Category: Medicine

Mammography Market by product, technology, application and Region A-…

Research report by marketdataforecast.com with in-depth analysis on Mammography Market which provides information on market size, share, forecasts and company profiles for major industry participants 2016-2021 According to the report Mammography Market , published by Market Data Forecast, the global market is projected to reach USD 1,920 million by 2021, at a CAGR of 6.1% from 2016 to 2021. For full report refer to While breast cancer prevails as the one of the most deadly diseases among women, the need for early diagnosis of breast cancer has increased rising the demand for the mammography.

Sight Sciences receives Health Canada approval for TRAB 360 Trabeculotomy System

Sight Sciences, Inc., a venture-backed, commercial-stage ophthalmic medical device company announced today that it has received Health Canada approval for the TRAB360 Trabeculotomy System. The TRAB360 is indicated in Canada for the microcatheterization of Schlemm’s canal and cutting of trabecular meshwork to lower intraocular pressure in patients with primary open angle glaucoma.

What Happened in the Stock Market Today

Stocks rose on Friday ahead of a three-day weekend in observance of the holidays. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Exchange-traded funds tied to volatility in commodity prices were among the market’s most popular, with the leveraged VelocityShares 3x Long Crude Oil ETN Biotech Synergy Pharmaceuticals, which specializes in gastrointestinal therapies, soared 22% after it announced positive clinical test results.

What Happened in the Stock Market Today

Stocks rose on Friday ahead of a three-day weekend in observance of the holidays. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Exchange-traded funds tied to volatility in commodity prices were among the market’s most popular, with the leveraged VelocityShares 3x Long Crude Oil ETN Biotech Synergy Pharmaceuticals, which specializes in gastrointestinal therapies, soared 22% after it announced positive clinical test results.

Portola Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Accepts New Drug Application…

Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc.A today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted Portola’s New Drug Application granting priority review for betrixaban, an oral, once-daily Factor Xa inhibitor anticoagulant, for extended-duration prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in acute medically ill patients with risk factors for VTE. A priority review shortens the FDA review timeline to six months from the standard review period of 10 months.

PTAB Upholds Validity of BMS Patent

The PTAB issued a Final Written Decision upholding the validity of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s U.S. Patent 8,476,239, which had been challenged by Momenta in IPR2015-01537. According to documents filed with the PTAB during the IPR, the ‘239 patent covers stable formulations of a protein called “CTLA4Ig.”

Orascom aims at two out of nine seats of Brazil’s Oi

Dec 23 Orascom TMT Investments SARL will have two out of nine seats on the board of Brazilian telephone carrier Oi SA if its binding offer to buy the company is successful, Karim Nasr, a representative of Orascom, told Reuters in a Friday interview. The remaining board seats will be filled by four independent people and three representatives of the company’s new shareholders, mainly creditors of Oi who agree to participate in a proposed capital injection, Nasr said.

BRIEF-Align Technology enters agreement to buy four parcels of real estate

Dec 23 U.S. energy companies added oil rigs for an eighth week in a row, extending a seven-month drilling recovery as crude prices remained near a 17-month high. Drillers added 13 oil rigs in the week to Dec. 23, bringing the total count up to 523, the most since December 2015, but still below the 538 rigs seen a year ago, energy services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday.

BRIEF-Neovasc announces update in litigation with Cardiaq

Dec 23 U.S. energy companies added oil rigs for an eighth week in a row, extending a seven-month drilling recovery as crude prices remained near a 17-month high. Drillers added 13 oil rigs in the week to Dec. 23, bringing the total count up to 523, the most since December 2015, but still below the 538 rigs seen a year ago, energy services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday.

Nurses Call on Senate to Reject Tom Price as HHS Secretary Policies…

Nurses Call on Senate to Reject Tom Price as HHS Secretary Policies Would ‘Substantially Erode Our Nation’s Health and Security’ WASHINGTON – National Nurses United later Thursday called on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as well as the full Senate, to reject the nomination of Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Impax Laboratories Is Undervalued

Investors in the company have been let down time and again. Some factors for the continued weakness in shares include: A poor acquisition, whereby the company acquired a portfolio of generic drugs from Teva and Allergan for $586 million, only to then take an impairment charge of $285.2 million after failing to calculate the extent of the price reductions it would have to make on the products it acquired to retain key clients.

Ten Supplements to Avoid

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Ten Supplements to Avoid

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Pensioner Asks About Son’s Well Being Before Falling Into Coma And Died In Turkey

Sharipah Saadah Mohamed, a Malaysian government pensioner who died today after falling into a coma due to high blood pressure while traveling in Turkey, managed to communicate with her second son before the mishap. In the communication via WhatsApp on Dec 13, Sharipah Saadah asked more about the wellbeing of her son Mohd Khail Haron, 31, who is physically disabled and is suffering from leg pain.

Pensioner Asks About Son’s Well Being Before Falling Into Coma And Died In Turkey

Sharipah Saadah Mohamed, a Malaysian government pensioner who died today after falling into a coma due to high blood pressure while traveling in Turkey, managed to communicate with her second son before the mishap. In the communication via WhatsApp on Dec 13, Sharipah Saadah asked more about the wellbeing of her son Mohd Khail Haron, 31, who is physically disabled and is suffering from leg pain.

20 states, U.S. take aim at collusion claims, soaring prices for generic drugs

If there ever were nave wishes that parts of Big Pharma might work in more enlightened ways for patients, the attorney generals in 20 states and federal prosecutors, have dashed optimism about “white hat” drug makers. Led by Connecticut’s chief legal officer, the attorney generals have sued a half dozen makers of generic drugs, asserting they engaged in illegal price-fixing to gouge consumers.

Korea sees record worst outbreak

… mask and washing hands often, as the most certain and basic ways to stay away from a cold,” he added. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced earlier this week that it would temporarily expand the health insurance coverage for those aged 10-18, …

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Kidney Cancer Therapeutic and Drug Pipeline Review H2

PUNE, INDIA, December 23, 2016 / EINPresswire.com / — GET SAMPLE REPORT @ Summary Pharmaceutical and Healthcare disease pipeline guide Kidney Cancer – Pipeline Review, H2 2016, provides an overview of the Kidney Cancer pipeline landscape. Kidney cancer also called renal cancer is a disease in which kidney cells become malignant and grows out of control, forming a tumor.

137 Pos Kemar Residents Tested Positive For Malaria – Health DG

A total of 137 residents of 17 villages in Pos Kemar, Hulu Perak, tested positive for malaria in a Mass Blood Survey carried out until Wednesday , said Director-General of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said the group comprised 72 men and 65 women, and out of the total, 79 were children aged 14 years and below, who were all tested positive of malaria Plasmodium vivax , except for one case of Plasmodium falciparum.

Hospitals Succeed in Eliminating Deadly Bedsores

Real World Evidence of PU Reduction Using Early-Detection Technology – An Attack on the UK’s A 2.1bn Health Problem /PRNewswire/ — Using technology adapted from NASA’s Mars lander as part of a large-scale bedsore reduction program, over half of the 13 participating hospitals were able to eliminate the occurrence of new bedsores completely; an additional 3 hospitals achieved reductions ranging from 11% to 90%. Nurses dramatically cut bedsore occurrence by detecting damage developing under patients’ skin early enough to intervene and reverse the damage.