A Pill a Day May or May Not Work. Check Your Genes
20 March 2015
Whether or not you get the benefit of decreased colorectal cancer risk by taking aspirin may come down to the variants you have at two spots in your genome, as GenomeWeb has reported.
Diabetes research advocacy groups call for better insulin pump regulation
20 March 2015
The American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes have published a statement calling for the adoption of improved and harmonized safety standards for insulin pumps. The joint statement appears in the April issue of the journal Diabetes Care.
The top 15 pharma companies by 2014 revenue
20 March 2015
The names at the very top of our yearly list of biggest pharma companies are no surprise. Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ), Novartis ($NVS), Roche ($RHHBY) and Pfizer ($PFE) have headed up the rankings for a couple of years now, albeit in varying order. But toward the bottom of the top 10, there's been a changing of the guard.
Intensive Care Gets Friendlier with Apps, Devices
19 March 2015
Hospitals are redesigning intensive care units to make them safer and less dehumanizing, with a new focus on engaging families and patients in decisions.
India plans adverse effects monitoring regime for medical devices
19 March 2015
India's health ministry has plans to create the nation's first system for monitoring the adverse effects of medical devices. Up to now, health authorities have relied on data supplied by the world's developed countries.
Big Three Asia pharma markets poised to soar in 2015, reports say
19 March 2015
Vaccine Development and Production Challenges Manufacturers
19 March 2015
Vaccines are front-page news these days. Researchers are advancing new vaccines for Ebola and other devastating diseases, while manufacturers work with FDA to bring to market new products to combat dangerous infections and strategies to improve supplies of seasonal influenza shots.
Biopharmaceutical Sector Leads the Way in Clinical Trial Data Sharing
18 March 2015
Effective and responsible sharing of clinical trial data continues to expand scientific discourse and discovery, as we have chronicled here on the Catalyst.
U.K. looks to FDA 'breakthrough' status for inspiration in regulatory revamp
18 March 2015
The United Kingdom government has established the scope of the hotly anticipated review into the development and reimbursement of drugs. And the independent panel is being tasked with looking beyond the U.K.'s borders for inspiration, with an analysis of what can be learnt from FDA's "breakthrough" designation on its to-do list.
Google adds Tute database to burgeoning Genomics platform
18 March 2015
Google ($GOOG) has added another publicly available database to its growing Genomics platform. The latest deal sees Google Genomics host Tute Genomics' repository of 8.5 billion annotations of genetic variants, giving users another resource to probe with the tech giant's growing arsenal of data integration tools.
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