Medegen Medical Products, an Inteplast Group company and manufacturer and seller of patient-care, laboratory and medical products, has been awarded a five-year NOVAPLUS contract for specialty bags by Novation. Medegen Medical Products' ...
Traditional Chinese medicine has won more recognition in Western countries in recent years, but the 5,000-year-old medical science still needs a modern interpretation to break into the mainstream Western market. According to the ...
When you’re having trouble sleeping, light is the last thing you assume you need. But according to a pilot study attempting to solve insomnia among lung cancer patients led by University at Buffalo sleep researcher Grace Dean, light ...
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Following a recall by McCormick & Company, Inc., The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company LLC announced it removed from sale McCormick Ground Oregano due to potential Salmonella contamination. The following product is included in this recall: ...
Blood-platelet shortages may become a thing of the past, according to scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The researchers have designed an industrial-strength bone marrow bioreactor that can generate human platelets in ...
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Astronauts floating weightlessly in the International Space Station may appear carefree, but years of research have shown that microgravity causes changes to the human body. Spaceflight also means exposure to more radiation. Together, ...
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A computerized safety checklist that automatically pulls information from patients' electronic medical records was associated with a threefold drop in rates of one serious type of hospital-acquired infection, according to a study by ...
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Researchers from the University of Surrey have today launched a new programme of research called eSMART (Electronic Symptom Management using ASyMS Remote Technology), that uses mobile phone technology to remotely monitor patients who are ...
Data published in New England Journal of Medicine show treatment prolongs life for women with most common cancer in under 35s New data showing cancer treatment Avastin® (bevacizumab) can extend the lives of women with advanced ...
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A group of researchers at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of Universit- de Montr-al discovered a promising new approach to treating leukemia by disarming a gene that is responsible for tumor progression. That ...
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Findings suggest drugs can now be developed to stall the growth of K-Ras cancers, previously deemed impossible to treat NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have found a biological weakness in the workings of the most commonly mutated ...
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Scientists at the University of Kansas Medical Center have determined that high doses of vitamin C, administered intravenously with traditional chemotherapy, helped kill cancer cells while reducing the toxic effects of chemotherapy for some ...
Clinical trials investigating new uses for the anti-cancer drug Avastin have produced mixed results. When combined with standard chemotherapy, Avastin extended the survival of patients with advanced cervical cancer by nearly four months, ...
The first comprehensive, large-scale cohort study of the long-term survival of children treated for low-grade gliomas, the most common pediatric brain tumor, finds that almost 90 percent are alive 20 years later and that few die from the ...
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A group of prominent healthcare experts including bioethicists, pharmacists, policymakers and cancer specialists have proposed concrete steps for preventing and managing a nightmare scenario that is becoming all too common: shortages of ...
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