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 Providence Valdez Medical Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 911 Meals Avenue, Valdez, Alaska 99686 Ratings: Phone: (907) 834-1825 |
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Researchers document pathological progress of multiple sclerosis
The Centre for Brain Research at the MedUni Vienna is regarded as a world leader in researching the mechanisms involved with multiple sclerosis (MS). Now, in a paper published in the highly respected journal Lancet Neurology, an international team of researchers from Edinburgh, Cleveland and Vienna, under the leadership of Hans Lassmann, Head of the Department of Neuroimmunology at the MedUni Vienna, has for the first time documented the pathological progress of the disease from its early to late stage and also shown that inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes have a role to play.
Maintenance and Facility Management Software to be integrated with Wi-Fi RFID solution
Ultimo Software Solutions today announced that it is partnering with AeroScout to integrate its Maintenance and Facility Management Software, which includes inventory and work order administration, with AeroScout's Wi-Fi RFID solution.
New data from VOYAGE 2 trial shows promising results for Janssen's guselkumab treatment
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today new data that showed a vast majority of patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis receiving TREMFYA (guselkumab), who achieved at least a 90 percent improvement in the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI 90) at week 28, maintained a PASI 90 response with continuous treatment through week 72.
Novel therapy gets FDA approval for patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Today, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a novel therapy for patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma – the most common form of pancreatic cancer – whose disease has progressed following gemcitabine-based therapy, offering new hope against a disease that will claim the lives of more than 40,000 individuals this year.
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