Sherpa Clinical Packaging has completed a new 37,500 ft2 clinical packaging and distribution facility in San Diego, US. Featuring cold chain management infrastructure, the new facility provides purpose built space for primary and ...
Tags: Clinical Packaging, Packaging
A vaccine against the Ebola virus developed by Chinese scientists has undergone clinical trials in Sierra Leone. The public relations officer at the Ministry of Health Abbas Kamara says there have been no "adverse reports and side ...
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Eighty-four-year-old Tu Youyou arrived in Sweden on Friday to collect China's first Nobel Prize in medicine for creating an anti-malarial drug that saved millions of people across the world. Half a century ago, the pharmacologist derived ...
The emergence of applications in cancer diagnostics, cardiology and gastroenterology will help drive the market for clinical optical imaging to $2 billion by the end of the decade. That’s according to a new market report from the ...
Tags: Cancer Diagnostics, optical technologies, ultrasound technologies
Temperature controlled packaging supplier Pelican BioThermal, has launched its new single use shipper system Chronos Express. The new product is the latest addition to the range of temperature-controlled packaging services of Pelican ...
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Poultry-based ingredients producer IDF has launched frozen and dry bone broth ingredients that claim to have additional health values. "It's no secret that people are increasingly seeking wellness from within, feeding their bodies for ...
According to the statement released by Chinese scientists, a traditional Chinese medicine, named Kanglaite Injection has been approved by FDA. The drug contains anticaner compounds extracted from the seed of coix and has been used as ...
Tags: Chinese Medicine, FDA, cancer treatment, Medicine
UPS has added to its UPS Temperature True Packaging service with four new, specially designed packaging lines. The Temperature True service offers temperature-sensitive storage and transportation solutions, consultative expertise and ...
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Fish oil capsules and supplements fail on Omega-3 claims and freshness, University research study Most fish oil supplements sold in Australia and New Zealand are lower in omega-3 fatty acids than their labels claim, according to new ...
Tags: Fish Oil, Omega-3 Claims, Freshness, Agriculture
The second patient implanted with a Carmat artificial heart has gone home, opening the way for others enrolled in the French company’s clinical trial to receive the devices. Carmat designed its self-regulated, bioprosthetic heart as ...
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Nearly half of all Phase III pharmaceutical clinical trials fail, partly because data about patient adherence is hard to come by. That’s according to computer giant Oracle (ORCL), which has teamed with and ingestible sensor ...
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Posted in Mobile Health by Nancy Crotti on January 7, 2015 A little more than a year ago, a top executive of Qualcomm Life predicted that smartphones would one day be considered medical devices. Qualcomm's 2Net Hub is a ...
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China has agreed to cut some of the bureaucracy that delays sales of medical devices and medicines made in the United States, the U.S. commerce secretary announced. Following bilateral trade talks between the two nations, Commerce ...
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A simple potato extract may limit weight gain from a diet that is high in fat and refined carbohydrates, according to research from McGill University in Canada. The study, published in the November 2014 issue of the Molecular Nutrition ...
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MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV) has received a grant to provide its Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in projects to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. MEMSCap Medication Event Monitoring System ...
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