Atrium Medical has begun enrollment of the first patients for their CONFIRM 1, First-in-Man (FIM) drug eluting coronary stent clinical trial. Atrium’s European FIM clinical trial study is evaluating Atrium’s CINATRA voclosporin coated coronary stent system.
This First-in-Man trial is a prospective, multi-center, single blind, randomized, controlled study using the CINATRA voclosporin coated coronary stent system, [...]
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Recent outbreaks of Salmonella infection due to tomatoes have moved the politicians and the FDA to act and today president George Bush asked the Congress to provide more funds to improve food and medical product safety.
The Salmonella disease has been a very serious threat during the last week as grocery stores have pulled tomatoes from [...]
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HHS Secretary Leavitt today announced that the Administration is amending its budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2009 to include an additional $275 million for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He called on Congress to act quickly on this budget amendment and pending Administration legislative proposals to strengthen FDA.
Today’s action supports the [...]
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Massachusetts health officials and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts in separate announcements onThursday outlined new policies that will prohibit hospitals and physicians frombilling the state and insurer for preventable medical errors, the Boston Globe reports. Under the policies, 28 kinds ofmedical and surgical errors indentified by a national coalition will no longerbe billable. [...]
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Black menin Jacksonville, Fla., are less likely than white men to havea primary care physician or health insurance, according to a recent report bythe Duval County Health Department, the Florida Times-Union reports. According to the report,28% of black men in the city do not have a primary care physician, comparedwith 19% of white men. Twenty [...]
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