US-based Cochlear has announced that an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted favorably on the Cochlear Nucleus Hybrid L24 implant system. This is a first of its kind system designed for the treatment of ...
Americans live sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy countries — and the gap is getting worse over time, a new report shows. Men in the USA have shorter lives than men in 16 developed nations. American women also fall ...
Professor Robert Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the honored speaker at the Axalta Distinguished Lectures sponsored by Axalta Coating Systems and hosted by the Department of ...
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US-based Advanced Proteome Therapeutics has announced the achievement of an important milestone in its Cprogram with its collaborators by demonstrating that the first of a series of the company's site-specifically labeled protein conjugates ...
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Iceland-based Kerecis has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its fish-skin, Omega3, tissue-regeneration technology for the treatment of chronic wounds in the US. The company will market the ...
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Hologic, a manufacturer of diagnostic products, medical imaging systems and surgical products, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Aptima HPV 16 18/45 genotype assay for use on the company's fully ...
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Medtronic has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Lead Integrity Alert (LIA) software for use with non-Medtronic leads to detect defibrillator lead issues. LIA software has been approved by the FDA to ...
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NanoBio Systems, a medical sensor startup company, has announced the successful measurement of glucose in saliva of human test subjects using a disposable nanotechnology-based sensor platform and simple, portable electronics. Limited ...
The Silk Road online marketplace has resurfaced about a month after U.S. officials shut down the website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity service. They had arrested Ross William Ulbricht - who was alleged to be the ...
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Topera, a US-based medical device company, has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) approval and commercial availability of its FIRMap catheter and RhythmView 3D mapping workstation. For clinicians, the RhythmView 3D ...
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Glass Onion Catering has recalled about 181,620 pounds of salads and sandwich wrap products with chicken and ham, as they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ...
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As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces its preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils are not “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), global oils leader IOI Loders Croklaan is inviting food ...
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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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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given 510(k) clearance for the marketing of Iceland-based Kerecis' proprietary fish-skin, omega-3, tissue-regeneration product for treating chronic wounds in the US. The product known as ...
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Evotec has announced a collaboration with the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in California to identify new targets for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery and development. Under the terms of the agreement, Janssen Pharmaceuticals ...
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