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Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

Within only three months after deciding to create an electronic database, Roche is launching a public clinical trial registry and results database using an independent host, CenterWatch. On www.roche-trials.com information on Roche’s clinical trials can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, with no password restrictions. This site is designed to give patients and healthcare providers ready access to i...

NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine

A small trial testing the safety of an experimental vaccine targeting West Nile virus (WNV) opened today at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. The vaccine, which will be tested first in 15 healthy adult volunteers, was developed for human clinical studies by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NIAID) Vaccine Research C...

Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month

One of the most devastating diseases in sub-Saharan Africa almost disappeared in the late 1950s. That disease, African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, largely succumbed to heroic public health efforts -- including relocating entire villages. But in the past several decades, because of post-colonial turmoil, the catastrophic illness has come back to ravage parts of Angola, the Democratic Re...

Neurologix announces positive results of gene therapy clinical trial in Parkinson's disease

Investigators report safety findings and statistically significant improvements in clinical measures of movement, PET Scans at 19th Annual Symposia on the Etiology, Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement DisordersNeurologix's Phase I trial showed positive interim results in patients with Parkinson's disease. One year following treatment, patients exhibited a statist...

Dalai Lama, top scientists to discuss science & clinical applications of meditation

Conference addresses western medicine & society's embrace of meditation, press meeting with Dalai Lama, Hopkins Medical Dean Edward Miller, and Georgetown University Professor Aviad Haramati at 8am on Nov. 8 With Western medicine's increasing interest in meditation's affect on mental and physical well-being, the Mind & Life Institute, in partnership with the Georgetown University M...

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Freedom EVO Clinical from Tecan

Description:The Freedom EVO Clinical is Tecans open platform for clinical diagnostic applications, designed specifically to enhance quality, safety and performance in the clinical diagnostic and blood bank environment. Safety is provided by flexible barcode reading and sample traceability as standard features, not to mention that the system complies with the IVD-Directive* established in the European market....
Company:Tecan
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BioRobot MDx standardize your automated protocols in clinical laboratories

The BioRobot MDx is the latest addition to the range of BioRobot workstations and is designed to meet the needs of scientists requiring standardized protocols in environments such as clinical testing laboratories....

What patients want: A story of choice, clinical trials & evidence-based medicine

What is less obvious is that c...

ZyStor seeks to raise $15M for clinical trials

ZyStor, which also presented at the 2006 forum, would like to raise an additional $...

Prodesse begins clinical trials for flu virus detection

The product, known as ProFlu+, is being billed as a more complete and user-friendly test to help laboratories detect and differentiate several flu viruses, including...

ConjuGon raises $3.3 million to fund clinical trials

The Madison-based ConjuGon will use the capital for clinical trials of its treatment for the infections of large wounds, and to fund the developm...

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How do patients benefit of clinical trials

Many patients undergoing trials of new cancer treatments do not realise that future patients are more likely to benefit than themselves.There can be no progress in treating cancer - or any other disease - unless there are clinical trials. Henceforth what do patients expect from a trial. Doctors in California gathered views from more than 200 patients involved in trials of new cancer treatments....

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

Cardiovascular, eurovascular and other vascular diseases are the leading causes of death. Imaging of blood vessels thus important in depiction of stenotic, occlusive, aneurismal, inflammatory or vascular malformations.Conventional x-ray angiography and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are used to depict vascular lesions with high accuracy via intravascular administration of contrast (dye) ma...

Clinical trials need to be more frank

Doctors should keep their patients informed about being paid to enrol them in a clinical trial. Post-marketing surveillance or phase 4 clinical trials - are a signicnificant part of medical research. It involves giving patients a new drug// and the family doctor reporting any problems that might arise. The post-marketing phase will involve many more patients than those who can take part in previ...

AEterna's acquisition of Zentaris being followed up with its new product pipeline and clinical development strategy

AEterna Laboratories Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutic treatments in oncology and endocrinology recently acquired the new German based biopharmaceutical company, Zentaris AG. Following this acquisition// the new entity has in the pipeline six clinical stage products and two preclinical stage products, in oncology and one product already approved and...

Physicians Lack Clinical Guidelines For Treating Elderly With Multiple Illnesses

According to an article in JAMA, clinicians lack guidelines for treating the elderly with many illnesses. The aging of the population and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases pose challenges to the development and application of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs Clinical practice guidelines are based on clinical evidence // and expert consensus to help decision making about...

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Clinical DataBase

Description:ClinicDB is a multi-page database similar to EyebankDB but that maintains a database of patient information, laboratory and specular microscopy results, adverse reactions, etc. and can print adverse reaction reports, letters and invoices that are necessary in the operation of an eye clinic....
Company:Bio-Optics

Freedom EVO Clinical

Description:Freedom EVO Clinical is an open platform for clinical diagnostic applications. The new series will be available in deck sizes of 75, 100, 150 and 200 cm that allow choosing the optimal instrument for your laboratory space and throughput requirements. Tecan will focus on implementing new technologies and features to allow new applications and to evolve the quality, safety and performance of the F...
Company:Tecan

OLA2500 Clinical Lab Automation System

Description:Save precious time and gain efficiency in the lab with the OLA2500 Lab Automation System (LAS), the high-throughput aliquotting solution with pre- and post-analytical sample-processing capabilities. The Olympus OLA2500 LAS is an advanced modular automation system designed for medium- to high-volume laboratories. As a front-end sample-processor the OLA2500 LAS automates sample aliquotting saving...
Company:Olympus America Diagnostics

OLA4000 Clinical Lab Automation System

Description:Streamline workflow and reduce costs associated with sample-processing with the Olympus OLA4000 workcell lab automation system. Designed for the medium- to high-volume hospital, core and commercial labs, it fully automates labor-intensive specimen processing tasks within the chemistry-immuno work area including sample identification, centrifugation, decapping and output sorting of specimen tubes....
Company:Olympus America Diagnostics

Aeroset Clinical Chemistry System

Description:Aeroset was designed with a whole new level of speed, intelligence and flexibility. Aeroset performs up to 2,000 tests per hour-a higher level of throughput, which translates to an even higher level of efficiency and patient turn-around time. Consider Aeroset's highly advanced software control that allows for easy to use multi-view screens with automated testing functions to help you work more ef...
Company:Abbott Diagnostics

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Genetic Analysis Systems Enter the Clinical Mainstream

Like many other diagnostic regimes that were previously restricted to large specialty laboratories, genetic analysis is entering the clinical mainstream. Smaller, simpler analyzer systems are now suitable and affordable for hospital or large physicians group labs, while some genetic test kits are becoming available for primary point of care locations such as clinics and physician offices.<...

Clinical Study Shows Regenecare Relieves Pain and Itching of Skin Rashes Caused by Widely Used Cancer Drugs

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2007 - The Journal of theAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology has published the earlyresults of a clinical study conducted by Dr. Siu-Fun Wong, and hercolleagues, which concluded that the topical gel, Regenecare(R),caused a statistically significant reduction in the pain anditching of a rash that results from the use of anti-cancer drugsknown as EGFR...

Large Geographic Differences in EpiPen Prescriptions in the U.S., From the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

MILWAUKEE, July 11, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study suggestsstrong variation in the occurrence of anaphylaxis between thenorthern and southern U.S. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergicreaction that can be fatal without treatment with epinephrine. Thestriking north-south differences in EpiPen prescribing, a marker ofanaphylaxis risk, currently are without explanation. Theinvestigators hypoth...

Sygnis Pharma AG announces date for presentation of clinical results

HEIDELBERG, Germany, 11 July 2007 – On 23 July SYGNIS PharmaAG will present the results of the clinical phase IIa study forAX200 (AXIS-study). AX200, a compound for the treatment of stroke, is the mostadvanced drug candidate in SYGNIS’ product pipeline. Theprimary aim of the study is to show safety and tolerability ofAX200 in acute stroke patients. The results of the AXIS-stud...

Neose Announces Presentation of Positive Preclinical Data on GlycoPEGylated Factor VIIa at the XXI Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis

HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2007 - Neose Technologies,Inc. (Nasdaq GM:NTEC) today announced that two poster presentationswere presented with its collaborative partner, Novo Nordisk A/S,relating to GlycoPEGylated recombinant Factor VIIa at the XXIstCongress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasisin Geneva, Switzerland. The data presented demonstrates thatGlycoPE...

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