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Validic continues to expand global digital health ecosystem

Validic, the healthcare industry's leading technology platform for accessing digital health data, announced today the addition of several new clients and integration partners, as they continue to expand and grow their global digital health ecosystem.

22 Sep 2014

TauRx achieves target enrolment in second LMTX Phase III clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease

TauRx Therapeutics Ltd has achieved its target enrolment of 700 subjects with mild Alzheimer's disease into the second of its two Phase III clinical trials of LMTX, a tau aggregation inhibitor, for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

22 Sep 2014

Amgen seeks FDA approval for leukemia drug blinatumomab

Amgen today announced submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking approval for its investigational bispecific T cell engager (BiTE) antibody construct, blinatumomab.

22 Sep 2014

GOP candidates explore middle move ahead of election

Democrats, in the meantime, try a new tactic -- talking up their commitment to Social Security and Medicare. Elsewhere, Sens. Kay Hagan and Mark Warner face campaign fights centering largely on the health law.

22 Sep 2014

C-Path renews grant to advance more effective drug treatments for TB

The Critical Path Institute, an independent, non-profit organization that works to accelerate the speed of drug and medical product development, today announced it has received a three-year grant renewal from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

22 Sep 2014

Consensus statement on adequate bowel cleansing for colonoscopy

The success of a colonoscopy is closely linked to good bowel preparation, with poor bowel prep often resulting in missed precancerous lesions, according to new consensus guidelines released by the U.S. Multi-Society Task force on Colorectal Cancer.

22 Sep 2014

TxCell to provide update on immunotherapy products at Société Générale Healthcare & Biotechnology Conference

TxCell SA, a biotechnology company developing innovative, personalized cell-based immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for severe chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, announces today that it will participate at the Société Générale Healthcare & Biotechnology Conference.

22 Sep 2014

ITM wins grant to develop new model to combat sleeping sickness

The Margaret A. Cargill Foundation provides the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp with a 3-year project grant worth nearly 5 million dollars to develop a new model to fight sleeping sickness.

22 Sep 2014

Phase IIa clinical trial data of ATL1102 in MS patients published in journal Neurology

Antisense Therapeutics is pleased to report the publication of previously generated Phase IIa clinical trial data on ATL1102 in the medical journal Neurology.

22 Sep 2014

$DePuy Synthes releases new variable angle plating systems for calcaneal fractures, fusion procedures$

DePuy Synthes releases new variable angle plating systems for calcaneal fractures, fusion procedures

Today DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Johnson launched two new variable angle plating systems featuring its proprietary variable angle locking technology. With this technology, surgeons can adapt screw trajectory to match patient anatomy and fracture pattern and angulate screws towards specific fragments of bone.

22 Sep 2014

Sanovas announces commercialization of MicroCam System via Healthmark Industries

Sanovas Inc., a Life Science company accelerating the development and commercialization of next-generation micro-invasive diagnostics, devices and drug delivery technologies, announced today that its MicroCam Inc. subsidiary has commenced commercialization of the MicroCam System via its OEM partnership with Healthmark Industries, which is launching its new product—Flexible Inspection Scope—this week.

22 Sep 2014

Neogen's first quarter net income increases 13%

Neogen Corporation announced today that net income for the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31, was $8,883,000 — a 13% increase compared to net income of $7,839,000 in the first quarter of last year.

22 Sep 2014

Olympus signs agreement with Brainlab to become exclusive U.S. distributor of Kick Navigation

Olympus, a global technology leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures, among other core businesses, announced today it has reached a deal with Munich-based Brainlab to be the exclusive U.S. distributor of Kick Navigation.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 22 Sep 2014

SRA International named winner of 2014 Healthiest Employers in Greater Washington area

SRA International, Inc., a leading provider of IT solutions and professional services to government organizations, today announced that the company has been recognized as a winner of the 2014 Healthiest Employers, an awards program presented by the Washington Business Journal.

22 Sep 2014

Photoacoustics could become alternative to mammography or sonogram for breast cancer detection

One of the lines of research of OILTEBIA, a European science project coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, is a method to detect breast cancer based on photoacoustics and which could become an alternative to mammography or sonogram.

22 Sep 2014

Researchers test novel robotic system to improve prostate cancer biopsies

A novel robotic system that can operate inside the bore of an MRI scanner is currently being tested as part of a biomedical research partnership program at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston with the aim of determining if the robot, in conjunction with real-time MRI images, can make prostate cancer biopsies faster, more accurate, less costly, and less discomforting for the patient.

22 Sep 2014

State policies fail to provide sufficient two-generation supports to families with young children

Recent two-generation approaches to reducing poverty that help children and their parents are receiving increasing attention from researchers, advocates, and foundations.

22 Sep 2014

Extra stress in same-sex couples may raise risk of domestic abuse

Domestic violence occurs at least as frequently, and likely even more so, between same-sex couples compared to opposite-sex couples, according to a review of literature by Northwestern Medicine scientists.

22 Sep 2014

New Ebola cases could reach 6,800 in West Africa by September end

New research published today in the online journal PLoS Outbreaks predicts new Ebola cases could reach 6,800 in West Africa by the end of the month if new control measures are not enacted.

22 Sep 2014

MIT engineers find new strategy to combat superbugs

In recent years, new strains of bacteria have emerged that resist even the most powerful antibiotics. Each year, these superbugs, including drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis and staphylococcus, infect more than 2 million people nationwide, and kill at least 23,000. Despite the urgent need for new treatments, scientists have discovered very few new classes of antibiotics in the past decade.

22 Sep 2014

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Validic continues to expand global digital health ecosystem

TauRx achieves target enrolment in second LMTX Phase III clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease

Amgen seeks FDA approval for leukemia drug blinatumomab

GOP candidates explore middle move ahead of election

C-Path renews grant to advance more effective drug treatments for TB

Consensus statement on adequate bowel cleansing for colonoscopy

TxCell to provide update on immunotherapy products at Société Générale Healthcare & Biotechnology Conference

ITM wins grant to develop new model to combat sleeping sickness

Phase IIa clinical trial data of ATL1102 in MS patients published in journal Neurology

DePuy Synthes releases new variable angle plating systems for calcaneal fractures, fusion procedures

Sanovas announces commercialization of MicroCam System via Healthmark Industries

Neogen's first quarter net income increases 13%

Olympus signs agreement with Brainlab to become exclusive U.S. distributor of Kick Navigation

SRA International named winner of 2014 Healthiest Employers in Greater Washington area

Photoacoustics could become alternative to mammography or sonogram for breast cancer detection

Researchers test novel robotic system to improve prostate cancer biopsies

State policies fail to provide sufficient two-generation supports to families with young children

Extra stress in same-sex couples may raise risk of domestic abuse

New Ebola cases could reach 6,800 in West Africa by September end

MIT engineers find new strategy to combat superbugs

Lab Matters host Harriet Gould on building a more connected lab community

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

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