Telehealth - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Telehealth uses communication devices such as computers, mobiles and tablets to deliver healthcare. For example, many patients monitor their condition using a telehealth computer which can take readings, which are then sent to doctors for analysis.
It is a booming area of medical technologies, with the UK Government expecting 3 million people to have access to it, and the US market estimated at over $6 billion.
News Articles
Fresenius Kabi USA Initiates Voluntary Recall of Single Lot of Magnesium Sulfate
Fresenius Kabi USA announced today it has initiated a voluntary recall of one lot – Lot 6103882 – of Magnesium Sulfate Injection, USP due to the potential presence of glass pa...
Condom Nation’s Last Stop in Washington, D.C.!
The Condom Nation Big Rig Tour has embarked on the second annual U.S. Condom Nation tour with a goal of distributing more than 50 million condoms in the U.S. – In 2012, the tour...
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Confirms Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization
PITTSBURGH, May 25, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, (www.pghcorning.com) a global manufacturer of sustainable, high performance glass products for the building, energy and in...
CHICAGO, May 25, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As Memorial Day weekend kicks-off, Country music superstar Tim McGraw teamed up with Outback Steakhouse® and Operation Homefront to surprise ten families fr...
NEW YORK, May 25, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz Grossman Hufford Dahlstrom & Gross LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ("Intuitive" or the "Company") (Nasda...
California Pharmacists Association Denounces 9th Circuit for Refusing to Review Medi-Cal Cuts Case
With 4 Million New Beneficiaries Coming Into the System Under the Affordable Care Act, this Decision is a Recipe for Disaster Today, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals deni...
AB 332, a statewide bill which would require condoms be used on adult film sets, was placed on hold today by the Assembly Appropriations Committee. AIDS Healthcare Foundati...
Model N to Present at the Raymond James Internet & Software Crossover Conference
Model N, Inc. (NYSE: MODN), the leader in Revenue Management solutions for the life science and technology industries, today announced that Zack Rinat, Founder, Chairman and Chief...
Manatt Practices Rank High in Chambers USA
LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced today that Chambers USA has named 10 practices and 23 firm lawyers among its 2013 list of leading lawyers for bu...
Clawback Report Proposal At Walmart Supported By Proxy Advisory Firms, Large Institutional Investors
DETROIT, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Influential proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis this week announced their support for a shareholder proposal at Wal...
Events
2nd Annual Biosimilars in Turkey, MENA, Southeast Asia, India & Russia Conference
DO NOT MISS the only conference to focus on BIOSIMILARS strategies in Turkey, MENA, South East Asia, India and Russia
The European Society for Translational Medicine (EUSTM) and the Centre de Recherche Public – Santé (CRP-Santé)
The Economist Events - Healthy Europe Summit June 20th 2013
From sick care to health care
Geriatric Safe Medicines Summit
Join SMi as we look to address these issues with new and innovative thinking and approaches that are being applied to geriatric clinical studies.
Evolving Big Data Management to Advance Data Analytics, Business Forecasting, and Expedite Decisions
Payer Strategies for Emerging Markets
Understand payer needs, build robust partnerships and drive profit growth.
Strategic Pipeline Planning & Portfolio Valuation
R&D Target Selection, Licensing and M&A, Prioritization and Investment Decision-Making
Cancer Vaccines will provide attendees with a complete view of the cancer immunotherapy field. Focusing on the discovery of new vaccines, developments in target identification
Diabetes: Secondary Complications, Regulation and Innovation Conference
SMi is very proud to present our 11th conference focusing on Diabetes and metabolic disorders taking place on 1st and 2nd Oct 2013, London.
The 12th annual Evolution Summit is a premium forum bringing together leaders in biopharmaceutical clinical operations with the most renowned CROs and solution providers.
Companies
Astellas Pharma Inc., located in Tokyo, Japan, is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceuticals...
BioInvent International is a unique company dedicated to working with clients to ensure their success in the discovery, development and manufacture of antibody drugs. The discovery of new drug targets...
Globus Medical, Inc. is a leading musculoskeletal implant company based in Audubon, PA. The company was founded in 2003 by an experienced team of professionals with a shared visio...
Balfour Beatty | McCarthy is a joint venture of Balfour Beatty Construction and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. formed to provide design-build services for the Fort Hood Replace...
DOLE is the top-selling banana in America and the world â in both conventional and organic product categories. From its founding by James Drummond Dole, the company has built...
RTI Biologics Inc. was formed when Regeneration Technologies Inc. and Tutogen Medical Inc. merged on Feb. 27, 2008. The company is now a leading provider of sterile biologi...
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) is a global network marketing company that sells weight-management, nutrition, and personal care products intended to support a healthy lifestyle...
John Muir Health is a not-for-profit organization that includes two of the largest medical centers in Contra Costa County: John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus, a 330-be...
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.
Effects of Exenatide and Insulin Glargine in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
This Phase 3, open-label, multicenter study is designed to compare the effects of exenatide and insulin glargine (Lantus® injection) on beta-cell function in patients with type 2 diabetes...
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...
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...
Despite the well-defined role of autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (autoHCT) in the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), relapse remains the main...
Role of BAX for outcome prediction in gastrointestinal malignancies.
Our group and numerous others have shown in both preclinical and clinical studies that the proapoptotic mediator BAX may be deregulated through gene mutation or loss of protein expression, affecting r...
Ski-interacting protein (SKIP) is a transcriptional cofactor distinct from other cofactors and involved in the regulation of many cancer-related proteins. This study investigated the expression of SKI...
Videos
P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason ft. Nate Ruess
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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.
