Abbott

The 11th largest pharmaceutical company in the world, Abbott Laboratories generated sales of $16 billion in 2009 and has 90,000 employees. Within the medical device arm of the company, products of...

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The Top 10 Medical Device Companies

Medical devices are crucial to the process of diagnosis and treatment in modern medicine. Sales in this field reach billions of dollar a year, with Johnson & Johnson making $30 billion alone in...

The Top 100 Drugs

The pharmaceutical industry is massive, both in range of products and in financial values. These are the top 200 drugs (ranked in descending order according to total sales in 20010, $), and the co...

Massachusetts

Located in the north-east corner of the USA, Massachusetts, has the third highest GDP of any state in America and is also a hotspot for the biotechnology industry. In addition to the globally renown...

Panel Lays Out Blueprint for Troponin Testing (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Highly sensitive troponin assays have made it necessary for professional societies to issue the first-ever consensus statement on troponin testing.

Abbott Architect Stat high sensitive troponin assay wins CE mark

Abbott has obtained CE mark approval for its Architect Stat high sensitive Troponin-I assay, designed for evaluating potential heart attacks sooner.

Troponin I Predicts Event Risk in CAD (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- In patients with stable coronary artery disease, troponin I levels measured with a high-sensitivity assay add prognostic information to conventional risk markers and troponin T leve...

Troponin Levels and Mortality After Noncardiac Surgery—Reply

In Reply: Based on the VISION data, Dr Fujita suggests there is merit in monitoring troponin measurements after noncardiac surgery in patients with cardiovascular risks but not in patients at low-risk...

Use of Troponin to Diagnose Periprocedural Myocardial Infarction

How useful is troponin vs creatine kinase for diagnosing myocardial ischemia in the procedural setting? Heart

Expert Consensus on Interpretation of Troponin Elevation

As troponin assays become increasingly sensitive, understanding the clinical scenario will become increasingly important in deciding who to test. Journal of the American College of Cardiology

New Document Advises on Interpretation of Troponin Tests

The American College of Cardiology has released the first comprehensive consensus document covering the clinical considerations involved in ordering and interpreting troponin tests for diagnosing or r...

New Troponin T Test Predictive in Stable CAD (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- In patients with stable coronary artery disease, higher levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T independently predicted poorer outcomes, researchers found.

Troponins in Acute Kidney Injury.

Abstract Aim: To investigate and describe cardiac troponins in subjects with acute kidney injury (AKI). Methods: A prospective observational study of troponin in subjects presenting with AKI in a te...

False positive troponin result caused by a true macrotroponin.

Abstract Background: A 35-year-old female presented with complaints of tiredness, shortness of breath and recent onset of chest pain. The cardiac troponin I (cTnI) concentration was elevated at 6.4 Î...

Transient troponin elevations in the blood of healthy young children.

Whilst cardiac troponin is considered to be indicative of cardiac necrosis, the advent of new high sensitivity assays for troponin suggests that troponin may be present in the blood of healthy persons...

Disease causing mutations of troponin alter regulated actin state distributions.

Striated muscle contraction is regulated primarily through the action of tropomyosin and troponin that are bound to actin. Activation requires Ca(2+) binding to troponin and/or binding of high affinit...

Abbott Physicochemical Tiering (APT)-A unified approach to HTS triage.

The selection of the highest quality chemical matter from high throughput screening (HTS) is the ultimate aim of any triage process. Typically there are many hundreds or thousands of hits capable of m...