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Blue Medical’s drug eluting balloon Protégé receives CE mark

Blue Medical, the global medical device company and innovator in the treatment of vascular diseases, today announced receiving the CE mark for Protégé NC, a non compliant drug eluting balloon.

30 Oct 2012

Cardinal Health increases quarterly dividend to $0.275 per share

Cardinal Health today announced that its board of directors has approved a 16 percent increase in the company's quarterly dividend to $0.275 per share, or $1.10 per share on an annualized basis.

30 Oct 2012

Top-line results from Neuraltus’ NP001 Phase 2 study on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Neuraltus Pharmaceuticals, a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for rare neurological disorders, announced today top-line results from the Company's Phase 2 clinical study of NP001 in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease).

30 Oct 2012

Sequana Medical announces CE mark approval of alfapump for patients with malignant ascites

Sequana Medical is pleased to announce that it has received CE mark approval for use of its alfapump system in patients with ascites caused by cancer (malignant ascites).

30 Oct 2012

Cardinal Health fiscal 2013 first-quarter revenue increases 11% to $25.9B

Cardinal Health today reported fiscal year 2013 first-quarter revenue of $25.9 billion and an 11 percent increase in non-GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations to $0.81.

30 Oct 2012

First Edition: October 30, 2012

Today's headlines include reports about the campaign landscape as well as issues related to the implementation of the health law.

30 Oct 2012

Intravenous catheter replacement: an interview with Claire Rickard

Peripheral intravenous catheters (“IV drips”) are small plastic tubes inserted into veins, most frequently in the hand or arm.

30 Oct 2012

Poor fitting and inadequate support leading to ineffective use of hearing aids

Twenty per cent of hearing aid users in Norway use the equipment for only an hour each day. The reason is often poor fitting and inadequate support. Now all this could change.

30 Oct 2012

Complix to accelerate development of CPABs against intracellular disease targets

Complix announces that it has been awarded a €1.9 million grant (approximately USD$2.4 million) from the Flanders government through IWT (Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders).

30 Oct 2012

Nearly 75% of Hoosiers support indoor workplace smoking ban

Public health researchers examining data from an Indiana Adult Tobacco Survey found nearly 75 percent of Hoosiers support a statewide or community indoor workplace smoking ban.

30 Oct 2012

IBM, Cleveland Clinic partner to advance Watson's use in the medical training field

Cleveland Clinic and IBM announced today the formation of a collaboration to advance Watson's use in the medical training field.

30 Oct 2012

STAT3 transcription factor remains in the axon of nerve cells to help prevent neurodegeneration

A study in The Journal of Cell Biology shows how a transcription factor called STAT3 remains in the axon of nerve cells to help prevent neurodegeneration. The findings could pave the way for future drug therapies to slow nerve damage in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.

30 Oct 2012

Lesbian, gay or bisexual cancer survivors more likely to participate in clinical trials

Cancer survivors who self-identified as being lesbian, gay or bisexual were more than twice as likely as heterosexual cancer survivors to have participated in cancer clinical trials, according to data from a small study presented at the Fifth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Oct. 27-30, 2012.

30 Oct 2012

BioXpress, AET BioTech enter agreement to co-develop Adalimumab biosimilar

AET BioTech, the separate biosimilars business within the generic drug developer AET (Alfred E Tiefenbacher) Group and BioXpress Therapeutics SA, a Swiss-based biotechnology company developing monoclonal antibody (MAb) biosimilars have entered into an agreement for the co-development of a biosimilar version of the TNF inhibitor MAb Adalimumab.

30 Oct 2012

Internet, smartphone apps represent prime venues for adolescent-targeted sexual health programs

The use of smartphones is associated with an increased likelihood of being solicited for sex on the internet, and having sex with an internet-met partner among teens, according to new research released today at the American Public Health Association's 140th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

30 Oct 2012

Medical News

Blue Medical’s drug eluting balloon Protégé receives CE mark

Cardinal Health increases quarterly dividend to $0.275 per share

Top-line results from Neuraltus’ NP001 Phase 2 study on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Sequana Medical announces CE mark approval of alfapump for patients with malignant ascites

Cardinal Health fiscal 2013 first-quarter revenue increases 11% to $25.9B

First Edition: October 30, 2012

Intravenous catheter replacement: an interview with Claire Rickard

Poor fitting and inadequate support leading to ineffective use of hearing aids

Complix to accelerate development of CPABs against intracellular disease targets

Nearly 75% of Hoosiers support indoor workplace smoking ban

IBM, Cleveland Clinic partner to advance Watson's use in the medical training field

STAT3 transcription factor remains in the axon of nerve cells to help prevent neurodegeneration

Lesbian, gay or bisexual cancer survivors more likely to participate in clinical trials

BioXpress, AET BioTech enter agreement to co-develop Adalimumab biosimilar

Internet, smartphone apps represent prime venues for adolescent-targeted sexual health programs

Proton therapy preserves urinary and bowel function in men with prostate cancer

Sprint Bioscience, TPP partner to develop small molecule inhibitors of choline kinase for cancer

Study identifies new prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target for adult B-ALL

Hospice Care of Kansas announces name change

Women in disadvantaged neighborhoods less likely to live near mammography facility

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

The importance of ketones from a clinical and medical perspective

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