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03/17/10 Nova Century Scientific to market and sell Diamedix’ products in Canada
IVAX Diagnostics, Inc. (AMEX:IVD), a fully integrated global invitro diagnostics company, announced that its subsidiary, Diamedix Corporation, has signed a distribution agreement with Nova Century Scientific (“Nova”), a leading Canadian distributor and manufacturer of diagnostic kits and laboratory supplies. Through this agreement, which marks IVAX Diagnostics’ entry into the Canadian market, Nova will market and sell 50 of Diamedix’s products, including analyzer instrumentation, under the Diamedix brand. Nova distributes products to hospitals, clinical laboratories and research institutions across Canada, and is a subsidiary of IMMCO Diagnostics, Inc. 03/17/10 Access MediQuip enhances Recall Management Service for implantable devices Access MediQuip, LLC, the nation's first and largest provider of outsourced implantable medical device management solutions to the healthcare industry, announced today it has enhanced its proprietary Recall Management Service, "RMS," for its customers nationwide. The new release is designed to protect patients, inform and empower surgeons and facilities, and help payers improve quality while managing cost. 03/17/10 AstraZeneca's CRESTOR: Health Canada approves new indication Approval based on JUPITER trial which demonstrated reduction of cardiovascular events by nearly half Top Category's Bestsellers
InflammationInflammation is a complex, local or generalized pathological process that is a result of an injury or the effect of a pathogenic irritant that is manifested in the following clinical reactions:
The inflammation process starts by widening of the vessels, through that the blood supply is increased, the blood flow decreases and as a result the tissue becomes red, local increase in temperature due to the above follows. After that the penetrability of the vessels increases leading to exudation of leukocytes, macrophages and plasma into the injured tissue swelling, that through compressing the nerve endings causes pain and abnormal functioning. The inflammation is regulated by the inflammatory mediators histamine, serotonin and others. The process of forming of free radicals is intensified in the damaged tissue. There are several forms of inflammation:
Any kind of inflammation in its development goes through 3 stages that are expressed differently in each case:
Accordingly we can divide:
Many disease can manifest in inflammation they should be treated properly and on time. Category News
08/04/09 - Links between major depression and coronary artery disease studied
Major depression and coronary artery disease are only modestly related throughout an individual’s lifetime, but studying how the two interact over time and in twin pairs paints a more complex picture of the associations between the conditions, accor
05/01/09 - Research looks at UVB therapy for psoriasis
Ultraviolet light is a proven treatment for psoriasis, one of humanity's oldest known diseases.
05/01/09 - Many patients in intensive care are deficient in vitamin D
Australian researchers have discovered that many critically ill patients in intensive care are deficient in vitamin D.
04/28/09 - Benfotiamene, a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1, could treat common cause of blindness
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a form of vitamin B1 could become a new and effective treatment for one of the world's leading causes of blindness.
11/14/08 - Rosuvastatin trial shows dramatic reduction in hidden heart disease
A Harvard-led study shows that the risk of heart attack and stroke among subjects with "silent heart disease"- and normal cholesterol levels - can be dramatically reduced by the use of an already widely prescribed class of drugs. |
