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Response Biomedical strengthens patent protection for RAMP technology

Response Biomedical Corporation today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued an official Notice of Allowance on one of the Company's patent applications regarding the RAMP® technology. The patent entitled "Comparative Multiple Analyte Immunoassay" is expected to issue in the first quarter of 2011.

20 Dec 2010

Stereotaxis closes $40 million credit facility

Stereotaxis, Inc. announced today that the Company has closed on its previously announced $40 million credit facility, which includes a $30 million revolving facility that matures on March 31, 2012 and a $10 million term loan that matures on December 31, 2013. The new facility was led by Silicon Valley Bank, and replaces the Company's previous facility that was scheduled to mature in March 2011.

20 Dec 2010

PwC: Top Health Industry Issues of 2011

Health organizations will undergo a strategy makeover in 2011 as they react to new rules and payment models, continuing cost pressures and new customer demands, according to the Top Health Industry Issues of 2011, published today by PwC's Health Research Institute. But in a recent nationwide survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, PwC found that consumers don't fully understand or buy-in to all the changes.

20 Dec 2010

U of A student wins annual master's thesis competition for research on light-sensitive drug for prostate cancer

The future of cancer treatment and a University of Alberta graduate student's personal career prospects are looking bright. Weiyang Liu beat competitors from 80 of the best university graduate schools in western North America with his master's thesis on the use of a light-sensitive drug to treat prostate cancer.

20 Dec 2010

FVCG invests $175,000 in Celvive for stem cell research in spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological condition with limited therapeutic options. In the United States alone, there are more than 250,000 people living with SCI; approximately three million worldwide are affected.

20 Dec 2010

New U.N. commission will track donors' pledges on maternal, child health

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete will co-chair a new "U.N. commission tasked with tracking whether $40 billion in pledges from countries and aid groups are really flowing to efforts to improve the health of mothers and young children in poor countries, and what impact the programs have," the Globe and Mail reports (Clark, 12/16).

20 Dec 2010

Entrepreneur Lab announces Clearwave CEO as great entrepreneur in Atlanta

The Entrepreneur Lab just announced Gerard White, CEO of Clearwave Corporation, as a One to Watch Entrepreneur in Atlanta. The Entrepreneur Lab was founded in order to highlight Atlanta business leaders who motivate and transform companies in Atlanta.

20 Dec 2010

BioNeutral Group, KHA to introduce Ogiene and Ygiene products

BioNeutral Group, Inc., a specialty life science technology-based company, today announced it is entering into discussions with the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) through its subsidiary Kentucky Hospital Services Corporation LLC (KHSC) to introduce BioNeutral's Ogiene™ and Ygiene™ products into its member hospital association.

20 Dec 2010

Research roundup: Gender differences in health spending; How the states could fare under the new law; Increased Medicare premiums

Health Affairs: Pronounced Gender And Age Differences Are Evident In Personal Health Care Spending Per Person - This paper examines health care spending by men and women in 2004, including comparisons "by age group, goods and services consumed, and payers, and an analysis of some of the most frequently cited health conditions and treatments associated with that spending."

20 Dec 2010

Avila, sanofi-aventis enter global alliance to discover targeted covalent drugs for treatment of cancers

Avila Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has signed a worldwide strategic alliance with sanofi-aventis to discover targeted covalent drugs for the treatment of cancers. Under the alliance agreement sanofi-aventis obtains a worldwide exclusive license to develop and commercialize the compounds resulting from the discovery collaboration.

20 Dec 2010

$FDA approves Medtronic's Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system for drug refractory PAF$

FDA approves Medtronic's Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system for drug refractory PAF

Medtronic, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its Arctic Front® Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system, the first and only Cryoballoon in the United States indicated for the treatment of drug refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). The Cryoballoon treatment involves a minimally-invasive procedure that efficiently creates circumferential lesions around the pulmonary vein, which is the source of erratic electrical signals that cause the irregular heartbeat.

20 Dec 2010

Medical breakthrough: Scientists grow functioning human intestinal tissue from stem cells

Emerging Healthcare Solutions was encouraged by the latest breakthrough in stem cell research this week when scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center announced that they've grown functioning human intestinal tissue from stem cells for the first time.

20 Dec 2010

Arthrosurface conducts first knee procedure based on HemiCAP platform technology

Arthrosurface, Inc., the developer of less-invasive joint resurfacing systems, announced that it has performed its first biological knee procedure based on the company's proven HemiCAP® platform technology.

19 Dec 2010

InspireMD presents long-term data of MGuard stent technology at the ICI

InspireMD, developer of the novel MGuard(TM), a combination of a coronary stent merged with an embolic protection specifically designed for Acute MI (AMI) patients, received significant exposure at the ICI, Innovations in Interventional Cardiology, meeting this week in Tel-Aviv. InspireMD presented long-term data, including two years of clinical follow-up, to support the Company's MGuard stent technology.

17 Dec 2010

Bio-IS and HSS sign 5-year partnership to deliver Bio-Intervention Disinfection Service to hospitals

Bio-Intervention Specialists (Bio-IS) and HSS Inc. (HSS) announced today that their companies have signed a five-year partnership to deliver the Bio-Intervention Disinfection Service to hospitals across the United States.

17 Dec 2010

Best Buy announces national rollout of health, fitness products at 600 Best Buy stores

Today Best Buy announces the national rollout of health and fitness products at 600 Best Buy stores across the country and online at Bestbuy.com. The selection aims to satisfy consumers' health and fitness needs through an array of traditional and new connected offerings for holiday gifting and just in time for New Year health and fitness resolutions.

17 Dec 2010

FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention provides cost-saving benefits

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced the publication of results from an economic evaluation of the landmark FAME (Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) vs. Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation) trial, which confirmed FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease improves patient outcomes and offers cost-saving benefits to the U.S. healthcare system.

17 Dec 2010

Possible stem cell cure for AIDS

An explosion of stem cell breakthroughs, including a possible cure for AIDS, is reshaping the possibilities for curing deadly and debilitating diseases around the globe, says Emerging Healthcare Solutions President and CEO Cindy Morrissey.

17 Dec 2010

Elsevier Foundation's new library grants focus on telemedicine, HIV/AIDS videos and Egyptian cancer database

The Elsevier Foundation has announced the 2010 recipients of grants under its Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program, committing over $300,000 to support the work of libraries in developing countries. The 2010 grant recipients were selected from 260 proposals worldwide for their innovation and potential for impact in the developing world. The Innovative Libraries program supports capacity-building projects in the science, technology and medicine library training, education, infrastructure, digitization and the preservation of information.

17 Dec 2010

Diagenic, Pfizer enter collaboration to identify biomarkers in early stages of Alzheimer's disease

DiaGenic ASA and Pfizer Inc today signed an agreement for explorative R&D collaboration to identify biomarkers in early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) using DiaGenic's patented gene expression technology and its blood samples from ongoing clinical studies.

17 Dec 2010

Technology News and Research

Response Biomedical strengthens patent protection for RAMP technology

Stereotaxis closes $40 million credit facility

PwC: Top Health Industry Issues of 2011

U of A student wins annual master's thesis competition for research on light-sensitive drug for prostate cancer

FVCG invests $175,000 in Celvive for stem cell research in spinal cord injury

New U.N. commission will track donors' pledges on maternal, child health

Entrepreneur Lab announces Clearwave CEO as great entrepreneur in Atlanta

BioNeutral Group, KHA to introduce Ogiene and Ygiene products

Research roundup: Gender differences in health spending; How the states could fare under the new law; Increased Medicare premiums

Avila, sanofi-aventis enter global alliance to discover targeted covalent drugs for treatment of cancers

FDA approves Medtronic's Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system for drug refractory PAF

Medical breakthrough: Scientists grow functioning human intestinal tissue from stem cells

Arthrosurface conducts first knee procedure based on HemiCAP platform technology

InspireMD presents long-term data of MGuard stent technology at the ICI

Bio-IS and HSS sign 5-year partnership to deliver Bio-Intervention Disinfection Service to hospitals

Best Buy announces national rollout of health, fitness products at 600 Best Buy stores

FFR-guided percutaneous coronary intervention provides cost-saving benefits

Possible stem cell cure for AIDS

Elsevier Foundation's new library grants focus on telemedicine, HIV/AIDS videos and Egyptian cancer database

Diagenic, Pfizer enter collaboration to identify biomarkers in early stages of Alzheimer's disease

Event guide: 4th Extra-Hepatic Lipid-Based Nanoparticles Delivery Summit eBook

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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