Roche files marketing application for Avastin with European health authorities
...and diagnostics. Roche is number one in the global diagnostics market, the leading supplier of pharmaceuticals for cancer and a leader in virology and transplantation. As a supplier of products and services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts t...Climara Pro (TM) helps alleviate menopausal hot flashes and night sweats
...sal hormone therapy. Committed to developing novel diagnostics and therapeutics that address unmet medical needs, Berlex, Inc., a US affiliate of Schering AG, Germany (NYSE: SHR), develops and markets diagnostic imaging agents, treatments in the areas of female healthcare and dermatology, as well as specialized ...Detecting vitamin B12 deficiency prevents anaemia and memory loss
...s. Under EUREKA project E! 2263 HOLOTC, Norwegian diagnostics company Axis Shield teamed up with Danish academics to find a way to pick up early warning signs of potentially harmful B12 deficits. The project pioneered a unique B12 detection system, which tracks concentrations of holotc (short for holo-transcoba...Blood test heralds speedy stroke diagnoses
... receive them, a recent study in the US found. Now diagnostics company Biosite of San Diego, California, is developing a test that would involve putting a few drops of blood into a cartridge and placing it in a small portable machine. Results are obtained within 15 minutes. "In theory, this could go into ambulan...Nanotech imaging, molecular fingerprints and signatures hold promise for cancer
... we stand to advance our opportunities for precise diagnostics of early stage ovarian cancer in women at high risk and throughout the population in general." Ovarian cancer is often referred to as a "silent killer" due to lack of symptoms prior to the cancer advancing to a later stage--often stage III. It is...MIT reports new insights in visual recognition
...hat could lead to improved machine vision systems, diagnostics for certain neurological conditions and more. Look at a photo of people running a marathon. The lead runners' faces are quite distinct, but we can also make out the faces of those farther in the distance. Zoom in on that distant runner, however, "and...Physics and medicine: at Erice the new perspectives of an ancient cooperation
... these two disciplines the employment of essential diagnostics and treatment tools, as the X rays, the magnetic resonance and many others, up to the most modern strategies to fight tumours. The cooperation between physics and medicine has been of great impact not only on the society in general, but also on the d...Improving the chances of successful organ transplants
...tation diagnostics. "The market in transplantation diagnostics is quite entrenched, with a few big companies dominating the field. It became clear that we should work with a market leader to successfully commercialise the MIDAS test," explains Dr Schwabe....CellCept's cardioprotective profile reinforced
...and diagnostics. Roche is number one in the global diagnostics market, the leading supplier of pharmaceuticals for cancer and a leader in virology and transplantation. As a supplier of products and services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts t...VA's newest manufacturer has microscopic product line
...ll produce novel "buckyball" materials for medical diagnostics and other military and commercial applications. This technology was developed in part with a 2001 award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP). The ATP grant helped to accelerate the develop...Future blood tests may use tiny bar-codes to speed disease diagnosis
... that the test will bring efficient, high-tech DNA diagnostics to unprecedented settings, including the battlefield and Third World villages, as well as hospitals and the home. The test is easier, faster, more accurate and less expensive than polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which is currently used to detect and...Diagnostic method based on nanoscience could rival PCR
...possible. Our alternative method promises to bring diagnostics to places PCR is unlikely to go -- the battlefield, the post office, a Third World village, the hospital and, perhaps ultimately, the home." The new selective and ultra-sensitive technology, which is based on gold nanoparticles and DNA, is easier to...IDSA offers policy Rx for influenza vaccine shortage
... the development of treatments, preventatives, and diagnostics related to bioterrorism preparedness and response. IDSA has consistently urged Congress to extend the scope of both Bioshield I and II beyond bioterrorism to include research and development of vaccines and antibiotics to prevent and treat naturally ...Imperial to lead the way in developing vaccines against bio-weapons
...arch will also help to develop much more effective diagnostics and treatment which can be used for a variety of d...l use state of the art technologies to develop new diagnostics and treatments for anthrax....NIAID launches influenza genome sequencing project
... potential targets for new vaccines, therapies and diagnostics against influenza," says Maria Y. Giovanni, Ph.D., who oversees the NIAID Microbial Sequencing Centers initiative. "Putting influenza sequence data in the public domain will help epidemiologists and other researchers improve their understanding of th...Researchers report early success using saliva to detect oral cancer
...researcher in Wong's laboratory. "Because salivary diagnostics with RNA had yet to be tried, we referenced all of our data through blood. That is, whatever we found in saliva, we looked to see if it matched our data in blood." As presented in their current Clinical Cancer Research paper, the scientists extracted...Simple sputum test for confirmation of childhood tuberculosis
...research and the current efforts in developing new diagnostics for tuberculosis. The Foundation for Innovative Ne...nd national governments in the search for improved diagnostics and treatment for tuberculosis."...Most adverse events in hospitalized children are preventable
...pitalized patients, birth-related medical care and diagnostics in pediatrics. Woods's co-authors were Jane Holl, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at Feinberg, and researchers from the University of Texas-Huston; Brandeis University; and Harvard Medical School....Nanoscale diagnostic sets sights on Alzheimer's
...e way the medical community thinks about molecular diagnostics and the markers they consider for many types of diseases." Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University Department of Chemistry and Institute for Nanotechnology "It's a good bet that the very earliest stage of AD memory loss begins when ADDLs attack key syn......ur the development of new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics for infectious diseases, particularly new antibiotics that target drug-resistant infections. On January 24, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD, (R-Tenn.) and others introduced a broad homeland security bill (S. 3) that would ext...