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Nottingham student announced winner in Dragon’s Den style contest dedicated to improve bus journeys for disabled

Transport Minister Baroness Kramer unveiled the winning entry – a vibrating wrist band - in a competition challenging tech-savvy students to improve travel for disabled bus passengers (Friday 13 March).

18 Mar 2015

OSU engineers use 'additive manufacturing' to create glucose sensor for patients with diabetes

Engineers at Oregon State University have used "additive manufacturing" to create an improved type of glucose sensor for patients with Type 1diabetes, part of a system that should work better, cost less and be more comfortable for the patient.

18 Mar 2015

AACN to award ICU Design Citation to ICUs at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses will present the ICU Design Citation to the intensive care units at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during the 2015 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition, San Diego, May 18-21.

17 Mar 2015

BD announces completion of CareFusion acquisition

Becton, Dickinson and Company today announced that it completed its acquisition of CareFusion Corporation pursuant to the terms of its previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated October 5, 2014 (the "Merger Agreement").

From BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 17 Mar 2015

Kennedy Funding Financial completes $3.5 million loan for Lifestyle Real Estate I

Kennedy Funding Financial LLC has completed a $3.5 million loan for Lifestyle Real Estate I, LP, announced Gregg Wolfer, COO of the Englewood Cliffs, NJ-based direct private lender. The borrower is an affiliate of Lifestyle Healthcare Group (LHG), and the collateral is a 10.31-acre tract of vacant land in Bensalem Twp., Bucks County, PA. LHG has received approval from the township for a $185 million medical office campus.

17 Mar 2015

Cleaver Scientific's VS20 WAVE system provides fully integrated solution for gel electrophoresis

The VS20 WAVE from Cleaver Scientific is a single tank electrophoresis system which provides a fully integrated solution for vertical PAGE, tube gel IEF and electro blotting.

From Cleaver Scientific Ltd 17 Mar 2015

UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health recognized as one of America's Best Breast Centers

UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health earns the 2015 Women's Choice Award as one of America's Best Breast Centers, acknowledging its dedication to providing exceptional patient care and treatment.

17 Mar 2015

Study compares effectiveness of CT scan and traditional stress test in patients with chest pain

Patients with chest pain have similar rates of heart attacks and other major cardiac events within two years whether they were evaluated with a new type of CT scan or the traditional stress test, according to results presented today by Duke Medicine researchers at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

17 Mar 2015

Cardiac PET/CT imaging offers higher accuracy, better image quality than SPECT imaging

New heart imaging technology to diagnose coronary heart disease and other heart disorders is significantly more accurate, less expensive and safer than traditional methods, according to a new study by researchers from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.

17 Mar 2015

Routine cardiac CT scan may help reduce heart attack risk

Routine heart scans for patients referred to cardiac clinics with chest pain could reduce heart attack rates, research suggests.

17 Mar 2015

Study may help men make better decisions about aggressive prostate cancer treatments

A Northwestern University-led study in the emerging field of nanocytology could one day help men make better decisions about whether or not to undergo aggressive prostate cancer treatments.

17 Mar 2015

Medical experts aim to offer lifesaving treatments to eliminate preventable deaths from AKI by 2025

Preventable deaths caused by acute kidney injury (AKI) could be nearly eliminated in just 10 years, according to leading medical experts. This often forgotten condition - which affects around 13 million people every year and contributes to 1.7 million deaths annually - is preventable and can be treated for as little as $US150 per patient.

17 Mar 2015

CTCA in Philadelphia installs TomoHDA TomoTherapy machine to provide precise treatment to patients

Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia has announced the installation of the TomoHDA TomoTherapy machine. TomoTherapy combines an advanced form of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), with the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) scanning technology, all in one machine.

16 Mar 2015

New vaccine for post exposure treatment of rabies infection enters human clinical trial

Yisheng Biopharma Co., Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the research, development, manufacturing, sales and marketing of vaccine products, announced that a new vaccine for the post exposure treatment of the rabies infection was entering human clinical trial after a six-year long collaboration with a number of research institutes worldwide.

16 Mar 2015

Fast and focused sequencing from single genes to entire exomes

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) will host a talk on maximizing efficiency of NGS enrichment panels at the qPCR & NGS 2015 Advanced Molecular Diagnostics for Biomarker Discovery Symposium on Monday March 23rd at 3PM. The talk will detail current technical issues faced by researchers when using hybridization enrichment panels and provide practical advice on how to increase successes while reducing time and costs in targeted sequencing.

From Integrated DNA Technologies 16 Mar 2015

AcelRx announces dosing of first patient in pivotal ARX-04 Phase 3 study for treatment of acute pain

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute pain, today reported dosing of the first patient in the pivotal Phase 3 study of ARX-04.

16 Mar 2015

Ruthigen, Pulmatrix sign definitive merger agreement

Ruthigen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, and Pulmatrix, Inc., a Lexington, Massachusetts based clinical stage biotechnology company, announced today that on March 13, 2015, they have entered into a definitive merger agreement.

16 Mar 2015

Virginia Senator Creigh Deeds receives 2015 State Legislator of the Year Award

Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds received the 2015 State Legislator of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association Practice Organization in recognition of his determination to improve mental health services and reduce stigma associated with mental illness. Sen. Deeds was presented with the award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on March 15.

16 Mar 2015

Boris backs Bump Mark with £20,000 prize

Brunel graduate Solveiga Pakstaite has added the Mayor of London’s Low Carbon Entrepreneur prize to the Dyson Award she won for her innovative final-year food label project – the Bump Mark.

16 Mar 2015

GHTC report confronts key challenge of renewing US leadership in global health technology

Today, the world is looking to the United States for cutting-edge diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines that could have the last word on an Ebola outbreak that is down but not out. But those innovations are the product of past US investments in research and development (R&D).

13 Mar 2015

Technology News and Research

Nottingham student announced winner in Dragon’s Den style contest dedicated to improve bus journeys for disabled

OSU engineers use 'additive manufacturing' to create glucose sensor for patients with diabetes

AACN to award ICU Design Citation to ICUs at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

BD announces completion of CareFusion acquisition

Kennedy Funding Financial completes $3.5 million loan for Lifestyle Real Estate I

Cleaver Scientific's VS20 WAVE system provides fully integrated solution for gel electrophoresis

UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health recognized as one of America's Best Breast Centers

Study compares effectiveness of CT scan and traditional stress test in patients with chest pain

Cardiac PET/CT imaging offers higher accuracy, better image quality than SPECT imaging

Routine cardiac CT scan may help reduce heart attack risk

Study may help men make better decisions about aggressive prostate cancer treatments

Medical experts aim to offer lifesaving treatments to eliminate preventable deaths from AKI by 2025

CTCA in Philadelphia installs TomoHDA TomoTherapy machine to provide precise treatment to patients

New vaccine for post exposure treatment of rabies infection enters human clinical trial

Fast and focused sequencing from single genes to entire exomes

AcelRx announces dosing of first patient in pivotal ARX-04 Phase 3 study for treatment of acute pain

Ruthigen, Pulmatrix sign definitive merger agreement

Virginia Senator Creigh Deeds receives 2015 State Legislator of the Year Award

Boris backs Bump Mark with £20,000 prize

GHTC report confronts key challenge of renewing US leadership in global health technology

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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