Patent Highlights

Intravenous Paracetamol and Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure

Background: Standard medical treatments for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure are, including indomethacin/ibuprofen and surgical ligation. Nowadays, a new strategy to close PDA is the use of paracetamol. The present study aimed to describe the use of intravenous (IV) paracetamol for PDA closure in neonates who present a contraindication to ibuprofen or ibuprofen failure with no possibility...

Patent Theory versus Patent Law

According to the economic theory of patents, patents are needed so that pioneer firm have time to recoup their sunk costs of research and development. The key element in the economic theory is that pioneer firms have large, hard to recoup, sunk costs. Yet patents are not awarded on the basis of a firm’s sunk costs. Patent law, in fact, ignores costs. The disconnect between patent law and patent...

Patent Number : United States Patent

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Comparative Highlights

Hepatology Highlights.

Correspondence and reprint request: Rolf Teschke, M.D. Professor of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine II. Klinikum Hanau. Academic Teaching Hospital of the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. Leimenstrasse 20. D-63450 Hanau Germany. Tel.: +49-6181/21859 E-mail: [email protected] A Canadian national retrospective chart review comparing the long term effect of cyclosporine vs. tacrolimu...