In May, some 30 million people visited Upworthy, the sharing network that uses data-driven social media to draw attention to topics that matter. The milestone illustrates the strong, sustained growth being seen by the 14-month-old company ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI), a cancer-care network in Washington, US, has acquired four Elekta's Versa HD systems. Versa HD is a radiation treatment system that is intended for cancer management and treat a wide range of tumors in ...
US-based NanoString Technologies has announced that its Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay offers better prognostic information in endocrine treated patients with HR+ node negative disease. NanoString Technologies said ...
Tags: Prognostic Information, Medicine
US-based NanoString Technologies has announced that its Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay offers better prognostic information in endocrine treated patients with HR+ node negative disease. NanoString Technologies said ...
Tags: Prognostic Information, Medicine
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of patent allowance for DelMar Pharmaceuticals’ first-in-class small-molecule chemotherapeutic VAL-083. The patent covers the methods for synthesizing VAL-083, which is ...
Wyeth Nutrition, the infant formula company bought by Nestle last year, is cutting prices in China, the first such move since it was one of five foreign infant milk formula companies put under investigation for possible price-fixing. ...
Tags: infant formula, milk powder
Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Queen Mary University of London have developed a new breast cancer test, dubbed as PAM50, to help women avoid unnecessary chemotherapy. The ...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy
Ah, Mondays. Wonder why your employees are all yawning and glassy-eyed today? It may be easy to blame it on the hot weather or overindulgences over the weekend, but researchers are pointing fingers at another potential culprit that is ...
Tags: Smartphones, tablet PCs, Computer Products
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's new streamlined workflow process for the cobas Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test, which help labs reduce costs, improve turnaround time and focus on other key tasks. Roche ...
Tags: Cobas HPV Test, FDA Approval, Medicine
Saks Fifth Avenue and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) announced that actress Jennifer Aniston has been named the EIF ambassador for Saks Fifth Avenue’s 2013 Key to the Cure campaign. In the 14 years since the inception of ...
While the biggest charity "thons" were flat or slightly down in 2012, most dedicated to cycling saw healthy increases.? "When we look at the results, the really strong results are in the cycling area," said David Hessekiel, president of ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Oncology-focused drug development company Curis has secured US patent protecting intellectual property rights of its phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) - histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, CUDC-907. The patent covers the method of ...
Tags: Health&Medicine, Curis, US
US-based Ambrx and China-based Zhejiang Medicine have collaborated to develop and commercialize ARX788, an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) targeting Her2-positive breast cancer. As per the deal, both the companies will advance the product ...
AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals has announced the spin-off of its 80% stake in Activartis, a Vienna-based biotech company, to a group of private investors. Activartis has developed dendritic cell-based technology for individualized tumor ...
Tags: AOP Orphan, Medicine
Switzerland-based Celgene International Sárl has received approval from the European Commission (EC) to allow its Revlimid drug to treat patients with transfusion-dependent anaemia. While other remedial options could not yield ...