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Maricom opens third office in Lutherville

Maricom Systems, Inc. continues its expansion and growth as it announced today the opening of the company's third office in Lutherville, Maryland. The new location will support the company's Business Development and Healthcare IT sectors. Maricom's other locations are in Woodlawn, the corporate headquarters, and Annapolis Junction, the Office of Classified Programs.

14 Mar 2011

Positive results from azide drug-loaded Emulsiphan preclinical toxicity study

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in cancer metabolism-based therapeutics, today announced encouraging results of a preclinical toxicity study of azide drug-loaded Emulsiphan nano emulsions conducted with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under a Collaboration Agreement. Emulsiphan is Cornerstone's proprietary nanoparticle drug delivery system.

14 Mar 2011

Canon Digital Radiography Systems installed across multiple hospitals in Mexico

Broadening the Company's international reach, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the installation of 178 digital radiography systems integrated with Canon brand CXDI-50G and CXDI-55G Digital Radiography Systems in various hospitals throughout Mexico through its local distributors, including Casa Plarre S.A. de C.V., helping to reaffirm Canon's commitment to provide quality medical equipment to help facilitate better patient care.

14 Mar 2011

MEDecision, Health Language enter strategic partnership

MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health management solutions, and Health Language, Inc. (HLI), a global leader in medical terminology management, today announced that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership that will enable MEDecision to help its healthcare payer and provider customers transition to, comply with and capitalize on the industry's forthcoming ICD-10 requirements.

14 Mar 2011

State roundup: Medicaid cuts cause unusual bedfellows

Representatives from Arizona hospitals, nursing homes and health plans are set to meet with Gov. Jan Brewer today. They hope to win her support for a plan to impose a tax on their institutions and avoid deep cuts to Arizona's Medicaid program. The plan reportedly includes a cap on funding for childless adults, a group now covered under the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System that could lose coverage Oct. 1. (Reinhart, 3/11).

14 Mar 2011

Shamir fourth quarter revenues increase 5.4% to $39.1 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 fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010.

14 Mar 2011

Fysicon to customize Merge solutions for BeNeLux market

Merge Healthcare Incorporated, a global corporation dedicated to health IT interoperability solutions, today announced the expansion of its existing software relationship with Fysicon, the dominant Dutch distributor of medical imaging solutions for radiology and cardiology. Fysicon will customize Merge solutions to improve its specific portfolio of image management products for the BeNeLux market

14 Mar 2011

WaferGen Biosystems 2010 revenue exceeds guidance

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today reported financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2010.

14 Mar 2011

European Patent Office grants ProtAffin key patent for CellJammer discovery technology

ProtAffin AG, a biotechnology company developing novel biopharmaceuticals for respiratory disease, inflammation and oncology, today announced that it has been granted a key patent by the European Patent Office protecting its CellJammer® discovery technology, which enables the development of a new class of biopharmaceuticals.

14 Mar 2011

Surgeons deliver virtual temporal bone dissection course for otolaryngology residents, physicians

Two surgeons from Central Ohio recently traveled to Nicaragua on a humanitarian mission to treat children with serious ear, nose and throat conditions. However, this year they brought along some help in the form of high-tech equipment designed to appeal to a generation that grew up playing video games - not to entertain the children, but to train the local doctors and medical students.

14 Mar 2011

ChronTech initiates ChronVac-C DNA vaccine Phase IIb study against HCV

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that its partner, ChronTech Pharma AB, has initiated a Phase IIb clinical study of its ChronVac-C DNA vaccine for hepatitis C virus, delivered by Inovio's proprietary electroporation DNA vaccine delivery technology, in combination with standard of care.

14 Mar 2011

Life Technologies receives FDA 510(k) clearance for StemPro MSC SFM device

Life Technologies Corporation today announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for StemPro MSC SFM – a first for this next-generation stem cell culture medium that is now cleared as a medical device and satisfies a crucial requirement for researchers involved in clinical trials in the United States.

14 Mar 2011

Surgeons use stem cell technology for bone grafts to treat foot, ankle conditions

When patients need a bone graft for a foot or ankle surgery, bone often is taken from another part of their body. Now surgeons are using new methods to get bone material and even stem cells right "off the shelf," according to Glenn M. Weinraub, DPM, FACFAS, a California foot and ankle surgeon who is leading a discussion among surgeons on the next decade of bone healing at the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons' Annual Scientific Conference in Fort Lauderdale.

14 Mar 2011

AbCheck licenses CELEXION yeast display technology for an industry first

AbCheck s.r.o., the multi antibody discovery platforms company, announced today the company has licensed a proven antibody yeast display technology from CELEXION LLC (Cambridge, MA, USA). The addition of this platform to AbCheck's current phage display platform places the company as the World's only antibody discovery specialist leveraging the advantage of working with both phage and yeast display technologies.

14 Mar 2011

SOM Biotech closes first financing round and files patent application

SOM Biotech, a biopharmaceutical start-up company with a business model centered on the identification and development of drug repurposing opportunities, reports significant progress on its trajectory towards pipeline development and candidate outlicensing.

14 Mar 2011

CTI, Chroma enter agreement to co-develop and license tosedostat

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. and Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. announced today that the companies have entered into a co-development and license agreement providing CTI with exclusive marketing and co-development rights to Chroma's drug candidate tosedostat in North, Central and South America.

14 Mar 2011

External panel issues draft report saying WHO response to H1N1 lacked cohesion, clarity

An independent panel of experts commissioned by the WHO to probe its response to the H1N1 pandemic on Thursday released a draft report stating that while the organization performed well in many ways, it made "crucial mistakes" and "warned tens of millions could die if there is a severe flu outbreak in the future," the Associated Press reports.

14 Mar 2011

Nanotechnology might provide greater efficacy of medicines for brain disease

Technology has been developed within Top Institute Pharma that helps medicines be absorbed quicker into the blood and thus be more effective. Researcher Hans de Waard, who is associated with the University of Groningen, will obtain his doctorate on this subject on March 11. De Waard: "Many current medicines are not easily dissolved in the digestive tract, which means that they barely reach the bloodstream.

14 Mar 2011

U-M's CoreValve trial to offer less invasive approach for patients with aortic stenosis

The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, a leader in heart valve replacement, will participate in a national clinical trial to offer patients a less invasive approach to replacing diseased aortic valves.

14 Mar 2011

Daylight Solutions ships its 200th commercial laser system for scientific applications

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of advanced molecular detection, spectroscopic imaging, and high-power illumination solutions, shipped its 200th commercial laser system for scientific applications at the close of 2010.

From Daylight Solutions Inc 14 Mar 2011