Tryton Medical, Inc., a developer of novel stent systems for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, announced today that the company has initiated launch of its novel Side Branch Stent System™ in Europe.

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified its safety alert about the proper connection of sutureless catheters used with implantable drug infusion systems as a Class I recall. The notification relates to the improper connection of its sutureless connector intrathecal catheters (referred to [...]

Following a very successful first event in 2007, the Drug Information Association’s (DIA’s) 2nd Annual Clinical Forum: Data Driven Drug Development Decisions (October 20-23, 2008; Ljubljana, Slovenia) will focus on clinical data. New and experienced colleagues in the field of clinical and safety data management, clinical research and operations, statistics, medical information, pharmacovigilance, information [...]

As world leaders gather for the High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), we jointly pledge to intensify our support to countries to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 To Improve Maternal Health – the MDG showing the least progress.

At the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit taking place in New York today Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the UK, will announce the launch of a new High-Level Task Force on Innovative Financing for Health Systems. This announcement comes almost a year to the day since the International Health Partnership and Related Initiatives (IHP+) – [...]