Clinical Research

EVOLVE Trial Clinical Results Confirm Data Of The Boston Scientific SYNERGY™ Stent

Follow-up Data from EVOLVE Trial Presented at EuroPCR; Trial is Evaluating Next-Generation Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent with Ultra-Thin Bioabsorbable Abluminal Polymer  ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 15 2012 - 8:00pm

High Uptake In The U.S. Tissue Engineering Market

Increased literature on tissue engineering will accelerate the products' adoption among physicians and patients. Tissue engineering has the ability to hasten the treatment of wounds and other conditions. This procedure's rising popularity as an ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 18 2012 - 1:30am

Convergent Procedure Ablation May Restore Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Patients To Normal Sinus Rhythm

nContact, Inc., a provider of epicardial ablation devices, announced that new long-term physician data demonstrated promising clinical outcomes for the multidisciplinary Convergent Procedure in the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), with ov ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 17 2012 - 3:30pm

Biomarkers Map Path To New Blood Test For Bowel Cancer

A team of Australian scientists has identified new genes that show identifiable changes in the blood of people with bowel cancer. The discovery has the potential to underpin a new cost-effective blood test that would signal the early stages of bowel cance ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2012 - 4:13pm

Diabetes: Positive Results From First Human Clinical Trials Of Artificial Pancreas System

Results from the first feasibility study of an advanced first-generation artificial pancreas system were presented at the American Diabetes Association Meeting in Philadelphia and findings from the study indicated that the Hypoglycemia-Hyperglycemia Minim ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 11:04pm

Statins Linked To Increased Fatigue

A new study has found that individuals taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are more likely than non-users to experience decreased energy, fatigue upon exertion, or both. The researchers suggest that these findings should be taken into account by docto ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2012 - 3:30am

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Monoclonal Antibody Blinatumomab In Patients With Refractory Disease

At the 17th Congress of the European Hematology Association in Amsterdam Professor Max Topp of the University of Wuerzberg in Germany presented results with a bispecific antibody for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia patients.  ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 16 2012 - 4:30am

Awesome: Doctors Remove Tennis Ball-Sized Tumor From Unborn Baby’s Mouth

Sometimes medicine just makes you want to cheer. While still in the womb, doctors of Leyna Gonzalez discovered a benign tumor the size of a tennis ball growing on the unborn baby’s mouth. University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Fetal Therapy Center f ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 21 2012 - 7:04pm

Fruit And Vegetable Juice Concentrate May Improve Insulin Resistance In Overweight Boys

A new study shows that supplementation with an encapsulated fruit and vegetable juice concentrate (Juice Plus+® Orchard Blend and Garden Blend) was associated with an increase in serum beta-carotene concentrations, reduced abdominal adipose tissue and imp ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2012 - 1:40pm

Synthetic Graft Substitute And Gene Therapy Combination Repairs Bones

Researchers have developed a new method of repairing bone using a synthetic bone graft substitute material. Combined with gene therapy, they say it can mimic real bone tissue and has potential to regenerate bone in patients who have lost large areas of bon ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2012 - 11:30pm