal appearance is described as someone who looks like they would break the law - a face you wouldn"t trust. This research investigated whether eye-witnesses were influenced by stereotypical criminal faces when faced with an identity parade. The 48 participants were split in two groups, one group were given a description of the perpetrator and the other group were not. Both groups viewed real identity parade photos for theft, robbery and assault and were asked to select the perpetrator and give their reason for the selection. 84 per cent those participants with no description stated they picked someone because he looked like a criminal: "Looks like the hicks from my hometown that always got away with beating their wives." "His eyes give me the heebee-jeebees." Interestingly 52 per cent of those with a description also stated they were influenced by the suspect"s criminal appearance. Heather explained: "Criminal stereotypes can affect decisions made by actual witnesses, in particular, weak witnesses who do not have strong memories for the perpetrator. In this experiment the participants who didn"t have a description fell on stereotyped conceptions of what a perpetrator ought to look like. This could have serious implications if police, either consciously or inadvertently, build an identity parade in which the suspect is the most criminal looking. A weak witness who felt compelled to pick somebody may pick the suspect simply because he"s the most criminal looking person, not because he matches their memory" The conference is being held at the University of Central Lancashire from the 23rd to 25th July. British Psychological Society


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