Health

News Hour: University of Michigan researchers on Tuesday said their own experiments undermine recent allegations of security flaws in St. Jude Medical Inc’s pacemakers and other implantable medical devices. Shares of St. Jude fell 5 percent...

News Hour: Sandoz, a Novartis division and the global leader in biosimilars, announced  that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Erelzi (etanercept-szzs) for all indications included in the reference product label, including rheumatoid arthritis...

News Hour: For the first time, national data on 30-day mortality for patients with breast and lung cancer treated with chemotherapy have been collected and analysed in order to help clinical teams review and improve patient...

News Hour: Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.  announced detailed positive results from ODYSSEY ESCAPE, a Phase 3 trial which evaluated Praluent® (alirocumab) Injection in patients with an inherited form of high cholesterol known as heterozygous familial...

News Hour: The Novartis International Biotechnology Leadership Camp is a 3-day biotechnology seminar for top graduate and postgraduate students interested in pursuing a career in biotechnology. Novartis  opened the 13th International Biotechnology Leadership Camp (BioCamp). Over...

News Hour: New research presented at this year’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong (28 Aug-2 Sept) shows wide differences in mortality across developing countries, with some countries showing rates around 750 times higher...

News Hour: New research presented at this year’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong (Aug 28 – 2 Sept) shows that allowing children to use iPads to distract them before surgery requiring general anaesthesia...

News Hour: According to a new study, The vapor from electronic cigarettes contains two previously unidentified chemicals that can cause cancer. The new research, published inEnvironmental Science & Technology, also shows that levels of harmful chemicals...

News Hour: New research presented at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong (28 Aug – 2 Sept) shows that blood lactate concentration is a strong predictor of mortality, more so than other measures...

News Hour: New research presented at this year’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong (28 Aug – 2 Sept) shows that patients who have surgery during the night are twice as likely to die...