(AP) -- The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers: nearly all are fearful that their breast implants may be leaking.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 /- Medbox, Inc. (Pinksheets: MDBX) ( www.medboxinc.com ) announced today their new lineup of products for 2012. Through their subsidiary, Prescription Vending Machines, Inc., the company sells medicine dispensing and storage systems, which are designed to be used in hospitals, pharmacies, urgent care ...

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 25, 2012 /- ChromaDex Corporation (OTCBB: CDXC), an innovative natural products company that provides proprietary, science-based solutions and ingredients to the dietary supplement, food & beverage, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries announced today that its BluScience ( www.bluscience.com ) line of dietary supplements is now being distributed ...

Frontline health workers—including nursing assistants, paramedics and pharmacy technicians—who received a combination of benefits and support from their employers had higher job satisfaction, a new study found.

Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced their new line of embedded biometric technologies, including VeriFinger Embedded SDK for fingerprint biometrics, VeriLook Embedded SDK for face biometrics and MegaMatcher Embedded SDK for multi-biometric systems using face and fingerprints in combination.

After figures revealed that hundreds of thousands of people every year are being sent home before they are well enough, hospitals have been accused by ministers of treating patients “like parts on a production line.”

Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and its subsidiary Genzyme reported top-line results from TENERE, a Phase III clinical trial comparing the effectiveness, safety and tolerability of once-daily oral teriflunomide to interferon beta-1a (Rebif®), an approved injectable therapy, in people with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (RMS). The TENERE trial, ...

Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane for Injectable Suspension), at a dose of 150 mg/m2 weekly, improves overall survival (OS) to a much greater degree than conventional taxane monotherapy in women with previously untreated metastatic breast cancer (MBC), according to results of a phase II study released at the 34th Annual San Antonio Breast ...

XenoPort, Inc. announced today preliminary top-line results of a Phase 2, randomized, crossover clinical trial that compared optimized treatment with either Sinemet (immediate-release levodopa/carbidopa) or XP21279 co-formulated with carbidopa (279/CD) in advanced Parkinson's disease patients with motor fluctuations.

Oxford Finance LLC, a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, today announced that it closed a $5 million revolving line of credit with Mason Health. Proceeds of the loan are being used to refinance existing debt and to support the operation of ...

Unigene Laboratories, Inc. (OTCBB: UGNE), a leader in the design, delivery, manufacture and development of peptide-based therapeutics, today announced positive top-line results of its Phase 2 clinical study evaluating an experimental oral parathyroid hormone (PTH) analog for the treatment of osteoporosis in 93 postmenopausal women. The study achieved its ...

AstraZeneca and Targacept, Inc. today announced top-line results from the first of four RENAISSANCE Phase 3 studies investigating the efficacy and tolerability of TC-5214 as an adjunct therapy to an antidepressant in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) who do not respond adequately to initial antidepressant treatment.