Those with HIV are living normal lifespans and their doctors should aim on preventive care for heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis, U.S. researchers say. The Human Immunodeficiency Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases ...
Tags: HIV, heart diease, HIV-infected, diabete, cancer
U.S. researchers began an early stage clinical trial of a vaccine to prevent genital herpes disease by removing two key proteins so the virus cannot multiply. Principal investigator Dr. Lesia K. Dropulic of the National Institute of ...
Tags: vaccine, genital herpes, protein, virus
Swiss drugmaker Roche has entered into a license agreement with Polyphor for the development and commercialization of its investigational macrocycle antibiotic, POL7080, to treat patients suffering from bacterial infections caused by ...
Tags: Roche, Polyphor, Antibiotic Drug
Transgene has received a sub-award from Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) under its existing grant of $5m from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance ...
Tags: Transgene, NIH Funding
Scientists from Northwestern University have developed a new intravaginal ring that could help prevent women from immunodeficiency virus. The ring is easily inserted and stays in place for 30 days,delivering a measured amount of the ...
Tags: Immunodeficiency Virus, Medicine
Mystic Pharmaceuticals has received notices of allowance from the China Patent Office and the Japan Patent Office for its 'Deep Draw Container Forming Method' and 'Combination Unit Dose Dispensing Container' patent applications ...
Tags: Drug Delivery Platforms, Medicine
Biopharmaceutical company Soligenix has secured a contract worth $6.4m from the US Department of Health and Human Service's National Institutes of Health (NIH), for the advanced preclinical development of OrbeShield (oral beclomethasone ...
US-based Mystic Pharmaceuticals has secured two Notices of Allowance from the US Patent Office for its Unit Dose Drug Delivery Platform and Piercing Device for Drug Delivery Systems patent applications. According to the company, the new ...
HistoGenetics, a New York-based biotech firm specialized in Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing services and Sequenced-Based Typing (SBT), has selected Illumina's MiSeq sequencing system for use in its CLIA laboratory. Illumina's MiSeq ...
Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), a swine virus that can cause death in piglets, has been identified in two hog farms in North Carolina. The virus has been rapidly spreading across several states in the US since it was first ...
Tags: Swine Virus, Food
Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) has acquired all the assets of Evivar Medical (Evivar), which includes its Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and C (HCV) web-based decision support tools and the associated viral genome analysis systems (SeqHepB ...
Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company Cempra has received a notification of patent allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for taksta loading dose formulation. With the possibility for extension, the patent entitled ...
Corgenix Medical has received the notification of CE Mark for its Relasv antigen rapid test for Lassa fever diagnosis. Relasv is the diagnostic test developed by Corgenix and members of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), a ...
Tags: Corgenix Medical, Rapid Test
Nearly 40 tons of pork derived from infected and dead pigs has been sold in Fujian province, China, over a period of three months, in a latest food safety incident to hit the country. Two people have been detained for selling pork which ...
Tags: Diseased Pork, illegal trade
Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food