Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products has announced the introduction of NONSPEC, a talented group of engineering students from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, who are developing breakthrough prosthetics technologies aimed at making ...
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Lower-income youth with kidney disease, even when prescribed growth hormone, are less likely to grow to a normal height, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Susan Furth, a researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and lead author of the ...
If Sesame Street characters talk about healthy eating and exercise, preschoolers may listen, and their parents may learn as well, researchers in Colombia say. Dr. Jaime Cespedes, director of the Pediatric Hospital at the Cardioinfantil ...
US-based Salix Pharmaceuticals has announced that The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Deflux premarket approval (PMA) supplement, which requested approval of ...
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It's long been known slightly more boys are born because fewer survive, but British researchers have pinpointed several reasons why boys are the weaker sex. Professor Joy Lawn, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical ...
For the week of Nov. 9, U.S. flu activity was low but increasing in the South, with the first two influenza-related pediatric deaths, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of people ...
NanoViricides has secured orphan drug designation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its drug candidate DengueCide, for the treatment of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease that affects ...
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Lupin Pharmaceuticals (LPI), a US subsidiary of India-based Lupin, has launched its generic Rabeprazole Sodium delayed-release tablets, 20mg. Earlier, the company had received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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US-based TransCelerate BioPharma is launching three new global initiatives to further advance efficiency in clinical trials and accelerate the development of new medicines: creation of common clinical trial protocol templates, development ...
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Guerbet announced that Novation has awarded a new agreement for Dotarem (gadoterate meglumine) injection. Dotarem injection is a gadolinium-based contrast agent indicated for intravenous use with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in brain ...
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Temasek, a sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Singapore, and private equity firm Hopu have agreed to purchase a $213m stake in Chinese infant formula maker Yashili International. The move comes after Yashili's parent company China ...
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British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA's) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for additional indication for Synflorix, a pediatric pneumococcal ...
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Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine are part of a consortium received a five-year, $1.5m grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to improve the pipeline for the development of pediatric medical devices. The ...
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Ranbaxy Laboratories has secured approval from India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) to manufacture and sell 'Synriam' to treat uncomplicated malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax parasite in adult patients. Phase III ...
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Ireland-based Crospon has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its EsoFLIP balloon dilation catheter. The device allows measurements of lumen diameter to be made electrically and it eliminates the patient's ...