For many industries, innovation helps to drive down product prices. Over the past few decades, entry-level computers have decreased in price from thousands of dollars to only a few hundred. 1980 saw the debut of IBM's personal computer, ...
Approximately one year after the company landed FDA approval for its Ventricular Assist System, the company is boasting significant surge in revenue. In early morning trading on November 7, the company's shares increased by 15%. In total, ...
Shaw Industries has opened the Shaw Family Health Center, a full-service family health center located at 2659 Abutment Road in Dalton, Ga. The new Health Center, operated by QuadMed, a nationally recognized leader in employer-sponsored ...
Medtronic has obtained an investigational device exemption from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate SYMPLICITY HTN-4 clinical trial using its Symplicity renal denervation system. SYMPLICITY HTN-4 study has been designed ...
One Lambda, a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, has obtained CE Mark approval for its C1qScreen assay in Europe. Utilizing Luminex-based single antigen beads, the C1qScreen solid-phase assay allows clinicians to further characterize ...
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Canadian biopharmaceutical firm Aeterna Zentaris has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ghrelin agonist, macimorelin acetate (AEZS-130), a novel orally-active small molecule. The ...
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Germany-based biomedical technology company Biotronik has obtained CE Mark approval for its PK Papyrus covered coronary stent system for use in the treatment of acute coronary artery perforation. According to Biotronik, the company's PK ...
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For the medical device industry, lasers are an invaluable technology. With myriad uses ranging from eyesight improvement to imaging, medical lasers can be found in almost all hospitals in the United States and other developed countries. ...
OPKO Health, a multinational pharmaceutical and diagnostics company, has commenced a pivotal, multi-center clinical validation study for the company’s 4Kscore test for the prediction of prostate cancer prior to prostate biopsy. The ...
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Cancer Research UK's commercial arm Cancer Research Technology (CRT) has collaborated with Danish drug discovery firm Nuevolution for the discovery of anti-cancer drug molecules targeting several key proteins. The deal is aimed at ...
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Over the past year, most major public medical device companies have fared well, with a few hiccups here and there. That said, the device industry is confronting challenges such as a dip in elective surgery volume, a rise in recalls related ...
Recently, the total size of 10 billion yuan of emerging industries of investment funds was established in Nanjing of Jiangsu. This fund was made of Huatai securities, Soho group and Hony Capital. The first 5 billion yuan raised has been ...
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Scientists from IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) published a breakthrough drug-delivery technique, demonstrating the first biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic hydrogel that can deliver ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's new drug Gazyva (obinutuzumab) in combination with chlorambucil chemotherapy for treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have not previously been ...
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US-based Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals has announced today the issuing of a patent entitled, ‘Nucleic Acids Encoding Hyperactive PiggyBac Transposases’ on 19 March 2013 and a patent entitled, ‘A Genetically Modified Rat ...
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