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Medtronic CoreValve® System Gains First Approval for Transcatheter Valve-In-Valve Procedures
Replacing Degenerated Surgical Valves with CoreValve Results inSignificant Hemodynamic Improvements for Patients MINNEAPOLIS - May 23, 2013 - Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced it has rec...
Quality Systems, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2013 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results
Company Also Appoints Michael Aghajanian to Board of Directors Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSII) announced today results for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter and year ended Ma...
Schedules Conference Call to Discuss 2013 First Quarter Results Mazor Robotics Ltd. (TASE:MZOR), a developer of innovative surgical robots and complementary products, announce...
Mazor Robotics Ltd. (TASE: MZOR), a developer of innovative surgical robots and complementary products, today announced that its Russia distribution partner, Neuroproject, placed...
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced that the company’s EnligHTN™ Multi-Electrode Renal Denervation System provides a safe, rapi...
Medtronic's In.Pact Falcon Drug-Eluting Balloon Yields Positive Outcomes in Small Coronary Arteries
Presented at EuroPCR, One-Year Data from BELLO Study Show Durability of Clinical Results Following Treatment of De Novo Lesions with Novel Angioplasty Device PARIS -- May 23, 2013 -- One-year data...
Tecan appoints Dr. Klaus Lun to the Management Board
Tecan Group AG / Tecan appoints Dr. Klaus Lun to the Management Board . Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Männed...
-- The World’s Newest, Most Advanced Behind-the-Ear Sound Processor Receives Regulatory Approval for Commercial Release in Europe and Canada -- Advanced Bionic...
EEG Diagnostic Specialist MentisCura Joins Stockholm Brain Institute Consortium
MentisCura Diagnostics will contribute as a partner and board member of the Stockholm Brain Institute, a consortium for cognitive and computational neuroscience, led by the Karoli...
Nordion Enters into Agreement to Divest Targeted Therapies Business to BTG plc
Nordion Inc. (TSX: NDN) (NYSE: NDZ), a leading provider of products and services for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, announced that it has entered into an agr...
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Companies
Campbell Soup Company is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality foods and simple meals, including soup and sauces, baked snacks and healthy beverages. Founded in 1869,...
THE Surgical Hospital of Phoenix
THE Surgical Hospital of Phoenix, the first licensed surgical specialty facility of its kind in Arizona, first opened its doors in May of 2005. Specializing in spine, orthopedics,...
The Moss Center for Integrative Medicine
Deplin is a prescription medical food for the dietary management of suboptimal L-methylfolate levels in patients with depression. Up to 70 percent of people who suffer from depression may have a spec...
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), founded in 1979, opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, advocacy, and support...
LABS, Inc., founded in 1979 as Immunological Associates of Denver, was one of the first transplant laboratories established in the United States. Today, as a taxable, non-profit c...
Merz North America is a specialty healthcare company that develops and commercializes innovative treatment solutions in aesthetics, dermatology and neurology in the U.S. and Canad...
Ambry Genetics is a CAP-accredited, CLIA-certified commercial clinical laboratory headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Since the company's inception in 2000, it has become a leader in provi...
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
Lucile Packard Childrenâs Hospital at Stanford is an internationally recognized 311-bed hospital, research center and leading regional medical network providing a full comple...
Clinical Trials
Combination Chemotherapy and Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Sarcoma
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug and combining chemotherapy with periphe...
Pamidronate to Treat Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Children
This study will evaluate the effect of pamidronate-a drug that decreases bone resorption (breakdown)-on osteogenesis imperfecta. This is a genetic disorder of collagen, the major protein...
Immune Response to Hepatitis C Virus
This study will identify and characterize immune factors involved in hepatitis C infection and elimination of the virus. Individual responses to hepatitis C infection vary; some people ar...
Inhaled Nitric Oxide for Preventing Chronic Lung Disease in Premature Infants
To determine whether or not inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) safely decreases the incidence of chronic lung disease (CLD) in premature infants.
Cell Lines From High-Risk Breast Tissue
Background: - Many risk factors for breast cancer have been identified, including family history, endocrine background, changes in breast tissue, cancer in one breast, radiation...
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to Study Brain Signaling
This study uses positron emission tomography (PET) to examine brain function and signaling involving phospholipids, and to see how signaling is related to blood flow. Much of the brain is...
Screening Evaluation for Women With Postpartum Depression
This study evaluates the relationship between mood changes and hormones in women with postpartum depression (PPD). This is an observational study; volunteers who participate will not rece...
Pelvic Pain in Women With Endometriosis
This study will examine pelvic pain associated with endometriosis and explore better approaches to treatment. In women with endometriosis, uterine tissue grows outside the uterus. Standa...
Imiquimod Cream in Treating Patients With Basal Cell Skin Cancer
RATIONALE: Biological therapies, such as imiquimod cream, work in different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop tumor cells from growing. PURPOSE: This randomized phase I trial i...
A Study of Two Approved Drugs in the Treatment of Postoperative Dental Pain (0966-181)(COMPLETED)
The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and effectiveness of two approved drugs in the treatment of pain following dental surgery.
PubMed Articles
Incidence of hip fractures in Germany, 1995-2010.
We analyzed hip fracture incidence trends in Germany in 1995-2010, using national hospital discharge register. Overall, after age-sex-region adjustment, there was no significant trend. However, strati...
Incidence of hip fracture in Rohtak district, North India.
Hip fracture incidence is not known in India. This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate hip fracture incidence rates in Rohtak, a single district of North India. A total of 304 patients from...
Intrapartum sacral stress fracture due to pregnancy-related osteoporosis: a case report.
Low back pain (LBP) and hip pain frequently occur during pregnancy and postpartum period. Although pelvic and mechanic lesions of the soft tissues are most responsible for the etiology, sacral fractur...
INTRODUCTION: Nonunion of femoral neck fractures frequently occurs in elderly patients. In patients with rheumatoid arthritis, reoperation rates after internal fixation of a displaced femoral neck fra...
This retrospective analysis of hip fracture patients with and without muscle atrophy/weakness (MAW) revealed that those with MAW had significantly higher healthcare utilization and costs compared with...
A health economic analysis of osteoporotic fractures: who carries the burden?
This is a cost-of-illness study of osteoporotic fractures in Denmark estimating the incremental societal cost associated with osteoporotic fractures, with both direct cost and productivity cost. This...
Major aims of the 5th Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Summit on Osteoporosis held in Bratislava, Slovakia, on 2 and 3 December 2011, were to provide participants with state-of-the-art knowledge in th...
The aim of this study was to interrogate whether blood-borne inflammatory and nutritional markers predict long-term survival and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in radically treated oesophagogast...
The influence of genetic polymorphisms in MDR1 gene on breast cancer risk factors in Chinese.
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women in the world. The human multidrug resistance 1 gene (MDR1) is potentially an important gene influencing the susceptibility to breast cancer. Th...
PR (PRDI-BF1 and RIZ) domain containing proteins (PRDM) have been indicated to play important roles in several human cancers. The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency and prognosti...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Physalis
A plant genus of the family SOLANACEAE. Members contain physalin and withangulatin.
Solanum
A plant genus of the family SOLANACEAE. Members contain SOLANACEOUS ALKALOIDS. Some species in this genus are called deadly nightshade which is also a common name for ATROPA BELLADONNA.
Solanum Melongena
A plant species of the genus SOLANUM, family SOLANACEAE. The fruit is a large, egg-shaped berry, varying in color from dark purple to red, yellowish, or white. The leaves are large and ovate. The flowers are pendant, violet, and two inches across.
Solanum Nigrum
A plant species of the genus SOLANUM, family SOLANACEAE that contains steroidal glycosides.
Withania
A plant genus of the family SOLANACEAE. Members contain withanolides. Withania somnifera is the source of ashwagandha and aswal.
