Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq: RXII), a US-based biopharmaceutical company, have entered into a joint research agreement to explore the benefits of combining proprietary technologies from both companies for the targeted delivery of experimental therapeutics based on RNA interference (RNAi).

Since July 2009 Transinsight GmbH and antibodies-online GmbH partner together with TU Dresden and RESprotect GmbH to develop and deploy new semantic search technologies for the Life-Science industry.

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and colleagues seeking to block invasion of healthy red blood cells by malaria parasites have instead succeeded in locking the parasites within infected blood cells, potentially containing the disease.

Media-Soft, CRM solutions provider for pharmaceutical companies, announced the launch of the native and offline iPhone adn iPad Pharma CRM application with advanced and unique features that increase the Sales Force effectiveness in pharma organizations.

Volunteers are being recruited in Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK to participate in a two-year trial of a single 'polypill' designed to prevent heart attack and stroke. The trials are financed in part by the UMPIRE (Use of a multidrug pill in reducing cardiovascular events) project, which has received EUR 3 million under the Health Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

Consumer reliance on condition-focused content during the disease research process, growing emphasis on customer care throughout the treatment continuum, and uncertainty around the DTC regulatory environment is prompting increased interest in unbranded online initiatives.

The goal of the IT @ Networking Awards 2010 (IT @ 2010), is to honour and promote outstanding healthcare IT solutions. The core aim of IT @ 2010 is to learn from the achievements of the very best IT installations on the globe.