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FDA clears Osmetech's eSensor Thrombophilia Risk Test

Osmetech, plc today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the eSensor® Thrombophilia Risk Test (TRT), a multiplexed molecular diagnostic test for four genetic markers associated with thrombosis. The panel includes Factor V Leiden, Factor II Prothrombin, MTHFR 677 and MTHFR 1298 in a single test panel.

26 Apr 2010

Nycomed, Merck enter co-promotion agreement for Daxas in Canada and Europe

Nycomed and Merck & Co., Inc. (based in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey and known as MSD outside the USA and Canada) today announced that they have entered into a co-promotion agreement for Canada and certain European countries for the commercialization of Daxas® (roflumilast), an investigational once-daily tablet for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition, the two companies have signed an exclusive distribution agreement for the commercialization of Daxas® in the United Kingdom.

26 Apr 2010

Global Health Partner reports 12% increase in revenues for first-quarter 2010

The strong growth within our Service Line Bariatrics continues, above all at our oldest clinic Bariatric Center Stockholm. Our arrhythmia clinic Arrhythmia Center Stockholm has also had good capacity utilization during the quarter and continues to generate better than expected results.

26 Apr 2010

Increase in number of mistakes made at fertility clinics

For many couples IVF is the last hope they have of having a baby and with some IVF clinics committing such blunders as implanting the wrong embryos or fertilizing the egg with the wrong man’s sperm, these hope can soon turn into a nightmare.

26 Apr 2010

Sexual addiction therapists Steffens Counseling and Hope Source Counseling form strategic partnership

Sexual addiction is defined as any sexually-related, compulsive behavior which interferes with normal living and causes severe stress on family, friends, loved ones, and one's work environment. Sex becomes the organizing principle of an addict's life to the extent they are willing to sacrifice what they cherish most in order to preserve and continue their unhealthy behavior.

26 Apr 2010

Uproar over UK Foreign Office take on Papal visit

Following the uproar after the release of the controversial Foreign Office memos that suggested that Pope Benedict XVI's visit to UK this September could be marked by the launch of "Benedict" condoms. The Foreign Office document, called "The ideal visit would see...", said the Pope could be invited to open an abortion clinic, launch a range of condoms, singing a charity duet with the Queen and bless a gay marriage. The document raised the issues of child abuse by priests and urged the “sacking” of “dodgy bishops” and opening helplines for abused children.

26 Apr 2010

Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute presents new findings on heart transplantation rejection factors

Physician scientists at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute are presenting new findings on heart transplantation rejection factors such as race and gender, the effects of pre-transplant smoking and whether homeless organ donors put recipients at higher risk for complications. The presentations will take place April 21 - 24 in Chicago during the 30th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

26 Apr 2010

WISeKey to present Latin American Digital Identification and Trusted cloud computing landscape at MIT conference

Carlos Moreira, Chairman and Founder of WISeKey, is to unveil his vision and plans towards the region in an address to a selected audience of over 500 entrepreneurs and members of the science community in New England during the traditional MIT Latin Conference to be held this week-end in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

26 Apr 2010

New key-hole bowel surgery for cancer with only four days hospital stay

Major bowel cancer surgery usually takes days to heal. In a new technique developed by Tasmanian surgeons, the recovery time for such surgeries can be halved.

26 Apr 2010

Successful full face transplant in a 22 hour long operation: Barcelona

In a recent development a team of 30 Spanish surgeons have succeeded in a World’s first full face transplant. The patient had accidentally injured a large part of his face with a shotgun five years ago. This had left him disfigured an unable to breathe, swallow or talk properly. He has undergone nine unsuccessful operations before this operation was planned. In this operation he received the whole of his facial skin, muscles, nose, lips, teeth and cheek bones from a donor in a 22 hour operation at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital on 20th March. He is on his way to recovery now. This is not the first face transplant but the first full face transplant and also the most complex of its kind.

26 Apr 2010

Winner Medical Group announces participation in 63rd CMEF

Winner Medical Group Inc., a leading manufacturer of medical dressings, medical disposables and non-woven PurCotton(R) materials for the medical and consumer products industries, today announced that the Company participated in the 63rd China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF), held from April 18th -21st at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Shenzhen.

26 Apr 2010

Potential 36,000 NHS nursing job

While nurses may lose their jobs to make the figures for the NHS seem more efficient there is a good chance of it affecting actual performance. The NHS needs to save £20bn by 2014. That would be a saving of 5% of its budget. The easiest way to do this would be by enforcing job cuts of health staff and thousands of nursing jobs are at risk as per the Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Peter Carter.

26 Apr 2010

Finland, Sweden donate mobile radiation detection unit for strengthening Ukraine's nuclear security efforts

Nuclear and radioactive material from hospitals, power plants or industrial facilities can be abandoned, lost, or even stolen.

26 Apr 2010

Ballan wrasse for combating sea lice

The sea lice parasite is the greatest disease problem facing the Norwegian aquaculture industry. But help may be on its way - an army of 15 million lice-eating Ballan wrasse.

26 Apr 2010

HHS Secretary and New Orleans Mayor-elect to tour St. Thomas Community Health Center

On Monday, April 26, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu will visit the St. Thomas Community Health Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

26 Apr 2010

Ethnic differences in genetic factors may affect susceptibility to development of breast cancer

A new study finds that factors known to increase the risk of breast cancer among white women have less influence in Hispanic women. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that research is needed to evaluate how breast cancer risk factors differ among ethnic and racial populations.

26 Apr 2010

Peer counseling can help improve breastfeeding in overweight or obese women

Breastfeeding is best, but what happens when something goes wrong? And why do so many women struggle with this "natural" process even after carefully following all the well-meaning advice they've gotten from their health care providers? Not surprisingly, some women have more difficulty than others and there are many factors associated with experiencing breastfeeding problems - especially in the first week after birth.

26 Apr 2010

Three genetic regions associated with cigarette smoking

A team of scientists has used data from genome-wide association studies to identify genetic variants associated with key smoking behaviors that have a significant impact on health.

26 Apr 2010

Northwest Community Hospital's new $250M, nine-story addition set to open on May 1

Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights becomes one of the biggest, busiest and most advanced hospitals in Illinois with a $250 million addition set to formally open May 1.

26 Apr 2010

Controlling actions of FSH may help treat osteoporosis in menopausal women

Diminished bone density is common among menopausal women and raises their risk of osteoporosis, bone fractures and subsequent complications. Research has traditionally focused on therapies that seek to maintain the level of estrogen in the body. This hormone seems to sustain bone health, but it drops to an extremely low level during and after menopause.

26 Apr 2010

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FDA clears Osmetech's eSensor Thrombophilia Risk Test

Nycomed, Merck enter co-promotion agreement for Daxas in Canada and Europe

Global Health Partner reports 12% increase in revenues for first-quarter 2010

Increase in number of mistakes made at fertility clinics

Sexual addiction therapists Steffens Counseling and Hope Source Counseling form strategic partnership

Uproar over UK Foreign Office take on Papal visit

Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute presents new findings on heart transplantation rejection factors

WISeKey to present Latin American Digital Identification and Trusted cloud computing landscape at MIT conference

New key-hole bowel surgery for cancer with only four days hospital stay

Successful full face transplant in a 22 hour long operation: Barcelona

Winner Medical Group announces participation in 63rd CMEF

Potential 36,000 NHS nursing job

Finland, Sweden donate mobile radiation detection unit for strengthening Ukraine's nuclear security efforts

Ballan wrasse for combating sea lice

HHS Secretary and New Orleans Mayor-elect to tour St. Thomas Community Health Center

Ethnic differences in genetic factors may affect susceptibility to development of breast cancer

Peer counseling can help improve breastfeeding in overweight or obese women

Three genetic regions associated with cigarette smoking

Northwest Community Hospital's new $250M, nine-story addition set to open on May 1

Controlling actions of FSH may help treat osteoporosis in menopausal women

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