Sweden-based Aerocrine has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Denmark-based Intramedic to distribute Aerocrine’s new airway inflammation monitor and test kit – NIOX VERO – in Sweden. Aerocrine's new ...
Echo Therapeutics’ Symphony CGM system has won Medical Devices Business Review’s Medical Device Innovation Award. Echo's device was selected from four nominations shortlisted for the award. Symphony CGM system is a ...
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Almost half of parents concerned their child will try e-cigarettes; support high for prohibiting sale to kids, says U-M National Poll on Children's Health Adults nationwide are concerned about the use of e-cigarettes by children and ...
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In a new issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers and experts investigate the latest methods and practices in improving birth outcomes. The special issue compiles a collection of commentaries, research studies and ...
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In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
Gilead Sciences has received notice of compliance from Health Canada for its once-daily oral nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor Sovaldi or sofosbuvir 400mg tablets for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C or CHC infection. Sovaldi is ...
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals has submitted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the approval to market and sale Lymphoseek Injection for sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection in patients ...
US-based medical technology company Medtronic has announced the randomization of the first patients in the SYMPLICITY HTN-4 clinical trial at Medical University of South Carolina, Piedmont Heart Institute and Duke University Medical Center. ...
A novel microfluidics device by IBM could be a boon to the oncology market. The new device can assist oncologists in identifying different types of cancer, offering several improvements over existing biopsy techniques. When a patient has ...
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Stryker Corp. has completed its previously announced $1.7 billion acquisition of Mako Surgical Corp. and its cutting-edge robotic arm assisted orthopaedic surgery technology, Stryker confirmed Tuesday. The goal is to combine Mako's ...
Bristol Instruments The thickness of materials such as specialty plastic films, medical membranes, and ophthalmic products is measured with reliable accuracy. VICTOR, NEW YORK February 5, 2013 – Bristol Instruments, Inc., a leader ...
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Armed with an Apple or Android smartphone, it is now possible for people to keep track of their weight, diet, exercise levels, stress levels, heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar. In addition, some of the latest smartphones ...
Stryker will settle four New Jersey lawsuits related to its ABG II and Rejuvenate hip implants for an undisclosed sum. The company expects to pay significant sums of cash to resolve the lawsuits and the hundreds of other similar cases that ...
Two published studies and an accompanying editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine say there is no clear benefit for most to consume vitamin supplements. Eliseo Guallar of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in ...
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U.S. pregnant women, infants and young children should avoid raw or unpasteurized milk and milk products and only eat pasteurized products, pediatricians say. A policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics says raw milk and ...
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