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Surefire Medical's new line of Surefire Guiding Catheters receive FDA clearance and CE Mark

Surefire Medical, Inc., developer of a new class of infusion systems designed to maximize direct-to-tumor drug delivery, announced today that the company has received 510(k) FDA clearance and the CE Mark for its enhanced line of Surefire Guiding Catheters used in radioembolization and chemoembolization procedures.

13 Mar 2014

Children with ASD and ADHD are more likely to exhibit gender variance

John F. Strang, PsyD, a pediatric neuropsychologist at Children's National Health System, and colleagues, found that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were more likely to exhibit gender variance, the wish to be the other gender, than children with no neurodevelopmental disorder, or a medical neurodevelopmental disorder such as epilepsy or neurofibromatosis.

13 Mar 2014

Bacterin launches a new allograft for orthopedic procedures

Bacterin International Holdings, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of OsteoSTX, a new novel allograft for orthopedic procedures. Utilizing Bacterin's proprietary demineralization technology, OsteoSTX are flexible cortical DBM matchsticks designed for multli-level and deformity spinal applications.

13 Mar 2014

First Edition: March 13, 2014

Today's headlines include details of Wednesday's Capitol Hill testimony by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

13 Mar 2014

Discovery Laboratories reports net loss of $11.7 million for fourth quarter 2013

Discovery Laboratories, Inc., a specialty biotechnology company dedicated to advancing a new standard in respiratory critical care, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013, as well as recent business updates.

13 Mar 2014

Henry Ford Health System cuts 7 tons of fat and increases fruit and vegetable purchases

Henry Ford Health System cut 7 tons of fat from food and increased fruit and vegetable purchases by 10 percent annually in an effort to offer patients more healthy food choices.

13 Mar 2014

Aradigm reports record revenue of $4.6M in fourth quarter 2013

Aradigm Corporation (the "Company") today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013.

13 Mar 2014

Patient with advanced bladder cancer shows complete response to everolimus and pazopanib drugs

A patient with advanced bladder cancer experienced a complete response for 14 months to the drug combination everolimus and pazopanib in a phase I trial, and genomic profiling of his tumor revealed two alterations that may have caused this exceptional response, according to a study published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

13 Mar 2014

Knopp and NIAID collaborate to investigate eosinophil-lowering effects of dexpramipexole

Knopp Biosciences LLC today announced a second collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to investigate the eosinophil-lowering effects of the investigational drug dexpramipexole.

13 Mar 2014

Surface topography and chemistry influence cellular behavior on semiconductors

Changing the texture and surface characteristics of a semiconductor material at the nanoscale can influence the way that neural cells grow on the material.

13 Mar 2014

Study sheds new light on how humans perceive and produce sounds

Research from McGill University reveals that the brain's motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed in the past better than music they have only heard.

13 Mar 2014

Covidien launches Symbotex composite mesh to perform surgical laparoscopic, open ventral hernia repairs

Further strengthening its broad line of hernia repair products, Covidien plc (NYSE: COV) today announced the U.S. launch of Symbotex™ composite mesh, an innovative product designed to make it easier for surgeons to perform surgical laparoscopic and open ventral hernia repairs.

13 Mar 2014

Study: Musical aptitude is affected by a combination of genes involved in auditory pathway

Multiple regions in the human genome are reported to be linked to musical aptitude, according to a study published this week in Molecular Psychiatry.

13 Mar 2014

Quad-C Management makes five investments in the last 15 months

Quad-C Management, a leading middle market private equity firm, today announced the firm has made five investments in the last 15 months, including four new investments and one add-on investment to a current portfolio company.

13 Mar 2014

Microbial DNA may be involved in the development of autoimmune processes, shows study

The interactions of the gut microbiota in children with typical diabetes autoantibodies differ from that in healthy children. The fact that these differences already exist before antibodies are detectable in the blood adds to the growing evidence that microbial DNA, the so-called microbiome, may be involved in the development of autoimmune processes.

13 Mar 2014

Six in every ten serious heart defects in foetuses go undetected in ultrasound scans

Over six in every ten serious heart defects in foetuses go undetected in the ultrasound scans given to all pregnant women. According to research at Linköping University in Sweden, one reason why malformations are not found is obesity in the expectant mother.

13 Mar 2014

Risk, pregnancy and childbirth

New research published in a special issue of Health, Risk & Society looks at perceptions of risk around pregnancy and how this influences decisions about where to give birth. Despite childbirth in the UK being increasingly considered safe, the article by Kirstie Coxon and colleagues show that childbirth is still seen as 'risky'.

13 Mar 2014

Highlights: No-bid contract decision in Calif.; Fla. hospital Medicaid settlement; navigator restrictions in Kan.

A selection of health policy stories from California, Florida, Kansas, New York, Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

13 Mar 2014

New research raises hopes of new class of drugs to combat antibiotic resistant infections

New research has found some compounds effective in blocking the proliferation of certain bacteria, raising hopes of a new class of drugs to combat antibiotic resistant infections

13 Mar 2014

Investigators urge drug regulators to provide clear evidence on statins’ side effects

At a time when the wider prescription of statins is under renewed public scrutiny, a substantial analysis of placebo-controlled randomised trials of statins has found that only a small minority of side effects reported by those taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs are actually attributable to them.

13 Mar 2014

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Surefire Medical's new line of Surefire Guiding Catheters receive FDA clearance and CE Mark

Children with ASD and ADHD are more likely to exhibit gender variance

Bacterin launches a new allograft for orthopedic procedures

First Edition: March 13, 2014

Discovery Laboratories reports net loss of $11.7 million for fourth quarter 2013

Henry Ford Health System cuts 7 tons of fat and increases fruit and vegetable purchases

Aradigm reports record revenue of $4.6M in fourth quarter 2013

Patient with advanced bladder cancer shows complete response to everolimus and pazopanib drugs

Knopp and NIAID collaborate to investigate eosinophil-lowering effects of dexpramipexole

Surface topography and chemistry influence cellular behavior on semiconductors

Study sheds new light on how humans perceive and produce sounds

Covidien launches Symbotex composite mesh to perform surgical laparoscopic, open ventral hernia repairs

Study: Musical aptitude is affected by a combination of genes involved in auditory pathway

Quad-C Management makes five investments in the last 15 months

Microbial DNA may be involved in the development of autoimmune processes, shows study

Six in every ten serious heart defects in foetuses go undetected in ultrasound scans

Risk, pregnancy and childbirth

Highlights: No-bid contract decision in Calif.; Fla. hospital Medicaid settlement; navigator restrictions in Kan.

New research raises hopes of new class of drugs to combat antibiotic resistant infections

Investigators urge drug regulators to provide clear evidence on statins’ side effects

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

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