Five Americans — two of them doctors — who treat AIDS patients are expected to appear Monday before a magistrate in Harare, Zimbabwe, on allegations of operating an unlicensed clinic and dispensing…
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Brain Tunnelgenix Technologies Receives FDA Approval For Abreu BTT™ System For Continuous Temperature Monitoring
Brain Tunnelgenix Technologies Corp. (BTT Corp.) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company clearance to market its Abreu BTT™ 700 System for continuous temperature monitoring….
Tornier Announces Preliminary Clinical Results For First Series Of Patients Treated With Pyrocarbon Shoulder Prostheses
Tornier, Inc., a global leader in extremity and sports medicine orthopaedics, announced the successful early clinical results of the first seven pyrocarbon shoulder prostheses that were implanted between April 2009 and December…
Seaside Therapeutics Reports Positive Data From Phase 2 Study Of STX209 In Autism Spectrum Disorders
Seaside Therapeutics, Inc. announced positive data from an open-label Phase 2 study of STX209 conducted in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The primary endpoint of the study, an improvement on the…
Team Of Experts Releases Guidance On Safe Deployment Of Transgenic Sorghum
Today an article in Nature Biotechnology, authored by an expert panel from academia, government, industry, and non-profit research, provides guidance on the steps required for safe deployment of genetically modified (GM) sorghum….
Study Says IV Drips can be Left in Place
It has emerged that small intravenous devices (IVDs) commonly used in the hand or arm do not need to be moved routinely every 3 days. A randomized controlled trial comparing regular relocation…
Tick-borne Disease Baffles China Authorities
Public fears about a tick-borne disease that has killed more than 30 people since 2007 are being assuaged by health authorities in China, but they admit they do not know how many…
Scottish shop campaign to encourage breastfeeding
SCOTTISH women will be encouraged to breastfeed their children through an initiative which aims to make the practice more widely acceptable in public. The project is targeting businesses, asking them to display…
Health Care Weighs Heavy in Ohio Race
As Representative John Boccieri traversed his district during the Congressional recess, from Mike’s-Milann’s restaurant to Metzger’s Ace Hardware to the Danbury assisted-living home, he was trailed by the vote he cast on…
Expelling patients is not the solution
The Bangkok Medical Centre (BMC) in Thailand receives more than 10,000 Emirati patients a year. The fees are usually settled by individual patients or are covered by relevant authorities in UAE or…
FDA Okays Pesticide Poisoning Drug for Children
The FDA has approved the injectable nerve agent drug pralidoxime chloride (Protopam Chloride) for use in pediatric patients. “We know this drug has been widely used for many years to treat poisoning…
Second Strokes Less Common With Cilostazol
The antiplatelet agent cilostazol (Pletal) appeared significantly more effective than aspirin for secondary prevention of strokes and was associated with fewer major bleeding events in a Japanese study. In a large randomized…
Renowned author talks about suicide prevention
It’s something very few people talk about, but suicide likely affects someone you know. Friday was World Suicide Prevention Day. Ottawa’s Suicide Prevention Coalition invited author and photographer Scott Chisholm to tell…
Rebuilding Immunoreceptors Reveals Their Mode Of Activation
Just 110 years ago in 1900, Paul Ehrlich, one of the founding fathers of modern immunology, gave the Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society in London “On Immunity with Special Reference to…
Anesthesia & Analgesia Announces Its Support For The Declaration Of Montréal
Anesthesia & Analgesia, the oldest medical journal in the field of pain medicine, announces its support for the Declaration of Montréal, which was issued by the International Association for the Study of…