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Listen to The Lancet: 24 May



A staggering quarter of a billion people worldwide have diabetes, with this figure set to rise to 380 million by 2025. In this week's podcast, Jane Godsland discusses many of the topics in the May 24-30 diabetes issue of The Lancet: research showing that intensive insulin therapy given early after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes can reverse disease progression; public-health interventions in a Chinese population study highlighting how appropriate diet and exercise can delay the onset of diabetes; and discussion of other research, reviews, and diabetes content in this week's Perspectives section of the journal.


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• PTC Therapeutics Announces Data From Additional Clinical Studies Of PTC124 In Cystic Fibrosis Confirming Activity
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (PTC) announced promising new data from two studies of PTC124 in cystic fibrosis (CF).
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• Medtech Startups, September 2007
New medical technologies represented in companies added (September 2007) to the Medtech Startups Database and/or added to the September 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 August.

  • Medical technology incubator.
  • Electromagnetic thermal therapy for treatment of pain and improved function in osteoarthritis.
  • Anti-thrombotic treatment of myocardial infarction.
  • Percutaneous repair of mitral valve.
  • Nanoparticle-based drug delivery for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, others.
  • Drug and bioactive agent delivery.
  • Blood glucose monitoring via intraosseously implanted optoelectric sensor.
  • Image-guided stereotactice radiosurgery for breast cancer.
  • Microwave thermokeratoplasty for "non-incisive" refractive surgery in ophthalmology.
  • Electrode array for bloodless liver resection.
  • Device for creating multiple lesions using ablation for treatment of atrial fibrillation.
  • Nanotechnology-mediated gene therapy for treatment of congestive heart failure.
  • Fracture healing stimulated via Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF).
  • Image-guided cancer therapy using contrast enhanced MRI and photodynamic therapy.
  • Bioartificial bone and cartilage replacement.
  • Catheter device to size lumens in stent delivery.
  • Bone-targeting polymeric drug delivery systems.
  • Pulmonary drug/drug delivery based on particle technologies.
  • Device to improve pleural and pericardial drainage following heart surgery.

For coverage in specific issues of MedMarkets, see link.

For details on the Medtech Startups Database, see link.

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• Gene Mutation Puts Some Kids at Risk for Tobacco Addiction (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- People with certain common genetic variations that affect their nicotine receptors seem to be at higher risk for becoming life-long nicotine addicts if they begin smoking before they turn 17, a new study says.
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• [Commentary] The capillarity picture and the kinetics of one-dimensional protein folding
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