23May/14

SurgiQuest's AirSeal® System Highlighted This Week At Annual AUA Meeting – PR Newswire (press release)

SurgiQuest’s AirSeal® System Highlighted This Week At Annual AUA Meeting
PR Newswire (press release)
… including a Robotic Sacrocolpopexy by Wesley White, MD at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, a Robotic Partial Nephrectomy by Dipen Parekh, MD at the University of Miami Hospital, and a Robotic Ureteral Reimplantation performed by Michael …

23May/14

Novartis provides update on EU marketing authorization application for RLX030 … – MarketWatch


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Novartis provides update on EU marketing authorization application for RLX030
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(Thomson Reuters ONE via COMTEX) — Novartis International AG / Novartis provides update on EU marketing authorization application for RLX030 in acute heart failure . Processed and transmitted by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions. The issuer is solely …
The EU’s not impressed with Novartis’ ‘breakthrough’ cardio drug, eitherFierceBiotech

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23May/14

Scottish independence would damage research funding, warn medical experts – The Guardian


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Scottish independence would damage research funding, warn medical experts
The Guardian
The group of signatories includes Prof James Garden, the Queen’s surgeon in Scotland and a pioneer of liver transplant surgery, Prof Wilson Sibbett, the country’s first chief adviser on science and Prof Jean Beggs, a respected geneticist. Three of the …

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23May/14

World's first ever kidney dialysis machine treats multiple organ failure in babies – TheHealthSite


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World’s first ever kidney dialysis machine treats multiple organ failure in babies
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Scientists have developed a miniaturised kidney dialysis machine capable of treating the smallest babies that has successfully treated a newborn baby with multiple organ failure for the first time. According to the researchers, this technology has the
Kidney dialysis breakthrough saves baby with organ failureThe Information Daily
Scientists invent kidney dialysis machine for babies and safely treat newborn Medical Xpress

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22May/14

Mumbai docs want states across India to raise taxes on tobacco products – Daily News & Analysis

Mumbai docs want states across India to raise taxes on tobacco products
Daily News & Analysis
“Tobacco kills every third tobacco user prematurely through cancer, heart and lung diseases, especially when tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death globally,” said Dr Chaturvedi. Dr Chaturvedi also added that tobacco addiction is
Experts: Low tobacco tax kills millionsTimes of India
Increase tobacco tax, say cancer doctorsThe Asian Age

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