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Cotton swab dramatically reduces infections in post-operative incision sites

A simple item found in almost every medicine cabinet - a cotton swab -- may be a key tool in the fight against post-surgical wound infections.

29 Jun 2011

New concepts for how evolutionary change occurs

At a recent Kavli Futures Symposium, 19 experts from a diverse range of fields discussed the promise of using the lab to understand and exploit the evolution of organisms -- progress that may one day lead to new vaccines or other biotechnology products.

29 Jun 2011

U.Va. and Epsilon partner to provide commercial version of computer-based diabetes simulation tool

A computer-based diabetes simulation tool developed by University of Virginia researchers is now commercially available, thanks to a partnership with the Charlottesville-based medical research firm The Epsilon Group. The simulator is the only protocol that has been accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an alternative to animal testing of Type 1 diabetes control strategies.

29 Jun 2011

bioMD changes name to Allied Healthcare Group

bioMD Limited (ASX: BOD) today announced a change of corporate name to reflect the merger with Allied Medical Ltd earlier this month. The new Company will be called Allied Healthcare Group Ltd and trade under the ASX code AHZ.

28 Jun 2011

IOTA NanoSolutions secures funding for commercialisation of ContraSol technology

IOTA NanoSolutions Limited, a specialist formulation company, is pleased to announce today that it has completed a financing round to support the commercialisation of its proprietary nanodispersion formation technology, ContraSol™. New investor, QIB(UK) Plc joins Unilever Ventures Limited (UV) in this financing round.

28 Jun 2011

454 Life Sciences launches new GS FLX+ System for high-throughput sequencing

454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, announced today the launch and immediate availability of the new GS FLX+ System, an instrument capable of generating extra-long sequencing reads up to 1,000 by in length.

28 Jun 2011

Nimbus Discovery closes $24 million Series A financing

Nimbus Discovery LLC, a biopharmaceutical company using state-of-the-art computational technology to discover novel medicines against exciting but previously inaccessible disease targets, today announced the close of a $24M Series A financing.

28 Jun 2011

Sentara, TeleHealth Services partner to reduce unplanned re-hospitalizations

TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of healthcare-grade televisions and interactive patient education solutions, today announced a master agreement with Sentara Healthcare as part of the health system's strategy to advance the patient experience and quality of healthcare in its facilities.

28 Jun 2011

Cynosure announces acquisition of HOYA ConBio's aesthetic laser business

Building on its reputation as a global technology leader in laser and light-based aesthetic systems, Cynosure, Inc. today announced that it has acquired the assets of the aesthetic laser business of HOYA ConBio, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-based HOYA Corporation, for $24.5 million in cash. HOYA ConBio is based in Fremont, California.

28 Jun 2011

NEVHC, CHCN select NextGen technology to support Meaningful Use

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced that Northeast Valley Health Corporation and Community Health Center Network have selected NextGen technology to support their Meaningful Use and business growth initiatives.

28 Jun 2011

MedPro launches pre-filled safety syringe

MedPro Safety Products, Inc., a leading developer of transformational technologies that enable safer medication delivery and blood collection, today announced the introduction of its pre-filled safety syringe.

28 Jun 2011

Data from microarrays co-developed by OGT to be presented at ECC 2011

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, has announced details of its upcoming workshop at the European Cytogenetics Conference 2011, held in Porto, Portugal (2–5 July).

From Oxford Gene Technology 28 Jun 2011

Stretch U.S. foreign aid spending by encouraging competition

Given the competing factors of America's growing international interests and shrinking resources to engage on the global arena, the federal government must take a more critical look at how best to deliver accountable, transparent, and sustainable development aid to countries in need and ask itself how best to support our national security, economic, and humanitarian goals.

28 Jun 2011

DSM introduces Kremer Method for rapid, cost effective production of biopharmaceuticals

Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, today announced the introduction of the Kremer Method, an innovative proprietary technology developed by DSM scientists which improves downstream processing of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for faster and more cost effective production of biopharmaceuticals

28 Jun 2011

Mobile technology, global health and humanitarian relief

This ONE Blog post describes a $28 million public-private partnership between the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and the Vodafone Foundation, which has helped mobile technology "become inextricably connected to global health and humanitarian relief."

28 Jun 2011

On-X LTI announces four clinical trial results of Prosthetic Heart Valve

On-X Life Technologies, Inc. announced today that four clinical trial reports, documenting the On-X Prosthetic Heart Valve's extraordinary performance, will be presented at the upcoming meeting of the Society for Heart Valve Disease in Barcelona, Spain being held June 25-28, 2011.

28 Jun 2011

Gene Codes releases Sequencher 5.0

Gene Codes Corporation announces the release of Sequencher 5.0. It incorporates new DNA sequence data alignment algorithms with SNP and methylation analysis for next-generation DNA sequence data. Performance for assembly and alignment of sequences and contigs is hundreds of times faster.

28 Jun 2011

UC Health chooses Recondo software services to reduce costly insurance denials

UC Health, the University of Cincinnati Hospital system, has selected Recondo software services Auth-DP and EligibilityPlus.

28 Jun 2011

Kindstar, Mayo Clinic enter multiyear agreement to offer specialized laboratory support

Mayo Clinic today announced that it has entered into a multiyear agreement with Wuhan Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc. (Kindstar) to provide specialized laboratory support based on provision of knowledge from Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and its reference laboratory, Mayo Medical Laboratories.

28 Jun 2011

Australian Nobel Prize winner closer to delivering vaccines in food after positive first study in humans

The Australian scientist who won a Nobel Prize for identifying a cancer-causing stomach bacterium, today said a clinical trial had shown that some strains of the bacteria (Helicobacter pylori or H. pylori) were safe and well tolerated in humans.

27 Jun 2011