http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center say identifying and selecting participants for phase II cancer clinical trials from a centralized warehouse of patient-donated biological data expedites participant accrual, reduces trial size, saves money, and may speed test drugs through the drug development pipeline. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-cancer-biorepository-clinical-trials-drug.html Cancer Wed, 08 May 2013 04:28:56 EST news287206049 The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) announce today the identification of three chemical series targeting the treatment of deadly neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), through DNDi's screening of MMV's open access Malaria Box. The resulting DNDi screening data are among the first data generated on the Malaria Box to be released into the public domain, exemplifying the potential of openly sharing drug development data for neglected patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-access-reveals-drug-deadly-neglected.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:03:06 EST news272023371 Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, is proud to announce the release of biological and clinical data from 383 new families participating in Autism Speaks Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE) to researchers. AGRE is a resource for scientists that is comprised of clinical and biological data from families who have two or more children on the autism spectrum. These 383 families are part of a larger pool of 653 individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) bringing the total data available on people with an ASD to 3348. The family data also includes family members without an ASD bringing the total to 9335 individuals, which reflects an over 24 percent increase. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-autism-genetic.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:20:20 EST news271603179 A new community-based HIV/AIDS registry, one of the first in the nation to include patients from rural areas, will provide a unique opportunity to find answers to myriad medical questions, from the impact of drugs such as marijuana on the virus to why some patients naturally ward off the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-hivaids-registry-key.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:45:04 EST news265481098 The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study, a 20-year nationwide survey of the health, economic and social status of older Americans conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research, has added genetic information from 12,500 consenting participants to the online genetics database of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-u-m-health-genetic-nih-database.html Genetics Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:51:55 EST news252154307