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Plastikos introduces COC cartridge components for drug delivery market
The Erie, Pennsylvania-based custom injection molder and mold-making sister companies, Plastikos Inc. and Micro Mold, respectively, have successfully commercialized disposable cartridge components made of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) for wearable drug delivery devices for medications such as insulin and pain […]
Brain’s habit and decision-making circuits identified in a study
An international team of researchers, led by Christina Gremel, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California San Diego, worked with a mouse model to demonstrate what happens in the brain for habits to control behavior.Senior authors on the […]
First US case of bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic
US health officials expressed grave concern as they report the country’s first case of a patient with an infection resistant to a last-resort antibiotic and that the superbug could pose serious danger for routine infections if it spreads. Thomas Frieden, […]
Tobacco products’ plain packaging can reduce demand, save lives – WHO
According to WHO and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Secretariat (WHO FCTC), the recent introduction of plain (standardized) packaging of tobacco products can save lives by reducing demand for tobacco products. The plain packaging of tobacco products restricts […]
GSK’s Strimvelis gains approval as gene therapy for kids with rare disorder
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Fondazione Telethon (Telethon) and Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR) announced has been approved by the European Commission as the first ex-vivo stem cell gene therapy to treat patients with a very rare disease called ADA-SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency due […]
New electro-cured adhesives may be a game-changer
Adhesive may change the game in various manufacturing fields that range from biological implants to automobiles, according to researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Assistant Professor Dr. Terry Steele and his student,Gao Feng, have developed a new adhesive, which […]
Chemotherapy drug oxaliplatincould stop rare pancreatic cancer
Researchers from Mayo Clinic’s Florida and Rochester campuses found that the chemotherapy drug oxaliplatin is effective at stopping the growth of pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma, which is a rare form of pancreatic cancer that has no effective standard of care. […]
Healthcare fund helps save baby girl with rare heart condition
Clarissa Gan was barely three months old when her parents found out that she had a rare heart defect. She was admitted to Gleneagles Kuala Lumpur Hospital in early October 2014 and was diagnosed with Anomalous Left Coronary Artery. In […]
Clariant Healthcare Packaging introduces new Aroma-Can canisters
Clariant, a Switzerland-based global specialty chemicals company, and its Healthcare Packaging unit, is launching a new and improved family of Aroma-Cancanisters to enhance nutritional products by adding a pleasant scent to product packaging. Modeled after Clariant’s desiccant canisters for pharmaceutical […]
Malaysia’s FurleyBioextracts goes to World Cup Tech Challenge finals
One of the four biotech finalists in the 3rd Annual World Cup Tech Challenge organized by Silicon Valley Forum is FurleyBioextractsSdnBhd, a wholly Malaysian owned and operated company. The company will showcase its product, Spray 8®, to a panel of […]
