US-based Elixir Medical has announced positive one-year results from the DESolve Nx international pivotal clinical trial for the CE Mark-approved, fully bioresorbable DESolve Novolimus eluting coronary scaffold system. At one year, the ...
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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 ...
Biotronik, a manufacturer of cardio and endovascular medical devices, has announced that its DREAMS scaffold (DRug Eluting Absorbable Metal Scaffold) has been successfully implanted in the first coronary artery disease patient in Germany as ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted to review AstraZeneca's new drug application (NDA) for Epanova, an investigational compound for the treatment for patients with severe hypertriglyceridaemia. Omthera Pharmaceuticals, ...
Boston Scientific's Guidezilla Guide Extension Catheter has secured 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CE Mark, which would enable the company to market the device in the US and European markets. The ...
Miraculins, a Canada-based medical diagnostic company, has acquired VeraLight's SCOUT DS technology, which screens diabetes by non-invasively measuring changes in the skin composition. These changes in the skin composition indicates ...
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Daiichi Sankyo Company is seeking approval for an oral antiplatelet agent prasugrel hydrochloride to treat ischemic heart diseased patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in Japan. The company has submitted a new drug ...
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CardioDx has unveiled the study results of a clinical utility study of the Corus CAD gene expression test in the real-world primary care setting for evaluating patients with signs and symptoms suggestive of obstructive coronary artery ...
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What is dairy product? Dairy products are generally defined as food produced from the milk of mammals (the Food Standards Agency of the United Kingdom defines dairy as "foodstuffs made from mammalian milk"). They are ...
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Health Dairy products can cause health issues for individuals who have lactose intolerance or a milk allergy. Some dairy products such as blue cheese may become contaminated with the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus during ripening, which can ...
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St Jude Medical has launched Ilumien Optis system, designed to capture physiological, anatomical view of the coronary vessels, in Japan. The 3-D vessel reconstruction system, which includes a stent planning software tool, combines ...
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US-based medical technology provider Boston Scientific said it is launching the new polymer-based drug-eluting stent (DES) system in the European market as the product has obtained CE mark approval. The Promus Premier everolimus-eluting ...
For almost two decades research has suggested that people with diabetes and multiple clogged arteries live longer and have fewer heart attacks if they undergo bypass surgery instead of angioplasty. Yet many of those people continue to be ...
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Abbott has initiated a ABSORB III clinical trial of its drug eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) device, designed for the treatment of coronary artery disease patients. The Absorb device, which includes a multi-link stent ...
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Global medical device company St Jude Medical has enrolled the first patient in its ILUMIEN I observational clinical study. The objective of the study is to determine that an intravascular imaging technology, Optical Coherence Tomography ...