LONDON (Reuters) – When Ignasi Biosca-Reig heard there were shortages of amoxicillin in Spain, he quickly added shifts at his drug company’s factories to boost production of the popular antibiotic. But a few extra shifts was as far as he could go. Much as he would have liked to significantly increase supplies, Biosca-Reig said he couldn’t justify investing millions of […]

Integrative actuators and sensors within a single active device offer compelling capabilities for developing robotics, prosthetic limbs, and minimally invasive surgical tools. But instrumenting these devices at the microscale is constrained by current manufacturing technologies. Now, a team of researchers has developed a flexible polymer-based actuatable fiber which is capable of being integrated with smart materials and biosensing composite materials. […]

The overall case volume for surgical mitral-valve (MV) repair of degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) hasn’t changed much nearly a decade into the age of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER). But, over the same period, there’s been a shift in the surgical MV repair case mix at centers that have offered both the surgical option and TEER, a new study suggests. Once […]

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The number of children — especially very young ones — ingesting marijuana is rising in Colorado despite regulations meant to keep edibles out of kids' hands, and state leaders said they have no plans to revisit those rules this year. The number of reports the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety office received of kids age 5 or younger exposed […]

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A new paper in the British Journal of Surgery, published by Oxford University Press, finds that patients undergoing liver surgery fare better in higher-volume hospitals; their mortality rates are lower. Liver surgery is the standard treatment for most patients with primary and secondary liver tumors. Although postoperative mortality after liver surgery is rare, lower than 5%, it can be as […]

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Clazosentan failed to meet the primary endpoint of preventing clinical deterioration as a result of delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), according to topline results from the phase 3 REACT trial. Clazosentan is a fast-acting endothelin A (ETA) receptor antagonist being developed by Idorsia Pharmaceuticals as a continuous intravenous infusion for the prevention of clinical […]