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LIONVILLE, Pa., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- West (NYSE: WST), a leading global developer and manufacturer of components and systems for injectable drug delivery, announces the commercial introduction of its B.safe(TM) syringe safety system. West acquired the IP and rights to this system in 2011 and has completed the product development and first phase of commercial scale-up at its safety systems manufacturing center in France. Significant scale-up to high-volume manufacturing will...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Needles are used by acupuncturists for therapeutic purposes, and new research shows that a specially developed needle can help treat illnesses related to the eye. The microneedles could be used to treat diseases like macular degeneration that hurts tissues in the back of the eyes. The research will be especially beneficial for the elderly population who have an eye-related disease as pharmaceutical companies who are working on creating...
CARY, N.C., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Covis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that Zantac® (ranitidine hydrochloride) Injection is once again widely available for therapeutic use throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The company launched last year as a distributor for a product portfolio that addresses life threatening and other serious medical conditions in the cardiovascular, central nervous system and acute care markets. "Covis was formed to reliably provide...
Seven Dutch women suffering from osteoporosis received bone-strengthening medication from implanted microchips as part of a first-of-its kind study of wirelessly controlled drug-releasing devices, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science Translational Medicine. According to Lauran Neergaard of the Associated Press (AP), the study, which was funded by Massachusetts-based implantable drug delivery device developer MicroCHIPS, Inc and headed up by MIT professors Robert...
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ouchless® Needle by BellaNovus Development Company LLC, a medical design and manufacturing company, announces that Dr. Mariano Busso is the latest in a growing list of physicians nationwide to announce the adoption of its use for cosmetic injections. Dr. Busso is on the forefront of this innovative, emerging technology that minimizes localized pain resulting from cosmetic injections. Ouchless® Needle is a disposable...
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and BERLIN, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Bayer HealthCare today announced that in an integrated analysis of two parallel Phase 3 studies (VIEW 1 and VIEW 2) in patients with the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), patients treated with EYLEA(TM) (aflibercept) Injection For Intravitreal Injection showed a sustained improvement in visual acuity at 96 weeks versus baseline. The 52-week...
UC historian Wendy Kline will present her case study research on coercive birth control used as a form of eugenics. She will present that research at an international conference in Europe on Nov. 11. Eugenics – the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined to past centuries and decades, nor to locales outside the United States. That’s the finding of recent research by University of Cincinnati historian Wendy Kline,...
YORK, Pa., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Unilife Corporation ("Unilife" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: UNIS; ASX: UNS) today announced the development of a unique proprietary range of auto-injectors for the self-administration of injectable drugs by patients outside of healthcare facilities. Developed for use in conjunction with Unifill prefilled syringes, Unifill Auto-Injectors are compact in size and enable patients to inject a fixed dose of medication with the simple push of a button,...
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BellaNovus Development Company LLC, a medical design and manufacturing company, today announced its launch of the Ouchless(TM) Needle Collection. The devices provide doctors and other clinicians an innovative alternative to numbing creams and ice currently used to minimize localized pain resulting from cosmetic injectables, such as Botox® and dermal fillers. Offered in three models, Ouchless(TM) Needle is a disposable syringe-attachable...
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology Catalysts International (TCI), leading global consultants to the pharmaceutical industry, announced that research on trends and development in drug delivery have identified parenteral depots as key to reformulation of existing drugs with limited patent life, a different pathway for new drug development, and potential to offer a biosimilar product a competitive edge in a crowded pharmaceutical field. In general, biopharmaceuticals...
