BC Technical, a leading non-OEM medical imaging solutions provider, announced today that it has been selected by HealthTrust as a provider for refurbished medical imaging equipment for the 1,400 acute care facilities that are part of the ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Refurbished Medical Imaging Equipment
As co-ordinator of the European project 'ReBioStent', Ceram, the international materials technology company, is pleased to announce that the project, to develop new biomaterials and new arterial stents, has been awarded Euro 5.874M by the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Ceram-Lead Project
Bayer HealthCare has failed to win the backing of the US FDA's Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee to expand the use of its oral anticoagulant Xarelto (rivaroxaban) 2.5 mg twice daily (BID) in combination with standard ...
Tags: FDA Panel, ACS Patients
Every week reporter Ankita Rao selects interesting reading from around the Web. NPR: 5 Simple Habits Can Help Doctors Connect With Patients I'd never [before] been encouraged to sit at a patient's bedside -; to stop hurrying for even a ...
Tags: Obesity Origins, Children with Chronic Disease, Health&Medicine
Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
Oregon public health officials have issued a warning about cheese imported from Mexico that may be contaminated with Listeria. Oregon's Health Authority and Department of Agriculture are investigating after an infant in Clackamas County ...
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Lexington, Ky.-based Equine Diagnostic Solutions (EDS) has begun testing for equine rhinitis A virus (ERAV) using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing method. EDS is now one of four labs in the United States offering this test, along ...
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Iroko Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing the science of analgesia, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Supplemental New Drug Application ...
Tags: Iroko Pharmaceuticals, FDA, ZORVOLEX, osteoarthritis pain
In honor of its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community, Crozer-Keystone Health System in Delaware County, Pa. is the recipient of the 2013 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Community Service
Doctors and parents have long struggled to understand the strange sensory tricks autism can play on a child's mind. Ordinary noises -- screeching car alarms, knocking radiator pipes, even the whirr of a fan -- can be intolerable to children ...
Tags: autism, neurodevelopmental disorder, children health, Mark Wallace
A novel study determined that monitoring inactive chronic hepatitis B (HBV) carriers is a cost-effective strategy for China. However, results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked doctors to stop prescribing painkillers that contain more than 325 milligrams of acetaminophen because of reports of severe liver damage. Prescription painkillers, which include Vicodin and ...
Iroko Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing the science of analgesia, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Supplemental New Drug Application ...
By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter Levels of glutamine, but not glutamate, are elevated in the dorsal anterior cingulate of patients with established schizophrenia, say researchers. Most previous studies have measured ...
Marking a milestone in the evolution of fully-bioresorbable drug-eluting scaffolds for interventional cardiology, the first commercial implant of Elixir Medical's CE Mark-approved DESolve Novolimus Eluting Coronary Scaffold was performed in ...