AtheroMed has obtained marketing approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Phoenix atherectomy system for treating peripheral artery disease (PAD). Phoenix atherectomy system is a peripheral atherectomy catheter ...
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ReCor Medical has announced major advances in its Paradise System for renal denervation (RDN), confirming its commitment to lead in the treatment of patients with resistant hypertension (HTN). The company announced that it has received ...
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Sweden-based Elekta has received a contract valued more than $16m from Iraq for state-of-the-art radiation therapy equipment. The contract includes ten Elekta Synergy Platform linear accelerators (linacs) to be delivered to five Iraqi ...
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CEL-SCI Corporation has received approval from the Medicines and Medical Device Agency of Serbia to begin enrollment of subjects in its Phase III Head and Neck Cancer clinical trial of its investigational cancer immunotherapy treatment ...
Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyowa Hakko Kirin has announced the launch of its NESP injection 5μg plastic syringe as an additional formulation. Kyowa Hakko Kirin has obtained initial approval for NESP in July 2007. The long-acting ...
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An anti-malaria drug combination might be useful in helping to prevent pregnancy complications in women with lupus and the related disorder antiphospholipid syndrome, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found in a new study published ...
SCL Health System, along with its joint venture partner, Univita Health, announced today the acquisition of Denver-based All Care Home Health LLC. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition of All Care, a home healthcare company that ...
Revitive LV uses electrical muscle stimulation and is designed to: give relief from tired, aching and heavy legs and feet and will help maintain leg vein health Electrical muscle stimulation activates the calf and foot muscles to help ...
The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and FSMB Foundation are collaborating with several partners to provide state medical boards with resources to educate health care professionals on the safe and responsible prescribing of ...
Not prescribing opioids first or as a long-term therapy for chronic, non-cancer pain and avoiding MRIs, CTs and X-rays for low-back pain are among the tests and treatments identified by ASA that are commonly ordered but not always ...
The brain is a reclusive organ. Neurons the cells that make up the brain, nerves, and spinal cord communicate with each other using electrical pulses known as action potentials, but their interactions are complicated and hard to understand. ...
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Researchers cite advances in diagnosis and therapy as likely causes for reduction; caution that a significant proportion of devastating eye disease sufferers still progress to blindness The probability of blindness due to the serious eye ...
Agenus Inc. (Nasdaq: AGEN), a biotechnology company developing novel immune system activating treatments for cancers and infectious diseases, announced that Phase 2 results of Prophage G-200 vaccine in recurrent patients with glioblastoma ...
What is ETMR/ETANTR and who does it affect? Embryonal tumours with multilayered rosettes (ETMR) are rare, deadly brain tumours that affect mainly children below the age of 4 years. There are 300 cases reported but probably there are many ...
What is erosive GERD and who does the condition affect? Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is a condition that develops when the reflux of stomach contents causes troublesome symptoms and/or complications. According to the findings ...