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10:19:42 PM A 'huge leap forward' for stem cell research
USA Today

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine may have taken the controversy out of the entire field of stem cell research. ... [more]

10:09:14 PM EnviroXtract Acquires Technology License For Biomedical Red Bag Waste ...
India Business Blog (blog)

by EIN on 2010/01/27 Biomedical Technology Solutions (BMTL) provides safe and environmentally sound medical waste disposal equipment for sharps and red bag ... [more]

9:34:21 PM Health Highlights: Jan. 27, 2010
BusinessWeek - USA

The voluntary recall by Miami-based Nipro Medical Corp. includes needles made between January 2007 and August 2009. An FDA inspection of Nipro's ... [more]

8:10:14 PM AIAG Helps Automotive Manufacturers Diversify into Medical Device
Advertiser Talk

Advertiser Talk (Advertiser Talk) 27-Jan-2010 — The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) announced today the launch of a program to educate medical device manufacturers ... [more]

7:54:48 PM Skin cells transformed directly to nerve in study
Reuters - NY,USA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have transformed ordinary mouse skin cells directly into neurons, bypassing the need for stem cells or even stemlike ... [more]

7:42:40 PM Case Western Reserve receives grants for breast cancer research
Crain's Cleveland Business - Cleveland,OH,USA

Three of the grants from the US Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs were awarded to three postdoctoral researchers in ... [more]

7:12:20 PM Changing the risk for heart disease is at our fingertips
Grand Junction Free Press - Grand Junction,CO,USA

The Endo-PAT is a huge breakthrough in technology and was on Prevention Magazine's “Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs” list last year. ... [more]

6:53:18 PM FDA Shifts Position on BPA but Says Its Hands are Tied
OMB Watch - USA

Products that can contain BPA include baby and water bottles, medical equipment, non-metal dental fillings and sealants, thermal paper used for receipts, ... [more]

6:38:11 PM Floating Hospital Staff Aids Haiti Relief Efforts
Western Queens Gazette - Queens,NY,USA

Floating Hospital employees (l. to r.) Long Island City Community Health Center Medical Director Dr. Shani Armstrong, Outreach Manager Cynthia Davis and ... [more]

6:25:39 PM FACTBOX-Experiment gets science past stem cell stage
Reuters - NY,USA

Scientists had been working to transform cells into stem cells first to accomplish this and a whole industry has arisen out of the technology, ... [more]

6:10:46 PM Framingham Device Firm Offers Shares
Worcester Business Journal

By Matthew L. Brown Framingham-based medical device manufacturer HeartWare International Inc. said it is offering 1.5 million shares of its common stock. ... [more]

5:02:17 PM CRi Biomedical Imaging Systems Used by World's Top Pharmaceutical Companies
Earthtimes.org - USA

(Business Wire) Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi), a leader in biomedical imaging, announced that 18 out of the top 20 pharmaceutical .... [more]

4:50:46 PM Research and Markets: Stem Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Stroke
2K Play and Nickelodeon Announce Dora the Explorer Debut for Wii™

Stem cell therapy has the potential to induce all three neuro-restorative processes and to facilitate functional recovery offering a new approach to .... [more]

4:08:37 PM Severe and Fatal Radiation Medical Errors Often Unreported
AboutLawsuits.com - USA

The report comes as the FDA is investigating cases of radiation problems with CT scan procedures, after the discovery that a number of patients across the ... [more]

3:58:58 PM Health centre work underway
Prince George Citizen - Prince George,British Columbia,Canada

.... quite frankly, is getting the physicians up to fill the demand and one of the biggest concerns that our friends in the medical community have told us is ... [more]

3:27:26 PM Your morning jolt: We'll talk about embryonic stem cells this year,
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA

Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) The group has been the primary opponent of legislation such as SB 169, a bill to put limits on embryonic stem cell research – beyond the federal regulations ... [more]

3:07:52 PM Cytokinetics Announces Data From Phase I Multiple Dose Clinical Trial of
CNN/Money - USA

CNNMoney.com (press release) .... FACC, Cytokinetics' Senior Vice President of Clinical Research and Development and Chief Medical Officer. "The low inter-subject variability and modest ... [more]

3:06:54 PM St. Jude swings to a fourth-quarter profit
MarketWatch - USA

based medical-device maker rose 6% to $1.2 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet Research had expected St. Jude to earn 62 cents a share on sales of $1.2 ... [more]

2:40:09 PM Campus Connection: Anti-union tactics, quick-and-easy applications and stem
Wisconsin State Journal

Capital Times He started contributing to the newspaper in 1990, was hired full-time in 1994 and has since covered everything from the Super Bowl to stem cell research. ... [more]

2:37:57 PM International Stem Cell Corporation joins Information Portal
2K Play and Nickelodeon Announce Dora the Explorer Debut for Wii™

Business Wire (press release) International Stem Cell Corporation is pleased to provide corporate information to StockProfile.com's independent investors seeking information about new ... [more]

1:56:39 PM St. Jude Medical reports 4th-quarter profit as costs and charges fall,
Canadian Business - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

CanadianBusiness.com (AP) - Medical device maker St. Jude Medical said Wednesday it recorded a fourth-quarter profit on lower costs and charges as heart device sales increased. ... [more]

1:37:20 PM OC is a 'good' place to have Alzheimer's
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA

By JANE GLENN HAAS The good news is medical breakthroughs have added more than 20 years to the average lifespan in the past century. ... [more]

12:32:34 PM Fire deaths in Mass. at lowest level since '40s
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

.... better trained firefighters and paramedics, and the extraordinary medical community with special burn treatment centers in Massachusetts. ... [more]

11:26:22 AM Tired Doctors Need More Rest According to New York Medical Malpractice ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

.... professionals of any kind have an obligation to provide a level of medical care at or above the accepted standards of practice in the medical community. ... [more]

8:43:10 AM Baylor University: Let's separate fact from fiction
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

The Baylor College of Medicine is one of the most respected institutions not only in Houston but throughout the medical world, and any discussion concerning ... [more]

8:37:19 AM Elite AMBT Supplies the Medical Community in Dallas with Botox Training
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA

PR.com (press release) The coaches, mentors and trainers at Elite AMBT are offering botox training for Dallas' medical practices. Its addition of new seminar dates, ... [more]

8:33:01 AM Stem Cell Funding Delayed
Hartford Courant - United States

By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER State legislators killed the governor's proposal late last year to postpone $10 million in stem cell research grants scheduled to be ... [more]

6:54:00 AM Less Sex, Rock-n-Roll as Drugmakers React to FDA TV Ad Scrutiny
BusinessWeek - USA

Ruth Day, director of the Medical Cognition Laboratory at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, said concerns about the ability of consumers to focus ... [more]

6:12:17 AM Groundbreaking Research Shows Platelets Can Reproduce in Circulation
Science Daily (press release) - USA

In additional studies conducted in cooperation with Robert C. Blaylock, MD, medical director of transfusion services at the University of Utah and professor ... [more]

6:03:01 AM Wellness trends for 2010
Mountain Xpress - Asheville,NC,USA

1 medical breakthrough of 2009. Updated this past November, they now recommend that women begin getting routine mammograms at age 50 rather than 40 and get ... [more]

4:16:53 AM University of Maryland Researchers Study Post-Heart Attack Adult Stem Cell
Healthcanal.com

Healthcanal.com That assumption is changing as more is learned about the properties of certain stem cells to grow or regenerate tissue, including heart muscle. .... [more]

2:58:33 AM Studies Link Rare Ailment in Cartilage to Pain Pumps
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

In 1998, McKinley Medical, a manufacturer, asked the FDA for permission to revise its labeling to indicate that the pumps could be inserted in joints; .... [more]

1:00:58 AM On Campus: Grant will help move stem cell research from lab to clinical
Wisconsin State Journal

Wisconsin State Journal A UW-Madison center got a federal grant of nearly $9 million, which will help researchers prepare to conduct stem cell studies in humans. ... [more]

12:58:39 AM Minimising the possibility of medical errors: Gilani for disease
Daily Times - Pakistan

... loss of lives in some medical institutions due to the negligence of doctors and paramedics, causing embarrassment for the whole medical community. ... [more]

12:10:42 AM Patient Says Medtronic Device is Dangerous
Courthouse News Service - Pasadena,CA,USA

By BARBARA LEONARD (CN) - Medtronic pays doctors to promote a medical device for off-label uses, and the InfuseBone Graft is "unreasonably dangerous" ... [more]



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