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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Ortho Kinematics, a healthcare diagnostic company, has announced the launch of an online portal that provides spine surgeons with a simple way to access the company’s flagship diagnostic product, the VMA (Vertebral Motion Analysis). ...
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VIDA Diagnostics, a provider of quantitative imaging and informatics services, has announced the release of Apollo 2.0 at the 2013 American College of Chest Physicians Conference. The software advance signifies the next generation product ...
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US-based Boston Scientific has obtained CE Mark approval for its Lotus valve system, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device designed to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk with surgical valve ...
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US-based Abbott Laboratories has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its MitraClip device, designed to treat patients with significant symptomatic degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) who are at ...
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Senesco Technologies reported the treatment of the first patient at the Company’s newly opened clinical-trial site at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). This patient is part of Senesco’s Phase 1b/2a clinical study of its ...
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Cardiovascular Systems, a US-based medical device company, has obtained a premarket approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Diamondback 360 coronary orbital atherectomy system (OAS), designed to treat severely ...
Picofemto, a biomedical software company specializing in neuroanalytics and personalized medicine, has announced the deployment of its first product, EEG decision support, based on its proprietary cloud-based biomedical engine, Cliniscan. ...
Global biotechnology company Transgenomic has signed a collaboration agreement with PDI, a health care commercialization company, to commercialize its CardioPredict. Developed by Transgenomic, CardioPredict identifies a patient's specific ...
US-based Caldera Medical will launch its Desara Mini, Desara Blue, and Desara SL solutions, designed for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The company has already received approval from the US Food and Drug ...
Bedding major Simmons said it will be a major sponsor of Howard Young's 2013 Atlanta Golf Classic, supporting pancreatic cancer research. Atlanta-based Simmons will co-sponsor the charity golf tournament, which expects to attract 120 ...
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Luminex, a biotechnology company, has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European approvals for a new personalized medicine genotyping assay, xTAG CYP2C19 kit. xTAG CYP2C19 kit is a comprehensive genotyping assay that ...
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The Volvo Group has opened up an on-site medical centre and pharmacy for workers at its Hagerstown powertrain development and production facility. The medical centre is open to all the company's Hagerstown-based employees and their ...
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Amerinet, a national healthcare solutions organization, has signed an agreement with All Medical Solutions (AMS), the Healthcare division of Fusion Systems North America, to make the AMS SPHER, a health insurance portability and ...
CardioLogical Solutions, a cardiovascular device company, has reported successful in vivo validation of its VasoStitch device, designed to make transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures percutaneous and safer. The ...