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Medical Device Packaging Conference, April 28-29, 2014, Alexandria, Virginia
Date: Jan-31-2014The inaugural Medical Device Packaging Conference will take place April 28-29 in Alexandria, Virginia, offering packaging engineers an exclusive opportunity to obtain the most up-to-date information from some of the biggest names in the industry. Conference topics such as regulatory guidelines, UDI requirements, sustainability and sterilization practices and creating easy-to-use packaging for the end user are scheduled and ample networking opportunities will be readily available.
Inaugural Pharmaceutical Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy Conference, April 24-25, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date: Jan-31-2014The first-ever Pharmaceutical Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy Conference is set to take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 24-25, 2014, fulfilling the demand among healthcare marketing professionals for an industry-specific meeting featuring top leaders and latest trends in the pharmaceutical space.
Inaugural Pharmaceutical Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy Conference, April 24-25, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date: Jan-31-2014The first-ever Pharmaceutical Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy Conference is set to take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 24-25, 2014, fulfilling the demand among healthcare marketing professionals for an industry-specific meeting featuring top leaders and latest trends in the pharmaceutical space.
Pharmaceutical Regulatory Writing & Submissions Management Conference, May 8-9, 2014, Alexandria, Virginia
Date: Jan-31-2014Constructing compliant and comprehensive regulatory submission dossiers for us and global health authorities with a thorough understanding of document content authoring requirements, submission standards through to outsourcing considerations.Program Overview:Pharmaceutical industry medical writers and submission specialist have been tasked with the growing challenge of interpreting and explaining exceedingly large amounts of clinical trial data along with supportable results into readable and easily comprehensible documents for health authority review.
Pharmaceutical Regulatory Writing & Submissions Management Conference, May 8-9, 2014, Alexandria, Virginia
Date: Jan-31-2014Constructing compliant and comprehensive regulatory submission dossiers for us and global health authorities with a thorough understanding of document content authoring requirements, submission standards through to outsourcing considerations.Program Overview:Pharmaceutical industry medical writers and submission specialist have been tasked with the growing challenge of interpreting and explaining exceedingly large amounts of clinical trial data along with supportable results into readable and easily comprehensible documents for health authority review.
NICE gives go ahead to NeoTract's groundbreaking UroLift® prostate implant
Date: Jan-31-2014NeoTract, Inc., has announced that the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued an Interventional Procedure Guidance (IPG) approving the UroLift prostatic urethral lift implant for use by UK doctors. The NICE guidance was made following consultations with independent clinical experts and a literature review.
Stem cell research: New, major EU research grant focused on the development of stem cell-based therapies for neurodegenerative diseases
Date: Jan-31-2014Neurostemcellrepair (European stem cell consortium for neural cell replacement, reprogramming and functional brain repair) is formed to create a world-leading consortium that aims at taking human stem cells through the final steps toward clinical application in cell replacement therapy. Neurostemcellrepair is expected to close the gap between development and clinical implementation of stem cell replacement therapies for Parkinson's Disease (PD) and make significant advance towards stem cell therapy in Huntington's Disease (HD).
Infection control practices not adequately implemented at many hospital ICUs: Study
Date: Jan-31-2014U.S. hospital intensive care units (ICUs) show uneven compliance with infection prevention policies, according to a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Study illuminates how humans digest fibre
Date: Jan-31-2014New insight into how gut bacteria digest fibre could lead to advances in areas as diverse as health and environmentally-friendly biofuels.Fibre is an essential part of a healthful diet, but our ability to benefit from it is entirely dependent the bacteria living in our intestines. An international research team, which included scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, recently uncovered how one group of bacteria digest a major type of dietary fibre.Until now, scientists were not sure exactly how complex sugars known as xyloglucans are broken down in the human gut.
Radiotherapy plus hormone therapy cuts prostate cancer death in half, shows long-term study
Date: Jan-31-2014Combination treatment more than halves mortality rates for prostate cancer, reports Norwegian health journal Dagens Medisin.The figures were presented by Norwegian cancer researcher Sophie Fosså at an international conference sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in San Francisco this week.By adding radiotherapy to the standard hormone treatment against prostate cancer, the 10 to 15 year survival rate for men with prostate cancer more than doubled, according to a long term follow-up study where Dr. Sophie Fosså is lead author.
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