Discovery Laboratories, a specialty biotechnology company dedicated to advancing a new standard of respiratory critical care, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the company's investigational new drug ...
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The Netherlands-based Royal DSM has announced a partnership with US-based BiO2 Medical to supply DSM’s proprietary ComfortCoat lubricious coating and its coating application expertise for use in BiO2 Medical’s Angel catheter. ...
In January, when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a meta-analysis of 100 studies that probed the relationship between body mass index and mortality — studies that found slightly overweight people have ...
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About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits ...
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Americans live sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy countries — and the gap is getting worse over time, a new report shows. Men in the USA have shorter lives than men in 16 developed nations. American women also fall ...
FDA regulators have released a report on Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci system, which was based on responses from 11 surgeons who had used the system. The report covers complications, patient recovery times, training concerns, and ...
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The health of most of the planet’s population is rapidly coming to resemble that of the United States, where death in childhood is rare, too much food is a bigger problem than too little, and life is long and often darkened by ...
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The Center for Tomography Research Laboratory (CTECH Labs) introduced the latest technology in brain scanning at the 6th International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference on Neural Engineering at the Sheraton Hotel, ...
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US-based Fujifilm SonoSite has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its X-Porte ultrasound kiosk, a new generation of point-of-care ultrasound. This integrates advanced signal processing for ...
As part of a new strategic initiative, aimed at strengthening its presence in cranberry derivatives, Indena has entered an industrial and commercial agreement with Pharmatoka. On the basis of this agreement, Indena will produce Gikacran ...
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U.S. scientists say they developed a squishy gel that when compressed -- like at a painful knee joint -- releases anti-inflammatory medicine. Xinqiao Jia, Chandran R. Sabanayagam and colleagues at the University of Delaware said in the ...
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Those who play reed instruments -- clarinets and saxophones -- can get "saxophone lung" from the instrument if it is not properly cleaned, U.S. researchers say. In a case study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and ...
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Nyxoah, a Belgian-Israeli start-up company, has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is issuing 11 patents for Nyxoah's obstructive sleep apnea technology. The first eight granted patents were published today on the ...
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A GP has voiced her concerns about the NHS's controversial new system for collecting and analysing data, Care.data, questioning why the health service needs to obtain so much data from the UK's citizens. Dr. Jane Lothian, GP and medical ...
Seventh Sense Biosystems (Cambridge, MA) landed CE Mark approval in the European Union for its Touch Activated Phlebotomy platform. The platform is designed for blood collection procedures and is slated for release in one year or more. For ...