Health Press Release – Newsletter for August 27, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Revolutionary iPad Program to Utilize E-Textbooks from Elsevier
First-year Med Students Will Access Four Key Titles, Including Netter: Atlas of Human Anatomy, From Their UCI-furnished iPads
PHILADELPHIA, August 26, 2010 – Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services, announced today it will
provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of
Medicine's new program that gives Apple iPads [...]
Pharma-Biotech Licensing Deals – Stopgap Option or Way of the Future? – Frost & Sullivan Web Conference
LONDON, August 26, 2010 – 2009 and 2010 have seen some of the biggest mergers, acquisitions and
licensing activities the pharmaceutical industry has undergone in a very long
time. In light of dwindling pipeline products, impending patent expirations
for several blockbuster drugs, tight budgets and cost cuts due to the
recession, several major pharmaceutical companies are looking at [...]
DePuy Orthopaedics Voluntarily Recalls ASR(TM) Hip System
WARSAW, Indiana, August 26, 2010 – DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., announced it is voluntarily recalling the
ASR(TM) XL Acetabular System and DePuy ASR(TM) Hip Resurfacing System used in
hip replacement surgery due to the number of patients who required a second
hip replacement procedure, called a revision surgery.
The majority of ASR hip replacement surgeries [...]