The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released new Australian Guideline for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), aimed at lowering the risk of potentially fatal blood clots for adult patients admitted to hospitals.
04/12/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Ambulance Service will be one of the first emergency medical services in the world to trial new portable ultrasound machine Sonosite NanoMaxx.
03/08/2009
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare are testing a new drug, PHA-848125AC, specifically for thymic cancer based on early promising results at Scottsdale Healthcare.
17/12/2009
SCIENTISTS at the National Centre for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers (NCVAC) in conjunction with the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine Wayne State University have announced the use of a new technology to aid in the diagnosis of asbestos-related lung disease.
31/03/2009
Roche has announced that its Phase III clinical trial evaluation of ocrelizumab as a treatment for seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with a previous inadequate response to methotrexate (MTX), has met its primary efficacy endpoint.
14/12/2009
US physicians will soon begin implanting a new medical device to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or conditions that keep them from breathing independently.
30/11/2009
US researchers report that the 2009 H1N1 Influenza virus can damage cells throughout the respiratory airway, as discovered from autopsies of fatal cases. The damage seen is much like that of earlier influenza pandemics in 1918 and 1957.
11/12/2009