As gold sponsor of the 2nd Palm Oil Africa conference, leading global agri-business, Olam International, is pleased to announce that its keynote address will focus on best practices in oil palm plantation development, bringing to bear its ...
US-based drug delivery contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Particle Sciences has completed manufacturing of vaginal rings with new architecture, essentially a powdered filled tube intended for HIV prevention. The ...
Tags: HIV Prevention, Particle Sciences
Costco’s El Camino Real store, based in San Francisco, California, is recalling about 39,755 pounds of rotisserie chicken products over concerns of Salmonella Heidelberg contamination, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food ...
US-based biotechnology firm GeoVax Labs has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for patent that covers compositions, methods and uses of the company's DNA/MVA vaccine in eliciting cellular and ...
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The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued an alert on Foster Farms' raw chicken products over concerns that they are linked to illness caused by strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. The ...
Scientists from Northwestern University have developed a new intravaginal ring that could help prevent women from immunodeficiency virus. The ring is easily inserted and stays in place for 30 days,delivering a measured amount of the ...
Tags: Immunodeficiency Virus, Medicine
Walmart announced that Kathleen McLaughlin, 48, has been named president of the Walmart Foundation, effective October 15. In addition to leading corporate giving, she will have responsibility for the company’s global ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for Sangamo BioSciences’ patent application entitled ‘Novel DNA-binding Proteins and Uses Thereof.’ Claims cover the critical components of TALE ...
ViiV Healthcare, HIV company established by GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, has announced the FDA approval of an integrase inhibitor, Tivicay (dolutegravir) 50mg tablets, for the treatment of HIV-1. Tivicay is indicated for use in combination ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Alere's pre-market application (PMA) for the commercialization of Alere Determine HIV 1/2 Ag/Ab Combo in the country. The FDA approval allows the marketing of Alere Determine HIV 1/2 ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first rapid point-of-care test that detects both HIV-1/2 antibodies and the HIV-1 antigen in human serum, plasma, and venous or fingerstick whole blood specimens. The Alere ...
Tags: Rapid Diagnostic Test, HIV-1, HIV-2
Indian based pharmaceutical company Cipla has completed the acquisition of Cipla Medpro South Africa for a consideration of ZAR4.507bn ($456.43m). Commenting on the development Cipla managing director and global CEO Subhanu Saxena was ...
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A combination of GlaxoSmithKline’s GSK744 and J&J’s TMC278 monthly injection therapy, designed to evaluate its potential to control HIV, is currently being tested. Results of a study, which was conducted on 40 HIV-negative ...
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Abbott has introduced FDA-approved hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotyping test for patients in the US. The completely automated RealTime HCV Genotype II test determines the specific type or strain of the HCV virus present in the blood of an ...
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Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) has acquired all the assets of Evivar Medical (Evivar), which includes its Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and C (HCV) web-based decision support tools and the associated viral genome analysis systems (SeqHepB ...