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Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Cherry and Cinnamon Flavored Nicotine Lozenges

...he store brand nicotine lozenge category. The expanded range of smoking cessation products also includes coated mint and Fruit Chill(TM) flavored gum, uncoated gum and lozenges." The smoking cessation category is selling at an annual rate estimated at approximately $1 billion at all retail outlets. We expect ...

Silver-Coated Ventilator Tubes Cut Risk of Pneumonia

... intubation with either a silver-coated tube or an uncoated tube. Of 1,509 patients who were intubated for ...r-coated tubes and in 7.5 percent of patients with uncoated tubes -- a 35.9 percent relative reduction in risk...r-coated tubes and in 5.8 percent of patients with uncoated tubes -- a 34.2 percent relative reduction in risk...

Silver-Coated Endotracheal Tubes Cut Down on Infections

...e American Thoracic Society's 2008 International Conference in Toronto. In the study, Shorr's group assigned 1,509 patients to receive traditional, uncoated endotracheal tubes or silver-coated ones. They found that using the silver-coated tube reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia by 40 percent. In a...

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Orange, Coated Nicotine Gum

... our leading store brand position. Our expanded range of smoking cessation products also includes coated mint-flavored gum, coated fruit-flavored gum, uncoated gum and lozenges," said Joseph C. Papa, Perrigo's Chairman and CEO. The overall market for OTC nicotine gum and lozenge products is estimated at appro...

Anticoagulant Drugs Had Similar Outcomes After Angioplasty

...s drug-releasing stents appear to work better than uncoated ones SUNDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News)...nts within eight months than patients who received uncoated stents. The study was to be presented Sunday a... Treatment with abciximab and implantation of an uncoated stent is a treatment strategy used to reduce the r...

Comparison of anticoagulants for angioplasty show similar outcomes

... events within 8 months than patients who received uncoated stents, according to a JAMA study being released e...ted blood vessels after elective PCI compared with uncoated stents, however their use in this patient populati...t was higher among those who were treated with the uncoated stent (54 patients, 14.5 percent) compared with th...

Scientists use nanomaterials to localize and control drug delivery

...tiate a response to a foreign invader. Mice without implants and those with uncoated implants were studied to compare immune response. The uncoated implants generated an inflammatory response from the surrounding tissue, wh...

Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Coated Fruit Nicotine Gum

...icotine gum extends our leading store brand position. The expanded range of smoking cessation products also includes coated mint-flavored gum, uncoated gum and lozenges," said Joseph C. Papa, Perrigo's President and Chief Executive Officer. Nicorette(R) Fruit Chill(TM) gum is selling at an annual rate...

Humble Cold to Combat Cancer

...ur. The scientists plan to begin trials of the coated virus on human liver tumors this year. Being the preliminary stage, the study will be using uncoated adenovirus or disabled viruses, in order to make them less pathogenic. The team hopes to understand the safety in treatment of humans, and the dose re...

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PEAK Surgical Announces Positive Results From Preclinical Study of PEAK PlasmaBlade(TM) for Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgery

...o market the system in the United States. Study Design In the study, freshly excised human abdominal tissue was cut using the PEAK PlasmaBlade, an uncoated traditional electrosurgery scalpel, a teflon-coated traditional electrosurgery scalpel and a fine wire and ceramic electrosurgery scalpel. Histology s...

Drug-Eluting Stents Outperform Bare Stents in Heart Attack

...ndomly assigned to an infusion of abciximab or high-dose tirofiban (25 microgram/kg) and, in a second round of randomization, to treatment with either uncoated or sirolimus-eluting stents. To judge the effectiveness of tirofiban and abciximab, researchers examined electrocardiograms -- 722 of which were int...

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Classic Double PigTail Uncoated Ureteral Stent Kit

Description: ACMI Classic Double Pigtail Ureteral Stents have an exclusive balanced-curled double pigtail design that maximizes migration. They also feature unique Tecoflex construction for added versatility and cost savings. Each Classic Double PigTail Ureteral Stent Kit contains one Classic Double PigTail Ur...
Company:GYRUS ACMI

BD Vacutainer® Plus Plastic Serum Tubes - Glass

Features:... Silicone-Coated interior uncoated interior ...
Company:BD Diagnostic Systems

Self-Cath® Plus Soft Cath (soft catheter)

Features:... To facilitate catheterization, the Self-Cath Plus offers an uncoated GripZone™ area. Self-Cath Plus is made of flexible, medical grade PVC, has smooth fire polished eyelets. ...
Company:Mentor Corporation

Self-Cath® Plus Olive Tip Coude with Guide Stripe®

Features:... To facilitate catheterization, the Self-Cath Plus offers an uncoated GripZone™ area. Self-Cath Plus is made of flexible, medical grade PVC, has smooth fire polished eyelets. ...
Company:Mentor Corporation

Self-Cath® Plus Tapered Tip Coude with Guide Stripe®

Features:... To facilitate catheterization, the Self-Cath Plus offers an uncoated GripZone™ area. Self-Cath Plus is made of flexible, medical grade PVC, has smooth fire polished eyelets. ...
Company:Mentor Corporation

Self-Cath® Plus Straight Tip - Female

Features:... To facilitate catheterization, the Self-Cath Plus offers an uncoated GripZone™ area. Self-Cath Plus is made of flexible, medical grade PVC, has smooth fire polished eyelets. ...
Company:Mentor Corporation

Self-Cath® Plus Straight Tip - Male

Features:... To facilitate catheterization, the Self-Cath Plus offers an uncoated GripZone™ area. Self-Cath Plus is made of flexible, medical grade PVC, has smooth fire polished eyelets. ...
Company:Mentor Corporation

Self-Cath® Plus Straight Tip - Pediatric

Features:... To facilitate catheterization, the Self-Cath Plus offers an uncoated GripZone™ area. Self-Cath Plus is made of flexible, medical grade PVC, has smooth fire polished eyelets. ...
Company:Mentor Corporation

Bx Velocity Rx with Hepacoat

Features:... HEPACOAT reduces platelet deposition by >90% when compared to uncoated stents. Available in both Over-The-Wire and Rapid Exchange....
Company:Cordis Corporation

Bx Velocity Hepacoat

Features:... HEPACOAT reduces platelet deposition by >90% when compared to uncoated stents. Available in both Over-The-Wire and Rapid Exchange....
Company:Cordis Corporation

Uncoated in Biological News

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 17, 2008

...addition, the coated PEG remained active in the bloodstream longer than the uncoated protein. The scientists also showed that the coated drug retained most of i...ntibacterial, antioxidative and anti-inflammatory activity, compared to the uncoated drug. The PEG-coating technique not only is a promising advance toward maki...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 16, 2008

... scientists developed a special process to coat Kevlar samples with acyclic N-Halamine, a potent germ-fighting substance. They then exposed coated and uncoated fabric samples to E. coli , Staphylococcus aureus , Candida tropicalis (a fungus), MS2 virus, and Bacillus subtilis spores (to mimic anthrax). A...

Researchers coat titanium with polymer to improve integration of joint replacements

...to the holes. They tested three types of coatings: uncoated titanium, titanium coated with the RGD peptide and... with the engineered fibronectin fragment over the uncoated or RGD-coated titanium. Garca and Petrie tested...gment over the implants with the other coating and uncoated titanium. In addition to total joint replacemen...

Developing kryptonite for Superbug

... NMs to more readily penetrate the targeted cells, and they report that nanowires coated with the protein fibronectin penetrate cells more easily than uncoated nanowires. In experiments with human and animal cells, they have illustrated that coated nanowires can enter and deliver a toxic agent (StxA1) that ki...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- Aug. 29, 2007

...ng ways to enable NMs to easily penetrate cells. The researchers report nanowires coated with the protein fibronectin penetrate cells more easily than uncoated nanowires. In experiments with human and animal cells, they showed that coated nanowires can enter and deliver a toxic agent called StxA1 that killed ...

A key antibody, IgG, links cells' capture and disposal of germs

...itions, the scientists found that latex beads coated with IgG formed phagolysosomes in just a third the time it took the cellular machinery to process uncoated beads, 15 minutes versus 45 minutes. "This process is central to the human immune response," Nohturfft says. "But some of the most destructive mi...

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Nanocoatings boost industrial energy efficiency

... and wear research facilities at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, or ORNL, in Tennessee. Initial tests show a decrease in friction relative to an uncoated surface of at least an order of magnitude with the AlMgB14-based coating. In preliminary tests, the coating also appears to outperform other coatings...

A DELFIA Assay for Inhibition of PARP

...rifice of a 28-gauge hypodermic needle. This method of shearing generates 1.5-2.0 kb DNA fragments 5 . The polymerization reaction was performed in an uncoated 96-well microtiter plate. To the well was added: 2.5 μg histones (Trevigen/Upstate U.C. Biotechnology), 1 μg DNA (Sigma), 15 μM NAD + B...