The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Sunovion Pharmaceuticals' (Sunovion) antiepileptic drug (AED) Aptiom (eslicarbazepine acetate) for the treatment of partial-onset seizures in patients with epilepsy. According to the ...
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A small study research has revealed patients in average hospital rooms are getting inadequate lighting exposure that it is affecting their bodies normal sleep-wake cycle, according to a Reuters report. Researchers at Cleveland Clinic's ...
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For the medical device industry, lasers are an invaluable technology. With myriad uses ranging from eyesight improvement to imaging, medical lasers can be found in almost all hospitals in the United States and other developed countries. ...
Bend Research, part of Capsugel’s Dosage Form Solutions business unit, announced the addition of Capsugel’s Xcelodose precision powder-filling technology to its drug development process. This patented micro-dosing technology ...
US-based Loxo Oncology has announced that its lead clinical program is a potent and selective inhibitor of the Trk family of receptor tyrosine kinases. Loxo Oncology acquired rights to this program from Array Biopharma, which had pursued ...
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US-based Critical Diagnostics has unveiled its Aspect-LF ST2 test, a point-of-care version of its lab-based Presage ST2 Assay. Aspect-LF will be made available throughout Europe and select Asia-Pacific countries later 2013. Aspect-LF is ...
AstraZeneca's global biologics research and development division MedImmune will acquire Spirogen, a biotech firm focused on antibody-drug conjugate technology for use in oncology. Spirogen's complete shares will be purchased by MedImmune ...
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IBM Research has unveiled two new Watson-related cognitive technologies that are expected to help physicians make more informed and accurate decisions faster and to cull new insights from electronic medical records (EMR). The projects ...
US-based Pharmatek has expanded its packaging services with the installation and qualification of an automated bottling line at its cGMP facility located at San Diego in California. The installation of the bottling line, which is slated ...
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US-based Preventice has obtained CE Mark from the European Commission for its BodyGuardian remote monitoring system for use in detecting and monitoring non-lethal cardiac arrhythmias for ambulatory patients. Preventice has developed the ...
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Many consumers are shying away from LED lighting due to potential harm blue LED bulbs can have on the retina of the eye. The media has even confused blue lights emitted from blue-ray and blue LED light. So what exactly are blue LEDs then? ...
Women’s Secret, Spain’s popular innerwear label, has joined hands with the famous Barcelona-based healthcare clinic Dexeus Women’s Health to release a new lingerie line for the Mastectomy survivors. The ...
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Nucletron, an Elekta Company, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Esteya electronic brachytherapy system, a new approach for high precision skin cancer treatment. Depending on a small, high dose ...
Genia Technologies in consortium with Columbia University and Harvard Medical School, has secured a three-year $5.25m grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, DNA Sequencing Platform
CureDuchenne has launched a new drug discovery and development initiative to identify and develop a pipeline of therapies to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The initiative, dubbed CureDuchenne Ventures, is based on the company's ...