More than a week after the FDA told 23andMe to stop marketing its Personal Genomic Service tests, the Mountain View, CA–based company says it is complying. "23andMe halted all marketing last week in accordance with the FDA’s ...
American Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Endo Health Solutions, has obtained CE Mark approval for its RetroArc retropubic sling system, designed to treat female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). In collaboration with leading physicians, ...
Aviva has announced significant improvements to its International Solutions private medical insurance from 1st February 2014. The improvements will provide new and existing customers with enhanced standard benefits and wider geographic ...
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Agalimmune, a biopharmaceutical company, has been created to develop innovative immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, with a focus on solid tumours. The new company has been founded by an investment group comprising Loxbridge ...
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Avalon Laboratories, LLC Avalon will showcase its capabilities to offer feature-rich single piece medical devices not currently available with extrusion technology in booth #204 at BIOMEDevice San Jose. Avalon will showcase its ...
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Prostate cancer stem cells evolve into different cells as the disease progresses and this becomes a moving target for treatment, U.S. researchers say. Drs. Andrew Goldstein, Owen Witte and Tanya Stoyanova and colleagues at the University ...
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Posted in Testing Services by Chris Newmarker on November 25, 2013 The FDA is telling 23andMe to stop marketing its Personal Genomic Service tests. The FDA’s move is but another sign that the regulator is increasingly concerned ...
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Global medical company Sorin has obtained CE Mark approval for the XL version of Perceval, a bioprosthetic device designed to replace a diseased native or malfunctioning prosthetic aortic valve using either traditional or minimally invasive ...
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UK-based drug discovery and development firm Summit has formed a strategic alliance with the University of Oxford in order to further strengthen its utrophin modulator program for the treatment of the fatal muscle wasting disease duchenne ...
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 ...
Eisai Europe has become a signatory to the Tuberculosis Drug Accelerator (TBDA) partnership, an initiative that aims to speed up the discovery of essential new treatments for tuberculosis (TB). Launched in June 2012 through a ...
US-based Moderna Therapeutics has announced the completion of a new financing round, raising $110m to develop messenger RNA Therapeutics. In aggregate, Moderna has secured more than $415m in financing and partnerships to date from the ...
You may think that eating five superfoods every day is out of reach, not very do-able. There are quite a few superfoods available, and many articles list up to ten to consume. Some of those superfoods, however, may not be practical ...
US-based B. Braun Medical and DaVita Healthcare Partners, a kidney care company, have entered into a new supply agreement for dialysis products. As per the agreement, Braun Medical will supply its B.Braun Dialog+ dialysis equipment and ...
It's good to know more about simple herbs to protect us against infections as well as cure us from infections and disease. Some herbs can be consumed directly; some need to be made into teas or tinctures, while others are offered as ...