The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a key patent covering the use of Galena Biopharma's NeuVax for inducing immunity to breast cancer recurrence in patients having low-to-intermediate IHC levels of 1+ or 2+ and a FISH ...
Solos Endoscopy, a healthcare instrument company, has started commercializing its new endoscopic instrument line, SteriTAP. The SteriTAP instruments consist of dissectors, general surgery instruments, graspers, gynecology instruments, ...
Tags: healthcare instrument, Endoscopic Instrument, endoscopic instrument line
Approval from the MHRA allows testing of the technique as a means to detect breast cancer tissue. THz spots the difference in breast cancer tissue The application of terahertz(THz)spectroscopy to the in vivo detection of cancerous ...
Tags: Infrared scans, vivo THz spectroscopy, breast cancer tissue, MHRA
inVentiv Medical Management, a provider of medical management services, has formed strategic alliance with Vital Decisions to better serve the needs of payers, providers, and seriously ill patients. Under the alliance, iMM and Vital ...
Tags: medical management services, care management and counseling program
HTG Molecular Diagnostics has licensed Merck's breast cancer marker to develop, manufacture, and market breast cancer diagnostic tests. HTG Molecular Diagnostics CEO TJ Johnson said the ability to quickly, and locally assess a patient's ...
Pentax Medical, a provider of endoscopic products and services, has introduced new EG-3270UK endoscope during the 30th GEEW congress in Brussels, Belgium. The new endoscope uses an instrument channel to deliver the optimal balance of a ...
Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
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Cyanobacteria bloom on Lake Erie, turning bright green near the surface. Satellite image taken Oct. 9, 2011. NASA MODIS data processed by R. Stumpf, NOAA. One summer day two years ago, Danny and Laura Jenkins' black Labrador retriever ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for CytRx Corporation's patent application covering a pharmaceutical composition of tamibarotene in capsule form. Tamibarotene is an orally available, ...
Tags: notice of allowance, patent application, tamibarotene, USPTO
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) and Eli Lilly (LLY) have received an approval from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the use of Erbitux in combination with the chemotherapy regimen Folfiri as an initial treatment of patients with ...
Tags: FDA approval, Erbitux, KRAS mutation-negative colorectal cancer
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has issued a patent for Lorus Therapeutics' cancer immunotherapy agent, IL-17E. The patent protects the use of IL-17E to treat cancer, including solid tumors such as colon, breast, ovarian, ...
Tags: patent, IL-17E, treatment of cancer
UnitedHealthcare's Golden Rule Insurance has unveiled a critical illness insurance plan for individuals and families, to offer cash payments to participants who are diagnosed with serious illnesses or health conditions. As per the terms ...
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The US FDA has granted priority review designation to Bayer HealthCare's new drug application (NDA) filed for regorafenib to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) whose disease has progressed after approved standard ...
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Astellas Pharma and Medivation have announced the submission of marketing authorization application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for enzalutamide to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in men who have ...
Tags: enzalutamide, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) to Beckman Coulter's simple, non-invasive Prostate Health Index (phi) blood test. The phi test, indicated for use in men with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ...
Tags: phi blood test, Prostate Health Index Test, immunoassay systems