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Monthly Archives: August 2010
MedGadget's MedTech Monday: Synthetic cornea offers performance on …
Synthetic cornea offers performance on par with cadaver cornea after two years; pocket-sized CPR-assistance device with Analog Devices’ iMEMS; engineering polymer surfaces to promote stem cell growth; DNA-based artificial nose senses … Continue reading
Posted in cornea, eye disease, eye treatmeant
Tagged analog, analog-devices, artificial-nose, cell-growth, dna, erformance-on-par, polymer-surfaces, promote-stem
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Biosynthetic Cornea Completes Phase I Trials | Singularity Hub
Researchers in Canada and Sweden have successfully treated corneal damage by implanting human collagen into patient’s eyes. According to results recently. Continue reading
Posted in cornea, eye alternative treatment, eye disease
Tagged cornea, implanting-human, sweden, treated-corneal
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Nanotherapeutics files NanoDTPA IND for treatment of radiation exposure
Nanotherapeutics, Inc., announced that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for NanoDTPA™ an orally administered capsule that is a less invasive treatment alternative to the FDA approved injectable Zn-DTPA (diethylenetriamine pentacetic acid). Continue reading
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Tagged application, body, dtpa, fda, food, from-the-body, help-eliminate, investigational, less-invasive, pentacetic-acid, the-body
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Cocaine Addiction: Experimental Treatments May Prevent Relapse
Doctors have used the drug disulfiram to help patients stay sober for several decades. It interferes with the body’s ability to metabolize alcohol, giving a fierce hangover to someone who consumes even a small amount of alcohol Continue reading
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Tagged body, cocaine-affect, consumes-even, different-ways, drug, even-though, fierce-hangover, help-patients, nervous, stay-sober, the-drug, the-nervous, used-the-drug
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Biosynthetic Cornea
Now May Griffith at Linköping University in Sweden and colleagues have developed a cornea from collagen moulded to the shape and size of a natural human cornea . “It looks like a contact lens,” says Griffith. The difference is that this … Continue reading
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Tagged cornea, from-collagen, griffith, griffith-at-link, natural-human, shape, sweden, the-shape, university
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