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Update from Novo Nordisk regarding its share repurchase programme

On 7 August 2009 Novo Nordisk initiated its share repurchase programme in accordance with the provisions of the European Commission's regulation no 2273/2003 of 22 December 2003, also referred to as the Safe Harbour rules.

From Novo Nordisk 2 Nov 2009

Atrial fibrillation device market will grow by almost 10% through 2013: MRG

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the atrial fibrillation device market will grow by almost 10% through 2013 in the US, Europe, and Japan. MRG's Global Markets for Atrial Fibrillation Devices 2009 report finds that many patients will be treated with electrophysiology technology and related devices as positive clinical results supporting their use emerges.

2 Nov 2009

ISB and Complete Genomics embark on the largest complete human genome disease association study

The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and Complete Genomics Inc. announced today that they are embarking on a large-scale human genome sequencing study of Huntington’s disease (HD). ISB has engaged Complete Genomics to sequence 100 genomes, the majority of which will be used to investigate this disease, with samples from affected individuals, family members, and matched controls to study modifiers of disease presentation and progression.

2 Nov 2009

Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge: More than 4,000 runners participate to support school for the disabled

More than a record 4,000 runners and walkers participated in yesterday’s Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge, presented by AmeriHealth New Jersey.

2 Nov 2009

Sanofi Pasteur presents Menactra vaccine safety data at the IDSA

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, presented Safety of a Quadrivalent (A,C,Y,W-135) Meningococcal Vaccine When Given to Infants with Other Pediatric Vaccines at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) this past weekend.

2 Nov 2009

AllOne Health partners with Connectyx Technologies Holdings to provide health information on the Web

AllOne Health(SM) and Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CTYX) today announced a partnership that will allow consumers to view and manage health information on the Web, via portable USB storage devices and through their mobile phones, with one, secure step. A package including both companies' products will be sold in retail stores across the U.S. in December.

2 Nov 2009

John C. Lincoln Hospital first to use commercially-available LungPoint system

Broncus Technologies, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing minimally-invasive innovations for lung diseases, announced today at the American College of Chest Physicians CHEST 2009 meeting that John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix is the first hospital in the U.S. to use the commercially-available LungPoint system.

2 Nov 2009

McCain's health care adviser is losing his own coverage

Sen. John McCain's top health care adviser in the presidential campaign is about to lose his health care coverage, providing a face to a common dilemma.

2 Nov 2009

Dendreon submits an amended BLA for PROVENGE active cellular immunotherapy

Dendreon Corporation today announced that it has completed the submission of the amended Biologics License Application (BLA) for PROVENGE® (sipuleucel-T), the Company's lead investigational product, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dendreon is seeking licensure for PROVENGE for men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

2 Nov 2009

A look at the odds associated with the influenza virus

What are the odds you will be one of the unlucky ones who gets the flu this year? Book of Odds has launched "Flu Week," a fascinating look at the odds associated with the influenza virus.

2 Nov 2009

New glucose monitoring system from Edwards Lifesciences and Dexcom receives the CE Mark

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, the leader in the sciences of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring, and DexCom, Inc., a medical device company focused on the design, development and commercialization of continuous glucose monitoring systems, today announced the receipt of CE Mark for an automatic glucose monitoring system.

2 Nov 2009

LFB Biotechnologies exercises its option to purchase $12.8 million of stocks in GTC Biotherapeutics

GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc. announced that LFB Biotechnologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of LFB S.A. (Laboratoire français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies S.A., Les Ulis, France) and a strategic shareholder in GTC, has exercised its option to purchase $12.8 million of additional convertible preferred stock under the terms described in the financing agreements approved by GTC shareholders in July 2009. This transaction provides $6.4 million of new cash proceeds to GTC.

2 Nov 2009

Enzo Biochem announces results of EGS21 clinical trial for treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Enzo Biochem Inc. announced today that favorable results of the Company’s clinical trial for treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) were presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. The study was a randomized double blind placebo controlled format of EGS21, Enzo’s orally administered beta glucosylceramide formulation, designed to evaluate safety and efficacy of the study drug in patients with NASH and its associated metabolic syndrome.

2 Nov 2009

Ligand Pharmaceuticals amends license agreement with Exelixis

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has amended its license agreement with Exelixis, Inc. as a result of which Ligand is now entitled to receive royalties on net sales of future products from a mineralocorticoid receptor program and a one-time $75,000 payment for providing access to certain patent rights.

2 Nov 2009

Insurers, other interest groups prepare for final health reform votes

Insurance companies are arguing that the health reform legislation progressing in Congress would increase premium costs for many Americans. Meanwhile, some of the coalitions have begun to splinter.

2 Nov 2009

Click4Care releases next-generation Utilization Management module for health plan users

Click4Care, a leading provider of care management software for payors, today announced the next-generation Utilization Management (UM) module for its industry leading software platform. By leveraging the UM solution’s extensive configurability, payors and providers can achieve greater levels of productivity while improving clinical, administrative and financial performances.

2 Nov 2009

A return to the doctor's house call may aid health care reform

Dr. Peter Boling provides house calls for some of Richmond's oldest and sickest patients as a geriatrician and head of general medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The Associated Press/Richmond Times Dispatch reports that "he is on a mission: To convince Congress that the old-fashioned house call could be a fresh answer to the modern-day health care reform dilemma.

2 Nov 2009

A look at faculty health

On average, research shows, the United States loses the equivalent of at least one entire medical school class each year to suicide1 - as many as 400 physicians. The book Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Scientists, Physicians, and the Pressures of Success (Humana Press/Springer), by faculty at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and other national medical experts, breaks new ground in a first-of-its-kind look at faculty health.

2 Nov 2009

Study of combination therapy versus monotherapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Gilead Sciences, Inc., in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), today announced plans for an international, event-driven (morbidity and mortality) clinical trial to study combination therapy versus monotherapy in a first-line treatment setting for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

2 Nov 2009

NIH awards $1.2 million to GE Global Research to develop a low-cost transducer

In the quest to expand access to high quality prenatal care to communities with limited healthcare services, GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company, has been awarded a two-year, $1.2 million project under the federal stimulus program from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a low-cost transducer for portable ultrasound systems that maintains the highest degree of image quality.

2 Nov 2009

Medical News

Update from Novo Nordisk regarding its share repurchase programme

Atrial fibrillation device market will grow by almost 10% through 2013: MRG

ISB and Complete Genomics embark on the largest complete human genome disease association study

Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge: More than 4,000 runners participate to support school for the disabled

Sanofi Pasteur presents Menactra vaccine safety data at the IDSA

AllOne Health partners with Connectyx Technologies Holdings to provide health information on the Web

John C. Lincoln Hospital first to use commercially-available LungPoint system

McCain's health care adviser is losing his own coverage

Dendreon submits an amended BLA for PROVENGE active cellular immunotherapy

A look at the odds associated with the influenza virus

New glucose monitoring system from Edwards Lifesciences and Dexcom receives the CE Mark

LFB Biotechnologies exercises its option to purchase $12.8 million of stocks in GTC Biotherapeutics

Enzo Biochem announces results of EGS21 clinical trial for treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Ligand Pharmaceuticals amends license agreement with Exelixis

Insurers, other interest groups prepare for final health reform votes

Click4Care releases next-generation Utilization Management module for health plan users

A return to the doctor's house call may aid health care reform

A look at faculty health

Study of combination therapy versus monotherapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension

NIH awards $1.2 million to GE Global Research to develop a low-cost transducer

Redefining control and consistency in anaerobic microbiome workflows

AI in Healthcare: How generative tools are transforming clinical practice

The future of automation: Machine learning–driven hepatocyte and organoid counting

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