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FDA Approves First Maintenance Drug Therapy For Advanced Lung Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Alimta (pemetrexed), the first drug available for maintenance therapy of advanced or metastatic lung cancer.

El Salvador And Benin Become 1st To Order Asthma Drugs From Asthma Drug Facility (ADF)
El Salvador and Benin have marked World Asthma Day by placing orders with the Asthma Drug Facility (ADF). Through the ADF these and other low- and middle-income countries will be able to obtain quality-assured essential asthma medicines at affordable prices for the first time.
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Elbit Imaging Ltd. Announces Swiss Team Uses InSightec's ExAblate(R) 4000 Brain System To Treat Patients With Functional Brain Disorders
Elbit Imaging Ltd. (TASE: EMIT, Nasdaq: EMITF), announced that, its subsidiary (in which EI holds indirectly approximately 58.34%, InSightec Ltd., announced that a team at the University Children"s Hospital Zurich has completed a feasibility study testing the use of non-invasive transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (TcMRgFUS) for the treatment of neuropathic pain. Ten adult patients diagnosed with chronic neuropathic pain successfully underwent non-invasive deep brain ablation surgery (central lateral thalamotomy) with transcranial TcMRgFUS and showed improvement in pain scores and reduction of pain medication with no adverse effects at three months follow-up. This is the first study in the world to test non-invasive transcranial focused ultrasound as a treatment modality for functional brain disorders.
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WHO Declares H1N1 Virus Spread A Pandemic

WHO has declared that the spread of the H1N1 (swine) flu virus has reached pandemic level, the AP/Google.com reports (AP/Google.com, 6/11). The Phase 6 pandemic alert indicates that two regions of the world are experiencing significant outbreaks, according to the Wall Street Journal. The declaration came after WHO held an emergency meeting Thursday about raising the threat level. The Wall Street Journal writes that the WHO wants to "eliminate misunderstandings about the virus to prevent overreactions in some countries" (Esterl, Wall Street Journal, 6/11). According to Bloomberg, leaders from six countries infected with the H1N1 virus were briefed by the WHO yesterday and "asked for information on cases and measures taken to mitigate the disease" (Gill/Gale, Bloomberg, 6/11). WHO spokesman Dick Thompson told Reuters that WHO Director-General Margaret Chan "is looking for some detailed epidemiological explanation for what is going on." Reuters writes, "Chan had sought further information from some countries to clarify news reports that they were detecting sustained transmission of the new virus in the community, and not just imported cases, [Thompson] said" (Nebehay, Reuters, 6/10). According to the WHO, 74 countries have officially reported 27,737 cases of H1N1 infection, including 141 deaths. Specific country information is available here (WHO Influenza A(H1N1) - update 46, 6/10). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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