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Shortlist announced for world leading healthcare awards

Companies from across the UK have been announced as part of the shortlist for the prestigious Medilink UK Awards 2015 - celebrating cutting edge technologies, outstanding business achievements and international success across the UK’s Life Sciences sector.

26 Feb 2015

Hospira launches first biosimilar monoclonal antibody (mAb) InflectraTM (infliximab) in the UK

Inflectra is licensed for the treatment of inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, adult and paediatric Crohn’s disease, adult and paediatric ulcerative colitis and plaque psoriasis.

26 Feb 2015

Cook Medical Launches SialoCath™ Salivary Duct Catheter

SialoCath is one device in a growing suite of Cook Medical sialendoscopy access and interventional tools that are now available to clinicians in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and North America.

From COOK MEDICAL INC. 26 Feb 2015

Beckman Coulter Genomics Introduces a Scalable RNA-seq service line for processing intact and degraded RNA samples

This fully automated sample preparation pipeline delivers consistent results run after run, reducing user variability and bias and allows processing of a large amount of samples with reduced turnaround time relative to manual library construction.

25 Feb 2015

Psoriasis management: an interview with Dr Sandy McBride

A major challenge around treating psoriasis is communication - psoriasis can flare and resolve in between appointments so it can be difficult to express and describe the life impact of these flares and recall possible triggers and response to treatments. People with psoriasis can also find it very difficult to talk about their emotions – something known as alexithymia – again making it difficult for clinicians to fully appreciate the impact of psoriasis.

25 Feb 2015

Jiraffe introduces new improved white Multistander frame

Jiraffe, UK distributors of innovative postural support and service products, has introduced an improved white Multistander to its popular range of products from Jenx Ltd.

25 Feb 2015

Two Glenmark manufacturing facilities in India win Greentech Environment Gold Award - 2015

Two manufacturing facilities of Glenmark located in Goa and Nashik bagged the prestigious 'Greentech Environment Gold Award - 2015' for Excellence in Environment Management at a ceremony in Kolkata recently. Greentech Environment Awards are presented ever year to companies/units in India demonstrating the highest level of commitment to Environmental Management across different sectors.

25 Feb 2015

New patient transfer board takes prime position in GBUK’s Banana range

GBUK Healthcare is expanding its Banana range of patient moving and handling products with the launch of a new patient transfer board called the Banana Board Prime.

24 Feb 2015

Jenx recognised as an Investor in People

Sheffield-based Jenx Ltd, which employs over 70 people, has become one of the world's most respected companies dedicated to developmental furniture for children. Every day they apply their expertise in paediatric therapy and innovative design to finding better ways to help children with special postural support needs.

20 Feb 2015

Broca's Area Is The Brain's Scriptwriter, Shaping Speech, Study Finds

What is happening in the brain of an actor reciting Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy or of the person next to you at lunch saying, "Please pass the salt"? For 150 years, scientists have known that a brain region called Broca's area plays a key role in speech production, but exactly what it does and how it does it have been a mystery.

19 Feb 2015

NICE measures for resisting microbial drug resistance

NICE has published draft guidelines to ensure that antibiotics continue to be effective in treating infections and are not rendered useless through the development of antimicrobial resistance.

18 Feb 2015

Medics highlight underrepresentation of women in field

Hosted by the Sheffield Women in Medicine Network (SWiM), ‘Building Your Future - SWiM dives in with the Entrepreneurs’, will be a unique opportunity for women to hear personal stories from a diverse group of successful entrepreneurs and share experiences.

17 Feb 2015

New method of spectral analysis identifies fingerprints of chemical substances with greater accuracy

Elements and their compounds will no longer be able to hide in mixtures, even if the latter are made up of many components.

11 Feb 2015

GBUK take whole group approach to medical device industry accreditation

The MIA credentialing scheme was launched in 2013 by the medical technology industry to raise training standards for company representatives and service engineers visiting acute and critical care areas of hospitals.

11 Feb 2015

2015 NBA All-Star helps Unilever Canada launch Dry Spray Antiperspirant technology

Today, at a special event, 2015 NBA All-Star Kyle Lowry helped Unilever Canada launch its new Dry Spray Antiperspirant technology, the company's most significant innovation in the category in almost 20 years.

9 Feb 2015

Mind Solutions to launch the world's smallest Brain-Computer-Interface, Synapse

Mind Solutions, Inc. (OTC: VOIS), announces the name of the world's smallest Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI), The "Synapse". The product is expected to be the smallest, consumer friendly BCI device to hit the market.

29 Jan 2015

New peer-reviewed book discusses potential solutions to food security challenges

The current successes and failures that are shaping food systems around the world and potential solutions to food security challenges are discussed in a new peer-reviewed book edited by Dr.Udaya Sekhar Nagothu of Bioforsk.

21 Jan 2015

New method created to estimate global impacts of dams on river flow, fragmentation

When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and on the surrounding ecosystems. By placing data from close to 6,500 existing large dams on a highly precise map of the world's rivers, an international team led by McGill University researchers has created a new method to estimate the global impacts of dams on river flow and fragmentation.

7 Jan 2015

Phagelux acquires biodegradable polymer delivery systems from Iveria Technologies

Phagelux, Inc., a leading anti-bacterial company developing phage-based solutions, is pleased to announce the acquisition of several biodegradable polymer delivery systems from Iveria Technologies, Inc., a U.S.-based development company specializing in such technologies.

23 Dec 2014

Unheated high tunnels help bedding plants growers reduce energy costs

Energy costs account for one of the largest expenses in commercial greenhouse production of annual bedding plants. Naturally, bedding plant producers are searching for more energy-efficient production methods that can reduce fuel usage and increase profits. Christopher Currey, Roberto Lopez, and Neil Mattson published a study in HortTechnology that gives growers in northern latitudes valuable information on finishing practices for annual bedding plants.

9 Dec 2014

Miscellaneous News

Shortlist announced for world leading healthcare awards

Hospira launches first biosimilar monoclonal antibody (mAb) InflectraTM (infliximab) in the UK

Cook Medical Launches SialoCath™ Salivary Duct Catheter

Beckman Coulter Genomics Introduces a Scalable RNA-seq service line for processing intact and degraded RNA samples

Psoriasis management: an interview with Dr Sandy McBride

Jiraffe introduces new improved white Multistander frame

Two Glenmark manufacturing facilities in India win Greentech Environment Gold Award - 2015

New patient transfer board takes prime position in GBUK’s Banana range

Jenx recognised as an Investor in People

Broca's Area Is The Brain's Scriptwriter, Shaping Speech, Study Finds

NICE measures for resisting microbial drug resistance

Medics highlight underrepresentation of women in field

New method of spectral analysis identifies fingerprints of chemical substances with greater accuracy

GBUK take whole group approach to medical device industry accreditation

2015 NBA All-Star helps Unilever Canada launch Dry Spray Antiperspirant technology

Mind Solutions to launch the world's smallest Brain-Computer-Interface, Synapse

New peer-reviewed book discusses potential solutions to food security challenges

New method created to estimate global impacts of dams on river flow, fragmentation

Phagelux acquires biodegradable polymer delivery systems from Iveria Technologies

Unheated high tunnels help bedding plants growers reduce energy costs

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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