Copenhagen, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - - Twice as Many People With Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Would Accept Insulin if Offered Exubera, Even in Countries Where Pens are Commonly Used, Additional Study Shows - Patients With Diabetes Gained Less Weight With Exubera Than With Injectable ...
Shire Pharmaceuticals Group Plc
Basingstoke, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - Not for Distribution in the United States The first anti-anaemia treatment produced in a human cell line, DYNEPO(R) (epoetin delta), can effectively control anaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD[x]) according to two Phase III studies presented for the first time today.(1),(2) Patients with kidney ...
Luxembourg (ots/PRNewswire) - Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ:GEMP), a world leading player in the secure card industry and a subsidiary of Gemalto N.V. (Euronext NL0000400653 - GTO), announces today that it no longer expects to meet its financial performance outlook for 2006. The Company cited market conditions that will remain challenging and uncertainties in the global economic environment. Because of the level of its integration ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - WSJ/Professor Pedro Nueno: "The drug could encourage diabetes sufferers to get treatment earlier and more often. This has such a tremendous advantage for a huge number of people worldwide. It is a real breakthrough." - PharmaBarometer: "Despite only being launched into the German market in May 2006, it has been immediately ...
Gateshead, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Medify Solutions Limited (Pink Sheets - MFYS), today received partner approval to release the current forward order book. These figures include all current and forward sales for both the UK and European operations. Medify Solutions Limited is contracted to deliver the MedifyRemote application to the UK and the Italian ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Medify Solutions Limited (Pink Sheets - MFYS) today issued the latest investors update. The update is available to view on the company's website, www.medifysolutions.com under the latest news section. Company website : www.medifysolutions.com This news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results ...
Macclesfield, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - www.novelneuroprotection.com Aims to Increase Understanding of Acute Ischemic Stroke and the Potential Role of Neuroprotection - For Medical Media Only A new resource for the international medical community was launched in September 2006 by AstraZeneca, www.novelneuroprotection.com. This educational site aims to help healthcare professionals understand more about ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the international STEEPLE trial (Safety and Efficacy of Enoxaparin in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI): An International Randomized Evaluation), which showed that a single intravenous bolus of enoxaparin of 0.5 mg/kg is associated ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Mobile Access to Clinical Data now Available on BlackBerry Devices Medify Solutions Limited (Pink Sheets - MFYS) today announced that its product portfolio will be available on BlackBerry(R) handsets. The MedifyRemote application allows mobile access to patient notes and clinical systems in real time, helping doctors and nurses to provide better, more efficient and more ...
Sanofi-aventis; Bristol-Myers Squibb
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - - PLAVIX indication expanded to include patients with any acute coronary syndromes (ACS) - Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced today that the European Commission has granted a new indication for the antiplatelet ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Heart Disease Patients who Were at a Very High Risk for Having a Second Heart Attack and Took Lipitor 80mg Had a 46 Percent Reduction in the Risk of Experiencing Additional Heart Attacks Compared With Patients Taking Simvastatin - Investigator: 'These data suggest the benefit ...
Provide Benefit of Improved Mood Disturbance for People With Restless Legs Syndrome GLASGOW, Scotland (ots) - - FOR HEALTHCARE JOURNALISTS (For media outside the US only) - New Data Shows pramipexole is an Effective Treatment Option for the Broad Range of RLS Symptoms During Both the Night and Daytime New data indicate that when treated with pramipexole (Sifrol(R)/Mirapexin(R)), ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Treatment for Years to Have Shown a Significant Survival Benefit for Patients Roche announced today that it has requested a re-examination of the data supporting the filing of their breakthrough cancer medicine, Tarceva, for the treatment of pancreatic cancer ...
Hospital Pitie Salpetriere-Institut du coeur
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - Results of the multinational, prospective, observational RIVIERA registry (Registry on IntraVenous anticoagulation In the Elective and primary Real world of Angioplasty) announced today at the World Congress of Cardiology 2006- joint meeting of the European Society of ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Lipitor Reduces Risk of Major Cardiovascular Events Such as Heart Attacks in People With Heart Disease and With a Cluster of Other Major Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Often Referred to as Metabolic Syndrome, New Analysis Shows - Heart Disease Patients With Metabolic Syndrome who Took Lipitor 80mg Dose Reduced Their Risk of Major Cardiovascular Events by Nearly 30 ...
Barcelona (ots/PRNewswire) - - Results of the PCI-ExTRACT Sub-Study Results of the PCI-ExTRACT-TIMI 25 study announced today at the World Congress of Cardiology-European Society of Cardiology 2006 in Barcelona, showed that among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who ...
Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - - Coversyl(R) in PEP-CHF Trial, is the First Agent to Demonstrate Clinical Benefits in Elderly Heart Failure Patients With Diastolic Dysfunction The ACE inhibitor Coversyl(R) (perindopril) provides a number of clinical benefits to elderly people with chronic heart failure according to the results of a study presented at ...
Edmonton, Alberta (ots/PRNewswire) - - Isotechnika Inc. announced today promising results from its Phase I TAFA93 trials. TAFA93, a pro-drug of rapamycin, is a novel small molecule mTOR inhibitor, which is a class of drugs currently used in the prevention of organ rejection in transplantation. mTOR inhibitors are typically used in combination with ...
The Alliance for Better Bone Health
Paris, France (ots/PRNewswire) - - Male Osteoporosis: Neglected and Under Treated PARIS, France, August 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week approved Actonel(R) 35mg (risedronate sodium tablets) for 'treatment to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis'. This follows the positive outcome in July 2006 of the European application for the additional indication of ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - - TMC125 a Next-Generation NNRTI Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd. presented 48 week efficacy and safety data on TMC125, a next-generation non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), at the 16th International AIDS conference (IAC), AIDS 2006, in Toronto, Canada this week. TMC125 is currently being investigated in phase 3 trials (DUET 1 and 2) in treatment-experienced adult ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - New data on tipranavir oral solution from a Phase II dose finding study in 115 HIV-1 infected children aged 2 to 18 years were announced today at the 16th International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Toronto, Canada. Results from this 48-week analysis show that patients achieved virologic ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - FUZEON Combined With New Protease Inhibitors Provides Best Hope for Patients who Have Been Battling Resistant Virus During the world's largest HIV/AIDS congress in Toronto (XVI International AIDS Conference) new guidelines from the influential International AIDS ...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - - Joint Keynote at AIDS Conference Highlights Need to Accelerate Research on New HIV Prevention Tools - Especially Microbicides - to Empower Women Bill and Melinda Gates today called upon world leaders to "put the power to prevent HIV in the hands of women" by accelerating the search for microbicides and other new HIV prevention ...
Bunnik, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - AM-Pharma B.V., a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the pre-clinical and early clinical development of novel compounds to treat infectious and inflammatory diseases, announces the issuance of the patent for one of its lead products, the antimicrobial peptide hLF1-11, ...
Cape Town, South Africa (ots/PRNewswire) - "We can really do something to change the world," says Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "I think not being able to see is one of the most debilitating disabilities in our world today," Archbishop Tutu said at the launching of Christian Blind Mission's worldwide "100,000 Miracles" campaign at an International Press Conference held ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Medify Solutions Limited Today Announced the Appointment of Gayle E. Hanlon, as its Group Company Secretary Effective 1 August 2006. Ms. Hanlon, a US business lawyer representing several German and Swiss corporations in their respective international corporate, commercial ...
Gateshead, England (ots/PRNewswire) - From the 1st July 2006 Ian O'Reilly was appointed the Group CEO of the Medify Solutions (OTC: MFYS) group of companies. One month into the role, O'Reilly provides the following assessment as to the state of the business. "It has been obvious from the outset of my involvement with Medify that massive potential exists for the Company, the products and this emerging market. Having ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - Over the past month, Medify Solutions Limited (OTC: MFYS) has conducted a full and extensive review of its commercial model being operated and going forward in the UK, European and global markets. This exercise has examined the various options that exist in the market, with the prime focus of adopting the one which shows the greatest ...
Burcon NutraScience Corporation
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Burcon NutraScience Corporation (TSX-V: BU) announces today that it has entered into material transfer agreements with some of the world's foremost food and beverage companies. The material transfer agreements will enable Burcon to provide samples of Burcon's proteins; ...
Gateshead, England (ots/PRNewswire) - On the 1st September 2006, Medify Solutions Limited will roll out its 'remote access to patient notes' product, MedifyRemote, to its National Health Service (NHS) customers. The first NHS site, as published previously , will be in Doncaster in the north of England. This ...