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New data on CYTOMIMIC Technology's potential to stimulate tissue repair featured at 69th AAD

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. today announced that its award-winning, breakthrough CYTOMIMIC™ Technology will be featured in a scientific poster at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), February 4-8, 2011, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA.

5 Feb 2011

EpiCareSRT, Sensus Healthcare aim for mobile non-surgical skin cancer treatment service

EpiCareSRT announced today it has entered into a strategic partnership with Sensus Healthcare to take new aim at skin cancer by providing the first mobile service to bring low-dose superficial radiation therapy directly to the point-of-care in dermatology offices.

5 Feb 2011

Roche launches cobas TaqScreen DPX Test for parvovirus B19 and hepatitis A virus

Roche announced today that the cobas® TaqScreen DPX Test for use on the cobas s 201 system is now available in the US. It is the first commercial test to quantify parvovirus B19 and detect hepatitis A virus (HAV) simultaneously in one assay in human plasma.

5 Feb 2011

National Minority Quality Forum launches novel resource to map lung cancer prevalence estimates

In recognition of World Cancer Day, the National Minority Quality Forum today launched the Lung Cancer Atlas. This novel resource enables users to map lung cancer prevalence estimates and total counts at the zip-code level for the United States as well as for individual states, federal and state legislative districts.

5 Feb 2011

First mobile application is now available for clinicians to diagnose bleeding disorders

Novo Nordisk announced today the availability of Coags Uncomplicated – the first mobile application to assist in the diagnosis of bleeding disorders – created in partnership with Craig Kessler, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Director of the Coagulation Laboratory, Georgetown University Hospital, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

5 Feb 2011

Partek signs distribution agreement with Life Technologies

Partek Incorporated, a global leader in bioinformatics software, announced today the signing of a distribution agreement with Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of next-generation DNA sequencing technology. The agreement makes Partek Genomics Suite available through Life Technologies as a featured solution for analyzing data generated by Life Technologies' next-generation sequencing devices.

5 Feb 2011

SVHC to deploy athenahealth's cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service

athenahealth, Inc., a leading provider of web-based practice management, electronic health record, and patient communication services to medical groups, today announced that St. Vincent's HealthCare (SVHC), a not-for-profit regional medical facility in Jacksonville, Florida, will deploy athenahealth's cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service, athenaCollector®, to its growing network of more than 120 employed medical providers.

5 Feb 2011

Microsulis' Microwave Endometrial Ablation platform sold to Hologic

Microsulis Medical Limited announced this week that it has exclusively licensed to Hologic Inc all rights to its microwave technology in the gynecology and female urology fields of use.

From Hologic, Inc. 5 Feb 2011

Senior citizens can benefit from new emergency detection system

Elderly people living alone have a dangerous life: after a fall, they often spend hours lying on the floor before their situation comes to anyone's attention and a doctor is contacted. A new system automatically detects predicaments like this and informs a trusted person. This makes it possible to live an independent life in one's own four walls.

4 Feb 2011

General Dynamics to collaborate with MPT to offer EHR solution to DoD

General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has entered into a letter of intent with McKesson Provider Technologies to collaborate in offering an Electronic Health Record solution known as the "Way Ahead" to the Department of Defense.

4 Feb 2011

FDA clears new mobile radiology application

A new mobile radiology application cleared today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow physicians to view medical images on the iPhone and iPad manufactured by Apple Inc.

4 Feb 2011

Hologic receives FDA approval for hydroxyprogesterone caproate injection

Hologic, a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics products, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Hologic's pharmaceutical named Makena, formerly known as Gestiva.

From Hologic, Inc. 4 Feb 2011

Incisive Surgical, Innocutis sign marketing agreement for INSORB Absorbable Skin Stapler

Innocutis Medical, a dermatology company focused on novel surgical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals, is pleased to announce an exclusive marketing agreement with Incisive Surgical, for the sales and marketing rights within the dermatology market for the patented INSORB Absorbable Skin Stapler, a revolutionary new modality for skin closure.

4 Feb 2011

BIOTRONIK launches Reliaty pacing system analyzer in Europe

BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, today announced the European launch of the Reliaty pacing system analyzer after CE approval and successful pre-market evaluation. The pacing system analyzer is used during an implantation of implantable pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy systems to ensure adequate lead placement, maintenance of basic cardiac functions, and to evaluate pacing parameters for customized device programming.

4 Feb 2011

MEDfx announces Direct Project pilot to demonstrate health information exchange among providers

MEDfx Corporation today announced a Direct Project pilot that demonstrates health information exchange among providers using a combination of the standards and protocols supported by the Direct Project and the FHA CONNECT Gateway. MEDfx is participating in, and is a contributor to, the nationally-sponsored Direct Project under the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT.

4 Feb 2011

'Vision-based hand gesture recognition' technology in future operation theatres

Surgeons of the future might use a system that recognizes hand gestures as commands to control a robotic scrub nurse or tell a computer to display medical images of the patient during an operation.

4 Feb 2011

Benefits and underutilization of ITB therapy for multiple sclerosis

A new scientific article has been published demonstrating the profound impact of spasticity on patients with multiple sclerosis and the benefits and underutilization of intrathecal baclofen (ITB) therapy from Medtronic, Inc. as a treatment option for these patients.

4 Feb 2011

Device / Technology News

New data on CYTOMIMIC Technology's potential to stimulate tissue repair featured at 69th AAD

EpiCareSRT, Sensus Healthcare aim for mobile non-surgical skin cancer treatment service

Roche launches cobas TaqScreen DPX Test for parvovirus B19 and hepatitis A virus

National Minority Quality Forum launches novel resource to map lung cancer prevalence estimates

First mobile application is now available for clinicians to diagnose bleeding disorders

Partek signs distribution agreement with Life Technologies

SVHC to deploy athenahealth's cloud-based physician medical billing and practice management service

Microsulis' Microwave Endometrial Ablation platform sold to Hologic

Senior citizens can benefit from new emergency detection system

General Dynamics to collaborate with MPT to offer EHR solution to DoD

FDA clears new mobile radiology application

Hologic receives FDA approval for hydroxyprogesterone caproate injection

Incisive Surgical, Innocutis sign marketing agreement for INSORB Absorbable Skin Stapler

BIOTRONIK launches Reliaty pacing system analyzer in Europe

MEDfx announces Direct Project pilot to demonstrate health information exchange among providers

'Vision-based hand gesture recognition' technology in future operation theatres

Benefits and underutilization of ITB therapy for multiple sclerosis

New 'skin gun' treats burns with stem cells

Prognosis brings EHR success to providers across the country

TTC's Standard of Care helps clinical study sites control costs

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

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