Guidelines set by the Food and Drug Administration that prohibit blood donations from individuals who have traveled to regions with endemic levels of local Zika transmission are resulting in blood shortages in certain regions in the U.S.
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Sun Life Financial, based in Wellesley, Mass., compiled the costliest medical conditions covered by Sun Life stop-loss insurance from 2012 to 2015 in its fourth annual Top Ten Catastrophic Claims Conditions report.
Olympus Surgical Technologies America — a subsidiary of Center Valley, Tenn.-based Olympus Corp. of Americas — will start construction on Thursday to build a new $12 million service center in Bartlett, Tenn.
The U.S. needs a stronger national evaluation system to efficiently detect and address medical device issues, said Robert Califf, MD, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, and Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health,…
The dentist's office just got a little sweeter. There's a new, painless alternative to having a cavity drilled and it's called silver diamine fluoride. The liquid can be brushed onto cavities to stop tooth decay, according to The New York…
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Two new devices are currently on the market to save someone from choking when standard treatments — like the abdominal thrust manuever Henry Heimlich developed in 1974 — don't work, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Cardiologists have implanted Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories' new dissolving heart stent into the first patients, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sage Therapeutics experimental drug to treat postpartum depression showed positive results in a recent mid-stage study, according to Reuters.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Shire's new treatment for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease.