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Certeon expands international distribution capabilities with CDG partnership

Certeon, the leading provider of virtualized software-based WAN optimization and application acceleration, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with CDG, a major distributor of leading-edge information technology in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe. CDG specializes in the most innovative technologies for the WAN acceleration and cloud computing markets.

6 Jul 2010

Amorfix partners with reMYND to offer A4 amyloid testing services

Amorfix Life Sciences Ltd. and reMYND NV today announced the signing of a partnership agreement to offer the Amorfix A4 amyloid testing service to reMYND's contract research clients. reMYND's contract research business offers an extensive portfolio of preclinical in-vivo efficacy, pharmacokinetic and safety testing of experimental Alzheimer therapies using proprietary mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

6 Jul 2010

Investment report on Imaging3

MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring Imaging3 Inc.. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and recent company news that you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

6 Jul 2010

Major biological resource centre increases cell line supply capacity with TAP’s automated cryovial filling system

The Automation Partnership (TAP), world leader in the design and development of innovative automation for life science applications announced its Fill-It™, benchtop automated dispensing system, is being used at one of the world's largest biological resource centres to improve the precision of filling and to significantly reduce the time required to dispense cells into large numbers of cryovials.

6 Jul 2010

MAXIMUS to introduce Health Insurance Exchange solutions

MAXIMUS, Inc., a leading provider of government services worldwide, announced today that it has launched its Health Insurance Exchange offerings to help states address the federal regulatory requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

6 Jul 2010

Hope for ovarian cancer patients not responding to conventional chemotherapy

Investigators at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have discovered a way that may help ovarian cancer patients who no longer respond to conventional chemotherapy.

6 Jul 2010

Protagen, Mikrogen collaborate to identify typical autoantibody signatures in infectious diseases

Protagen AG, Dortmund, and the Neuried, Germany, based diagnostics company Mikrogen GmbH, announced today the closing of a collaboration agreement for the identification of typical autoantibody signatures in infectious diseases.

6 Jul 2010

Raydiance demonstrates ability to machine precise, micron-resolution features in gold, platinum

Raydiance, Inc., the world's leading developer of ultrafast laser technology, announced today that it has demonstrated the ability to machine precise, micron-resolution features in gold and platinum, two of the more difficult-to-process materials used in advanced medical devices. Raydiance engineers achieved the results using the company's Smart LightTM 50 femtosecond pulse laser integrated into a Rofin StarCut Tube workstation.

6 Jul 2010

Infoway adds diagnostic imaging, drug information systems to Certification Services

Canada Health Infoway has added diagnostic imaging and drug information systems to its pre-implementation Certification Services. Health information technology vendors can now receive certification for seven classes of technology.

6 Jul 2010

AMPS, TC3 announce affiliate partnership to expand healthcare cost containment offerings

Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions and TC3 Health, Inc. recently announced an affiliate partnership to expand the healthcare cost containment offerings of both companies. TC3 is the premier provider of fraud, waste and abuse detection services for healthcare payers throughout the United States. Since 2000, TC3 has provided integrated loss control solutions to health care payers on a pre-payment and post-payment basis through its TruClaim Payment Integrity Platform.

5 Jul 2010

Karolinska Institutet researchers contribute at ESOF 2010

Researchers and staff from Karolinska Institutet are contributing to Europe's largest cross-disciplinary gathering place with news of everything from neuroscience to bioentrepreneurship. Carl Johan Sundberg, university lecturer and associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, is the founder and initiator of ESOF.

3 Jul 2010

Mount Sinai Hospital researchers discover new insights into genesis of stem cells

Mount Sinai Hospital researchers including Drs. Andras Nagy and Jeff Wrana have discovered new insights into the genesis of stem cells, which will improve the efficiency of stem cell creation for use in tissue regeneration and in the development of new drugs.

3 Jul 2010

Nanobusiness Alliance statement reflects effective environmental, health, and safety management of nanotechnology

The NanoBusiness Alliance today issued a Position Statement on Nanomaterials Product Sustainability, which reflects NanoBusiness Alliance members' enduring commitment to managing effectively the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) implications of nanotechnology.

3 Jul 2010

Research Roundup: 'Pay-for-performance' unintended effects; Lessons from Mass.; End of life treatment

Archives of Internal Medicine: The Quality Of Care Provided To Hospitalized Patients At The End of Life - In this study, researchers used a set of quality indicators to assess the end-of-life care and pain management received by 496 patients who died three or more days after admission at the University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center. The authors found "pain assessments (94%) and treatments for pain (95%) and dyspnea [breathing problems] (87%) were performed with fidelity."

3 Jul 2010

CNA Healthpro releases toolkit to enhance resident safety, minimize organizational risk in aging services

CNA recognizes the importance of patient/resident safety and risk management in the evolving world of healthcare. As one of the nation's leading providers of professional liability insurance for healthcare providers and organizations, CNA HealthPro recently published a risk management toolkit, "Special Resource: Protecting Residents, Reducing Liability Exposure - An Aging Services Resource from CNA HealthPro," which offers guidance on clinical, operational, and strategic subjects of concern to aging services providers.

3 Jul 2010

64-year-old female Latin American receives Elekta VMAT radiotherapy enhanced with Monaco planning software

A 64-year-old female patient with mediastinal metastasis recently became the first in Latin America to receive Elekta VMAT radiotherapy treatment enhanced with Monaco® planning software. Using the arc-based Elekta VMAT delivery method, Monaco displays how the radiation dose should be applied — its distribution and strength on the target. The result is a therapy that not only is rapid, but also fine-tuned to treat cancer and avoid healthy tissues.

From Elekta 3 Jul 2010

C-SSRS is effective for monitoring suicidality in clinical trials: ERT

ERT , a leading provider of centralized services to global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, announces that a recent survey of over 250 respondents reported that all clinicians polled found the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) to be an effective method for prospectively monitoring suicidality.

3 Jul 2010

Further analysis on Bcl11b gene and T-cell behaviouur from Caltech Biologists

When does a cell decide its particular identity? According to biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in the case of T cells-immune system cells that help destroy invading pathogens-the answer is when the cells begin expressing a particular gene called Bcl11b.

3 Jul 2010

Wellcome-Wolfson Capital Awards initiative invests over 30M in large-scale university infrastructure projects

Over -30 million is being invested into large-scale university infrastructure projects courtesy of the Wellcome-Wolfson Capital Awards initiative.

3 Jul 2010

Nissay Information Technology and IBM Japan to build cloud development and test environment

Nissay Information Technology and IBM Japan today announced they will jointly build a cloud-based development and test environment to create mission critical Web systems for Nippon Life Insurance (NISSAY). The project launched in May 2010, with the test and development environment expected to go live in September 2010.

3 Jul 2010

Technology News and Research

Certeon expands international distribution capabilities with CDG partnership

Amorfix partners with reMYND to offer A4 amyloid testing services

Investment report on Imaging3

Major biological resource centre increases cell line supply capacity with TAP’s automated cryovial filling system

MAXIMUS to introduce Health Insurance Exchange solutions

Hope for ovarian cancer patients not responding to conventional chemotherapy

Protagen, Mikrogen collaborate to identify typical autoantibody signatures in infectious diseases

Raydiance demonstrates ability to machine precise, micron-resolution features in gold, platinum

Infoway adds diagnostic imaging, drug information systems to Certification Services

AMPS, TC3 announce affiliate partnership to expand healthcare cost containment offerings

Karolinska Institutet researchers contribute at ESOF 2010

Mount Sinai Hospital researchers discover new insights into genesis of stem cells

Nanobusiness Alliance statement reflects effective environmental, health, and safety management of nanotechnology

Research Roundup: 'Pay-for-performance' unintended effects; Lessons from Mass.; End of life treatment

CNA Healthpro releases toolkit to enhance resident safety, minimize organizational risk in aging services

64-year-old female Latin American receives Elekta VMAT radiotherapy enhanced with Monaco planning software

C-SSRS is effective for monitoring suicidality in clinical trials: ERT

Further analysis on Bcl11b gene and T-cell behaviouur from Caltech Biologists

Wellcome-Wolfson Capital Awards initiative invests over 30M in large-scale university infrastructure projects

Nissay Information Technology and IBM Japan to build cloud development and test environment

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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