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Surgeons Drive Plate And Screw Market To Over $170 Million In Japan By 2014

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the Japanese plate and screw market will be driven by strong surgeon acceptance and adoption, driving this market to over $170 million by 2014...
09/03/2010

Allergan Resolves United States Government Investigation Of Past Sales And Marketing Practices Relating To Certain Therapeutic Uses Of BOTOX(R)

Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN) announced that it has reached a resolution with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the previously reported Government investigation into Allergan's past U.S. sales and marketing practices relating to certain therapeutic uses of BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA)...
09/03/2010

Hospital For Special Surgery Is Once Again The Only New York Hospital With Surgical Site Infection Rate Significantly Lower Than State Average

For the second year in a row, Hospital for Special Surgery is the only hospital in New York State with an infection rate that is significantly lower than the state average for hip replacement or revision surgeries, according to the 2009 report on hospital infection rates released today by the State Department of Health...
09/02/2010

Important Breakthrough In Origins Of Aggressive Breast Cancer

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in finding out how aggressive cancers originate, raising hope of novel targeted therapies for future breast cancer patients, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell...
09/03/2010

Two Scientists Behind Suit To Block Stem-Cell Research Funding Speak With Lawmakers

The Wall Street Journal: "The two scientists behind the lawsuit that has temporarily blocked federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research said Wednesday they were motivated by ethical objections to destroying human embryos for medical research...
09/03/2010

Cardiogenesis Comments On The STAR-Heart Study Presented At European Society Of Cardiology (ESC) 2010 Congress

Cardiogenesis Corporation (OTCQB: CGCP), released comments regarding the STAR-heart study...
09/03/2010

U.N.-NGO Meeting Concludes With Participants Calling On World Leaders To Do More For MDGs

A group of more than 350 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concluded a U.N. forum in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday with a call for world leaders to step up their commitments to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Rose, 9/1). "In a wide-ranging declaration adopted at the end of the three-day meeting ...
09/03/2010

IPS Examines Agricultural Funding In Africa

Inter Press Service examines how some African countries are benefiting from the global agriculture fund the G8 pledged $22 billion to in July 2009...
09/03/2010

International Experts Gather To Address Pressing Threats To Food Security

From catastrophic floods in Pakistan that have left millions homeless and hungry to the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, relief efforts are under way in many parts of the world where disasters have brought food crises along with destruction...
09/03/2010