Device Reviewers From FDA Allege Agency Coerces Unsound Judgments
A group of FDA reviewers of devices and diagnostic products protest to congressional committee about being pressured into approval recommendations.
Breakthrough Transplantation Uses Patient's Own Stem Cells
A transplantation was accomplished using the patient's own stem cells seeded into a donor's trachea.
Philips Forms Several Health Research Alliances
The healthcare research alliances include NeuroNexus Technologies, West China Hospital in China, the University Medical Centers of Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Aachen (Germany), and the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, the University of Urbino (Italy) and King's College London (United Kingdom).
NOPR: PET Scans Serve Significant Role in Altering Cancer Patients' Treatment Plan
Physicians participating in the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) reported changing the treatment plan for 43.1 percent of their patients undergoing cancer treatment as the result of information gained from a PET scan.
