WebMD Health,a provider of health information services, has acquired Avado, a developer of cloud-based patient relationship management (PRM) tools and technologies. WebMD CEO David Schlanger said: "Our acquisition of Avado demonstrates ...
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Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of workers are made sick or die from occupational exposures to the thousands of hazardous chemicals that are used in workplaces every day. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety ...
US-based Loxo Oncology has announced that its lead clinical program is a potent and selective inhibitor of the Trk family of receptor tyrosine kinases. Loxo Oncology acquired rights to this program from Array Biopharma, which had pursued ...
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US-based Boston Scientific has obtained CE Mark approval for its Lotus valve system, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device designed to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk with surgical valve ...
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The Netherlands-based Royal Philips and medical device company Infraredx have announced a non-exclusive resale agreement for Infraredx's TVC imaging system. Under the terms of the agreement, Philips will sell Infraredx's TVC imaging ...
Pharmaceutical companyc Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Zohydro ER (hydrocodone bitartrate) extended-release capsules. Zohydro ER is an opioid agonist, extended-release oral formulation of hydrocodone without ...
Covidien, a provider of healthcare products, has entered into a definitive agreement with Integra LifeSciences to sell its Confluent Surgical product line. Under the terms of the agreement, Covidien will receive an initial cash payment of ...
France-based SpineGuard has received additional regulatory clearance from Comision Federal para la Proteccion contra Riesgos Sanitarios (COFEPRIS) to sell its Curved and Curved XS PediGuard devices in Mexico. Earlier, SpineGuard received ...
Lundbeck, a Denmark-based pharmaceutical company, has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its SABRIL (vigabatrin), an adjunctive treatment option for children 10 and older with refractory complex partial ...
Five pharmacies in Beijing started using vending machines equipped with tracking systems to sell baby formula on Saturday, but sales on the first day did not go as well as expected. Zhang Dawei, who is in charge of business operations at ...
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US-based medical products company Abaxis and optical biosensor company LamdaGen have entered into research and development collaboration for integrating LamdaGen's high-sensitivity Plasmonic ELISA technology on the Abaxis’ Piccolo and ...
UK-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an agreement with Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), the Brazilian funding agency for scientific research, to establish a new center of excellence ...
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KEW Group, the oncology personalized medicine management and analytics company, has launched CancerPlex assay, a comprehensive gene testing panel that can be used to examine the genetic profile of many common cancers. Developed and ...
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Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) has announced the nationwide availability of QIAGEN’s therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR kit, a new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved companion diagnostic for certain colorectal ...
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Colibri Heart Valve announced that patient enrollment has concluded in the first-in-human study of the Company's transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system in the Dominican Republic trial site. Analysis of the data from ...
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