Medicine NewsCerapedics, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing novel osteobiologic products, announced that it received the CE Mark for its i-FACTOR™ Flex bone graft product line. i-FACTOR Flex is the company’s second product in the i-FACTOR product platform based on its proprietary small peptide attachment factor technology…
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W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced that it has received European CE Mark approval for the 25 cm GORE®VIABAHN® Endoprosthesis with PROPATEN Bioactive Surface…
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Following the recent clearance of its FreeStyle Lite® blood glucose test strips, Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced that it has also received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new FreeStyle blood glucose test strips. The new FreeStyle test strips minimize interference during blood glucose testing and are designed to [...]
Biodel Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOD) announced that the following abstracts describing results from studies of the company’s product candidates have been accepted for presentation in September during the 46th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm…
BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:BPAX) announced positive results in a Phase II study of the Pill-Plus “triple hormone” oral contraceptive (OC). Results showed an increase in the frequency of sexual activity (pThe study was a Phase II double-blind randomized clinical trial in 82 women comprising a cross-over design of two treatment periods of five months each…
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Doctors advise new mothers to breastfeed for at least the first six months of a baby’s life, but a simple yet often untreated problem can sabotage their efforts, University of Florida researchers say. Called a tongue tie, the problem occurs when the connective tissue under the tongue is too tight…
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Catalan researchers have studied the socioeconomic and health inequalities experienced by people over the age of 64. The results of the study show that women live longer, but experience more limitations to daily activity (53%) and a lower quality of life than men of the same age (30%)…
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Mr John Moloney, T.D., Minister for Disability and Mental Health published the Fourth Annual Report of the Independent Monitoring Group for A Vision for Change…
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A worldwide survey of more than 136,000 people in 132 countries included questions about happiness and income, and the results reveal that while life satisfaction usually rises with income, positive feelings don’t necessarily follow, researchers report…
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Female baboons that maintain closer ties with other members of their troop live substantially longer than do those whose social bonds are less stable, a recent study has found. The researchers say that the findings, reported online on July 1st in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, add to evidence in animals from mice to [...]
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