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Eastern Clinical Laboratories wins ‘Best Technology Initiative Award’ at Building Healthcare Awards 2015

Eastern Biotech & Eastern Clinical Laboratories are pleased to announce their latest achievement of winning the "Best Technology Initiative Award" at the Building Healthcare Awards 2015.

25 Jun 2015

Innovative formula prevents risks, painful treatments in people with secondary blindness

The Mexican company "Medical and Surgical Center for Retina" created a way to transport drugs, in order to avoid risks and painful treatments in people with secondary blindness due to chronic degenerative blindness such as diabetic retinopathy and degeneration of the eye.

25 Jun 2015

Sugar-gobbling enzyme helps restore normal function in heart muscles of diabetic rats

Working with heart muscle cells from diabetic rats, scientists at Johns Hopkins have located what they say is the epicenter of mischief wreaked by too much blood sugar and used a sugar-gobbling enzyme to restore normal function in the glucose-damaged cells of animal heart muscles.

25 Jun 2015

Brainpaths neurological device stimulates brain‘s sensory cortex

Brainpaths is a BREAKTHROUGH: a Neurological Medical Device that stimulates the sensory cortex of the brain; Brainpaths Medical Device is non-powered, approved for home use and can be purchased without a prescription for under $40.

25 Jun 2015

Univercell-Biosolutions opens center of expertise with industrial, standardized approach to hiPSC production

Univercell-Biosolutions, a leading provider of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) and hiPS derived product cells for drug discovery, today announces the opening of a center of expertise with an industrial and standardized approach to hiPSC production.

25 Jun 2015

Kaiser Permanente named one of top 100 Best Places to Work in IT by Computerworld magazine

Kaiser Permanente announced today that it was named one of the top 100 Best Places to Work in IT by Computerworld magazine for the sixth consecutive year.

25 Jun 2015

Duke of Rothesay, Prince Charles to officially open Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre

Today (Wednesday 24 June 2015) His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay will officially open the Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre – a focal point for driving forward innovations for NHSScotland.

25 Jun 2015

WHO prequalifies new male circumcision device to prevent HIV

The ShangRing, a novel medical device for voluntary medical male circumcision, has received prequalification from the World Health Organization (WHO) for use.

25 Jun 2015

OhioHealth Neuroscience Center launched at Riverside Methodist Hospital

On July 6, 2015, OhioHealth will open its doors to the new OhioHealth Neuroscience Center on Riverside Methodist Hospital's campus.

25 Jun 2015

Study explores motivations that influence Indigenous people to drink drive in regional and remote communities

Cultural "lore" outweighs criminal law when Indigenous drivers in regional and remote communities get behind the wheel drunk, a new study by Queensland University of Technology has found.

25 Jun 2015

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals to use electronic tablets to record patient observations

Following on from the recent announcement of funding for Ashford and St Peter’s new electronic medical record as part of the Surrey Collaborative, the hospital is also the recipient of funding from the Nursing Technology Fund for this project.

25 Jun 2015

Preclinical Magnetic Particle Imaging: an interview with Professor Jeff Bulte, Johns Hopkins

I'm Jeff Bulte, professor of Radiology and Director of Cellular Imaging at the Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. I lead a group of about 20 to 25 people who focus their research on imaging cells.

From Bruker BioSpin Division 24 Jun 2015

Behavioral flexibility is controlled by specific neurons in the brain

Behavioral flexibility -- the ability to change strategy when the rules change -- is controlled by specific neurons in the brain, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have confirmed.

24 Jun 2015

Annual LDCT screening safe, effective for monitoring patients with nonsolid lung nodules

An annual exam using a key imaging technology could spare patients with lung nodules from unnecessary tests and surgery, while identifying the cases where the nodules are likely to become cancerous, according to a new study by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and published online today in journal Radiology.

24 Jun 2015

NIH awards $1.8 million grant for brain imaging technique

A researcher at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has received a four-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new technique for imaging blood flow across the surface of the brain that could help patients undergoing neurosurgery.

24 Jun 2015

VolitionRx teams up with market access consulting agencies to support access of NuQ cancer tests across Europe

VolitionRx Limited, a life sciences company focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests for a broad range of cancer types and other conditions, today announced that it has established partnerships with two prominent market access consulting agencies, DecideumCogentia and MedPass International, to support market access of its NuQ® cancer tests across Europe.

24 Jun 2015

KeyLemon, onefacein team up to provide affordable and effective biometric solutions

Biometry authentication provider KeyLemon today announced a strategic partnership with emerging biometric password solution onefacein.

24 Jun 2015

CardiAQ Valve Technologies announces first human implant of transcatheter bioprosthetic mitral heart valve

CardiAQ Valve Technologies (CardiAQ), which has developed the world’s first self-conforming and self-anchoring technology for nonsurgical transfemoral-transseptal percutaneous Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVI), today announced that its second-generation bioprosthetic mitral heart valve was successfully implanted as a compassionate treatment into a 72-year-old male suffering from severe mitral regurgitation (MR 4+) with multiple co-morbidities and ineligible for alternate treatment modalities.

24 Jun 2015

Researchers develop new implantable drug-delivery system using nanowire

A team of researchers has created a new implantable drug-delivery system using nanowires that can be wirelessly controlled.

24 Jun 2015

'Bionic eye' improves visual function, quality of life for people with retinitis pigmentosa

The three-year clinical trial results of the retinal implant popularly known as the "bionic eye," have proven the long-term efficacy, safety and reliability of the device that restores vision in those blinded by a rare, degenerative eye disease.

24 Jun 2015

Technology News and Research

Eastern Clinical Laboratories wins ‘Best Technology Initiative Award’ at Building Healthcare Awards 2015

Innovative formula prevents risks, painful treatments in people with secondary blindness

Sugar-gobbling enzyme helps restore normal function in heart muscles of diabetic rats

Brainpaths neurological device stimulates brain‘s sensory cortex

Univercell-Biosolutions opens center of expertise with industrial, standardized approach to hiPSC production

Kaiser Permanente named one of top 100 Best Places to Work in IT by Computerworld magazine

Duke of Rothesay, Prince Charles to officially open Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre

WHO prequalifies new male circumcision device to prevent HIV

OhioHealth Neuroscience Center launched at Riverside Methodist Hospital

Study explores motivations that influence Indigenous people to drink drive in regional and remote communities

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals to use electronic tablets to record patient observations

Preclinical Magnetic Particle Imaging: an interview with Professor Jeff Bulte, Johns Hopkins

Behavioral flexibility is controlled by specific neurons in the brain

Annual LDCT screening safe, effective for monitoring patients with nonsolid lung nodules

NIH awards $1.8 million grant for brain imaging technique

VolitionRx teams up with market access consulting agencies to support access of NuQ cancer tests across Europe

KeyLemon, onefacein team up to provide affordable and effective biometric solutions

CardiAQ Valve Technologies announces first human implant of transcatheter bioprosthetic mitral heart valve

Researchers develop new implantable drug-delivery system using nanowire

'Bionic eye' improves visual function, quality of life for people with retinitis pigmentosa

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

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