Simplex Healthcare has entered into collaboration agreement to provide PositiveID's iglucose system, designed for diabetes management. Under the agreement, Simplex will purchase iglucose units and will start trialing the iglucose ...
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Medcan Clinic, a private health care clinic in Canada, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Pathway Genomics. Under the agreement, Pathway Genomics will allow Medcan's patients to use its Personal Genome Test. Using only a ...
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Janssen Research & Development has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the US FDA seeking approval for a fixed-dose therapy combining canagliflozin and immediate release metformin to treat patients with type 2 diabetes. ...
TheSpeedGamers of Dallas-Fort Worth ended their weeklong Pokemon marathon by raising$58,993 on behalf of ACT Today!(Autism Care and Treatment Today!),a national non-profit organization whose mission is to provide access to care and ...
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National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK),US, has awarded $500,000 small business innovation research (SBIR) grant to Genalyte to develop multiplexed diagnostic assays for the ...
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Male manufacturing workers are the most likely of all Victorian workers to have a high risk of type 2 diabetes, a Monash University study of half a million WorkHealth checks has found. According to the health snapshot, more than one third ...
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Diabetes UK has called for a front-of-pack traffic-light labeling system for food products, in an effort to help tackle the rising tide of Type 2 diabetes. The focus was also on the importance of including carbohydrate content on all ...
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The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA)'s consumer website has released a new YouTube video, Meet Norman, that shows how bottled water bans are having an unintended effect by shifting consumption to less healthy drinks packaged ...
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UK-based retailer Sainsbury's has called for the introduction of a single method of displaying nutritional details on printed labels for food products to help public make informed decisions. Over the years, many systems have been used to ...
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Nipro Diagnostics has entered into an agreement to integrate its TRUEresult blood glucose monitoring system into NextGen Healthcare Information Systems' Ambulatory electronic health record (EHR). The integration will help NextGen ...
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GI Dynamics has obtained conditional approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a pivotal clinical trial of its non-surgical EndoBarrier device. Flexible, tube-shaped EndoBarrier liner, which forms a physical ...
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The FDA has granted orphan drug designation for Andromeda Biotech's DiaPep277 to treat type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients with residual beta cell function. The orphan drug status offers seven years marketing exclusivity from the time of ...
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Extend Nutrition, a US-based diabetes nutrition products manufacturer, is expanding distribution of its Peanut Butter Chocolate and Chocolate Extend Bars to more than 10,000 Walmart, CVS and Kmart stores across the country. The move ...
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Cytori Therapeutics has expanded its Celution system's CE mark approval to include several new indications including cryptoglandular fistula. The Celution system, which pulls stem cells and other regenerative cells out of fat , provides ...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld that the Myriad Genetics composition of matter claims covering isolated DNA of the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes are patent-eligible material under Section 101 of the US Patent Act. ...
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