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Isotechnika Inc.

Isotechnika Receives USAN Approval for Generic Name for Lead Immunosuppressive Drug

Edmonton, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Isotechnika Inc. announced today that the Company has received approval from United States Adopted Name (USAN) for naming of its lead immunosuppressive drug, ISA247. The name, voclosporin, is now being reviewed by the International Nonproprietary Name (INN) expert committee. The INN is scheduled to publish the proposed list of ...

Vital Images, Inc.

Vital Images Features 'The Vital Community' at the 2007 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) Conference

Den Haag, Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - - The ViTAL Community highlights relationships empowered by comprehensive enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis solutions, education and services Vital Images Europe, B.V. a leading provider of enterprise-wide advanced visualization and analysis ...

Roche Pharmaceuticals

Roche Launches AnaemiaWorld.com in Recognition of World Kidney Day

Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New global educational resources spotlight renal anaemia, a common under-recognized complication of Chronic Kidney Disease To help support health professionals who play a key role in educating and managing patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Roche today announced the launch of AnaemiaWorld.com, a major new centralized online resource. AnaemiaWorld.com is believed ...

Ansell Healthcare nv

Ansell Healthcare Welcomes Commission's Initiative to Reduce Occupational Accidents in the EU by 25%

Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - Ansell Healthcare, a world leader in barrier protection, welcomes the European Commission's recently announced strategy to reduce occupational accidents and diseases in the European Union by 25% by 2012. Ansell Healthcare, a producer of both medical and industrial gloves, claims that ...

DSM Nutritional Products AG

Protection from osteoporosis - Bone is living tissue

Clinical Solutions

Clinical Solutions Selected for First Portuguese Health Helpline

Basingstoke, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Clinical Solutions, a leading British provider of software solutions to the healthcare market, has been selected to provide call centre management and clinical decision support software for the Portuguese Public Health System. The software will be used by staff manning Portugal's first national health helpline to record patient calls and provide information to aid advice for ...

Fenwal Inc.

Fenwal Launched as Independent Corporation Following Completion of Divestiture From Baxter Healthcare Corporation

Round Lake, Illinois (ots/PRNewswire) - Fenwal Inc. today announced its launch as an independent company. The new corporation is formed upon Baxter Healthcare Corporation completing the sale of its Transfusion Therapies business to Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and Maverick Capital, Ltd. Established by TPG ...

MDS Nordion

MDS Nordion to Expand Facility to Meet Growing Demand for Medical Imaging Agent in Europe

Ottawa, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Expanded Facility in Fleurus, Belgium to be Leading Player in Supply of Glucotrace(R) for Growing Market MDS Nordion, a leading global provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals for molecular imaging, is investing U.S. $5.8 million / (euro) 4.5 million to expand its production facility in Fleurus, Belgium to ...

AstraZeneca GmbH

Fourth Phase III Study of Vandetanib (ZACTIMA(TM), ZD6474) in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

Alderley Park, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - A Phase III international, parallel group, randomised, double-blind study of vandetanib in combination with pemetrexed for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after failure of first line anti-cancer therapy AstraZeneca today announced that a new Phase ...

Pfizer AG

Danish Court Issues Preliminary Injunction That Prohibits Sale of Generic Lipitor Product

New York (ots/PRNewswire) - Pfizer Inc said today that a Danish court has granted a preliminary injunction against Nomeco A/S -- the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in Denmark -- that prohibits the sale of a generic version of Lipitor by generics manufacturer Ranbaxy. The injunction, issued by the Bailiff's Court of the Copenhagen City Court in Denmark and ...

Pfizer AG

Celebrex Label Extended for New Use in Europe

New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Celebrex to be Available in Europe for the Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis, a Debilitating Form of Arthritis Pfizer Inc announced today that 17 European countries agreed to extend the Celebrex (celecoxib capsules) label to include symptomatic relief in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (in adults), a form of arthritis that affects the spine. Once each country updates ...

CBMI Canada

Goaaaaaaaaal! Soccer Star Drogba Shoots for UN Millennium Development Goals

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - Côte d'Ivoire soccer star Didier Drogba, currently top scorer in the English Premiership and the European Champions League, has become the latest football great to shoot for the United Nations. He will seek to score a different kind of goal in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals. Drogba, who plays for Chelsea F.C. of the ...

IsoTis OrthoBiologics

IsoTis Reports Preliminary 2006 and Q4 Revenue

Irvine, California (ots/PRNewswire) - - Update on Recent Events IsoTis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISOT), the orthobiologics company, today reported preliminary unaudited revenues for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2006. Revenue was approximately US$10 million (unaudited) for the fourth quarter of 2006, representing a 16% increase over revenue of the fourth quarter of 2005. For the full year 2006, ...

sanofi-aventis Group

Sanofi pasteur to License Single Dose Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine From Acambis

Lyon, France (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Vaccine Will Help Improve Public Health in Japanese Encephalitis Endemic Countries Sanofi pasteur, the vaccines business of the sanofi-aventis Group, announced today it has entered into an agreement with Acambis plc to license a single dose vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), ChimeriVaxTM-JE, to help improve ...

Pfizer AG

Pfizer's Maraviroc to Receive Accelerated Regulatory Reviews in the U.S. and Europe

New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - If Approved, Maraviroc will be the First in a New Class of Medications Available for HIV Treatment Pfizer announced today that marketing authorization applications for maraviroc will receive accelerated review in both the United States and Europe. Accelerated reviews are granted to potential medicines that, if approved, would ...

Prionics AG

Prionics gets extended permission for Parachek®: USDA approves a Johne's disease test for bovine milk for the first time

Zurich (ots) - Prionics, a world leader in farm animal diagnostics, has received approval for the extended use of its Johne's disease test Parachek®. With the original test kit for the diagnosis of paratuberculosis, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has for the first time officially validated ...

Roche Pharmaceuticals

"Know Your Kidneys!" Roche Supports Launch of World Kidney Day Quiz to Test Public's Kidney IQ

Basel (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Worldwide Test of Public's Knowledge About Kidneys On-line Quiz Launches Today Our kidneys are amazing organs that play a crucial role in keeping us alive and well - but how much do we really know about them and do we know what can happen if disease sets in? This is the ...

Abbott Laboratories

Abbott to Initiate First Study to Evaluate XIENCE(TM) V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System in Treatment of Women With Cardiovascular Disease

Abbott Park, Illinois (ots/PRNewswire) - - First-of-its-Kind Study Designed to Learn More About Cardiovascular Disease in Women Abbott today announced plans to initiate the world's first drug-eluting stent clinical trial solely in women. The SPIRIT WOMEN trial will aim to increase understanding of how ...

Alicon AG

BSE: How risky is it to drink milk?

Prion proteins found in commercial milk Schlieren (ots) - In a first-time global breakthrough, a Swiss start-up firm has succeeded in detecting prion proteins in the milk of humans, cows, sheep, and goats. This again raises the question of a "mad cow disease" risk from drinking milk. Tests are underway to verify disease-causing prions in milk. Prions are known to be causes of neurological conditions such as Mad ...

Boehringer Ingelheim

Data Published in AIDS Show Viramune(R) (nevirapine) Achieves Durable Benefit in Switch Patients

Ingelheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Long-term data from the Nevirapine/Efavirenz/Abacavir (NEFA) study demonstrate that patients who switched from a protease inhibitor-based regimen to a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-based regimen containing Viramune(R) (nevirapine) or efavirenz achieved comparable efficacy and safety to their previous regimen ...

Perceptronix Medical Inc.

Perceptronix Collaborates With BC Cancer Agency on Early Oral Cancer Detection Project

Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Perceptronix Medical Inc. ("Perceptronix") today announced its participation in a research project to detect early oral cancer lesions through a new initiative inside the BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program. This Program is bringing together a network of dentists, researchers and technology companies to develop early screening ...

IsoTis OrthoBiologics

IsoTis, Inc. Files Registration Statement for Public Offering

Irvine, California (ots/PRNewswire) - IsoTis, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISOT), the orthobiologics company, announced today that it has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public offering of its common stock. The lead underwriter for the offering is Thomas Weisel Partners LLC. William Blair & Company is acting as co-manager. The offering will be made only by means ...

Medify Solutions Ltd.

Dextra Solutions in MedifyRemote(TM) Partnership

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - Dextra Solutions, part of the 20:20 Mobile Group, announce the beginning of shipments under a new fulfilment partnership signed with Medify Solutions Limited. Dextra Solutions, the UK's largest independent reseller of mobile accessories and airtime packages, has today confirmed the despatch of the first MedifyRemote(TM) units to NHS General Practitioners. MedifyRemote(TM) is the first ...

Roche Pharmaceuticals

New Phase III Data Highlights Excellent Efficacy of Roche's Cancer Drugs Xeloda and Avastin for Treatment of Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Phase III Data Presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Symposium (ASCO GI) continue to demonstrate the excellent efficacy of two of Roche's innovative cancer drugs Xeloda and Avastin, which offer improved survival for patients ...