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Portico Systems honored with the Emerging Technology Company of the Year award

Portico Systems, the leader in Integrated Provider Management (IPM) solutions, announced today that it has been named Emerging Technology Company of the Year by The Eastern Technology Council at last night’s 17th Annual Enterprise Awards. The Emerging Technology Company award acknowledges product or service innovation and the ability of the management team to fuel growth.

5 Dec 2009

OrthoAccel Technologies announces the availability of new Continuing Education course

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc., developers of the AcceleDent System, which is an acceleration device to enhance orthodontics, announced the availability of a new Continuing Education course published by PennWell Corporation, a leader in professional education for many industries, including medicine and dentistry.

5 Dec 2009

CareTech Solutions' client -hospital websites receive eHealthcare Leadership Awards

CareTech Solutions, an information technology (IT) and web products and services provider for hospitals and health systems, announced today that six of its client -hospital web sites earned ten awards in the Strategic Communications eHealthcare Leadership Awards competition.

5 Dec 2009

STERIS acts in response to FDA's recent notice on SYSTEM 1 Sterile Processing System

STERIS Corporation was notified on December 3, 2009 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had issued a notice to healthcare facility administrators regarding the regulatory status of the STERIS SYSTEM 1® Sterile Processing System, as well as actions healthcare facilities should take if they use this device.

5 Dec 2009

Biotechnology Consulting Poland applies to the EU for structural and cohesion funding

In the same way that the European Union has previously made major infrastructure investments in countries such as Ireland, the EU is now encouraging and funding the development of high tech companies in Poland through its Structural and Cohesion Funds.

5 Dec 2009

Findings underscore the need for additional medical student education for healthcare reform

As the population of people with chronic conditions and health care costs rise, so do opportunities for implementing health prevention strategies. Jan Carney, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for public health at the University of Vermont (UVM) College of Medicine, believes a critical strategy for reforming the health care system lies in teaching medical students about prevention and public health.

5 Dec 2009

Biomagnetics Diagnostics discusses utilization of acquired Los Alamos National Security intellectual property

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a developer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis and malaria detection provides the following recap of yesterday's investor conference call, which discussed the Company’s acquisition of intellectual property rights from Los Alamos National Security.

5 Dec 2009

PBS officially launches marketing program to healthcare market

Safeguard Security Holdings, Inc., a provider of corporate, industrial and residential security solutions, announces that its Premier Background Search (PBS), a SEARCHglobal partnership (www.PBS-USA.com), has officially launched its marketing program to the massive healthcare market and has subscribed Martin Fletcher and Associates (www.medfuture.com) as its first major client for PBS’ medical division.

5 Dec 2009

Iowa business researchers use efficient manufacturing principles to help contain rising health care costs

A group of researchers at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business is using the principles of more efficient manufacturing processes in an effort to help contain ever-increasing health care costs.

5 Dec 2009

Svelte Medical Systems selected as winner of New England Venture Summit Top Innovator award

Svelte Medical Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a winner of the annual New England Venture Summit Top Innovator award by youngStartup Ventures.

5 Dec 2009

Environmental sensors may help avoid air pollution hot spots in everyday life

You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors that will help you avoid air pollution hot spots that exist exactly when you are planning your route.

5 Dec 2009

New diagnostic guidelines for inexpensive and accurate detection of lung cancer

A simple, inexpensive computer tool that measures volume changes in the size of suspicious nodules in the lungs picked up by a CT scanner can rule out non-cancerous ones with almost perfect accuracy and enable doctors to diagnose true cancers with fewer, less expensive and less invasive tests.

5 Dec 2009

Radio units help in optimizing medical device management in hospitals

Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient's blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These radio units will also greatly facilitate device management in hospitals.

5 Dec 2009

Jenex reports closing of modified private-placement equity financing

The Jenex Corporation, a medical device company focused on the development and application of products based on its patented thermal therapy technology, today announced that on December 1, 2009 it closed a brokered private-placement equity financing. The offering is subject to receiving final acceptance from The TSX Venture Exchange.

5 Dec 2009

DTI helps identify distorted nerve fiber bundles around brain tumors in thalamic JPA children

A new study published this week in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics finds that operative plans for removing Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor Imaging, or DTI. The sensitivity of DTI imaging allows for the visualization of nerve fiber bundles in the brain.

5 Dec 2009

MedClean Technologies and Socius Capital Group enter into preferred stock purchase agreement

MedClean Technologies, Inc. today announced the Company has entered into a preferred stock purchase agreement with Socius Capital Group, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, doing business as Socius Life Sciences Capital Group, LLC. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, MedClean will receive up to $7.5 million in capital.

5 Dec 2009

New data from PharmAthene's anthrax vaccine program presented

PharmAthene, Inc., a biodefense company developing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical threats, announced today the presentation of new data from the Company's anthrax vaccine program showing that its lyophilized recombinant Protective Antigen (rPA) based anthrax vaccine is structurally stable and potent after 16 months at various temperatures up to and including 55 degrees C.

5 Dec 2009

Benign tumors in children can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

5 Dec 2009

Hospira launches VisIV containers for intravenous medications and solutions

Hospira, Inc., a leading global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, today announced the launch of its next-generation 50 mL and 100 mL VisIV(TM) containers for intravenous (I.V.) medications and solutions, and now offers a complete size range (50 mL to 1 L) of the award-winning, environmentally responsible VisIV product.

5 Dec 2009

Janssen-Cilag submits MAA to the European Medicines Agency for paliperidone palmitate

Elan Drug Technologies, a business unit of Elan Corporation, plc announced that Janssen-Cilag has submitted a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency for paliperidone palmitate for the treatment of Schizophrenia.

4 Dec 2009

Technology News and Research

Portico Systems honored with the Emerging Technology Company of the Year award

OrthoAccel Technologies announces the availability of new Continuing Education course

CareTech Solutions' client -hospital websites receive eHealthcare Leadership Awards

STERIS acts in response to FDA's recent notice on SYSTEM 1 Sterile Processing System

Biotechnology Consulting Poland applies to the EU for structural and cohesion funding

Findings underscore the need for additional medical student education for healthcare reform

Biomagnetics Diagnostics discusses utilization of acquired Los Alamos National Security intellectual property

PBS officially launches marketing program to healthcare market

Iowa business researchers use efficient manufacturing principles to help contain rising health care costs

Svelte Medical Systems selected as winner of New England Venture Summit Top Innovator award

Environmental sensors may help avoid air pollution hot spots in everyday life

New diagnostic guidelines for inexpensive and accurate detection of lung cancer

Radio units help in optimizing medical device management in hospitals

Jenex reports closing of modified private-placement equity financing

DTI helps identify distorted nerve fiber bundles around brain tumors in thalamic JPA children

MedClean Technologies and Socius Capital Group enter into preferred stock purchase agreement

New data from PharmAthene's anthrax vaccine program presented

Benign tumors in children can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Hospira launches VisIV containers for intravenous medications and solutions

Janssen-Cilag submits MAA to the European Medicines Agency for paliperidone palmitate

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