Life Sciences & Technology
Medical technology news
AdvaMed SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: Advanced Medical Technology Association
25-year study shows efficacy of Edwards' Perimount device
6/19/2013
- MassDevice.com (Boston)
Edwards Lifesciences' Perimount heart valve, derived from bovine tissue, demonstrated excellent performance in a 25-year study. The study, which looked at patients younger than 60 years who were impla… Read More
News for the biotechnology industry
BIO SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: Biotechnology Industry Organization
Lilly assumes development of Transition's diabetes drug candidate
6/19/2013
- Wall Street Journal, The
Eli Lilly and Co. is exercising a $7 million option to obtain all development and marketing rights to Transition Therapeutics' experimental type 2 diabetes drug TT-401. Transition could get around $24… Read More
News for the food and drug law community
FDLI SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: Food and Drug Law Institute
FDA to use data mining to uncover illegal cigarette sales
6/19/2013
- NextGov
The FDA plans to analyze commercial shipping data from the past six years in order to uncover illegal cigarette sales or sales of counterfeit cigarettes, according to a solicitation from the FDA seeki… Read More
Health care marketing news
SmartBrief for Health Care Marketers
Published in partnership with: Coalition for Health Care Communication
Supreme Court rules that "pay for delay" agreement restrains trade
6/18/2013
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court announced a 5-3 decision in FTC v. Actavis which ends the legal presumption that “pay for delay” agreements among branded and generic drug companies are legal. The… Read More
News about transfusion and cellular therapies
AABB SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: American Association of Blood Banks
HHS issues guidelines for organ donor screening
6/19/2013
- InfectionControlToday.com
- Wall Street Journal, The
HHS on Tuesday released updated guidelines that include recommendations that organ donors be screened for hepatitis B and C as well as for greater use of nucleic acid testing. The guidelines, co-devel… Read More
InVentiv expands investigator recruitment capabilities
6/18/2013
- PharmaTimes (U.K.)
InVentiv Health will tap Medikly's cloud-based platform to help clinical trial sponsors reach physicians interested in acting as investigators or referring patients for trials. Trial sponsors can crea… Read More
News about health care innovation
HIT: Health Innovation Today
Published in partnership with: Greenway Medical Technologies
U.S. making calculated progress on interoperability, Mostashari says
6/12/2013
- Government Health IT online
The U.S. remains a ways off from achieving widespread interoperability where "every encounter and every patient has access to all the world's knowledge," but the nation is making steady progress, Nati… Read More
Diabetes and obesity research news
TRI SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes
Focus obesity interventions on prediabetes, doctor says
5/19/2013
- Healio
Obesity interventions, including lifestyle modification, drugs and bariatric surgery, should focus on people with prediabetes, Dr. W. Timothy Garvey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham told End… Read More
News for the global pharmaceuticals industry
DIA Global SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: Drug Information Association
U.S. Supreme Court: "Pay-for-delay" case may proceed
6/17/2013
- FDALawBlog.net
- PharmaLive.com
- Modern Healthcare (subscription required)
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower-court ruling, allowing the Federal Trade Commission to proceed in its case against Solvay Pharmaceuticals, accused of paying to delay introduction of generic al… Read More
News affecting the tissue bank community
AATB SmartBrief
Published in partnership with: American Association of Tissue Banks
Calif. legislators to decide on egg donation bill
6/18/2013
- Nature (free content)
California's Senate could decide this week whether to approve a bill that would allow payments above direct expenses to women who donate eggs for research purposes. The increase could assist researche… Read More
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