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 ...
Married couples who are heavy drinkers and those who don't drink tend to stay married, but couples with one heavy drinker tend to divorce, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Kenneth Leonard, director of the University of Buffalo Research ...
Almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts and pistachios are linked to a 20 percent lower death rate, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Dr. Ying Bao of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School ...
DNA-based prediction of taller-than-average body height is feasible, say researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden. Professor Manfred Kayser of the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology at Erasmus University Medical Center in ...
Lower-income youth with kidney disease, even when prescribed growth hormone, are less likely to grow to a normal height, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Susan Furth, a researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and lead author of the ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine, Q-pan, to protect against H5N1 influenza, or avian flu. The vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, was developed in partnership with the ...
An expert says the Mexican diet -- more dangerous than fast-food -- combined with a sedentary lifestyle is the main cause of Mexico's obesity epidemic. Dr. Enrique C. Morales Villegas, director of the Cardiometabolic Research Centre in ...
A Chicago-area surgeon says many sprains, bruises, broken bones and other injuries incurred in Thanksgiving pick-up football games are preventable. Dr. Pietro Tonino of the Loyola University Medical Center said many injuries suffered in ...
Testing or measurement of any kind of technical thing is very difficult and should be accurate always for the best results. You can easily find a lot of quality proven range of testing equipment which is used to test various electronic ...
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A biomedical engineer is developing a clinical-grade open-source 12-lead ECG. The device includes support for Android devices and is designed to meet all relevant medical device manufacturing standards, like ISO 60601-1. According to early ...
The four partners BRAIN, the Hohenstein Institute, Kelheim Fibres and rkona, announce the formation of a new research alliance for the biotechnical production and modification of specialty alginates. The aim of the alliance is to establish ...
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Megadyne Medical Products, an electrosurgical products company, and Ethicon Endo-Surgery Energy business have entered into a collaboration agreement to provide customers greater choice and access to high-quality monopolar, bipolar, advanced ...
Kinetic Concepts (KCI) has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its next generation V.A.C.Via negative pressure wound therapy system. The V.A.C.Via therapy system is a single-patient-use, ultra-portable V.A.C. ...
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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 ...
Pfizer has secured regular approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Xalkori (crizotinib) capsules to treat patients with metastatic ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The approval was based on ...