US-based Preventice has obtained CE Mark from the European Commission for its BodyGuardian remote monitoring system for use in detecting and monitoring non-lethal cardiac arrhythmias for ambulatory patients. Preventice has developed the ...
Tags: Remote Monitoring System, Medicine
US-based Binder Biomedical has obtained the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Logic, a new anterior lumbar fixation system designed for use in a direct anterior surgical approach for accessing the intervertebral disc ...
Tags: Spinal Fusion Device, Medicine
US-based Solos Endoscopy has successfully passed Stage 2 of ISO 13485:2003 audit with TUV SUD America. TUV SUD conducted Stage 2 audit for registration to ISO 13485:2003 from 15 August to 16 August 2013 and found no non-conformities to ...
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Cytori Therapeutics has obtained approval from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore for the Celution system, designed for autologous re-implantation or re-infusion of a patient’s own adipose-derived regenerative cells ...
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InSite Vision Incorporated (INSV) has reported that the US District Court for the District of New Jersey upheld all four of the patents protecting AzaSite, an azithromycin 1% ophthalmic solution, in a patent infringement lawsuit against ...
US-based specialty pharmaceutical firm Par Pharmaceutical has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for clonidine hydrochloride (HCl) extended-release (ER) ...
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US-based MetaStat has announced that a study of 481 women with breast cancer has confirmed that the MetaSite Score (a count of the number of TMEM structures) was found to be associated with a statistically significant increase in the risk ...
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Optivia Biotechnology has secured a $1.8m two-year Phase II small business innovation research (SBIR) grant, from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The federal grant is expected to ...
The Israeli Ministry of Health (IMH) has approved Pluristem Therapeutics’ request to start a Phase II trial using its PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells in the treatment of intermittent claudication (IC). IC is a subset of peripheral ...
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Methanex Corporation has reached a number of key milestones with respect to its near-term capacity growth objectives in New Zealand, Canada and Chile. On October 4, 2013, the company successfully produced its first methanol from the newly ...
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The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)'s Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) and Swiss biopharmaceutical firm Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm) have signed an exclusive research collaboration to develop oral small molecules ...
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Bausch + Lomb Technolas, a US-based eye care company, has obtained the CE mark for its Technolas Teneo 317 excimer laser workstation, which is designed to treat all types of ametropia (refractive errors). In addition to traditional LASIK ...
SuperSonic Imagine, a medical ultrasound company, announced its Aixplorer MultiWave ultrasound system has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the quantification capabilities of its real-time ShearWave ...
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The University of Michigan’s Department of Pathology MLabs has announced the commercial availability of Mi-prostate score (MiPS) test for men, a new urine test that measures minute fragments of RNA in prostate cancer. The test ...
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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