RTX Healthcare announced a 510k market clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use the RTX3370 Telehealth Monitor in the US. The Telehealth Monitor is a wireless device designed specifically to improve the provision of healthcare to elderly patients outside hospitals suffering from...
RTX Healthcare Receives FDA 510k Market Clearance For Telehealth Monitor
UK To Lead The Way With Picture Warnings On Tobacco Packets
Graphic images illustrating the devastating effects that tobacco can have on health will be printed on all tobacco packets from next year Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced last day. The 15 images to be used were chosen following a consultation in 2006, market research and a public vote. The move...
Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2007, UK
Various aspects of child development are to be explored by psychologists as they gather to hear the latest research in their field. The 2007 Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society’s Developmental Psychology Section held within the custom-built lecture halls of the Sherwell Conference...
Vital Options International, ASTRO Partner To Raise Awareness Of Cancer Survivorship, USA
As part of its continued effort to give back to the cancer communities in the cities visited during its annual scientific meeting, the Fairfax, Virginia-based American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) is partnering with Vital Options International to raise awareness of cancer survivorship....
Discovery May Pave The Way For A New Class Of Diabetes Drugs
A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego has determined the structure of a protein found in cells that shows potential as a target for the development of new drugs to treat diabetes. The study, published September 4 in the journal Proceedings of the National...
Inhaling Nitric Oxide Helps Liver Transplant Success
Administering inhaled nitric oxide (NO) during surgery helps protect liver transplant patients from organ failure, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The colorless gas improves post-surgical liver function by minimizing reperfusion injury, an unwanted...
Dia-B Achieves Major Clinical Milestone By Detecting Its Diabetes Drug Compound ISF402 In Blood
Dia-B Tech Limited (ASX:DIA) has achieved a major clinical milestone of its ISF402 diabetes drug development by confirming its detection in the bloodstream of trial patients. Peptides and proteins already existing in the bloodstream often mask small peptide drugs, making drug evaluation unreliable. A...
New Hope For Kidney Cancer Patients With HSA Approval Of Anticancer Drug Nexavar
Bayer Schering Pharma announced that the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has approved Nexavar® (Sorafenib) tablets for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (ARCC), or advanced kidney cancer. Nexavar, the first oral treatment in Singapore indicated for ARCC, is a multi-targeted...
Web Adverts Not Clear To Children, UK
When viewing web pages children have difficulty telling the difference between adverts and non-adverts. This is the finding of Ms Moondale Ali and Dr Mark Blades from the University of Sheffield who presented their findings on Wednesday 29 August 2007, at the British Psychological Society’s Developmental...
New Methodology Using GPS And PDA Technology Results In Better, Faster Data For Malaria Programs
A paper being released in the August issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene illustrates how technology can improve knowledge needed to help prevent malaria, one of the world’s leading fatal infectious diseases. A team of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and...