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Creative Enzymes, the world’s leading diagnostic enzyme production company, has been committed to providing customers with various enzyme products and services for medical and research diagnosis. Relying on its professional team and the most advanced technology, as well as high-quality products and services, it has gained a solid reputation. Recently, Creative Enzymes launched a variety of ...
Ascelia Pharma today announced and welcomed the results of independent market research showing that 84% of healthcare professionals will likely use Orviglance for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with cancer in the liver and reduced kidney function. The independently conducted survey asked 270 healthcare professionals in the US (radiologists, oncologists and nephrologists) about ...
PGR is an estrogen-responsive gene and progesterone receptor (PR) expression, evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC), is used as a clinical biomarker of estrogen signaling and estrogen receptor (ER) functionality.1 Despite the well-studied role of PGR as mitogen and independent ER activator, anti-progestins for the treatment of BC have been poorly tested. While limited success for ...
Most people would agree that only looking at your bank account once a year is a bad idea, yet when we look at our own health, the only data many of us collect is from a once-a-year checkup, in which doctors will run a series of laboratory tests. These tests are a single data point describing the very dynamic systems that are our bodies, which change throughout the year. In order to start ...
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On May 31, 2021, Mr. Dominic Barton, Canadian Ambassador to China, accompanied by Consul General Jeff David and trade commissioners from the Canadian Consulate General in Chongqing, visited SWS ...
HistoSonics is pleased to announce that the American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for histotripsy of the liver. Histotripsy of the liver provides clinicians the first automated external beam therapy using acoustic energy to mechanically destroy tissue in the liver without incisions, ionizing radiation or heat. The new CPT code will become ...
HistoSonics announced today that the first patient has been treated as part of the company’s #HOPE4LIVER Europe Trial, which was approved by German authorities earlier in the year. The study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the HistoSonics’ platform technology, which uses the novel science of histotripsy and the mechanical properties of therapeutic focused ...
HistoSonics announced today the treatment of the first patient in the #HOPE4LIVER US Study. The investigational device study was approved by the FDA in the fourth quarter of 2020. The study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the company’s platform technology, which uses the novel science of histotripsy, a form of therapeutic focused ultrasound, to mechanically destroy ...
The liver is unique among organs in its ability to regenerate after being damaged. Exactly how it repairs itself remained a mystery until recently, when researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health discovered a type of cell in mice essential to the process. The researchers also found similar cells in humans. When healthy liver cells are depleted by long-term exposure to toxic ...
Long-term exposure to triclosan, an antimicrobial agent commonly found in a broad array of soaps, shampoos, toothpastes and other consumer products, may have potentially serious health consequences, reports a research team including a UC Davis scientist. Data from a new study shows that triclosan causes liver fibrosis and cancer in laboratory mice through molecular mechanisms that are also ...
Merck today announced plans to initiate a Phase II investigational proof-of-concept clinical study to evaluate its oral antifungal agent posaconazole for the treatment of chronic Chagas disease. Chagas disease results from infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that is spread by biting insects. The disease is estimated to affect approximately eight million people in Latin America, of whom ...