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St. Jude Medical's Trifecta valve receives CE Mark approval

St. Jude Medical, Inc. today announced that it has received CE Mark approval for the Trifecta™ valve, marking the Company’s launch into the market for pericardial aortic stented tissue valves.

2 Mar 2010

Carefx chosen to supply clinical workflow technology to DoD's Military Health System

Carefx Corp., a leading provider of interoperable workflow solutions, has been chosen to supply clinical workflow technology to the Department of Defense's Military Health System.

2 Mar 2010

IBM introduces new service that can enable health systems to exchange patient data with physicians

At the HIMSS10 Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, IBM introduced Initiate Exchange, a new service that enables health systems to exchange patient data with physicians. The company also announced that Initiate client CareSpark, has been awarded a Social Security Administration contract through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

2 Mar 2010

Greffex Group signs Strategic Alliance Framework Agreement with UPMC and ISMETT

The Greffex Group of regenerative medicine companies announces the signing of a Strategic Alliance Framework Agreement with UPMC and ISMETT, Italy.

2 Mar 2010

Pre-clinical study of Cardio3 BioSciences' proprietary C-Cath catheter announced

Cardio3 BioSciences, a leading Belgian biotechnology company specialising in cell-based therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today promising results in a pre-clinical study of its proprietary C-Cath(R) catheter which is under development to administer a range of bio-therapeutics to the heart. C-Cath is designed to take into account organ tissue structure and properties to maximize patients' safety, improve performance and increase user confidence during the injection procedure.

2 Mar 2010

AstraZeneca drafts five principles for companies engaged in social media

AstraZeneca today asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt guidance that will enable AstraZeneca and others to fully engage in real-time, social media conversations that responsibly provide accurate, balanced information on medicines from a known, identifiable and reliable source.

2 Mar 2010

Intercell AG's revenues for full year 2009 increase 10.6%

Today, the biotech-vaccine company Intercell AG announced its financial results for Q4 and the preliminary results for the full financial year 2009, and presented an update on the Company's development programs.

2 Mar 2010

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Aspirus, a non-profit system of hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities with more than 4,200 employees and more than 400 licensed inpatient beds in its system, is helping its practitioners streamline workflows while reducing IT administrative costs leveraging EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization.

2 Mar 2010

InterSystems Ensemble platform enables first successful electronic transmission of genetic data

InterSystems Corporation, the global leader in software for connected healthcare, today announced that InterSystems Ensemble® was the software platform for the first-ever successful electronic transmission of comprehensive genetic data. The information was sent cross-country from Boston-based Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM) to Intermountain HealthCare in Salt Lake City, Utah. The announcement about reaching this milestone in personalized medicine came at the HIMSS10 conference.

2 Mar 2010

Nuvon introduces IDM-MG 1000 portable solution for biomedical data collection

San Francisco-based Nuvon, Inc. (www.nuvon.com), a provider of next generation BMDI (biomedical device interoperability) solutions, announces the introduction of the IDM-MG 1000, extending Nuvon’s biomedical device interoperability capabilities by providing the first truly mobile and portable solution to collect and present critical biomedical device data anywhere.

2 Mar 2010

Sigma-Aldrich unveils new Sigma Life Science brand and website platform

Sigma-Aldrich® today unveiled its new Sigma® Life Science brand and website platform, designed to elevate the Company's current focus on biology and provide a single destination where researchers can access deep biological knowledge and market-leading products and technologies.

2 Mar 2010

Agilent Technologies, NCFST enter into collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing

Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.

2 Mar 2010

UPMC, Google Health, CMU and dbMotion develop novel PHR technology

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) today announced the development of personal health record (PHR) technology that may soon give patients the ability to add critical health information to the electronic health records maintained by hospitals and physicians. UPMC completed the proof-of-concept project in collaboration with Google Health, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and technology partner dbMotion.

2 Mar 2010

ZyGEM introduces new RNAGEM Tissue RNA extraction kits

ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., a provider of innovative enzyme-based products for DNA and RNA extraction and other life sciences applications, today announced the launch of its new RNAGEM™ Tissue RNA extraction kits. This product represents a significant advance in sample preparation for RNA-based testing and analysis.

2 Mar 2010

Rush University Medical Center completes phase one of InterSystems Ensemble platform

InterSystems Corporation, the global leader in software for connected healthcare, today announced that Rush University Medical Center has completed phase one of an organization-wide move to the InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration and development platform.

2 Mar 2010

News outlets examine development of low-cost diagnostic tool, infectious disease surveillance

CNN examines the work of a Harvard University chemistry professor to "shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that's the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny." According to George Whitesides, who created a prototype of the inexpensive paper "chip," the technology could be used to diagnose such diseases as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries.

2 Mar 2010

Agilent Technologies launches industry’s first transportable GC/MS system delivering laboratory-quality analysis

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced the 5975T Low Thermal Mass (LTM) Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Detector (GC/MSD), the industry’s first commercial transportable GC/MS system that delivers laboratory-quality analysis. Using proprietary LTM technology, Agilent has developed the 5975T LTM GC/MS to be smaller, more rugged and to consume less power than in-lab GC/MS instruments, yet capable of the same high-quality performance in the field.

2 Mar 2010

New class of breast cancer: Overexpression of LRP6 gene could be a potential marker

A newly identified cancer biomarker could define a new subtype of breast cancer as well as offer a potential way to treat it, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Their findings will be published in the March 1 online early edition issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2 Mar 2010

Balloon Sinuplasty minimally invasive surgery safe for treating chronic sinusitis in children

A recently published study in the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy demonstrates Balloon Sinuplasty™ technology to be safe when used by physicians in pediatric patients. Known as the INTACT study, this is a prospective, non-randomized, multicenter study and was sponsored by Acclarent, Inc.

2 Mar 2010

Pennsylvania to use nearly $10M in federal grant funds to improve quality of health care for children

Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced Pennsylvania will use nearly $10 million in federal grant funds to improve the quality of health care for children while reducing the cost of services through the use of pediatric electronic health records.

2 Mar 2010

Technology News and Research

St. Jude Medical's Trifecta valve receives CE Mark approval

Carefx chosen to supply clinical workflow technology to DoD's Military Health System

IBM introduces new service that can enable health systems to exchange patient data with physicians

Greffex Group signs Strategic Alliance Framework Agreement with UPMC and ISMETT

Pre-clinical study of Cardio3 BioSciences' proprietary C-Cath catheter announced

AstraZeneca drafts five principles for companies engaged in social media

Intercell AG's revenues for full year 2009 increase 10.6%

Aspirus implements EMC solutions and services for data center consolidation and virtualization

InterSystems Ensemble platform enables first successful electronic transmission of genetic data

Nuvon introduces IDM-MG 1000 portable solution for biomedical data collection

Sigma-Aldrich unveils new Sigma Life Science brand and website platform

Agilent Technologies, NCFST enter into collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing

UPMC, Google Health, CMU and dbMotion develop novel PHR technology

ZyGEM introduces new RNAGEM Tissue RNA extraction kits

Rush University Medical Center completes phase one of InterSystems Ensemble platform

News outlets examine development of low-cost diagnostic tool, infectious disease surveillance

Agilent Technologies launches industry’s first transportable GC/MS system delivering laboratory-quality analysis

New class of breast cancer: Overexpression of LRP6 gene could be a potential marker

Balloon Sinuplasty minimally invasive surgery safe for treating chronic sinusitis in children

Pennsylvania to use nearly $10M in federal grant funds to improve quality of health care for children

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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