| Thallion Demonstrates ECO-4601 Crosses the Blood Brain Barrier and ...
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Nov. 29, 2007) - Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX:TLN) today announced that it presented data from a brain tumour model demonstrating that ECO-4601 crosses the blood brain barrier and preferentially targets and accumulates in glioblastoma (brain) tumours. These data also show that ECO-4601 binds in vivo to the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), a receptor that is highly expressed in numerous cancer types, including glioblastoma. .
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Friday wild card
I felt like a proud papa watching his talented siblings go after one another. 'Tis extremely hard not to post or respond to comments. But it appears that Blogmeister Ken Paulman has things very well in hand. So, 'tis time to catch some Zzzzz's and prepare for my final -- I hope! -- day of painting. While I paint and sweat (do you think this is how Duane Hagadone paints his house?), you can use this Wild Card to start threads of your own. Also, remember, you can forward Ken links, questions, comments, photos, etc., for him to post here for you ... .
Tobacco education gets shorted
For the past three fiscal years, Humboldt County has not spent a single dollar of the $1.3 million it receives from the 1998 tobacco settlement on tobacco education, prevention or cessation.Instead, the entire sum goes to pay for half the county's $2.6 million cost for jail medical expenses.Jeanne Vidad, assistant director of the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, said her department last received $215,000 in tobacco settlement money in fiscal year 2005.Of that total, $75,000 supported DHHS Public Health Branch efforts for tobacco cessation and prevention services in the schools. Another $140,000 went to the DHHS Mental Health Branch for alcohol and other drug dependency treatments for groups and individuals.Since the elimination of the tobacco settlement allocation, the California Student Tobacco Survey identified a 2 percent increase in the number of youth smokers in the county to 17.4 percent in 2006.Another concern: 7.1 percent of county youths use smokeless tobacco compared to 4.3 percent statewide.Beginning in 2008, the 46 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S.
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