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Home care and hospice providers set to participate in NAHC's March on Washington

This weekend, hundreds of home care and hospice providers arrive in Washington, DC, for the National Association for Home Care & Hospice March on Washington taking place March 22-25, 2015. NAHC’s conference will raise awareness of key policy issues impacting providers and their ability to care for the growing number of Americans who rely on home health.

20 Mar 2015

3D printed heart models to aid doctors plan for complex ops'

A team of doctors at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are exploring new avenues to improve surgical preparations and patient care. The hospital recently partnered with the University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) to produce a 3D printed heart model of a patient with a rare, life-threatening heart condition. 3D printed anatomical models derived from patient scans enable doctors to “practice” surgery in advance and assess possible complications for delicate procedures, improving the outcome of operations.

19 Mar 2015

96-well glass vial storage plate for UHPLC

Porvair Sciences glass vial storage plate combines 96 borosilicate glass vials of 700µl into a rigid polypropylene carrier microplate to provide a superior product for storage and transportation applications.

19 Mar 2015

Antech Diagnostics agrees to acquire assets of AVRL for $21 million from Abaxis

Abaxis, Inc., a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis systems, and VCA Inc., a leading animal healthcare company in the United States and Canada, today jointly announced Antech Diagnostics, Inc., VCA's laboratory division, has agreed to acquire the assets of AVRL (Abaxis Veterinary Reference Laboratory) from Abaxis for $21 million in cash.

19 Mar 2015

Sigma-Aldrich, Roche sign distribution agreement for Biochemical Reagents products

Sigma-AldrichCorporation, a leading Life Science and Technology company, announced today it signed an exclusive global distribution agreement with Roche. The agreement pairs Roche's high-quality Biochemical Reagents product portfolio with the industry-leading eCommerce and supply chain capabilities of Sigma-Aldrich.

19 Mar 2015

ImmunoCellular, PharmaCell sign manufacturing agreement for European production of ICT-107

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. today announced the establishment of an agreement with PharmaCell B.V. to provide contract manufacturing services for the European production of ICT-107, a dendritic cell-based cancer immunotherapy in development as a potential treatment for glioblastoma (GBM).

19 Mar 2015

New bone marrow transplant unit launched in Bangalore, India

A bone marrow transplant can mean the difference between life and death for people with blood cancers and related disorders. But many patients in India can't afford the high treatment costs, and for them a transplant is not an option. This is changing thanks to a newly launched bone marrow transplant unit at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College in Bangalore.

19 Mar 2015

Ensocare to serve as authorized re-seller for iMPak's medication management system

An agreement was reached today between Ensocare and New Jersey-based iMPak Health to include iMPak's innovative medication management system, Kraken, as part of the Ensocare sales portfolio. Ensocare will serve as an authorized re-seller for the Kraken system, which may be sold alone or, in the future, as an integrated feature inside of Ensocare's Sync and Connect software engines.

19 Mar 2015

Janssen announces acquisition of XO1

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, announced today that it has acquired XO1 Limited, a privately held asset-centric virtual biopharmaceutical company founded to develop the anti-thrombin antibody ichorcumab.

19 Mar 2015

Health care changes essential to manage chronic disease, say researchers

Chronic disease accounts for 7 of every 10 deaths in the United States and more than 75% of total health care costs. Among people 65 years old and older, over 92% suffer from one or more chronic diseases.

19 Mar 2015

New 'Connected Health Cities’ initiative launched to improve health, social care in the English regions

FOUR new health and social care information projects, aimed at tackling major health challenges by catalysing ‘big picture’ data through the collective expertise of the region’s universities, teaching hospitals and local authorities, are being launched by the Chancellor of the Exchequer today (Wednesday 18 March).

19 Mar 2015

Denator's heat-stabilization system preserves lipids at close-to-in vivo-levels

Denator AB announced today that the company’s heat-stabilization system has been demonstrated to preserve lipids at close-to-in vivo-levels. To preserve lipids in a reliable manner prior to mass spectrometry-based analysis is pivotal to accurately quantify and identify potential biomarkers and perform disease research.

19 Mar 2015

Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology develops method to reduce production costs of valuable drugs

Imagine a loved relative suffering from cancer - and you could not afford a treatment because the drugs are too expensive. The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) developed a method with the power to reduce production costs of highly valued drugs significantly.

19 Mar 2015

New MR Solutions maintenance and upgrade service available for Agilent MRI systems

A new maintenance and upgrade service is available for existing Agilent MRI preclinical imaging equipment, by MR Solutions Ltd, based in Guildford, Surrey. Following Agilent’s withdrawal from this market, a package of maintenance and upgrade solutions has been developed to ensure that these machines stay abreast of modern technology.

From MR Solutions 19 Mar 2015

New tool assesses performance of everyday activities in people with TBI

A recent article by Kessler Foundation researchers describes Actual Reality; as a new tool for assessing performance of activities of everyday life (ADL) in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The article, "Actual Reality: Using the Internet to assess everyday functioning after traumatic brain injury," was epublished on February 19 in Brain Injury.

19 Mar 2015

Technology News and Research

Home care and hospice providers set to participate in NAHC's March on Washington

3D printed heart models to aid doctors plan for complex ops'

96-well glass vial storage plate for UHPLC

Antech Diagnostics agrees to acquire assets of AVRL for $21 million from Abaxis

Sigma-Aldrich, Roche sign distribution agreement for Biochemical Reagents products

ImmunoCellular, PharmaCell sign manufacturing agreement for European production of ICT-107

New bone marrow transplant unit launched in Bangalore, India

Ensocare to serve as authorized re-seller for iMPak's medication management system

Janssen announces acquisition of XO1

Health care changes essential to manage chronic disease, say researchers

New 'Connected Health Cities’ initiative launched to improve health, social care in the English regions

Denator's heat-stabilization system preserves lipids at close-to-in vivo-levels

Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology develops method to reduce production costs of valuable drugs

New MR Solutions maintenance and upgrade service available for Agilent MRI systems

New tool assesses performance of everyday activities in people with TBI

People with severe schizophrenia have major differences in brain networks

Researchers working to develop non-invasive diagnostic technique for detecting Alzheimer's early

Columbia Laboratories' revenues increase 11% to $32.5 million in 2014

PlanSource expands U.S. presence with ClearBenefits acquisition

New method of testing deadly pathogen could help combat cystic fibrosis

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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