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Elderly may fare worse on prostate cancer drugs (AP)




Prostate cancer cells are seen in a handout photo from the National Cancer Institute. REUTERS/NCI/HandoutAP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.





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Medtech Startups, November 2007
New medical technologies represented in companies added (November 2007) to the Medtech Startups Database and/or added to the November 2007 issue of MedMarkets.

The following are brief technology descriptions for companies newly added to the MedMarket Diligence Medtech Startups Database and/or covered in MedMarkets Startups during the month of November:

  • Development of a miniature retrievable pump for use in improving blood flow following coronary artery angioplasty.
  • Technology for anchoring dynamic and static spinal implants.
  • Intervertebral disc and facet joint prosthesis in spine surgery.
  • Static compression device technology in spine surgery.
  • Intramedullary transillumination apparatus for use in bone repair.
  • Company has licensed technology from major technology university that creates colony of liver cells that can be used for testing drug toxicity.
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic tools for the treatment of patients who are prone to develop unstable coronary syndromes due to the presence of multiple thrombogenic vulnerable plaques.
  • Device for treatment of chronic renal insufficiency.
  • Developing the brachytherapy applicator for radiation following lumpectomy.
  • Development of catheters and other technologies for the treatment of acute and chronic total occlusion in coronary and peripheral arteries.
  • Stents and stent sleeves that minimize embolism.



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