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Carestream wins the Asia Pacific Market Leadership Award, 2013
Frost & Sullivan has awarded Carestream Health for the Digital & Computed Radiography Market. Carestream’s DRX technology takes care of the clinical needs and financial capacities.
Analog Devices India to conduct live webinar on healthcare vital signs monitoring trends
Analog Devices, Inc (ADI), a world leader in semiconductors for high-performance signal processing applications and RFICs, will conduct a seminar on “Vital Signs Monitoring” for the healthcare market.
GE Healthcare’s 2012 Cell Imaging Competition – voting opens to celebrate art, science and discovery
GE Healthcare Life Sciences, a business unit of GE Healthcare GE recently announced that voting for the 2012 Cell Imaging Competition is now open at gelifesciences.com/cellimagecompetition. Scientists and the wider public are invited to choose …
Singapore to host world health summit regional meeting in 2013, focusing on health issues in Asia
In a unique collaboration between Government and the Academia,Singapore will host its first World Health Summit (WHS) regional meeting in 2013, putting health high on the agenda inAsiaand the world.
Quintiles and dabl team to advance cardiovascular safety assessment
dabl Ltd and Quintiles recently announced a strategic alliance that significantly enhances Quintiles’ suite of offerings in cardiovascular safety assessment.
Through the alliance, Quintiles’ customers worldwide will have access to dabl’s round-the-clock ambulatory blood pressure measurement …
Glasgow honoured in unveiling of world’s most advanced 3D model of the human foot
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) worked in partnership with colleagues at Maastricht University and Danish biomechanical firm AnyBody Technology to develop a human foot simulation and unveiled it at Europe recently.
The Glasgow/Maastricht Foot Model …
ABLE, DUKE and OSHL conduct workshop on meeting the challenges of developing new anticancer therapies
Cancers are the leading cause of deaths in almost all countries and all public and private pharma and biotechnology research agencies and companies normally have anti-cancer therapies as one of their areas of interest. Cancer …
Diabetes drug promises cure for Alzheimer’s
A new study has found that a drug used to treat diabetes could have a positive effect on curing Alzheimer’s. Scientists have shown that the drug could help control the cellular damage caused to the brain due to Alzheimer’s, with the use of diabetes management drugs.
Controversial low calorie diets can have long-term benefits
An academic review has suggested that short-spell diets where individuals eat 800 calories or less per day can have long-term benefits. Researchers at Robert Gordon University (RGU), Aberdeen, have reviewed over 30 studies, which investigate …
Piramal Imaging & IBA molecular sign global agreement
Piramal Imaging SA and IBA Molecular have announced an agreement whereby IBA Molecular will manufacture and distribute 18F-Florbetaben in the European and US markets. 18 F – Florbetaben is a radiopharmaceutical currently in development for use with positron emission tomography for the detection of beta-Amyloid plaque deposition in the brain, a pathological feature associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurologic conditions.

