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FDA Clears New Insulin Pump and Algorithm-Based Software for Enhanced Insulin Delivery

U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the Beta Bionics iLet ACE Pump and the iLet Dosing Decision Software for people six years of age and older with t...

May 22, 2023 | News

Medtronic Extravascular ICD Trial Yields Positive Safety and Effectiveness Results

Late-breaking data at Heart Rhythm 2023 underscore performance of first-of-its-kind investigational defibrillator with the lead placed under the breas...

May 22, 2023 | News

Fertilix Successfully Blocks Low-Dose Chemical Damage in Plastic Consumer Products

The study, led by Professor Joel Drevet, examined two common chemicals widely used in the plastic industry: dibutyl phthalate and bisphenol AF. These chemi...

May 19, 2023 | News

Pfizer urges awareness of life-threatening ATTR-CM disease

ATTR-CM is caused by unstable transthyretin proteins that misfold and aggregate into amyloid fibrils that build up in the heart and other parts of the body...

May 12, 2023 | Analysis

Ubie Teams Up with Google's Android Health Connect (Beta) for Japan Launch

Users who agree to share data, such as blood sugar levels, on Health Connect (Beta) can benefit from improved accuracy of symptom-related questions in Ubie...

May 10, 2023 | News

Chula Researchers Develop Rapid MTB Strip Test for Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is one of the most contagious diseases that continues to challenge the public health system today. Although the World Health Organizatio...

May 03, 2023 | News

Health Canal Survey: Why Older Adults are Hesitant to Receive the Bivalent Booster Shot

The CDC has recommended the bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines since September 2022, yet only 42.4 percent of older adults have received the updated vacc...

May 02, 2023 | News

HOYA elevates children's myopia and light protection with MiYOSMART Sun lenses.

Origins of MiYOSMART lenses Developed by HOYA Vision Care in cooperation with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, MiYOSMART is a line of innovative opht...

April 30, 2023 | News

Healint announces collaboration with Saitama Medical University Hospital in Japan to verify AI diagnosis of migraine

Although there are currently 30 million chronic headache patients in Japan, the diagnosis and treatment rate of migraine among non-headache specialist...

April 28, 2023 | News

Fosun Pharma Develops Innovative Artemisinin-based Antimalarials for Malaria-free World via Belt and Road

This year 2023 also marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Medicine knows no borders. Artemisinin and its derivatives have moved ...

April 27, 2023 | News

500 women join Australia's landmark maternity medical device study

The study was led by Principal Investigators Professor Michael Nicholls, Professor Andrew Bisits and Michelle de Vroom at two Aust...

April 20, 2023 | News

Scientists from Singapore and Sweden achieve promising results towards restoring vision in blindness caused by cellular degeneration in the eye

A preclinical study using stem cells to produce progenitor photoreceptor cells—light-detecting cells found in the eye—and then transplanting th...

April 17, 2023 | News

Pharming ships Joenja® (leniolisib) to U.S. patients

Under the terms of Pharming's 2019 exclusive license agreement with Novartis for leniolisib, the corresponding first commercial sale of Joenja® trigger...

April 11, 2023 | News

Helfgott Institute Gets Funding to Test Mind-Body Practices for Benzodiazepine Reduction

This one-time opportunity is made possible by the US Deprescribing Network, funded by the National Institute on Aging, in support of complementary and...

April 10, 2023 | News

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