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 ...
According to federal officials, the budget sequester and the government shutdown have drained approximately $85 million from the FDA's financial reserves. These reserves came from user fees that pharmaceutical and medical device companies ...
Denver-based RavenBrick is pleased to announce that Tulsa-based Tristar Glass (www.tristarglass.com) has agreed to fabricate and distribute their RavenWindow technology in the US Southwest. “I could not be more thrilled to have ...
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Let's say a large medical device company has developed a new computer heart simulator that the FDA thinks is acceptable for running tests--or a new clinical trial design in a cutting-edge field. In the past, a small, early-stage company ...
Tags: Big Medtechs, public-private Medical Device Innovation Consortium, FDA
The current volatility of crude oil spreads like Brent/WTI and Brent/LLS are a sign that, when it comes to light, sweet crude in the US, refining capacity limits are being reached, Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup, said ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A jury on Thursday ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple $290 million for copying features of the iPhone and iPad. That was in addition to $640 million the South Korea-based Samsung already owed Apple from a ...
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Monday, Nov 25, 2013 The largest oilfield in the USA south of Canada is said to be the East Texas Oilfield. (The largest oilfield in the USA is Prudho Bay in Alaska).Since I began my research on oil in 2003 my mental image of the East Texas ...
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss has announced an independent review of aviation safety regulation in Australia. “This announcement delivers on one of the key commitments ...
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Qantas will close its Avalon heavy maintenance facility at the end of March 2014 due to the gradual retirement of its Boeing 747 fleet, making the operation unviable. Qantas Domestic chief executive officer Lyell Strambi said after a ...
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A landmark industrial development site in one of Australia’s premier distribution locations has come on the market, with the purchaser able to benefit from the leasing income whilst obtaining masterplan approval to develop the site. ...
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The National Transport Commission is encouraging members of the heavy vehicle industry to register to attend upcoming public consultation forums on draft options for new heavy vehicle charges to apply from 1 July 2014. “Following ...
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Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon says the Federal Government’s review of the national Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal showed contempt for families of the 330 people killed in truck-related crashes in ...
The National Transport Commission (NTC) should work on simplifying the heavy vehicle national law to improve road safety, the chief executive of the Australian Trucking Association Stuart St Clair said. Mr St Clair was commenting on the ...
Tags: trucker, simplified, national, law, compliance, transport, logistics
Belgium-based biopharmaceutical firm ThromboGenics has announced that its partner Alcon has launched Jetrea (ocriplasmin) for the treatment of symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) in Canada. According to the company, Canada is the ...
Tags: Alcon, Vitreomacular Adhesion
API Director of Upstream and Industry Operations Erik Milito welcomed today’s authorization by the Department of Energy for exports from the Quintana Island, Texas liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility and urged the agency to quickly ...