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KMI receives $2.8M grant to support delivery of teletherapy service to stroke survivors in rural areas

Kinetic Muscles, Inc., an innovator in robotic neurotherapy technology, today announced it has received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health that will support delivery of KMI's revolutionary teletherapy service to stroke survivors in rural areas.

7 Jun 2010

Immersion signs non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Simbionix USA

Immersion Corporation, the leading developer and licensor of haptics technology, and Simbionix USA Corporation, the world's leading provider of simulation and training products for medical professionals and the healthcare industry, today announced that the companies have entered into a new license agreement and have successfully settled litigation that was pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

7 Jun 2010

Economic, clinical benefits of HyperQ stress test presented at International Congress on Electrocardiology

BSP Biological Signal Processing Ltd., develops and markets innovative systems for non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of Ischemic Heart Disease based on its proprietary HyperQ technology. BSP recently presented the results of a study on the economic and clinical benefits of the HyperQ stress test in the diagnosis and management of coronary heart disease at the International Congress on Electrocardiology on June 4th, 2010.

7 Jun 2010

Tranzyme Pharma receives BioQuébec's 2010 Genesis Award for "Innovation"

Tranzyme Pharma, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the Company has been awarded BioQuébec's 2010 Genesis Award for "Innovation", having demonstrated strong and proven innovation in the field of life sciences.

7 Jun 2010

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

Telemedicine holds the key to the rehabilitation of people with stroke living in northern, rural, remote Canadian communities, rehabilitation researcher Esmé French told the Canadian Stroke Congress today.

7 Jun 2010

Raydiance, Rofin partner to offer femtosecond laser technology for manufacture of medical devices

Raydiance, Inc., the innovation leader in ultrafast laser technology, announced today that it is teaming up with Rofin, world-leading manufacturer of laser sources and laser-based solutions for industrial materials processing, to introduce femtosecond laser technology to industrial production.

7 Jun 2010

GE Healthcare highlights molecular imaging technologies to help clinicians improve patient experiences

Focusing on helping clinicians improve experiences for their patients, GE Healthcare is highlighting an innovative portfolio of molecular imaging technologies and agents at the 57th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 5-9, in Salt Lake City.

7 Jun 2010

NewLink Genetics reports positive data from Phase 2 trial of HyperAcute-Pancreas cancer immunotherapy

NewLink Genetics Corporation today announced positive Phase 2 clinical trial data of its HyperAcute®-Pancreas cancer immunotherapy combined with standard adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with surgically resectable pancreatic cancer. The study results suggest a potentially longer disease-free survival and one-year overall survival in this patient group than reported in previous studies of surgery and adjuvant therapy alone. These data were presented in a poster session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting.

7 Jun 2010

USA Health System to implement MEDSEEK's eHealth ecoSystem

MEDSEEK, the industry's only provider of the eHealth ecoSystemTM, today announced its engagement to develop and deploy the University of South Alabama Health System's new consumer website in a first step toward implementing the eHealth ecoSystem.

7 Jun 2010

Health overhaul supporters plan $25 million promotion campaign

The New York Times: "Close allies of the Obama administration, seeking to rally the public behind President Obama's landmark health care bill, are planning to spend $25 million over the next five years to promote the measure and beat back mischaracterizations of it that could harm Democratic candidates. Mr. Obama's former communications director, Anita Dunn, and longtime Democratic strategist Andrew Grossman, have teamed up to form two new tax-exempt groups.

7 Jun 2010

Phase Ib/II trial data for trastuzumab-DM1 in combination with pertuzumab presented at ASCO 2010

ImmunoGen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops targeted anticancer therapeutics, today announced the presentation of clinical data from a Phase Ib/II trial conducted by Roche and Genentech to investigate the safety and preliminary efficacy of trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1) used in combination with Roche's investigational antibody, pertuzumab.

7 Jun 2010

New symbiotic starter culture investigated for production of original yogurt

Yogurt production is traditional branch in our food industry. Yogurt is a fermented milk product that contains the characteristic bacterial cultures Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. One of them is invented and used for the first time in our country and that's why it is named after Bulgaria.

5 Jun 2010

$2M federal grant to double computing power at Southwest Foundation For Biomedical Research

The "computer ranch" at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR), one of the world's largest clusters of computers for human gene research, will more than double in size this summer, thanks to a $2 million federal grant that will speed the pace of discovery at the Foundation's AT&T Genomics Computing Center.

5 Jun 2010

Researchers one step closer to understand how activity outside of nucleus determines cell's behavior

With the rapid and continuous advances in biotechnology, scientists are better able to see inside the nucleus of a cell to unlock the secrets of its genetic material. However, what happens outside of the nucleus has, in many ways, remained a mystery. Now, researchers with the National Institutes of Health are closer to understanding how activity outside of the nucleus determines a cell's behavior.

5 Jun 2010

Research roundup: Evidence-based medicine consumer/expert divide; Pay for performance limitations; Improving community health centers

Health Affairs: Evidence That Consumers Are Skeptical About Evidence-Based Health Care - This survey of more than 1,500 patients with employer-based insurance found "there is a fundamental disconnect between the central tenets of evidence-based health care and the knowledge, values, and beliefs held by many consumers."

5 Jun 2010

Fox Chase Cancer Center announces first-in-human bi-specific HER2/HER3 pathway targeting antibody

Patients with HER2-positive cancers can have dramatic responses to HER2-targeted drugs but eventually develop resistance to the agents. With that problem in mind, Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers are testing a novel type of antibody called MM-111 in patients with HER2-positive disease who have progressed on standard therapy.

5 Jun 2010

CSTE 2010 Annual Conference to focus on public health challenges

The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists 2010 Annual Conference will be held June 6-10 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. An array of experts representing federal, state, and local health departments will discuss issues ranging from last year's flu pandemic, obesity, food safety, health care reform, information technology, and the global response to disasters such as the Haiti earthquake.

5 Jun 2010

Roles for payers in HIE, uses of multi-payer portals in healthcare to be discussed at AHIP Institute 2010

NaviNet, America's largest real-time healthcare communications network, announced that two of its senior executives will join industry peers in panel discussions at America's Health Insurance Plans Institute 2010. James Bogdan, senior vice president, will speak on the roles and opportunities for payers in Health Information Exchange, and Tom Morrison, co-founder and chief strategy officer, will discuss the use of multi-payer portals to improve administrative efficiencies in healthcare.

5 Jun 2010

Siemens Healthcare donates MAGNETOM ESSENZA MRI system to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center

After three long years of hardship to rebuild a cornerstone of the community, the staff of Phoebe Sumter Medical Center welcomed the arrival of a new MAGNETOM® ESSENZA magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, compliments of Siemens Healthcare. The new MRI scanner premiered today at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark Siemens' donation after a tornado destroyed the hospital in 2007. State and local political dignitaries and community leaders were on hand for the event.

5 Jun 2010

British PM calls for G8, G20 to reduce maternal mortality, announces new health worker training fund

In a Guardian opinion piece, published on Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron says G8 and G20 nations should reduce maternal mortality in developing countries and set "'an ambitious target' of saving three million more lives by 2015," the Guardian reports (Watt, 6/3).

5 Jun 2010

Technology News and Research

KMI receives $2.8M grant to support delivery of teletherapy service to stroke survivors in rural areas

Immersion signs non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Simbionix USA

Economic, clinical benefits of HyperQ stress test presented at International Congress on Electrocardiology

Tranzyme Pharma receives BioQuébec's 2010 Genesis Award for "Innovation"

Telemedicine holds key to rehabilitation of people with stroke: Researcher

Raydiance, Rofin partner to offer femtosecond laser technology for manufacture of medical devices

GE Healthcare highlights molecular imaging technologies to help clinicians improve patient experiences

NewLink Genetics reports positive data from Phase 2 trial of HyperAcute-Pancreas cancer immunotherapy

USA Health System to implement MEDSEEK's eHealth ecoSystem

Health overhaul supporters plan $25 million promotion campaign

Phase Ib/II trial data for trastuzumab-DM1 in combination with pertuzumab presented at ASCO 2010

New symbiotic starter culture investigated for production of original yogurt

$2M federal grant to double computing power at Southwest Foundation For Biomedical Research

Researchers one step closer to understand how activity outside of nucleus determines cell's behavior

Research roundup: Evidence-based medicine consumer/expert divide; Pay for performance limitations; Improving community health centers

Fox Chase Cancer Center announces first-in-human bi-specific HER2/HER3 pathway targeting antibody

CSTE 2010 Annual Conference to focus on public health challenges

Roles for payers in HIE, uses of multi-payer portals in healthcare to be discussed at AHIP Institute 2010

Siemens Healthcare donates MAGNETOM ESSENZA MRI system to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center

British PM calls for G8, G20 to reduce maternal mortality, announces new health worker training fund

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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