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Assessing the cardiac risks of cobalt in hip replacements

Medical Xpress

A technique for measuring the cardiac risk associated with cobalt-containing hip replacements has been highlighted for the first time in research at the University of Strathclyde.

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Pericardial injection effective, less invasive way to get regenerative therapies to heart

Scienmag

Injecting hydrogels containing stem cell or exosome therapeutics directly into the pericardial cavity could be a less invasive, less costly, and more effective means of treating cardiac injury, according to new research from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Cardiol Therapeutics Announces Formation of Data Safety Monitoring and Clinical Endpoint Committees for Phase II/III Outcomes Trial in High-Risk Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19

The Pharma Data

Dr. Rouleau has an international reputation in cardiovascular research, particularly in the field of both basic mechanisms and improving the clinical care of patients with heart failure. Dr. Wells has worked extensively with governments and non-government research organizations, as well as private pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

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MolecuLight’s CEO Anil Amlani Discusses Next Steps for Their Wound Imaging Devices

XTalks

was founded in June 2012 by Dr. Ralph DaCosta , the Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair in Cancer Imaging and a Principal Investigator and Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer, University Health Network. Orthopaedics have X-ray, cardiology has echocardiography, cancer has ultrasound, PET, CT and MRI. When was the company founded?

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Are Statin Side Effects ‘All in Your Head’?

The Pharma Data

19, 2020 — Most of the side effects commonly blamed on cholesterol-lowering statins may actually be the product of patients’ imaginations, new British research claims. Howard is a clinical research fellow with the Imperial College London and a cardiologist at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London.

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Caelum and Alexion Announce Upcoming Data Presentations at the 62nd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition

The Pharma Data

Alexion focuses its research efforts on novel molecules and targets in the complement cascade and its development efforts on hematology, nephrology, neurology, metabolic disorders, cardiology, ophthalmology and acute care. This press release and further information about Alexion can be found at: www.alexion.com.

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Novartis Entresto receives positive CHMP opinion for pediatric heart failure

The Pharma Data

Entresto contains the neprilysin inhibitor sacubitril and the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) valsartan 4,5. Entresto was included in the 2021 European Society of Cardiology HF Guidelines as a cornerstone, first-line treatment to reduce the risk of death and HF hospitalization in patients with HFrEF 6. Source link: [link]