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Victoria’s e-health system may still yield benefits: Experts

According to e-health experts, the state government should continue to patronize Victoria’s $360 million health technology program because it was finally starting to deliver some benefits.

24 Jan 2011

Myriant closes $60M strategic equity investment from PTT Chemical

Myriant Technologies, Inc., a privately-held, biotech developer and manufacturer of renewable bio-based chemicals, announced today the closing of a $60 million strategic equity investment from PTT Chemical Group, Thailand's largest petrochemical producer.

24 Jan 2011

Digital Assent closes $2 million Series A equity financing round

Atlanta-based Digital Assent, provider of the PatientPad self-service patient check-in and patient education solution, announces the closing of a $2 million Series A round of equity financing led by Imlay Investments, Fulcrum Equity Partners and BLH Venture Partners.

24 Jan 2011

Medisafe 1 Technologies' 2012 revenues to exceed $10M

Medisafe 1 Technologies Corp., a developer of patented technologies that physically prevent unauthorized administration of prescription medications, announced today that the company expects revenues in 2012 to exceed $10M .

24 Jan 2011

Boston Scientific completes enrollment in comparison trial of SYNERGY Stent to PROMUS Element Stent

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the completion of patient enrollment in the EVOLVE clinical trial, which is designed to assess the safety and performance of the Company's fourth-generation SYNERGY™ Coronary Stent. The randomized, single-blind, non-inferiority trial will compare the SYNERGY Stent to the PROMUS Element™ Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent in patients with a single de novo native coronary artery lesion.

24 Jan 2011

NHLBI, HeartWare award $13.3M to study benefits of heart devices for heart failure

The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded $13.3 million to explore the potential benefits of heart devices for the large and growing group of Americans with heart failure.

24 Jan 2011

Agenus enters research agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Agenus Inc. today announced it has entered into a research agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) using Agenus' proprietary cancer vaccine technology.

24 Jan 2011

KineMed's fibrosis research program featured in Nature Medicine

KineMed Inc.'s fibrosis research program, which aims to advance the discovery and development of drugs to treat this major disease, is featured in the January edition of Nature Medicine.

24 Jan 2011

BDSI refutes MonoSol's patent infringement claims relating to BEMA Buprenorphine

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. today responded to a process patent infringement lawsuit filed and recently served against the Company and certain co-defendants by MonoSol Rx, LLC. The purpose in responding at this time is for BDSI to strongly refute MonoSol's claims and to assure BDSI stockholders that the Company remains focused on vigorously progressing its pipeline and not allowing this claim to present a distraction.

24 Jan 2011

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

York South-Weston area residents will soon benefit from reduced MRI wait times, thanks to the addition of a new MRI machine and additional funding to reduce the number of patients waiting for MRI scans at the Humber River Regional Hospital's Church St. site.

24 Jan 2011

Accent Dual Mode RF System is a less invasive anti-aging skin care technology

What most don't realize is that there is a revolutionary, virtually pain-free technology that delivers dramatic skin tightening and wrinkle reduction results without the pain and recovery of needle injections. Always at the forefront of the latest anti-aging skin care technologies, Manhattan-based JUVA Skin and Laser Center specializes in the Accent Dual Mode RF System.

24 Jan 2011

Welch Allyn to feature new suite of devices at 2011 Arab Health Congress in Dubai, UAE

Welch Allyn, a leading global provider of medical products and solutions, will showcase its newest suite of devices that capture, format and transmit vital signs from the point of care to electronic medical records this week at the 2011 Arab Health Exhibition & Congress in Dubai, UAE.

24 Jan 2011

Functional tests are necessary to understand human disease despite genetic sequencing

Despite what you might have heard, genetic sequencing alone is not enough to understand human disease. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have shown that functional tests are absolutely necessary to understand the biological relevance of the results of sequencing studies as they relate to disease, using a suite of diseases known as the ciliopathies which can cause patients to have many different traits.

24 Jan 2011

CT scans can help physicians to diagnose abdominal pain, reduce health care costs

The use of CT scanning to evaluate abdominal pain in emergency departments can help physicians arrive at a diagnosis quickly and decisively. A study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and appearing in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology also finds that information provided by CT scans changed treatment plans for almost half the patients studied and significantly reduced probable hospital admissions.

24 Jan 2011

FDA approves On-X AAP with Vascutek Gelweave Valsalva Graft

On-X Life Technologies, announced today that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market the On-X Ascending Aortic Prosthesis with the Vascutek Gelweave Valsalva Graft.

23 Jan 2011

HIMSS establishes new Latino Initiative to focus on health IT needs

With the Hispanic population as the nation's largest minority, HIMSS announces the establishment of a new HIMSS Latino Initiative to focus on health IT needs for the rapidly growing Hispanic/Latino market.

23 Jan 2011

HMS receives ONC-ATB certification for electronic health record

Healthcare Management Systems, announced today it has received certification from Drummond Group, an Authorized Testing and Certification Body of the Office of the National Coordinator.

23 Jan 2011

First U.S. implant of RespiCardia System for treatment of sleep apnea

Cardiac Concepts, announced today the first U.S. clinical implant of the RespiCardia System at The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.

21 Jan 2011

USC School of Medicine to host the first World Congress of Ultrasound in Medical Education

Ultrasound is a valuable tool that allows doctors to diagnose and treat patients quickly and accurately. It's been around for decades, but there has been revolutionary change in the technology in recent years, making the machines smaller, cheaper and smarter.

21 Jan 2011

Novel FAK inhibitors targeting binding site of VEGFR-3 reduce growth of pancreatic cancer cells

CureFAKtor Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) inhibitors for cancer, today presented research results at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium in San Francisco demonstrating that novel FAK inhibitors targeting the binding site of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 (VEGFR-3) reduced the growth of pancreatic cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.

21 Jan 2011

Technology News and Research

Victoria’s e-health system may still yield benefits: Experts

Myriant closes $60M strategic equity investment from PTT Chemical

Digital Assent closes $2 million Series A equity financing round

Medisafe 1 Technologies' 2012 revenues to exceed $10M

Boston Scientific completes enrollment in comparison trial of SYNERGY Stent to PROMUS Element Stent

NHLBI, HeartWare award $13.3M to study benefits of heart devices for heart failure

Agenus enters research agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

KineMed's fibrosis research program featured in Nature Medicine

BDSI refutes MonoSol's patent infringement claims relating to BEMA Buprenorphine

Humber River Regional Hospital adds new MRI

Accent Dual Mode RF System is a less invasive anti-aging skin care technology

Welch Allyn to feature new suite of devices at 2011 Arab Health Congress in Dubai, UAE

Functional tests are necessary to understand human disease despite genetic sequencing

CT scans can help physicians to diagnose abdominal pain, reduce health care costs

FDA approves On-X AAP with Vascutek Gelweave Valsalva Graft

HIMSS establishes new Latino Initiative to focus on health IT needs

HMS receives ONC-ATB certification for electronic health record

First U.S. implant of RespiCardia System for treatment of sleep apnea

USC School of Medicine to host the first World Congress of Ultrasound in Medical Education

Novel FAK inhibitors targeting binding site of VEGFR-3 reduce growth of pancreatic cancer cells

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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