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Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients

Implanted devices intended to optimize the cardiac function of patients with heart failure have provided new insights into which patients might be at higher risk of dying suddenly from their disease, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Besides maintaining optimal electrical stimulation to the heart, these CRT-D (cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation)...

Polymers with copper show promise for implanted sensors

Developing chemical sensors that can be placed in the bloodstream or under the skin to continuously monitor oxygen, acidity (pH), or glucose levels is a major challenge for analytical chemists and biomedical engineers. The problem is, the body responds to these foreign objects in ways that interfere with their ability to accurately measure blood chemistry. In the bloodstream, clots form on the su...

Discoveries by UAB and Florida scientists may help transplanted organs survive longer

Scientists may have found a way to dramatically slow organ transplant rejection by as much as several years. The research team reporte...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

Leading marine scientists for the first time have assessed dolphin and porpoise populations around the world which are severely threatened by entanglement in fishing gear and recommended nine urgent priorities for action in a report commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. These nine projects highlight species threatened by bycatch that will most likely benefit from immediate action and will cont...

Magnetic probe successfully tracks implanted cells in cancer patients

By using MRI to detect magnetic probes of tiny iron oxide particles, an international research team for the first time has successfully tracked immune-stimulating cells implanted into cancer patients for treatment purposes. "In four of the eight patients, MRI revealed that the implanted cells weren't where they needed to be to be effective for treatment," says Jeff Bulte, Ph.D., an associ...

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COSTAR FLASK 75CM2, CANTED NECK, PHENOLIC-STYLE CAP, STERILE, CS=100 from Sigma-Aldrich

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Corning Culture Flask, 25 cm2, Tc-Treated, Canted Neck, Plug Seal, Sterile from Sigma-Aldrich

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COSTAR FLASK 75CM2, CANTED NECK, VENT CAP, STERILE, CS=100 from Sigma-Aldrich

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CORNING CELLBIND CULTURE FLASK, 25CM2, CANTED NECK, VENT CAP, STERILE from Sigma-Aldrich

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Symantec: Cyber fraudsters look for low-hanging fruit

. This is Symantec's attempt to get out of the day-to-day and see the forest for the trees, and these woods look pretty ominous, according to...

Metavante Corp. will continue M&A activity

Metavante, a wholly owned subsidiary of M&I, has completed 17 acquisitions since early 2004, al...

Bio-energy and cleantech grab attention of investors

- In 2000, so-called cleantech investments made up only one percent of the venture capital market in the United States. By late 2006, that slice of the venture capital pie had grown to 14 percent. The message is clear: The markets are warming to technologies that produce alternative fuels, keep the air and water clean, and help conserve energy.<...

Wisconsin firms to present at Cleantech venture capital event

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Metavante fires 180 North American workers

Chip Swearngan characterized the firings as managerial expense control decisions made as part of setting bus...

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A prescription cream for unwanted facial hair

VaniqaT is a prescription drug which was approved by the FDA in the United States on July 31, 2000 for treating excessive facial hair in women, which is often part of hirsutism. It may be a welcome alternative for women for whom this problem is considered serious enough to warrant tweezing, waxing, or shaving at least once a week for hair removal. Vaniqa is actually not a b...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

Dr. Balakrishna Ganapat Rao Matapurkar, from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi has created history of sorts by winning the first patent on organ regeneration from the American patent office for his technique in successfully regenerating / repairing organs in human beings. A few weeks ago the American patent office granted him a patent on this technique. Dr. Matapurkar was able to...

Woman gets cancer from transplanted kidney

For a person with failing kidneys, receiving a transplanted kidney can be a lifesaver. But in rare cases, the transplanted organ may pass on cancer to the recipient. Wisconsin researchers report that a transplant recipient whose donor had previously had lung cancer developed cancer herself several years after her transplant. // The woman has made a full recovery, but her case unders...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

A research has found that if pregnant women whose jobs require too much exposure to solvents like kerosene, gasoline,glues etc may be more likely to have chilren with defective eyesight. Head researcher Dr. Gideon Koren and colleagues//, from Toronto published this in Jornal of Occupational health. They found that poor vision acuity (sharpness) were more common among children whose mo...

What's up Doc? You are wanted abroad.

The West better beware, yet another form of outsourcing that could become a potential threat. It’s the turn of Indian doctors now. It began in a small way with medical tourism some years ago, // but now Indian doctors are going one step further, they are flying out during the weekends to perform surgeries. And returning with bulging pockets. "The demand is particularly high durin...

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Anterior Chamber Needle, 20 g. Angled

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Anterior Chamber Needle, 23 g. Angled

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Anterior Chamber Needle, 25 g. Angled

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Anterior Chamber Needle, 30 g. Angled

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BioSante Pharmaceuticals Announces New Findings for Potential Bird Flu Vaccine

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2007 - BioSantePharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: BPA) today announced new positiveresults demonstrating that its calcium phosphate (CaP)nanoparticle-based vaccine adjuvant, BioVant(TM), may serve as aneffective vaccine adjuvant for the development of a dose sparingvaccine against H5N1 avian flu, widely known as bird flu. The new results are based on...

New Study Shows Doxorubicin Plus Paclitaxel Followed by Weekly Paclitaxel as Adjuvant Therapy for High Risk Breast Cancer Warranted in Place of Doxorubicin Plus Cyclophosphamide Followed by Paclitaxel

22 US Oncology Affiliated Physicians Participate in ASCOProceedings HOUSTON, June 04, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading cancerresearcher affiliated with the US Oncology Research Networkpresented findings from a randomized, multicenter phase III trialthat compared the disease-free survival (DFS) obtained with tworegimens of adjuvant therapy for patients with high-risk breastcancer. Th...

Stanford Researchers Track Human Stem Cells Transplanted Into Rat Brain

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2007 - Researchers at theStanford University School of Medicine have illuminated the pathtaken by human neural stem cells that were transplanted into thebrains of rats and mice, and found that the cells successfullynavigate toward areas damaged by stroke. The research group placed miniscule particles of iron insidestem cells to act as cellular bea...

Allos Therapeutics' PDX Granted Orphan Medicinal Product Designation by the European Commission

WESTMINSTER, Colo., April 19, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Allos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the Commission of theEuropean Communities, with a favorable opinion of the Committee forOrphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA),has granted orphan drug designation to the Company's novelantifolate PDX (pralatrexate) for the treatment of patients withperipher...

Pixantrone Granted Fast Track Designation by FDA for Relapsed Indolent NHL Patients

Proposed Phase III Trial Has the Potential to Demonstrate an Effecton a Serious or Life Threatening Aspect of This Disease SEATTLE, May 07, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CellTherapeutics, Inc. (CTI) announced today it received fast trackdesignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) forpixantrone, a novel anthracenedione, being investigated for thepotential treatment of rel...

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