Tag: biomedical
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NIH Funds Support for Point-of-Care Device Entrepreneurs
Two institutions in Massachusetts are starting a program to help inventors and new enterprises anywhere in the U.S. bring their point-of-care medical devices to market.
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Phone App Shown to Detect Serious Heart Attack
A smartphone app that monitors heart functions like an electrocardiogram, or EKG, can detect a dangerous form of heart attack, according to results of a clinical trial.
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Infographic – Superbugs Annually Kill 33,000 in Europe
Our friends at Statista posted a chart showing the median number of deaths by country in Europe from microbes resistant to antibiotics, this weekend’s infographic.
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FDA Updating Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs, Devices
The Food and Drug Administration says it’s streamlining policies for making drugs and medical devices in clinical trials or under review available for people in the U.S. with life-threatening conditions.
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$200M Gift Supporting Translational Research, Start-Up Incubator
Harvard Medical School is the recipient of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to develop innovative treatments, apply advanced digital technologies, and accelerate biotech and life science start-up companies.
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Trial Underway for Inhaled Heart Rhythm Drug, Developer Raises $42M
A clinical trial is underway testing an inhaled therapy to quickly treat irregular heart rhythms, in cases where the problems occur occasionally and often resolve on their own.
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Modified Cancer Drug Hastens Bone Fracture Healing
A current drug for leukemia, with a simple protein chemically added, is shown in tests with lab mice to accelerate the healing of broken bones.
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Why Running A Medical Center Is Like Any Other Business
No matter what background leads you to running a medical center, you can be sure that it is also necessary to have some understanding from a business point of view.
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Nanotech Immunotherapy Reduces Heart Transplant Rejection
Proteins known to regulate immune cells, given as nanoscale particles, are shown in lab mice to encourage long-term acceptance of a transplanted heart.
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NIH Award Supports Esophagus Tissue Implants from Stem Cells
A company developing engineered tissue implants from stem cells received a grant from National Institutes of Health to develop an implant to correct a congenital defect in a newborn infant’s esophagus.