1.   But when drug treatment is given, the protein pumps the drugs back out, so they have little effect.

2.   Hurn said the Deltec drug pump will be popular because using it frees patients who need routine medicine injections from costly hospital care.

3.   Sensors and drug pumps are more than a decade away, but scientists say clinical trials of some other novel treatments could start in as little as a year.

4.   The Minneapolis-based medical device maker received U.S. approval for an implantable drug pump to be used in colorectal liver cancer treatment.