Women who took oral contraceptives for three or more years are twice as likely to suffer from glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, a U.S. researcher says. Lead researcher Dr. Shan Lin, a professor of clinical ophthalmology at the ...
Tags: long-term, user, oral, contraceptive, glaucoma test
U.S. researchers say they identified a possible link between a history of sudden drops in blood pressure and atrial fibrillation, or an irregular heartbeat. Dr. Sunil K. Agarwal, a fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine at ...
Tags: sudden, drop, blood pressure, risk, heartbeat
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
Tags: imagining, post-antibiotics, future
The Anapol Schwartz personal injury law firm has announced that a $2.5bn proposed settlement was submitted for the DePuy Orthopaedics Articular surface replacement (ASR) hip implant litigation in a Toledo, Ohio federal court. The ...
Tags: Metal-on-Metal Hip, Medicine
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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Bavarian Nordic, an international biotechnology company, has announced that Health Canada has granted a notice of compliance approving IMVAMUNE for active immunization against smallpox in a public health emergency. IMVAMUNE is indicated ...
Aerocrine, a medical products company, has announced that Japanese health authorities have approved the use of its FeNO-measuring device NIOX MINO as a tool for assessing patients with airway inflammation such as asthma. On 19 November ...
BonAlive Biomaterials, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices for bone regeneration, has announced the CE Mark approval and the launch of a patented, ready-to-use and mouldable version of its osteostimulative BonAlive bioactive glass ...
Denmark-based Novo Nordisk has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA's) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the marketing of the NovoRapid PumpCart in Europe. NovoRapid PumpCart is a 1.6ml ...
Global medical company Sorin has announced the CE Mark approval and first implantation of the new Solo Smart biological aortic pericardial heart valve in Europe. Solo Smart is the evolution of the company's Freedom Solo pericardial aortic ...
Tags: Heart Valve, Health, Medicine
US-based BioMarin Pharmaceutical has announced that the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted in favor of approval of Vimizim for the treatment of Morquio A ...
Otsuka Pharmaceutical and H. Lundbeck have announced marketing authorization approval from the European Commission for Abilify Maintena (aripiprazole), an intramuscular (IM) once-monthly injectable formulation for maintenance treatment of ...
Germany-based Bayer HealthCare and US-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Nexavar (sorafenib), an oral multi-kinase inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with ...
European Medicines Agency's (EMA) the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued positive opinion for AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's of Xigduo for adults aged 18 and older with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The ...
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Bayer HealthCare's Eylea (aflibercept, solution for intravitreal injection) for the treatment of macular edema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). In ...