Hormone Contraceptives, Dermal Drug Delivery

The company is a specialty biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the production of therapeutics for women’s health, specifically hormonal contraceptives, utilizing the company’s own dermal drug delivery system. The company’s products serve as low dose, short term hormonal contraceptives that are...

Implantable Prosthetics

The company has developed a novel thin film metal surface technology that can be used to synthesize advanced implantable prosthetics. This technology is currently used to produce a sophisticated cardiovascular stent used in mechanical unobstruction of blood vessels (angioplasty), which unlike current methods...

NCTR – July 27th, 2010

The latest issue of the New Companies & Technologies Report (NCTR) has been published on innovative companies and technologies in health and medicine. * If you are not a subscriber to the Intelligence Services and wish to receive full access to all company information listed below please visit:...

New Imaging Technique May Provide a Closer Look at Cell Death

Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed an imaging technique capable of monitoring the process of apoptosis, or programmed cell death.  The technique allows scientists to view the changes occurring in the cell on a molecular level during apoptosis. The information could allow researchers to...

Nektar Announces Positive Data on Ovarian Cancer Drug

An experimental drug from Nektar Therapeutics was able to shrink tumors and reduce a cancer biomarker in women with advanced ovarian cancer in a mid-stage study, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Twenty-three percent of patients who took NKTR-102 once every three weeks saw significant tumor shrinkage, and 38 percent...

Celiac Disease: A Significant, Unmet Clinical Need

Imagine not being able to eat bread, pasta, cookies, cereal, crackers, or anything else that contains wheat. At restaurants, you may have to grill the waitstaff on ingredients and preparation methods, and you’re lucky if you can find something on the menu that won’t make you sick. Reading labels...

Cholesterol Drugs May Slow Diabetic Vision Loss, Study Finds

A five-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that both blood sugar control and a combination of cholesterol-lowering lipid drugs were effective in slowing the progression of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness in American adults. More than 10,000 patients participated in...

Here Come the Robots

Surgical robots were once considered a fantastical invention of sci-fi authors. But the future, as they say, is now. The Harvard Business Review listed surgical robots as one of its 10 Innovations That Will Transform Medicine In 2010, and a new report from Global Analysts, Inc. predicts a worldwide $38.42...