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Biomerics enters into strategic partnership with Diamond Mold

Biomerics, a leader and innovator of medical polymer solutions, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Diamond Mold, of Salt Lake City, Utah.

7 Jul 2010

Modern Plastics adds MediPEEK-IM products

Modern Plastics has added extruded-plate MediPEEK-IM, a permanent implantable medical-grade PEEK (Polyetheretherketone), to its medical-grade plastics offering. MediPEEK-IM is a high-performance semi-crystalline thermoplastic designed for long-term body contact. The resin is produced to ASTM F2026 specifications and has been extensively tested to ISO-10993 requirements.

7 Jul 2010

Dehaier Medical Systems reaffirms earlier earnings estimate for fiscal 2010

Dehaier Medical Systems Ltd., an emerging leader in the development, assembly, marketing and sale of medical devices and homecare medical products in China, today reaffirmed the company's earlier earnings estimate of $0.80 EPS for fiscal year 2010.

7 Jul 2010

St. Jude Medical acquires LightLab Imaging

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today completed the previously announced acquisition of LightLab Imaging, Inc. for approximately $90 million in cash.

7 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

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

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

Senate Democrats tax prosthetic limbs, other vital medical devices, refuse to exempt veterans

As the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day with parades and barbecues, America's veterans face a new tax on prosthetic limbs and other vital medical devices.

3 Jul 2010

Neuros Medical receives $1.5M Applied Research and Technology Development Award from DMRDP

Neuros Medical, Inc., a medical device company announced today they have received notification of award for $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense. The Applied Research and Technology Development Award was provided by the Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP).

2 Jul 2010

Bacterin International completes reverse merger transaction

Bacterin International, Inc., a Nevada company, today announced that it has completed a reverse merger transaction with Bacterin International Holdings, Inc. f/k/a K-Kitz, in which the Company caused its wholly-owned subsidiary to be merged with and into Bacterin, with Bacterin as the surviving company.

1 Jul 2010

Uroplasty broadens neuromodulation patent portfolio

Uroplasty, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products for the treatment of voiding dysfunctions, announced today the issuance of United States Patent No. 7,729,772 which covers a method for using an implantable neuromodulation system in the treatment of urinary incontinence by neuromodulation or stimulation of the tibial nerve. The neuromodulation system includes a portable, external transmitter and a receiver implanted subcutaneously in the leg or ankle near the tibial nerve.

1 Jul 2010

Integra LifeSciences VP honored as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation announced today that Linda Littlejohns RN MSN CCRN CNRN, Vice President, Clinical Development at Integra, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, one of the most prestigious nursing organizations in the country. The Academy's Fellows include many of the nation's top nursing executives, policymakers, scholars, researchers and practitioners.

30 Jun 2010

Cerapedics' i-FACTOR Flex bone graft product line receives CE Mark

Cerapedics, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing novel osteobiologic products, announced today that it received the CE Mark for its i-FACTOR™ Flex bone graft product line. i-FACTOR Flex is the company's second product in the i-FACTOR product platform based on its proprietary small peptide attachment factor technology.

30 Jun 2010

ICON Central Laboratories partners with FMD to open new laboratory facility in China

ICON Central Laboratories - a division of ICON plc,, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries - today announced the opening of a new laboratory facility in Tianjin, China, in partnership with Fountain Medical Development Ltd (FMD). It is the third ICON laboratory in the Asia-Pacific region.

30 Jun 2010

SRI International, Stanford University School of Medicine establish MISTRAL Collaborative

SRI International and the Stanford University School of Medicine announced today that they have established the MISTRAL (Multidisciplinary Initiative for Surgical Technology Research Advanced Laboratory) Collaborative, a program to accelerate the innovation of medical devices and bring them to market faster.

30 Jun 2010

News round up: UniCare will drop health coverage for Virginians; Hawaii concerned about lack of physicians

The Washington Post: "About 3,000 Virginians who have health insurance through UniCare, a private insurer, will lose that coverage Jan. 1, a UniCare spokesman said Monday. Most live in Northern Virginia and get their coverage through the individual market, officials said.

30 Jun 2010

AqueSys secures $35 million in Series C financing round

AqueSys, Inc., a medical device company that develops, manufactures and distributes proprietary implants for glaucoma, today announced that it has secured $35 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Longitude Capital and Rho Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accuitive Medical Ventures, The Carlyle Group and SV Life Sciences.

30 Jun 2010

MagForce's Nano-Cancer therapy receives European regulatory approval

Following two decades of intensive research and development efforts, MagForce Nanotechnologies AG, a Berlin-based medical technology company founded in 1997, has received European regulatory approval for its Nano-Cancer® therapy.

28 Jun 2010

Arteriocyte honored as Venture of Year Award Finalist

Arteriocyte, Inc., was honored Friday by the Ohio Venture Association as a Venture of Year Award Finalist. Founded in 2004 to develop proprietary stem cell and tissue engineering based therapies, Arteriocyte focuses on developing commercially available stem cell based therapies using multiple sources of adult derived stem cells (marrow, peripheral cord blood, and cartilage) for delivery to injured tissues in order to speed repair and improve function.

28 Jun 2010

AMP comments on barriers to market for molecular diagnostic tests at FDA CDRH meeting

Yesterday, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) gave public comments at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Council meeting on Medical Device Innovation: Barriers to Market for Molecular Diagnostic Tests.

28 Jun 2010