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SunTech Medical named Rookie Vendor of the Year

SunTech Medical was named 'Rookie Vendor of the Year' at Medline Industries, Inc.'s annual meeting for their HealthCare sales division in Montgomery, Texas. SunTech supplies Medline with the 247 Diagnostic Station, a blood pressure device that can also serve as a vital signs monitor, which Medline distributes to nursing homes and hospitals across the United States.

7 Jun 2010

Viking Systems to demonstrate 3DHD visualization system at The European Congress of Laparoscopy and Robotics

Viking Systems, Inc. announced today that its prototype Next Generation 3DHD Visualization System including Sony's 3DHD display will be demonstrated at The European Congress of Laparoscopy and Robotics allowing attendees an opportunity to participate in an interactive demonstration of the system. This event will be held in Rome, Italy from June 10 through June 12, 2010.

7 Jun 2010

Leonardo Biosystems receives $2.5M grant to accelerate commercialization of new technologies

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced today that its portfolio company, Leonardo Biosystems, has received a $2.5 million grant from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, a state fund established to accelerate commercialization of new technologies. Leonardo Biosystems, co-founded by prominent nanoscientist Dr. Mauro Ferrari, professor at the University of Texas, and Arrowhead's, CEO Dr. Christopher Anzalone, is engineering a multi-stage drug delivery platform to improve the effectiveness of drug therapy, particularly for cancer.

7 Jun 2010

Chronix's serum DNA assays have potential to detect early stage breast cancer, prostate cancer

Chronix Biomedical today reported new data further demonstrating that its serum DNA blood tests have the potential to accurately detect early stage breast cancer and prostate cancer. Chronix's proprietary technology identifies disease-specific genetic fingerprints based on circulating DNA fragments that are released into the bloodstream by damaged and dying (apoptotic) cells.

7 Jun 2010

Biomoda granted Mexican patent for proprietary porphyrin-based compound

Cancer diagnostics company Biomoda, Inc. has been granted a Mexican patent for its proprietary porphyrin-based compound that binds to cancer cells and causes them to fluoresce red under ultraviolet light.

7 Jun 2010

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

Technology News and Research

SunTech Medical named Rookie Vendor of the Year

Viking Systems to demonstrate 3DHD visualization system at The European Congress of Laparoscopy and Robotics

Leonardo Biosystems receives $2.5M grant to accelerate commercialization of new technologies

Chronix's serum DNA assays have potential to detect early stage breast cancer, prostate cancer

Biomoda granted Mexican patent for proprietary porphyrin-based compound

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

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