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Sensable's new Intellifit TE Digital Restoration System offers wide range of benefits to dental labs

Sensable Dental, a division of Sensable, announced the newest version of its Intellifit TE Digital Restoration System that offers dental labs even more choice, performance and flexibility in digitally designing and fabricating a wide range of dental restorations.

25 Feb 2011

Signal files complaint against Med Biogene and Precision Therapeutics in Supreme Court

Med Biogene Inc., a Vancouver-based life sciences company, has been charged with fraud, and Pittsburgh-based Precision Therapeutics, Inc., was charged with tortious interference in an amended complaint filed today by Signal Genetics in Supreme Court for the County of New York.

25 Feb 2011

Harvard Medical School selects Agilent's NMR spectrometer for biomolecular research applications

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that Harvard Medical School has selected Agilent's 700-MHz Ultra-High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer for biomolecular research applications.

25 Feb 2011

FSMB symposium to discuss telemedicine's future and its impact on health care

National health care experts and policy makers will gather March 10 at a major symposium hosted by the Federation of State Medical Boards to discuss telemedicine's future and its impact on health care overall.

25 Feb 2011

New 'closed-loop' system can provide tightly controlled anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery

A new 'closed-loop' system can precisely adjust levels of anesthetics and analgesic drugs in patients undergoing surgery, reports a study in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.

25 Feb 2011

MedInformatix, University Radiology work together to implement Federal Government-certified technology

University Radiology Group, New Jersey's largest provider of subspecialty radiology and teleradiology services, is working with MedInformatix Inc. to implement Federal Government-certified technology that enables medical practices to achieve Stage 1 meaningful use goals and objectives under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for Health Information Technology.

25 Feb 2011

Transgenic fungal approach can fight against malaria and bug-borne diseases

New findings by a University of Maryland-led team of scientists indicate that a genetically engineered fungus carrying genes for a human anti-malarial antibody or a scorpion anti-malarial toxin could be a highly effective, specific and environmentally friendly tool for combating malaria, at a time when the effectiveness of current pesticides against malaria mosquitoes is declining.

24 Feb 2011

Michigan State University secures $7.9 million award to improve food security in Mozambique

Michigan State University has secured a $7.9 million award to improve agriculture and food security in Mozambique through increasing the African nation's agricultural productivity, creating economic opportunities and enhancing nutrition.

24 Feb 2011

Multiplexed capillary isoelectric focusing increases efficiency in protein measurements

The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen Oluwatosin O. Dada (34) as the recipient of its Best Paper Award 2010. Dada is the lead author of a paper in ABC on capillary isoelectric focusing. The award, accompanied by 1,000 euros, was created by Springer to help exceptional young scientists establish their research careers. The ABC Best Paper Award has been given since 2005.

24 Feb 2011

Foreign-born scientists and artists receive sixth annual Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science

The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce the 2011 winners of its annual prizes honoring the contributions of foreign-born scientists and artists.

24 Feb 2011

Shock Doctor signs three-year endorsement contract with NFL

Minneapolis-based Shock Doctor – the authentic market leader and creators of innovative, unique performance-driven sports protection and the undisputed leader in mouthguard technology – announced today it has signed a three-year endorsement contract with NFL San Diego Chargers running back Ryan Mathews.

24 Feb 2011

MRG projects growth standouts in European surgical procedures for next five years

According to Millennium Research Group, the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, growth standouts in European surgical procedures over the next five years will be in percutaneous heart valve procedures, arthroscopy and single-port laparoscopy.

24 Feb 2011

State roundup: Budget cuts to affect health care for state workers, disabled, elderly

A year after making a name for himself by slashing spending, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie presented a $29.4 billion budget on Tuesday that makes nips and tucks to programs—notably Medicaid—but puts much of the state in a holding pattern.

24 Feb 2011

Stereotaxis reports first-ever use of Niobe Magnetic Navigation System to treat hypertension

Stereotaxis, Inc. announced today the first-ever use of its Niobe® Magnetic Navigation System in a renal artery ablation procedure for the treatment of chronic hypertension that was not treatable with medication.

24 Feb 2011

UK HealthCare to deploy Allscripts EHR, Practice Management solution for faculty providers

UK HealthCare, the patient care operations of University of Kentucky, will deploy the Allscripts lectronic Health Record and Practice Management solution to help its team of 6,000 physicians, nurses, pharmacists and health care providers enhance the quality of patient care, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery.

24 Feb 2011

Opsens completes pre-clinical EasyWire device study for measurement of FFR in coronary arteries

Opsens Inc. said today that its Medical Division has reached a significant milestone, successfully completing a pre-clinical animal study on the EasyWire device, designed to measure Fractional Flow Reserve in the evaluation of coronary lesions.

24 Feb 2011

Quanterix expands its Single Molecule Array technology to measure proteins precisely

Quanterix Corporation, a single molecule diagnostics company providing technology with unprecedented sensitivity for the life science and in vitro diagnostics markets, today announced the online publication of a study that builds upon the company's Single Molecule Array technology by combining digital and analog detection in one straightforward measurement.

24 Feb 2011

Covaris, Caliper enter co-marketing agreement to leverage next generation sequencing

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. and Covaris Inc., Woburn, Mass., today announced a co-marketing agreement which will leverage Covaris' acoustic DNA shearing platforms and Caliper's automation and microfluidics technologies to develop automated workflows for next generation sequencing experiments.

24 Feb 2011

U.N. commission on the status of women opens in New York

Kicking off the two-week 55th Annual Session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in New York on Tuesday, Michelle Bachelet, the first under-secretary-general and executive director of U.N. Women, highlighted the role of gender equality in country development, peace and security, Angola Press reports (2/23).

24 Feb 2011

HIMSS continues to add new health informations to Meaningful Use Onesource

Providing current and vital resources for implementation of health information technology to improve patient care, HIMSS continues to add new information to Meaningful Use OneSource, an online repository of hundreds of documents, tools and links to other knowledge available on the Internet.

24 Feb 2011

Technology News and Research

Sensable's new Intellifit TE Digital Restoration System offers wide range of benefits to dental labs

Signal files complaint against Med Biogene and Precision Therapeutics in Supreme Court

Harvard Medical School selects Agilent's NMR spectrometer for biomolecular research applications

FSMB symposium to discuss telemedicine's future and its impact on health care

New 'closed-loop' system can provide tightly controlled anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery

MedInformatix, University Radiology work together to implement Federal Government-certified technology

Transgenic fungal approach can fight against malaria and bug-borne diseases

Michigan State University secures $7.9 million award to improve food security in Mozambique

Multiplexed capillary isoelectric focusing increases efficiency in protein measurements

Foreign-born scientists and artists receive sixth annual Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science

Shock Doctor signs three-year endorsement contract with NFL

MRG projects growth standouts in European surgical procedures for next five years

State roundup: Budget cuts to affect health care for state workers, disabled, elderly

Stereotaxis reports first-ever use of Niobe Magnetic Navigation System to treat hypertension

UK HealthCare to deploy Allscripts EHR, Practice Management solution for faculty providers

Opsens completes pre-clinical EasyWire device study for measurement of FFR in coronary arteries

Quanterix expands its Single Molecule Array technology to measure proteins precisely

Covaris, Caliper enter co-marketing agreement to leverage next generation sequencing

U.N. commission on the status of women opens in New York

HIMSS continues to add new health informations to Meaningful Use Onesource

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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