In August, Medtronic was forced to remove its CoreValve percutaneuous heart valves from the market in Germany in light of a ruling that found that the device infringed on patents held by Edwards Lifesciences. A German appeals court, ...
W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) has announced that Dr Brian Peterson from Saint Louis University, enrolled the first patient in the Gore EXCLUDER iliac branch clinical study. The clinical study is a prospective, multi-center, ...
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Cartiva, a developer of products for the treatment of cartilage injuries and osteoarthritis, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Rehab Matrix Canada, a distributor of foot and ankle orthopedic medical devices. Pursuant to ...
MusclePharm , a sports nutrition company, has signed a definitive asset purchase agreement with BioZone Pharmaceuticals to acquire substantially all of the assets of BioZone and its subsidiaries. Under the terms of the agreement, ...
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Signum Dermalogix, a biopharmaceutical company, has announced that the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) awarded the company a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant totaling ...
Kent Charugundla, a prominent art collector, inventor, and serial entrepreneur, who has supported many artists through various platforms has been designing shirts for himself for over seven years through Eredi Pisano'. Now, Mr. Charugundla ...
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High levels of acrylamide have been found to cause cancer in animals, and scientists say it is likely to cause cancer in humans, U.S. health officials say. Lauren Robin, a chemist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said ...
Wireless micro-LED devices are allowing researchers to use optogenetics to uncover information about molecular and cellular events in the brain that underlie stress, addiction and depression. To better understand and one day provide ...
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Boehringer Ingelheim has submitted European marketing authorization applications (MAA) to extend the indication to use tiotropium (Spiriva) Respimat for the treatment of asthma in adults aged 18 years and over. The MAA is based on results ...
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) subsidiary Janssen Biotech and Pharmacyclics (PCYC) have won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their breakthrough therapy Imbruvica (ibrutinib) to treat patients with mantle cell lymphoma ...
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Treating the elderly didn't drive the U.S. increase in healthcare cost from 2000; 91 percent was from professional services, drugs and devices, researchers say. Dr. Hamilton Moses III of the Alerion Institute in North Garden, Va., and the ...
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Women underweight and obese women are more likely to die before the age of 85 while overweight and obese women had higher risk of disease, U.S. researchers say. Eileen Rillamas-Sun of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, ...
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Those with HIV are living normal lifespans and their doctors should aim on preventive care for heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis, U.S. researchers say. The Human Immunodeficiency Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases ...
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US-based CEL-SCI has obtained an approval from the Health Protection Administration, Ministry of Health, of the Croatian Republic to begin patient enrollment in Phase III clinical trial of its investigational cancer immunotherapy treatment, ...
NanoViricides has secured orphan drug designation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its drug candidate DengueCide, for the treatment of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease that affects ...
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