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Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conditional approval for an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application to initiate the pivotal trial to evaluate the Tryton Side Branch Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
Bone and liver metastases may have the heaviest impact on the survival of patients receiving targeted therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma, suggest data from the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium.
For decades the amyloid hypothesis has dominated the research field in Alzheimer's disease. The theory describes how an increase in secreted beta-amyloid peptides leads to the formation of plaques, toxic clusters of damaged proteins between cells, which eventually result in neurodegeneration. Scientists at Lund University, Sweden, have now presented a study that turns this premise on its head.
A comprehensive system of vaccine development in the U.S. resulted in a reduction of 87 to more than 99 percent in illness from ten vaccine-preventable diseases during the twentieth century. These dramatic successes should not be taken for granted, however, as the vaccine system now faces numerous challenges in manufacturing and development, according to a review article in the May/June issue of Health Affairs.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has been awarded a $738,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop a breathalyzer-type device to detect the onset of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar episodes, in people with diabetes.
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