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Ebola Successfully Neutralized by Latest Generation Polyclonal Immunotherapy
August 17, 2018
SAB Biotherapeutics, Inc. (SAB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that its anti-Ebola immunotherapy (SAB-139) provided “100% protection against a lethal dose of the Ebola virus” in a recent animal study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The study was conducted at the Integrated Research Facility, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) and others. According to the World Health Organization, Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans with an average fatality rate around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks, and there is currently no licensed treatment proven to neutralize the......
2018 Healthcare+ Expo Taiwan: Where Tech Meets Medicine
August 15, 2018
From November 29th to December 2nd 2018, global-leading biomedical and technology institutes will gather in Taipei for the top healthcare and technology event in Asia - The Healthcare+ Expo - Taiwan. In line with the theme “Med X Tech”, a lineup of global leaders in technology will share the latest technology advancements and how technology create better solutions for future medical applications. This year, the expo gathers 400 + world-class medical institutes and multi-national IT/ICT/electronic giants. The IT giants will showcase medical innovations of AI, IoT and robotic technologies. The medical institutes will demonstrate advanced medical technologies, smart hospital designs, products, and services while bio-pharmaceutical, medical device, and genetic enterprises will provide the most current updates in precision medicine. In all, more than 1,400 booths will cover the entire......
70-year-old Nigerian woman chooses UAE for a pacemaker implant
August 15, 2018
If you meet 70-year-old Maria, a Nigerian national, you’d never know she has a dual chamber pacemaker to keep her heart beating well. Full of life and vigour, Maria came to the UAE to treat her atrioventricular (AV) block. An AV block is a serious heart condition where the heart beats irregularly and much slower than usual. It can cause loss of consciousness or complete collapse. Patients with this condition need to have a pacemaker - a small device that rests inside your upper chest and connects to your heart with"...
New Study Investigates the Utility of Home Monitoring Using Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry to Screen Children with Down Syndrome for Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Prior to Diagnostic Multichannel Sleep Studies
August 14, 2018
(AETOS Wire) -- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the findings of a recently published study in which researchers investigated whether home pulse oximetry monitoring might be a useful initial screening method of determining which children with Down syndrome (DS) – who are at high risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) – be recommended to undergo multichannel sleep studies to diagnose the condition. The home monitoring was conducted using Masimo SET® Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ pulse oximetry.1 Noting that OSA “can only be reliably diagnosed using multichannel sleep studies, which are expensive, demanding for families and only available in specialist centres,” Dr. Hill and colleagues at the University of Southampton and Southampton Children’s Hospital sought to determine whether home pulse oximetry monitoring could identify children......
WHO and Ministry of Health invest in national capacities for procurement and supply chain management
August 13, 2018
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and the Humanitarian Aid Commission conducted a training of trainers workshop in July on the procurement and supply chain management for 30 participants working in areas of conflict and natural disasters in Darfur, Kordofan, and the Blue Nile states. The shortage of essential and life-saving medicines in these states has led to high out-of-pocket expenditure"...
Hassabo Briefed on Work at Al-Bashir Medical City
August 8, 2018
Vice- President of the Republic, Hassabo Mohamed Abdul-Rahman was briefed on ongoing work at Al-Bashir Medical Caity and the steps of implementing presidential directives on transfering the City into a free medical zone. The Vice President affirmed in meeting at the Republican Palace on Tuesday, with the delegation of the Medical City project the state concern with the project and development of health sector in the country by supporting and establishing"...
Doctors strike in Kassala in eastern Sudan
August 7, 2018
Doctors working in the Kassala Teaching Hospital in eastern Sudan downed tools on Sunday, in protest against an attack on the staff of the general surgery unit last week. The Central Sudanese Doctors Committee reported in a statement on Saturday that members of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) stormed the hospital and beat-up doctors of the surgery department. The medics suffered severe head and facial injuries. A"...
Boehringer Ingelheim, the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium, Imperial Innovations and Oxford Biomedica Announce New Partnership to Develop First-in-Class Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
August 6, 2018
Boehringer Ingelheim, the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium (GTC)—consisting of Imperial College London and the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh—Imperial Innovations, and Oxford BioMedica (OXB) announce a global collaboration to develop a first-in-class, long-term therapy for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The new partnership brings together the academic partners’ leading expertise in developing gene therapy for CF and OXB’s leading expertise in manufacturing lentiviral vector-based"...
Toilet Paper Innovation Sets Fine Hygienic Holding on a Roll
August 6, 2018
The original patent for the modern toilet paper roll was made in 1883, with the standard design of a long strip of toilet paper wrapped around a paperboard cylinder remaining unchanged for over a hundred years. It seemed so simple and so effective a design that it couldn’t be improved upon. Granted, manufacturers have meddled and tinkered with the size of the roll, and the softness of the paper itself, but the fundamental design hasn’t been challenged since. However, after 135 years, Fine"...
Hassabo Calls UNICEF to Continue Support of Childhood Issues
August 4, 2018
Vice-President of the Republic, Hassabo Mohamed Abdul-Rahman has called the UNICEF, as the Sudanese Government partner, to go on supporting childhood and motherhood issues. He reviewed in a meeting in the Republican Palace Thursday with the UNICEF Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa, Mr. Geert Cappelaere reviewed efforts required from UNICEF and attention"...
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