Life Sciences & Technology

European regulators have granted Tryton Medical the CE mark for its Side Branch Short Stent, which is used to treat bifurcation lesions in the side branch and main artery. The device, which is restric… Read More

Syngenta's $72 million Advanced Crop Lab at its biotechnology research center in North Carolina includes a high-tech greenhouse that uses artificial light as well as the sun to reproduce conditions ar… Read More

The House Agriculture Committee voted 31-15 in favor of moving the catfish-inspection program from the USDA back to the FDA, which regulates the safety of other seafood products. A comparable bill has… Read More

The FDA's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion will be holding an Enforcement Webinar on May 16 to review and discuss enforcement letters issued by OPDP from November 2012 through March 2013. These f… Read More

The CDC is asking U.S. health care professionals to stay on high alert for the H7N9 virus, even though China has not reported any new cases since May 7 and the risk to Americans is small. CDC official… Read More

While venture capital investment in biotech has declined overall, investment in early-stage biosensor companies rose 152% and investment in biotech research rose 37% year-on-year during the first quar… Read More

The U.S. is about halfway through digitizing the nation's health facilities and about 5% of the way through transforming workflows to leverage this IT infrastructure, National HIT Coordinator Dr. Farz… Read More

A child's living environment has a bigger effect on obesity than genetics, physical activity or other weight-control factors, according to studies published in Pediatrics. The research suggests issues… Read More

A drug's success in the marketplace increasingly depends on the drugmaker's ability to prove value and additional benefit over existing pharmaceuticals, yet many drugmakers still take a blockbuster ap… Read More

The Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation has received a donation from the Monett Lions Club to support six initiatives that highlight sight restoration and preservation. Among the initiatives suppor… Read More