In March 2010, high school student Bobby Ghassemi was taken out of his crashed vehicle and airlifted to a nearby Virginia hospital more dead than alive with severe brain trauma. He was so much more dead than alive that the physician who ...
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Lumenis has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approvals for its Array LaserLink pattern scanning device for multi-spot laser photocoagulation for use during ...
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A leading British primary care physician says the time has come for the public to take responsibility for seeking prescription antibiotics for trivial maladies. "The change needs to come in patient expectation. We need public education: ...
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A year after Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey, New York and Connecticut depression levels in areas affected mostly returned to before storm levels, a survey says. Gallup found there was a 25 percent increase in depression diagnoses among ...
Physicians at U.S. hospital emergency rooms say they are treating more adults and children experiencing stomach ailments after eating bags of spicy snacks. Dr. Martha Rivera, a pediatrician at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, ...
Treating the elderly didn't drive the U.S. increase in healthcare cost from 2000; 91 percent was from professional services, drugs and devices, researchers say. Dr. Hamilton Moses III of the Alerion Institute in North Garden, Va., and the ...
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Being overweight or obese are risk factors for heart attack and heart disease even if people don't have metabolic syndrome, Danish researchers say. Dr. Borge G. Nordestgaard, chief physician in clinical biochemistry at Copenhagen ...
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The Netherlands-based Royal DSM has announced a partnership with US-based BiO2 Medical to supply DSM’s proprietary ComfortCoat lubricious coating and its coating application expertise for use in BiO2 Medical’s Angel catheter. ...
Americans live sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy countries — and the gap is getting worse over time, a new report shows. Men in the USA have shorter lives than men in 16 developed nations. American women also fall ...
Hologic, a manufacturer of diagnostic products, medical imaging systems and surgical products, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Aptima HPV 16 18/45 genotype assay for use on the company's fully ...
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Medtronic has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Lead Integrity Alert (LIA) software for use with non-Medtronic leads to detect defibrillator lead issues. LIA software has been approved by the FDA to ...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded $150 million under the Affordable Care Act to support 236 new health centers, the secretary says. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of HHS, said the funding will help create primary care ...
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Titan Spine, a medical device surface technology company, has signed a distribution agreement with Biomet to bring the Titan Spine Endoskeleton line of interbody fusion devices to practicing spine surgeons in Germany. Under the agreement, ...
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Stemline Therapeutics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), a voluntary health organization, have announced their collaboration to accelerate the development of SL-401 for the treatment of ...
Multispecialty Physician Partners (MPP), a Renal Ventures Management company, and Rheumatology Associates of Dallas have entered into a joint venture partnership for operating six infusion centers around the Dallas Metroplex. MPP duties ...