Nimbus Discovery, a US-based biotechnology company, has entered into a co-development agreement with Shire aiming at small molecule treatments for lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs), which are considered as the rare genetic diseases. The ...
Corgenix Medical has received the notification of CE Mark for its Relasv antigen rapid test for Lassa fever diagnosis. Relasv is the diagnostic test developed by Corgenix and members of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), a ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Carlos, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) May 9, 2013 -- Rosa & Co. LLC, a drug development advisory firm with expertise in drug-disease modeling and simulation, today announced that ...
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Millennium HealthCare's medical device subsidiary has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Heart Smart for the VasoScan assessment device in the US. FDA-approved VasoScan is a non-invasive device that provides an accurate ...
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European Scanning Centre (ESC) in London's Harley Street medical district, has installed EOS imaging's EOS System, becoming the first independent center in the UK to do so. The EOS System offers full-body skeletal images of patients in a ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced a funding injection of up to £5m from the Wellcome Trust to support its open approach to discover and develop the treatments for certain diseases. The funding will move the early-stage research to ...
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Nearly 40 tons of pork derived from infected and dead pigs has been sold in Fujian province, China, over a period of three months, in a latest food safety incident to hit the country. Two people have been detained for selling pork which ...
Tags: Diseased Pork, illegal trade
Chinese tea is a beverage from the leaves of tea plants (Camellia sinensis), which are ordinarily used for tea in China. Tea leaves are processed using traditional Chinese methods. The Chinese drink tea throughout the day, including during ...
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Water is such a thing without which life cannot be imagined. It is needed for drinking, bathing, and washing clothes. Many a times we do not know about the impurities present in the water that is being consumed. Such a thing can become a ...
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Abide Therapeutics and Merck, referred to as MSD outside the US and Canada, have collaborated to develop new therapies for type 2 diabetes and metabolic diseases. The collaboration will focus on the discovery, development and ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Raptor's Procysbi (cysteamine bitartrate) delayed release capsules for the treatment of nephropathic cystinosis in adults and children six years and older. Studies have shown that ...
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Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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Big data is not yet being embraced, according to Adrian Asher, chief information security officer (CISO) of the Skype division at Microsoft. Asher told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2013 that big data is currently just a buzzword used ...
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The European Commission has approved Sanofi Pasteur's 6-in-1 pediatric vaccine Hexyon/Hexacima (DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB vaccine) for primary and booster vaccination of infants from six weeks of age. The EC decision follows the European ...
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Bruker has collaborated with the University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre (UVic GBC Proteomics Centre) for the development and validation of high-throughput assays. The assays are used to determine hemoglobin ...