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OEFI selects HealthEdge's HealthRules product suite

HealthEdge, provider of the only modern, enterprise-class software platform for healthcare payors, today announced that the Pasadena, Calif.-based Operating Engineers Funds Inc. (OEFI) has selected the patented HealthRules product suite to tackle the non-profit health plan's unique and challenging service needs.

8 Sep 2010

Zyngenia completes $15M Series A financing extension from NEA

Zyngenia, Inc., a privately held biotherapeutics company focused on next-generation antibody drug development, announced today the completion of a $15 million Series A financing extension from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the world's leading venture capital firms. The capital will be used to continue to rapidly progress Zyngenia's pipeline of Zybodies™, which are novel, multi-specific, antibody-based molecules that address two or more biological targets with a single protein drug.

8 Sep 2010

Quick-Med expands and strengthens NIMBUS technology intellectual property

Quick-Med Technologies, Inc., a life sciences company that is developing innovative technologies for the healthcare and consumer markets, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent 7,790,217 entitled "Method of Attaching an Antimicrobial Cationic Polyelectrolyte to the Surface of a Substrate."

8 Sep 2010

Liberator Medical Holdings' subsidiary receives 2010 Governor's Business Diversification Award

Liberator Medical Holdings, Inc. today announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Liberator Medical Supply, has received the 2010 Governor's Business Diversification Award in the Business Expansion category.

8 Sep 2010

Tampa, Florida-based medical institution purchases Streamline Health's document workflow solutions

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. a leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced that a leading Tampa, Florida-based medical institution has purchased three additional workflow licenses to expand the use of Streamline Health's document workflow solutions to help optimize business processes across the enterprise and improve operational efficiencies. Streamline Health expects at least two of the workflow solutions to be fully implemented and operational prior to the conclusion of the current fiscal year.

8 Sep 2010

Late breaking clinical trials in interventional cardiovascular medicine to be presented at TCT 2010

Clinical trials in a variety of areas within interventional cardiovascular medicine that will be presented at TCT 2010 will directly affect the way that people with cardiovascular disease are treated. Breakthroughs in science and medical research, presented exclusively at TCT, will lead to new treatments that are minimally invasive and involve shorter recovery times. Among the topics being covered are stenting in the femoral artery, polymer-free drug-eluting stents, valves and drug-eluting balloons used in angioplasty.

8 Sep 2010

OrthoAccel Technologies to host private lecture for orthodontic specialists in Brighton

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. has announced its plans to host a private lecture and reception for orthodontic specialists in Brighton during the British Orthodontic Conference.

8 Sep 2010

STAAR Surgical's Visian Implantable Collamer Lens featured prominently at 2010 ESCRS Congress

STAAR Surgical Company, the leading worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of phakic intraocular lenses, today announced that the Visian Implantable Collamer® Lens (ICL) was featured prominently in more than 40 presentations by leading ophthalmologists at meetings prior to and during the 2010 Congress of European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) held in Paris, France from September 4 through 8, 2010.

8 Sep 2010

ProteaBio concludes agreement with George Washington University to commercialize LAESI technology

ProteaBio Europe SAS, a leading developer of new technology, announced today that the company has concluded an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with George Washington University for commercial rights to a new technology that provides rapid identification of a broad range of chemicals and biomolecules.

8 Sep 2010

ImmuneRegen's Homspera with Scancell's ImmunoBody technology improves immune response for cancer

ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of IR BioSciences Holdings, Inc. today announced that treatment with its lead compound, Homspera, in combination with a DNA vaccine utilizing Scancell's ImmunoBody technology significantly improved the immune response of the vaccine in an animal model.

8 Sep 2010

Changes in Japan's MHLW reimbursement will drive chronic dialysis catheter market

According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, changes in Japan's Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare (MHLW) reimbursement, which encourage facilities to use higher-priced chronic dialysis catheters, will lead to double-digit growth in this segment over the next five years, and will support overall market revenues.

8 Sep 2010

Shipcom receives Authority to Operate under DoD Information Assurance Accreditation and Certification Process

Shipcom, a leading global provider of enterprise and healthcare solutions, announced today they have been granted Authority to Operate under the DoD Information Assurance Accreditation and Certification Process.

8 Sep 2010

'Compliant concept' wins CTI Medtech Award 2010

"And the winner is- 'compliant concept' - Michael Sauter and his team receive the CTI Medtech Award 2010" was the announcement heard in the Casino in Bern on August 31st. The Medtech Event organized by the CTI, the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency, is the meeting place for all the main players in the medical technology branch in the country.

8 Sep 2010

NIH announces award to improve human microbiome research

The National Institutes of Health today announced it has awarded approximately $42 million to expand the scope of eight demonstration projects designed to link changes in the human microbiome to health and disease.

8 Sep 2010

HealthInsight and GE Healthcare enter collaboration

Soon after the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) named HealthInsight the Regional Extension Center (REC) of record for Nevada and Utah, GE Healthcare began a collaborative effort the parties plan to continue well into the future.

8 Sep 2010

Children's Hospital Boston engages Particle Sciences for drug product development services

Particle Sciences Inc. (PSI), a leading pharmaceutical Contract Research Organization (CRO), has been engaged by Children's Hospital Boston to help advance early stage molecules and drug innovations into new therapeutic products for patient care. Under the established framework between Children's and PSI, Particle Sciences provides drug product development services aimed at progressing the specific drug or drug product candidate to the point where it becomes attractive to potential licensees.

8 Sep 2010

San Antonio podiatrist offers new MLS Therapy for pain management

Dr. Ed Davis, a podiatrist with offices in San Antonio, TX and Live Oak, TX, announces the immediate offering of a new form of laser therapy to patients in the San Antonio area. The addition is part of Dr. Davis' continued investment in advanced technologies and progressive procedures.

8 Sep 2010

K-State University receives patent for procedures to source stem cells from umbilical cord

Kansas State University has been a issued a patent for a plentiful and noncontroversial source of stem cells from a substance in the umbilical cord.

8 Sep 2010

DiaTech Oncology files patent for Drug Discovery to validate cancer treatment

DiaTech Oncology has announced the filing of a patent for Drug Discovery that will provide a new strategy and approach to validate drugs that may be more effective in treating cancer patients

8 Sep 2010

GE Global Researchers receive award from NIH for human microbiome study

Researchers from GE Global Research have been awarded a $538,000 human microbiome project from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop new technology that would allow for the study of individual cells growing inside and outside the body believed to have a significant impact on human health.

8 Sep 2010

Technology News and Research

OEFI selects HealthEdge's HealthRules product suite

Zyngenia completes $15M Series A financing extension from NEA

Quick-Med expands and strengthens NIMBUS technology intellectual property

Liberator Medical Holdings' subsidiary receives 2010 Governor's Business Diversification Award

Tampa, Florida-based medical institution purchases Streamline Health's document workflow solutions

Late breaking clinical trials in interventional cardiovascular medicine to be presented at TCT 2010

OrthoAccel Technologies to host private lecture for orthodontic specialists in Brighton

STAAR Surgical's Visian Implantable Collamer Lens featured prominently at 2010 ESCRS Congress

ProteaBio concludes agreement with George Washington University to commercialize LAESI technology

ImmuneRegen's Homspera with Scancell's ImmunoBody technology improves immune response for cancer

Changes in Japan's MHLW reimbursement will drive chronic dialysis catheter market

Shipcom receives Authority to Operate under DoD Information Assurance Accreditation and Certification Process

'Compliant concept' wins CTI Medtech Award 2010

NIH announces award to improve human microbiome research

HealthInsight and GE Healthcare enter collaboration

Children's Hospital Boston engages Particle Sciences for drug product development services

San Antonio podiatrist offers new MLS Therapy for pain management

K-State University receives patent for procedures to source stem cells from umbilical cord

DiaTech Oncology files patent for Drug Discovery to validate cancer treatment

GE Global Researchers receive award from NIH for human microbiome study

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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