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Viking Systems' first-quarter 2010 sales up 26%

Viking Systems, Inc. today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2010. The Company reported a 26% increase in sales to $1,915,073 for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 and a net loss of $295,450 or ($0.01) per share.

5 May 2010

Investment report on Misonix from MicroStockProfit.com

MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring Misonix Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

5 May 2010

New findings show seaweed extract inhibits H1N1 virus

In a breakthrough that offers new hope for the containment of influenza outbreaks, an Australian biotechnology company has isolated a natural extract from seaweed which has been shown to inhibit the H1N1 virus.

5 May 2010

Biotech industry reviews effects of the recession

Minneapolis Star Tribune, on the Biotechnology Industry Organization's convention in Chicago: "The biotechnology industry, hurt by the recession, is looking for inspiration from Charles Darwin. Leading executives say unless biotech companies adapt to a less-robust economy and changing industry standards, they won't survive the downturn. Biotech start-ups, seen as the lifeblood of the industry, have been among the worst hit by a decline in venture capital investments."

5 May 2010

Derma Sciences adds XTRASORB Foam dressing to advanced wound care product portfolio

Derma Sciences, Inc., a medical device and pharmaceutical company focused on advanced wound care, announced the launch of its new XTRASORB™ Foam dressing. The dressing is the company's first novel entry in the $300 million foam wound dressing market. First sales are expected during the second quarter of 2010.

4 May 2010

Reprints Desk launches ePrints NRx scientific article collection service

Derycz Scientific, Inc., the content repurposing company, today announced that its subsidiary Reprints Desk, an award-winning provider of information services and content workflow solutions, has launched ePrints NRx, a new scientific article collection service that simplifies the re-use of PDFs by medical marketers, brand managers and sales professionals.

4 May 2010

Micronics receives FDA marketing clearance for ABORhCard

Micronics, Inc., a medical device development company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the company 510(k) clearance to market its ABORhCard, a qualitative in vitro test that provides a simultaneous determination of an individual's ABO blood group and Rh factor status. It is not for use for blood bank processing of blood products, for determining RHD status for the purpose of administration of Rh immunoglobulin, or for screening purposes prior to transfusion.

4 May 2010

Theragenics reports highest quarterly consolidated revenue of $20.3 million

Theragenics Corporation®, a medical device company serving the surgical products and prostate cancer treatment markets, today announced consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.

4 May 2010

Aethlon Medical plans to initiate patient recruitment for cancer immunotherapy study

Aethlon Medical, Inc., the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease and cancer, announced today that it plans to initiate patient recruitment for a cancer immunotherapy study by year end. The pilot study seeks to demonstrate an improved immune function in cancer patients as a result of the Aethlon Hemopurifier removing tumor-secreted exosomes from the circulatory system.

4 May 2010

Merci Retriever receives Shonin approval in Japan

Concentric Medical, Inc., the global leader in devices for clot removal in ischemic stroke patients, today announced that the Merci Retriever, Merci Microcatheter, and Merci Balloon Guide Catheter have received Shonin approval in Japan.

4 May 2010

Landec announces acquisition of Lifecore Biomedical from Warburg Pincus Private Equity

Landec Corporation, a materials science company that develops and markets patented polymer products for food, agriculture, personal care and drug delivery applications, today announced that it has acquired Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. from Warburg Pincus Private Equity IX, LP. When acquired by Warburg Pincus in March 2008, Lifecore was comprised of two divisions, the Dental Division and the Hyaluronan Division. The Dental Division was merged into a Warburg Pincus portfolio company.

3 May 2010

UBC announces acquisition of ABS

United BioSource Corporation today announced the acquisition of Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions, Inc., a Boston, Massachusetts-based provider of health economics and outcomes research, registries and observational studies, and market access solutions to the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics industries.

3 May 2010

Research roundup: Managing nursing home patients, streamlining medical billing, financial disclosures

Saving Billions Of Dollars--And Physicians' Time--By Streamlining Billing Practices - "The U.S. system of billing third parties for health care services is complex, expensive, and inefficient," write the authors, who analyzed Massachusetts General Physicians Organization staffing and cost data in fiscal year 2006.

3 May 2010

Patients, research participants favor disclosure of financial relationships between medicine and industry

A review and analysis of previously published studies finds that patients, research participants and journal readers believe financial relationships between medicine and industry should be disclosed, in part because those financial ties may influence research and clinical care, according to a report in the April 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

3 May 2010

HemCon Medical Technologies to ask for reversal of jury verdict in chitosan patent case

HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc., announced today that it will ask a US District Court in New Hampshire to review and reverse a jury verdict based on a patent held by Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. The jury awarded damages of $29.4 million against HemCon in the patent case. HemCon will ask the Court to review the validity of the patent and reverse the damage award.

30 Apr 2010

MicroStockProfit.com releases investment report featuring Cardium Therapeutics

MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring Cardium Therapeutics Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

30 Apr 2010

UIC introduces new "no stress" diagnostic system for heart failure assessment

The University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago is the first academic medical center in the country to introduce a new "no stress" diagnostic system for assessing patients with heart failure and optimizing their treatment.

30 Apr 2010

West Pharmaceutical Services reports 13.3% increase in first-quarter consolidated sales

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. today announced its results for the first quarter of 2010.

30 Apr 2010

$Ageing population prone to bone fractures drives South African joint replacement market$

Ageing population prone to bone fractures drives South African joint replacement market

The joint replacement market in South Africa is set to experience continued growth in the medium to long term, driven by an ageing population that is prone to cartilage degeneration and bone fractures. The introduction of innovative products with enhanced durability and longevity as well as safer operation techniques is further boosting growth in this market.

29 Apr 2010

Astrazeneca settles drug marketing lawsuit, plea deal rejected for possibly defective heart device maker

The New York Times: AstraZeneca has settled a case and agreed to pay $520 million after federal investigations into its marketing practices for a schizophrenia drug, Seroquel. The announcement came Tuesday from Attorney General Eric Holder. Government officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, said the company paid illegal kickbacks to doctors to promote drugs for unapproved uses by children, the elderly, veterans and prisoners, which is illegal under federal law.

29 Apr 2010

Medical Devices News and Research

Viking Systems' first-quarter 2010 sales up 26%

Investment report on Misonix from MicroStockProfit.com

New findings show seaweed extract inhibits H1N1 virus

Biotech industry reviews effects of the recession

Derma Sciences adds XTRASORB Foam dressing to advanced wound care product portfolio

Reprints Desk launches ePrints NRx scientific article collection service

Micronics receives FDA marketing clearance for ABORhCard

Theragenics reports highest quarterly consolidated revenue of $20.3 million

Aethlon Medical plans to initiate patient recruitment for cancer immunotherapy study

Merci Retriever receives Shonin approval in Japan

Landec announces acquisition of Lifecore Biomedical from Warburg Pincus Private Equity

UBC announces acquisition of ABS

Research roundup: Managing nursing home patients, streamlining medical billing, financial disclosures

Patients, research participants favor disclosure of financial relationships between medicine and industry

HemCon Medical Technologies to ask for reversal of jury verdict in chitosan patent case

MicroStockProfit.com releases investment report featuring Cardium Therapeutics

UIC introduces new "no stress" diagnostic system for heart failure assessment

West Pharmaceutical Services reports 13.3% increase in first-quarter consolidated sales

Ageing population prone to bone fractures drives South African joint replacement market

Astrazeneca settles drug marketing lawsuit, plea deal rejected for possibly defective heart device maker

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