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Cordis EXOSEAL Vascular Closure Device receives approval in the U.S.

Cordis Corporation, a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of interventional vascular technology, today announced the approval of the EXOSEAL Vascular Closure Device in the US. EXOSEAL incorporates a number of new advances in technology and simplicity of design to provide precise and secure extravascular arterial closure.

21 May 2011

Technology to determine most effective chemotherapy treatment wins first prize in UC Davis Big Bang! competition

A technology that could allow cancer specialists to better determine the most effective chemotherapy treatment for a given patient won the $10,000 in first prize money in the 11th annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition at the University of California, Davis. The contest is run by MBA students in the Graduate School of Management.

20 May 2011

Research roundup: Closing E.R.S; Predicting future health costs; Providing rural residents with specialized care

Factors Associated With The Closures Of Emergency Departments In The United States -- This study looks at the community, market and medical factors that led to an increase of urban hospital-based emergency department closures.

20 May 2011

Health Endeavors releases ACO WebCenter 1.0 and Physician Alignment WebCenter 2.0

ACO WebCenter Version 1.0 is a web-based product developed to assist hospitals, IPAs and physicians with the implementation of a Medicare or Non-Medicare Accountable Care Organization. Physician Alignment WebCenter 2.0 is a web-based product utilized by hospitals to enhance physician alignment with medical staff members. The 2.0 version includes a communications portal and Meaningful Use/EMR Center.

20 May 2011

Electrical disturbances in injured brain lead to poor recovery

Electrical disturbances that spread through an injured brain like tsunamis have a direct link to poor recovery and can last far longer than previously realized, researchers at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute have found.

20 May 2011

GIS discovery could help generate stem cells more efficiently for biomedical applications

A team of scientists from Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have shown how proteins involved in controlling genes work together to carry out their functions in stem cells and demonstrated for the very first time, how they can change interaction partners to make other types of cells.

20 May 2011

VBL to present positive VB-111 preclinical data in metastatic lung cancer at 14th ASGCT

VBL Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to the development of novel treatments for immune-inflammatory diseases and cancer, today announced that it will present preclinical data demonstrating VB-111's potential synergy and additive therapeutic effect when administered in combination with the conventional chemotherapy cancer treatments.

20 May 2011

Longer looks: Tough health care questions for GOP presidential contenders; Robotics help spike use of prostate treatment

For my money, the most interesting thing about Mitt Romney's health-care speech last week wasn't his struggle to defend Romneycare and distance it from Obamacare, but the largely hostile reception of the speech from the right.

20 May 2011

Unigene enters Clinical Manufacturing Services Agreement with Cara Therapeutics

Unigene Laboratories, Inc. a leader in the design, delivery, manufacture and development of peptide-based therapeutics announced today that the Company signed a Clinical Manufacturing Services Agreement with Cara Therapeutics, Inc.

19 May 2011

Mitomics enters licensing agreement with QDx Pathology Services for QPredict Prostate Mitomic Test

Mitomics, world leader in the research and development of mitochondrial genome-based products, today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with QDx Pathology Services to develop, market and process the QPredict™ Prostate Mitomic Test.

19 May 2011

Centric Health enters agreements to acquire Blue Water Surgical & Medical Centres, LSC

Centric Health Corporation, Canada's leading diversified healthcare company, today announced that it has entered into agreements to acquire substantially all of the assets of Blue Water Surgical Centre Ltd., Blue Water Rejuvenation Inc., Blue Water Diagnostics Ltd. and Windsor Endoscopy Centre Ltd., along with 75% of the issued and outstanding securities of the London Scoping Centre.

19 May 2011

Shamir Optical Industry first quarter revenues increase 12.8% to $45.2 million

Shamir Optical Industry Ltd., a leading provider of innovative products and technology to the ophthalmic lens market, today announced unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011.

19 May 2011

USPTO grants four key patents for Alvine's proteases to detect celiac disease

Alvine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of autoimmune and gastrointestinal diseases, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued four key patents: 7,943,312; 7,928,056; 7,923,532; and 7,910,541, protecting various aspects of Alvine's core technology.

19 May 2011

Synthetic nanopatch helps regenerate natural heart tissue cells

When you suffer a heart attack, a part of your heart dies. Nerve cells in the heart's wall and a special class of cells that spontaneously expand and contract - keeping the heart beating in perfect synchronicity - are lost forever. Surgeons can't repair the affected area. It's as if when confronted with a road riddled with potholes, you abandon what's there and build a new road instead.

19 May 2011

Hospital websites use industry-provided content and overestimate claims of surgical robots

An estimated four in 10 hospital websites in the United States publicize the use of robotic surgery, with the lion's share touting its clinical superiority despite a lack of scientific evidence that robotic surgery is any better than conventional operations, a new Johns Hopkins study finds.

19 May 2011

NEW Lifestyle on-line teaching modules for medical students

Obesity is an epidemic and when paired with physical inactivity it represents the second leading cause of preventable death nationally from cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. But in medical school, there is a training gap when it comes to teaching future doctors about obesity and related health problems.

19 May 2011

Iroko Cardio deploys Veeva CRM in nine European countries

Iroko Cardio International, a privately held pharmaceutical company dedicated to reducing the incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), has adopted Veeva CRM to support all of its representatives in nine European countries.

19 May 2011

Two genes linked to worst cases of esophageal cancer

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have pinpointed two genes that are amplified in the worst cases of esophageal cancer, providing data to support a new investigational treatment that targets those same genes.

19 May 2011

Goat milk has nutritional characteristics beneficial to human health

Researchers at the University of Granada have found that goat milk has nutritional characteristics beneficial to health. They have determined that goat milk has many nutrients that make it similar to human milk.

19 May 2011

Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to remarkable advance in nuclear magnetic resonance

Nuclear magnetic resonance, a scientific technique associated with outsized, very low temperature, superconducting magnets, is one of the principal tools in the chemist's arsenal, used to study everything from alcohols to proteins to such frontiers as quantum computing.

19 May 2011

Technology News and Research

Cordis EXOSEAL Vascular Closure Device receives approval in the U.S.

Technology to determine most effective chemotherapy treatment wins first prize in UC Davis Big Bang! competition

Research roundup: Closing E.R.S; Predicting future health costs; Providing rural residents with specialized care

Health Endeavors releases ACO WebCenter 1.0 and Physician Alignment WebCenter 2.0

Electrical disturbances in injured brain lead to poor recovery

GIS discovery could help generate stem cells more efficiently for biomedical applications

VBL to present positive VB-111 preclinical data in metastatic lung cancer at 14th ASGCT

Longer looks: Tough health care questions for GOP presidential contenders; Robotics help spike use of prostate treatment

Unigene enters Clinical Manufacturing Services Agreement with Cara Therapeutics

Mitomics enters licensing agreement with QDx Pathology Services for QPredict Prostate Mitomic Test

Centric Health enters agreements to acquire Blue Water Surgical & Medical Centres, LSC

Shamir Optical Industry first quarter revenues increase 12.8% to $45.2 million

USPTO grants four key patents for Alvine's proteases to detect celiac disease

Synthetic nanopatch helps regenerate natural heart tissue cells

Hospital websites use industry-provided content and overestimate claims of surgical robots

NEW Lifestyle on-line teaching modules for medical students

Iroko Cardio deploys Veeva CRM in nine European countries

Two genes linked to worst cases of esophageal cancer

Goat milk has nutritional characteristics beneficial to human health

Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to remarkable advance in nuclear magnetic resonance

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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