Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA articles from October 2004

Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA archives from October 2004

Effects of vascular graft compliance mismatch on protein transport reported.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report the effects of an artery/vascular graft compliance mismatch on protein transport in a recent issue of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. "Small-diameter vascular graft failure...

U.S. FDA approves ciprofloxacin to manage postexposure inhalational anthrax.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ciprofloxacin hydrochloride for the management of postexposure inhalational anthrax. According to a study from the United States, "In August...

Anopheles quadrimaculatus distribution and role in malaria reported.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Investigators report the distribution of members of Anopheles quadrimaculatus and implications for their roles in malaria transmission in the United States in a recent issue of the Journal of Medical...

Method for longitudinally sampling individual Ixodes ticks developed.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have developed a technique for longitudinally sampling individual adult Ixodes scapularis ticks. According to published research from the United States, "The first technique for...

Fever after immunization reviewed.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review fever after immunization in a recent issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. According to recent research from the United States, "Fever is a common clinical complaint in adults...

SIVmac Gag p27 capsid protein gene expression in potato reported.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have achieved SIVmac Gag p27 capsid protein gene expression in potatoes. According to published research from the United States, "A cDNA encoding the simian immunodeficiency virus type...

NDA submitted to FDA for acne product.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Atrix Laboratories, Inc., (ATRX) announced that on August 31, 2004, together with co-development partner Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., they submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug...

Erythromycin combined with common drugs may increase cardiac death risk.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients who took the antibiotic erythromycin with medications that inhibit CYP3A drug enzymes, such as certain calcium-channel blockers, certain antifungal drugs and some antidepressants, had a...

FDA advisory committee reviews Macugen data.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (EYET) and Pfizer, Inc., (PFE) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Dermatologic & Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee has met to review the...

FDA approves Clarinex syrup for allergies and hives in children.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of Clarinex (desloratadine) Syrup for the relief of symptoms associated with seasonal allergic...

Anthrax risk from contact with infected livestock increased by hand cuts.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Anthrax risk from contact with infected livestock is increased by the presence of cuts on the hands. "A retrospective cohort analysis was conducted in Kazakhstan to define modifiable risk factors...

"Planned-care method" of asthma care reduces kids' symptoms.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A "planned-care method" of providing primary care for children with asthma can significantly reduce symptoms and need for emergency medications, according to a study. Much of the asthma care in the...

Customized program reduces asthma symptoms in inner-city children.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A program that targets allergens and tobacco smoke in the home resulted in fewer asthma symptoms in children participating in the intervention than in those who were not, according to a new study...

Reducing allergens in the home helps inner-city children with asthma.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study designed to reduce the levels of indoor allergens - conducted in the homes of inner-city children with asthma - resulted in fewer asthma exacerbations and unscheduled visits for asthma during a...

Newer anticonvulsants for treating bipolar disorder reviewed.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review newer anticonvulsants for the treatment of bipolar disorder in a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. According to a study from Canada, "The anticonvulsants...

Symptoms predictive of death in patients with food-borne botulism reported.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers outline the signs and symptoms predictive of death in patients with food-borne botulism in a recent issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. According to published research from the United...

Japanese panel recommends dropping testing of younger cows for mad cow disease.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Japan could stop testing newborn and younger cows for mad cow disease without posing a risk to public health, a special panel decided September 6, 2004, in a ruling that could influence talks to lift...

Biotech company business update includes vaccine development, financing, growth.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (SNVBF) has announced updates to its business activities. Sinovac has three vaccines that have completed all three phases of clinical trials: hepatitis A, hepatitis A&B...

Technology upgrade cuts costs, improves earnings for China-based company.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genex Pharmaceutical, Inc., (GENX) announced that its research and development team has completed a 6-month upgrade of its product manufacturing technology which will result in reduction of product...

Utah company discloses recent U.S. sales activity and share repurchases.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would seek an injunction against Utah Medical Products, Inc. (UTMD) until it has corrected alleged "deviations" from the Quality System...

Leucomalachite green is mutagenic in female Big Blue B6C3F[subscript]1 mice.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Leucomalachite green is mutagenic in female Big Blue B6C3F[subscript]1 mice. "Malachite green, a triphenylmethane dye used in aquaculture as an antifungal agent, is rapidly reduced in vivo to...

Micronucleus test used on epithelial cells from oral cavity of beedi smokers.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have applied the micronucleus test to exfoliated epithelial cells from the oral cavity of beedi smokers, a high-risk group for oral cancer. According to a study from India, "The primary...

FDA approves Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads for sudden cardiac arrest.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medtronic, Inc., (MDT) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the Sprint Fidelis family of defibrillation leads for patients at risk of sudden cardiac arrest. At 6.6 French in...

New labels can tout heart-healthy ingredient.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fish, fowl, baby formula and any other conventional food products that contain two types of omega-3 fatty acids can market the fat's heart-healthy effect, regulators said September 8, 2004. The...

FDA clears new hydrophilic antimicrobial catheter for U.S. sales.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Federal clearance to market a hydrophilic-coated version of Cook Critical Care's antimicrobial central venous catheter means U.S. clinicians now can bring Cook Spectrum's properties, which help provide...

Study shows high levels of dioxin in New Zealand residents near chemical plant.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High levels of the cancer-causing chemical dioxin have been found in the blood of residents who lived near a pesticide plant in New Zealand, health officials said September 9, 2004. A...

Dominican Republic immunization project announced.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Project HOPE, Merck & Co., Inc., BD, and the government of the Dominican Republic announced that they will join together to support a country-wide immunization campaign to reach thousands of children in...

Expert warns of dangers of self-medicating with herbal medicines.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A high percentage of the population could be endangering their health by taking herbal medicines without checking with a health professional first, according to Peter Houghton, professor in...

FDA approves Zelnorm as therapy for chronic constipation.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novartis Pharma, AG, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a supplemental indication for its promotility agent Zelnorm (tegaserod maleate) for the treatment of chronic...

Host-adapted Cryptosporidium species in Canadian geese reported.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report a host-adapted Cryptosporidium species in Canadian geese (Branta canadensis). "The prevalence and distribution of Cryptosporidium species in the fecal droppings of the...

Agenix files ThromboView application for Canadian trials.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Agenix Limited (AGX, AGXLY) announced the filing of a Clinical Trial Application (CTA) with Health Canada to conduct phase II clinical trials of its ThromboView blood clot imaging technology. This...

Sex and drug use increase teen suicide risk.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Teens who engage in high-risk behaviors involving sex and drugs have significantly higher odds of depression, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts than teens who say no to sex and drugs, according to...

Suicide huge but preventable public health problem, says WHO.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Suicide is a huge but largely preventable public health problem, causing almost half of all violent deaths and resulting in almost 1 million fatalities every year, as well as economic costs in the...

Dermatology drug market expected to grow 8% per year through 2008.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Decision Resources, Inc., forecasts that the overall dermatology drug market (which includes atopic dermatitis, urticaria, and psoriasis) will experience modest growth of 8% per year through 2008. ...

FDA grants expedited PMA review for LUMA Cervical Imaging System.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MediSpectra, Inc., a privately held medical-device company, announced that The Center of Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) granted expedited review to...

Public health nutrition and food policy reviewed.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists review public health nutrition and food policy in a recent issue of Public Health Nutrition. According to recent research from England, "Food in its many manifestations allows us to...

Cancer survivors' other medical problems poorly managed.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People who survive cancer are less likely to receive necessary care for a wide range of other non-cancer-related medical problems, according to a new study. The study suggests that a history of...

Japanese drug company launches urinary incontinence, frequency treatment in E.U.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., announced that it submitted an application for the treatment of urinary frequency and urinary incontinence for YM905 (generic name: solifenacin succinate) to the...

Biotech company settles with U.S. Justice over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (SIAL) announced that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle actions relating to alleged violations of...

World Trade Center workers find high rates of respiratory, mental problems.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nearly half of more than 1000 screened rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who responded to the World Trade Center attacks have new and persistent respiratory problems, and more than half have...

Korean-American women need education, access to cancer screening.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Culturally-appropriate educational interventions, better healthcare access, and healthcare provider training are needed to improve breast and cervical cancer screening among Korean-American women,...

New report maps women's health in the United States.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hawaii has the lowest overall death rate for women, Colorado the lowest rate of obesity, and Minnesota ranks best in terms of health insurance coverage. These findings and more are in a new report,...

Pharma company receives tentative approval for Gabapentin capsules.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (RPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL), announced that RLL has received tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

Enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease reviewed.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease in a recent issue of Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy. "Two virtually identical products have been developed for enzyme...

HIV vaccine progresses towards next phase.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At the AIDS Vaccine 2004 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, Merck & Co.'s Executive Director for vaccine research, Dr. Robin Isaacs, announced that one of Merck's candidate HIV vaccines, produced with...

Model estimates resource needs for global HIV/AIDS healthcare services to 2007.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A model is used to estimate the resource needs for global HIV/AIDS health care services through 2007. According to a study from Mexico, "As funding mechanisms like the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS,...

Rapid-feedback model improves retention rate of HIV/AIDS healthcare intervention.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A rapid-feedback evaluation model improves the retention rate of an HIV/AIDS health care intervention. According to recent research from the United States, "A rapid-feedback evaluation (RIFE) model...

Optimization of antiretroviral resources is necessary to provide better access.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The optimization of antiretroviral resources is necessary to provide better access to HIV/AIDS treatment. According to a study from Mexico, "Antiretroviral treatment for HIV infection has evolved...

UNAIDS Drug Access Initiative evaluated in Chile.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The UNAIDS Drug Access Initiative is evaluated in Chile. "In 1997, UNAIDS decided to implement Drug Access Initiatives (DAI) in four different pilot-countries. We studied the implementation of the...

Promises of big spending on health dominate election campaign in Australia.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The government and opposition Labor Party in Australia have promised to pour millions of extra dollars into the public health system September 6, 2004, to make medical consultations cheaper as health...

Children with special health needs not getting consistent care.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Approximately 13% of U.S. children have had a special healthcare need (SHCN), and significant proportions of their families experience financial problems related to the child's condition, according to...

Guidant applauds proposed coverage of carotid artery stenting.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Guidant Corp. (GDT) commended the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its intent to expand coverage of carotid artery stenting to include patients receiving FDA (U.S. Food and Drug...

Application filed to market Pegasys for hepatitis and AIDS coinfection.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Roche announced the submission of a supplemental new biologics license application (sBLA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a) in combination with...

Dendritic cell vaccine for hepatitis B infection therapy is promising.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A dendritic cell-based therapeutic vaccine appears promising for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection. According to published research from Japan, "Recently a new field of...

Hepatitis vaccine nonresponse linked to impaired lymphocyte activation.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The nonresponse to hepatitis B vaccination is associated with impaired lymphocyte activation. According to a study from Venezuela and the United States, "Nonresponsiveness against hepatitis B...

Structure of glycans in hepatitis B virus surface proteins determined.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have determined the structure of pre-S2 N- and O-linked glycans in surface proteins from different genotypes of hepatitis B virus. "The middle-sized (M) surface proteins of hepatitis B...

HSV-2 EIAs vary in sensitivity/specificity of sub-Saharan African samples.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Herpesvirus type 2 enzyme immunoassays vary in sensitivity/specificity when tested against specimens from sub-Saharan Africa. According to a study from Belgium, "Data are accumulating on the...

HSV-1 vaccine prevents clinical changes of HSV-1 encephalitis.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Immunization with a nonpathogenic HSV-1 strain prevents clinical and neuroendocrine changes of experimental HSV-1 encephalitis. "We examined whether immunization with the nonpathogenic strain R-I 5...

FDA defers decision on Omnitrope application.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sandoz has received notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the agency is unable to reach a decision on whether to approve an application for the marketing of the recombinant DNA...

$18 million bioinformatics center to become weapon against deadly diseases.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A computer database designed to help biomedical scientists identify and exploit the weak spots in scores of deadly microorganisms will be established with an $18 million contract from the National...

Antiviral medication Tamiflu to play role in pandemic flu preparedness.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Roche announced that it is committed to working in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to address and prepare for a potential flu pandemic in the United States. ...

Number of flu-associated hospitalizations on the rise, especially for elderly.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The estimated number of influenza-associated hospitalizations among elderly patients has increased substantially over the past 2 decades, according to a new study. Although national estimates of...

The doctors' view of flu vaccines for infants and toddlers.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Doctors across the United States are mostly in favor of a recommendation to vaccinate healthy infants and toddlers against the flu, but they are concerned about costs, parental vaccine fears and how to...

CDC invests $73 million to improve health information services for the public.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the award of a 7-year, $73 million contract to provide a single point of contact for consumers and health professionals to access...

Exenatide new drug application accepted for review by the FDA.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (AMLN) and Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY) announced that the new drug application (NDA) for exenatide has been accepted for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....

Cilansetron NDA granted priority review for IBS with diarrhea predominance.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing and granted priority review of the company's new drug application (NDA) for cilansetron,...

Agency gets guilty pleas.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that two Cincinnati, Ohio-area prescription-drug wholesalers pled guilty in United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for...

Biopharmaceutical company updates enzyme-related U.S. patent litigation.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (TKTX) announced that Applied Research Systems ARS Holding N.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Serono International S.A., served TKT with an amended complaint that was filed...

Listeria innocua strains with L. monocytogenes genes reported.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have discovered natural atypical Listeria innocua strains with Listeria monocytogenes pathogenicity island 1 genes. According to published research from the United States,...

FDA will allow trials for the use of ThermoDox with RFA for liver cancer.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Celsion Corp. (CLN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will allow the human clinical trial for its investigational therapy for the treatment of liver cancer to proceed. The...

Lung carcinogenesis in hamsters is inhibited by green tea.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neuroendocrine lung carcinogenesis in hamsters is inhibited by green tea or theophylline while the development of adenocarcinomas is promoted. According to published research from the United States,...

Identifying tick genes could halt disease, bioterrorism threat.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ticks as small as a freckle can transmit a number of illnesses for which there is no vaccine and, in some cases, no cure. These creatures even could become bioterrorism weapons. To find new ways to...

Confidence in Visudyne's potential reiterated for macular degeneration.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- QLT Inc. (NASDAQ: QLTI; TSX: QLT) reiterated its confidence in Visudyne's potential in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The company also reiterated its 2004 guidance of...

Math model studies effect of environmental fluctuations on malignant malaria.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A mathematical model studies the effect of environmental fluctuations on the incidence of malignant malaria. "This paper aims to reveal the hidden structure of the disease curve involved in the...

Company gets FDA clearance to add digital mammography to PACS.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- DR Systems, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared DR Systems' PACS (picture archiving and communication systems) for diagnostic reading of digital mammography...

Company gets additional U.S. FDA clearance for neonatal, pediatric nasal device.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vapotherm, Inc., a privately held manufacturer of respiratory care devices for hospital and home care use, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510k clearance for its 2000i in neonatal,...

German company gets U.S. patent for artificial heart insert method, device.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The patent (U.S. Patent No 6,764,508) claims a method for inserting an implant, such as a biological or artificial heart valve, into the human organism, as well as a special device for carrying out this...

Little-known FDA labs push medical devices to their limits.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- William Pritchard, MD, painstakingly threads a thin tube deep into his sedated patient's beating heart, and then, in a radical move, pushes a hair-sized needle out of the tube and deliberately punctures...

Lumbar treatment device manufacturer disagrees with FDA panel's recommendation.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- St. Francis Medical Technologies, Inc. (SFMT) said it strongly disagrees with the recommendation made August 31 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Devices...

Maker of implantable artificial heart seeks approval for commercial model.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The maker of the first self-contained replacement heart is seeking approval to begin marketing the product for use on thousands of heart disease patients who are at a high risk of death. If...

Diagnostic systems maker receives U.S. FDA clearance on antibacterial test label.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- TREK Diagnostic Systems recently received 510K clearance on Telithromycin for Sensititre MIC susceptibility plates. TREK Diagnostic Systems is the first susceptibility test manufacturer of dry...

Coronis 5MP Mammo technology receives FDA 510k approval.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Barco has obtained U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its cutting-edge Coronis 5MP Mammo display system. The FDA 510k approval denotes that the Coronis 5MP Mammo product,...

Many patients never tell doctors they underuse medications because of costs.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About one-third of chronically ill adults who underuse medications because of the costs associated with buying the drugs, never tell their health care practitioners, according to new research. ...

Growing numbers of colleges vaccinating against deadly brain disease.
October 3, 2004... 2004 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Andy Marso was just weeks from graduating at the top of his journalism class at the University of Kansas in April when his roommate found him unable to move from his bed and took him to the student...