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Physicians should check fatty deposits around heart when evaluating heart problems: Researchers

Cardiac imaging researchers at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute are recommending that physicians not overlook fatty deposits around the heart when evaluating patients for risk of major heart problems.

8 Oct 2010

Biomoda extends pilot clinical trial of CyPath assay for early-stage lung cancer detection

Cancer diagnostics company Biomoda, Inc. today announced in its new monthly President's Column, posted at www.biomoda.com, that it is extending the pilot clinical trial of its CyPath diagnostic assay for the detection of early-stage lung cancer to recruit additional participants for the positive control group, patients who have been diagnosed with lung cancer but have not yet begun treatment for the disease.

8 Oct 2010

New Bioactive technology can be applied in rapid diagnostics tests

VTT printed the paper with antibodies that react to the sample. The test result can be read in the form of a line, for example, which either does or does not appear depending on the sample - just like in the pregnancy tests already familiar to consumers. It is also possible to print instructional images or text, for example, either on or alongside the test.

8 Oct 2010

Doctors say practices disrupted by piecemeal Medicare payment fixes

Doctor groups are warning congressional leaders that a series of short-term measures lawmakers passed earlier this year to block Medicare payment cuts were too disruptive to medical practices," CQ HealthBeat reports.

8 Oct 2010

Pioneer launches Bigfoot ALIF implant for lumbar procedures

Pioneer Surgical Technology today announces the market launch of the Pioneer Advantage portfolio of allograft products including a large ALIF interbody, Bigfoot. Pioneer Advantage products include machined allografts for cervical and anterior lumbar procedures as well as demineralized strips and cubes for use in various spinal and general orthopaedic surgeries.

7 Oct 2010

AMIC signs world-wide license for brachytherapy seed with fast-dissolving matrix

Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation, a company engaged in the production and distribution of medical isotopes, is delighted to announce the execution of an exclusive world-wide license for patented technology for a proprietary brachytherapy seed with a fast-dissolving matrix for optimized delivery of radionuclides to cancer tissue.

7 Oct 2010

AngioDynamics reports 3% increase in net sales for fiscal 2011 first quarter

AngioDynamics, a leading provider of innovative medical devices for the minimally-invasive treatment of cancer and peripheral vascular disease, today reported financial results for the fiscal 2011 first quarter ended August 31, 2010 that were in line with the preliminary results reported on September 7, 2010.

7 Oct 2010

GeoVax receives US Patent for pGA series of plasmids

GeoVax Labs, Inc., a biotechnology company that creates, develops and tests innovative HIV/AIDS vaccines, has been issued via an exclusive license from Emory University, a US Patent for its "DNA expression vectors and methods of use. Issued on September 14, 2010, the patent claims cover novel vectors and novel HIV vaccine inserts.

7 Oct 2010

AnalizaDx SIA technology, Nanosphere Verisens assay effective for prostate cancer diagnosis

At the annual meeting of the North-Central American Urological Association, Mark Stovsky, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Case Medical Center, and principal investigator, presented positive data combining the AnalizaDx SIA technology with the Nanosphere Verisens ultra-sensitive PSA assay.

7 Oct 2010

Researchers unveil clues to combat enteritis in humans

The bacterium Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of food poisoning in humans. It is normally transmitted from contaminted chicken meat, as it is frequently found in the intestines of chickens, where it apparently does not result in any symptoms. Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have now solved the puzzle, showing that Campylobacter can survive ambient oxygen levels thanks to the presence of other bacteria, species of Pseudomonas.

7 Oct 2010

IDEV Technologies completes $46 million Series D round of financing with PJC Capital

IDEV Technologies, Incorporated, an emerging leader in the development and commercialization of minimally invasive medical technologies, today announced that it has completed a $46 million Series D round of financing, with Piper Jaffray & Co.'s Merchant Banking Fund and a leading strategic global healthcare company as the two new investors.

7 Oct 2010

Should Medicare consider cost-effectiveness when setting reimbursement rates?

Medicare reimbursement rates should be based on how cost effective the treatment is for a particular illness, according to a piece by two policy experts in the October edition of Health Affairs.

7 Oct 2010

Integra Total Wrist Fusion System to be featured at ASSH Annual Meeting

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation announced today that it is featuring the Integra Total Wrist Fusion System at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) on October 7-9, in Boston, Massachusetts.

7 Oct 2010

SMI completes development of SkinSpect for early detection of melanoma

Cascade Technologies Corp. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Spectral Molecular Imaging, Inc. (SMI), completed, under a previously introduced accelerated timeline, the development of its initial product SkinSpect, aimed at early detection of melanoma by the company's proprietary form of hyperspectral imaging.

7 Oct 2010

e-IRG endorses Blue Paper at ESFRI delegates meeting

In October 2009 ESFRI invited the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) to produce a report, or "Blue Paper", on e-Infrastructure services, enabling more efficient e-Infrastructure support for the science that is done by the ESFRI Roadmap projects.

7 Oct 2010

UEM, San Diego School of Medicine enter partnership to address medical human resource needs in Mozambique

Aimed at enhancing the capacity of Mozambique's flagship medical school, Universidade Eduardo Modlane (UEM), in pre- and postgraduate medical education, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UEM entered into a partnership in 2007 to address both short and long-term medical human resource needs in Mozambique.

7 Oct 2010

CDC selects Northrop Grumman to compete for task orders in CIMS contract

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to compete for task orders to provide information management and technology services in support of the CDC's global health mission under a $5 billion indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract.

7 Oct 2010

Rising Medical, Align team up to enhance rehabilitation care for patients

Experiencing speed and efficiency in the healthcare process remains a rarity. Now two companies are adding those essential variables to ensure healthy, accurate outcomes. Rising Medical Solutions, a medical cost containment company, and Align Networks, a physical medicine provider network, have built an electronic integration that picks up the pace of healthcare.

7 Oct 2010

Paper describes new method for studying bacterial infection of orthopedic implants

A research team, co-headed by Dr. Woo Lee and Dr. Hongjun Wang of Stevens Institute of Technology, has published a paper describing a new method that generates three-dimensional tissue models for studying bacterial infection of orthopedic implants. Dr. Joung-Hyun Lee of Stevens, and Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan of the New Jersey Dental School, are co-authors of the research.

7 Oct 2010

Synthetic Genomics, JCVI announce formation of new company to develop next generation vaccines

The company Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) and the not-for-profit research organization, the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the formation of a new company, Synthetic Genomics Vaccines Inc. (SGVI).

7 Oct 2010

Technology News and Research

Physicians should check fatty deposits around heart when evaluating heart problems: Researchers

Biomoda extends pilot clinical trial of CyPath assay for early-stage lung cancer detection

New Bioactive technology can be applied in rapid diagnostics tests

Doctors say practices disrupted by piecemeal Medicare payment fixes

Pioneer launches Bigfoot ALIF implant for lumbar procedures

AMIC signs world-wide license for brachytherapy seed with fast-dissolving matrix

AngioDynamics reports 3% increase in net sales for fiscal 2011 first quarter

GeoVax receives US Patent for pGA series of plasmids

AnalizaDx SIA technology, Nanosphere Verisens assay effective for prostate cancer diagnosis

Researchers unveil clues to combat enteritis in humans

IDEV Technologies completes $46 million Series D round of financing with PJC Capital

Should Medicare consider cost-effectiveness when setting reimbursement rates?

Integra Total Wrist Fusion System to be featured at ASSH Annual Meeting

SMI completes development of SkinSpect for early detection of melanoma

e-IRG endorses Blue Paper at ESFRI delegates meeting

UEM, San Diego School of Medicine enter partnership to address medical human resource needs in Mozambique

CDC selects Northrop Grumman to compete for task orders in CIMS contract

Rising Medical, Align team up to enhance rehabilitation care for patients

Paper describes new method for studying bacterial infection of orthopedic implants

Synthetic Genomics, JCVI announce formation of new company to develop next generation vaccines

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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