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SensAble Technologies' digital dentistry product line receives $8M infusion

SensAble Technologies, Inc®, a leading provider of 3D modeling software, haptic devices and dental restoration design and fabrication solutions, announced that it has received an $8 million investment to propel sales, marketing and engineering efforts for its digital dentistry product line. Existing investor HLM Venture Partners led the round and was joined by North Bridge Venture Partners, both of whom are headquartered in the Boston area, and have extensive expertise with medical device company funding.

8 Mar 2010

iCAD granted patent covering SecondLook Digital CAD solution incorporating lesion metrics

iCAD, Inc., an industry-leading provider of advanced image analysis and workflow solutions for the early identification of cancer, announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently granted the company Patent Number 7,660,448. This patent covers future iterations of iCAD’s SecondLook® Digital Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solution with potential application to the company’s other image analysis solutions.

8 Mar 2010

MabCure closes private placement, converts bridge loan into equity securities

MabCure, Inc., a biotechnology company using its proprietary technology to create highly specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) for the early detection of cancer, today announced that it has recently completed a private placement in the aggregate amount of $1 million. The amount is comprised of a $500,000 cash investment and the conversion of a $500,000 bridge loan that was made in September 2009, into equity securities.

8 Mar 2010

Butler Health System to implement Alpha Systems' enterprise EDM solution

Alpha Systems, a premier provider of electronic data and document management solutions, today announced that Butler Health System (Butler), an innovative healthcare provider located in Pennsylvania, has named Alpha Systems their vendor of choice for enterprise electronic document management (EDM) software. This move is designed to improve Butler’s communication across the enterprise while moving the healthcare provider closer to a paperless environment.

8 Mar 2010

Ascension Orthopedics launches PyroTITAN Humeral Resurfacing Arthroplasty System

Ascension Orthopedics, Inc., a leader in orthopedic extremity implants, announces the international market launch of the PyroTITAN™ Humeral Resurfacing Arthroplasty System at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2010. Designed to meet the unique soft tissue biocompatibility requirements of the shoulder joint, the PyroTITAN humeral resurfacing implant is the first commercially-available, human shoulder arthroplasty prosthesis made of PyroCarbon.

8 Mar 2010

Positive data from Argos Therapeutics' AGS-003 Phase 2 trial for mRCC

Argos Therapeutics today announced the presentation of positive data from a Phase 2 trial that evaluated the safety, clinical response and immune response of AGS-003 treatment in newly diagnosed patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). The data were discussed March 7 in a poster presentation at the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

8 Mar 2010

Luminetx, Alliance Medical sign exclusive national sales distribution agreement

Luminetx®, a division of Christie Medical Holdings, Inc. and recently acquired by Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc., has signed an exclusive national sales distribution agreement with New Alliance of Independent Medical Distributors, Inc., DBA Alliance Medical. The agreement, effective last month, aligns the medical device company with Alliance Medical, the nation’s largest consortium of specialty medical sales distribution companies for intravenous devices, with comprehensive access to the U.S. acute, oncology and home health markets.

8 Mar 2010

DATATRAK CRO Connect Program: Kreara Solutions joins global list

DATATRAK International, Inc., a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced that Kreara Solutions Pvt Ltd. has become the latest Contract Research Organization (CRO) to join the global list of DATATRAK CRO Connect partners.

8 Mar 2010

ThermalTherapeutic Systems receives FDA clearance for VERATHERM Portable Hyperthermic Perfusion System

ThermalTherapeutic Systems, Inc. today announced that the FDA has cleared the company to market its VERATHERM™ Portable Hyperthermic Perfusion System effective immediately.

8 Mar 2010

Acceptance of initial regulatory filings for BMS-PCSK9Rx triggers $6M milestone payment to Isis Pharmaceuticals

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has earned a $6 million milestone payment from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company related to the acceptance of initial regulatory filings to begin Phase 1 clinical studies for BMS-PCSK9Rx. BMS-PCSK9Rx is an antisense drug that arose out of the ongoing collaboration between Bristol-Myers Squibb and Isis to identify antisense drugs targeting PCSK9 to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.

8 Mar 2010

NICE rejects azacitidine for treatment of MDS in patients ineligible for stem cell transplants

A drug for treating a group of conditions that affect the bone marrow is unlikely to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales after the body which provides independent advice on treatments said that it is unlikely to be cost-effective.

8 Mar 2010

Osteotech's MagniFuse Bone Graft generates $1M in revenue

Osteotech, Inc., a leader in the emerging field of biologic products for regenerative healing, announced today that its MagniFuse™ Bone Graft has generated its first $1 million in revenue during the four month period beginning with the limited launch of the product in late October 2009. Osteotech began the first phase of its strategic limited launch of MagniFuse with the release of three procedure specific forms for posterior cervical and posterolateral spine fusion and spinal deformity procedures.

8 Mar 2010

Evaluating asymptomatic diabetics for CHD: Speckle Tracking by Echo ultrasound substudy sponsored

Cardiovascular death is the most common cause of mortality among Type 2 diabetics and claims the lives of millions each year, with many diabetics experiencing their first “symptom” as a heart attack or sudden death. Understanding that diabetics are at high risk for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and that many with the disease are asymptomatic, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., has sponsored Speckle Tracking by Echo, a faCTor64 substudy using Toshiba’s Wall Motion Tracking ultrasound technology.

8 Mar 2010

UTSA celebrates grand opening of NVI facility in the greater San Antonio region

The University of Texas at San Antonio celebrates the grand opening of its New Venture Incubator, a facility with laboratory, office and meeting spaces to support technology start-ups in the greater San Antonio region. The incubator, housed on UTSA’s Main Campus, will serve as a bridge between San Antonio entrepreneurs and the region’s research and development community.

8 Mar 2010

USPTO issues non-final Actions Closing Prosecution for 6,833,252 and 7,214,536 patents

Precision BioSciences, Inc., today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has issued non-final Actions Closing Prosecution in the reexamination proceedings for U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,833,252 (“the ‘252 patent”) and 7,214,536 (“the ‘536 patent”) that are owned by the Institut Pasteur and the Universite Pierre et Marie Cure (UPMC), and licensed to Cellectis, SA (ALCLS). For the second time, the PTO has rejected all claims under consideration as lacking novelty and/or as obvious in view of a variety of references, including many that were not provided to the patent examiners during prosecution by the patent applicants.

8 Mar 2010

Sigma Life Science extends portfolio of knockout rat models with the release of ADME/Tox applications

Sigma® Life Science, an innovative brand of Sigma-Aldrich®, today extended its portfolio of knockout rat models with the announcement of a new suite of models designed to facilitate more predictive absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity (ADME/Tox) studies.

8 Mar 2010

Core Essence Orthopaedics to showcase advances in implant technology at 2010 Hand Surgery Symposium

Core Essence Orthopaedics, Inc., an innovative medical device company focused on minimally invasive soft tissue and skeletal repair solutions (for the extremities), will be attending the 12th Annual Hand Surgery Symposium in Philadelphia.

8 Mar 2010

Engineers built sensor array that can detect single molecules of hydrogen peroxide

MIT chemical engineers have built a sensor array that, for the first time, can detect single molecules of hydrogen peroxide emanating from a single living cell.

7 Mar 2010

Healthy communication between patients and physicians reduces medical errors

National Patient Safety Awareness Week is taking place from March 7th to the 13th. This year’s theme is all about healthy communication between patients and their physicians. The simple theme Let’s Talk: Healthy Conversations for Safer Healthcare is aimed at helping people become more involved in their own health care.

6 Mar 2010

Inability to motivate diabetics with poor control to overcome barriers inhibiting healthier lifestyles frustrates physicians

Diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of the people in the United States and adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates two to four times higher than adults without diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. A new study shows that primary care physicians believe the barriers that put patients with uncontrolled diabetes at risk for cardiovascular disease as being patient-related or system-related.

6 Mar 2010

Technology News and Research

SensAble Technologies' digital dentistry product line receives $8M infusion

iCAD granted patent covering SecondLook Digital CAD solution incorporating lesion metrics

MabCure closes private placement, converts bridge loan into equity securities

Butler Health System to implement Alpha Systems' enterprise EDM solution

Ascension Orthopedics launches PyroTITAN Humeral Resurfacing Arthroplasty System

Positive data from Argos Therapeutics' AGS-003 Phase 2 trial for mRCC

Luminetx, Alliance Medical sign exclusive national sales distribution agreement

DATATRAK CRO Connect Program: Kreara Solutions joins global list

ThermalTherapeutic Systems receives FDA clearance for VERATHERM Portable Hyperthermic Perfusion System

Acceptance of initial regulatory filings for BMS-PCSK9Rx triggers $6M milestone payment to Isis Pharmaceuticals

NICE rejects azacitidine for treatment of MDS in patients ineligible for stem cell transplants

Osteotech's MagniFuse Bone Graft generates $1M in revenue

Evaluating asymptomatic diabetics for CHD: Speckle Tracking by Echo ultrasound substudy sponsored

UTSA celebrates grand opening of NVI facility in the greater San Antonio region

USPTO issues non-final Actions Closing Prosecution for 6,833,252 and 7,214,536 patents

Sigma Life Science extends portfolio of knockout rat models with the release of ADME/Tox applications

Core Essence Orthopaedics to showcase advances in implant technology at 2010 Hand Surgery Symposium

Engineers built sensor array that can detect single molecules of hydrogen peroxide

Healthy communication between patients and physicians reduces medical errors

Inability to motivate diabetics with poor control to overcome barriers inhibiting healthier lifestyles frustrates physicians

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