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Click4Care receives prestigious Healthcare IT Innovation Award

Click4Care, a leading provider of care management software for payors, today announced that its revolutionary software platform was voted Solution with the Greatest Market Potential in the insurer category by the hundreds of senior industry executives that attended the Healthcare IT Summit last week in La Quinta, Calif.

18 Nov 2009

St. Jude Medical announces implantation of the first patient in China with its Eon rechargeable neurostimulator

St. Jude Medical, Inc. announced today that a 62-year-old man from Shenzhen, Guangdong province has become the first patient in China to be implanted with the Eon™ neurostimulator, a rechargeable device used to help manage chronic pain. Despite prior back surgeries, the patient suffered from chronic back pain for more than a decade.

18 Nov 2009

Millennium commences Phase I clinical trial for its second-generation proteasome inhibitor

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company today announced it has further expanded its protein homeostasis program with the initiation of a Phase I clinical trial for an oral formulation of MLN9708, the Company’s second-generation proteasome inhibitor. An intravenous formulation of MLN9708 entered clinical trials in March.

18 Nov 2009

Fiscal 2009 results announced by Opsens

Opsens Inc. today released its results for the year ended August, 31, 2009.

18 Nov 2009

Ionian Technologies receives supplemental funding from the Gates Foundation

Ionian Technologies, Inc., will continue its efforts to develop a rapid point-of-care diagnostics platform for use in the developing world with supplemental funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This grant from the Foundation will extend the total commitment to this program, which was initiated in November 2008, to $3 million over two years.

18 Nov 2009

Power3 Medical Products launches Phase II trials for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases blood diagnostic tests

BioMedReports.com, the news portal which covers Wall Street's biomedical sector and delivers financial and investment intelligence to a community of highly informed investors, has issued a special report on Power3 Medical Products, the developer of several blood tests designed for early detection, monitoring and targeting of diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and breast cancer.

18 Nov 2009

Shamir Optical Industry discloses unaudited financial results for third-quarter 2009

Shamir Optical Industry Ltd., a leading provider of innovative products and technology to the ophthalmic lens market, today announced unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009.

18 Nov 2009

IBM scientists work with Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute to use BioMIMS to treat genetic skeletal diseases

IBM ( IBM) announced today that its Research scientists are working with the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, in Bologna, Italy, to use information technology to better address treatment and research for rare genetic skeletal diseases.

18 Nov 2009

Medworxx Policy & Procedure Management System implemented at Premier Health Partners

Medworxx Inc., provider of healthcare solutions for patient flow, compliance and education, is pleased to announce that Premier Health Partners has implemented the Medworxx Policy & Procedure Management System.

18 Nov 2009

Way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream discovered

A team led by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers on the cutting edge of nanotechnology has found a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream that could dramatically improve earlier cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.

18 Nov 2009

Johns Hopkins University to create a Human Proteome Chip using Arrayit's technology

Arrayit Corporation announced today that the new High Throughput Biology Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore Maryland purchased Arrayit's proprietary technology to create a Human Proteome Chip to discover biomarkers for autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune hepatitis (first identified by Dr. Zhu), lupus, and others.

18 Nov 2009

Researchers identify new way to capture tumor cells in bloodstream; findings can improve early cancer diagnosis

Jin-Woo Kim, a biomedical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas, is part of a cutting-edge nanotechnology research group that has discovered a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream. The work could dramatically improve early cancer diagnosis and prevent deadly metastasis.

18 Nov 2009

Johns Hopkins program reduces need for airway surgery in hard-to-intubate patients

Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being applied with great success to operating room patients whose anatomy may make it difficult for physicians to help them breathe during surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers report in a new study.

18 Nov 2009

SynCon Chikungunya virus DNA vaccine induces protective neutralizing antibody responses in animal model

Inovio Biomedical Corporation, a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that the company's SynCon™ Chikungunya virus DNA vaccine induced protective neutralizing antibody responses in a preclinical non-human primate model.

18 Nov 2009

VirWall KBS-1 keyboard sanitizer eradicates bacteria and viruses on computer keyboards

Engineer/pilot/attorney Jon Roberts, PhD, has dozens of inventions to his credit. They include technology that thwarts piracy in movie theatres, gadgets that track important items inadvertently left behind, devices to enhance airport security and even an electronic matchmaker that alerts two nearby individuals with similar interests that they have, indeed, found their match.

18 Nov 2009

KAI Pharmaceuticals to receive manufacturing services from Formatech

Today, Formatech announced that they have selected KAI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and their KAI-4169 compound as the second clinical candidate to receive Formatech’s manufacturing services under its Fillanthropy Program.

18 Nov 2009

In home evaluation trials for GeckoSystems' home care robot begins

GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (http://www.geckosystems.com/) announced today that they have started limited in home evaluation trials for their first product, a fully autonomous personal companion home care robot, the CareBot™.

18 Nov 2009

Movea unveils SmartMotion Development Kit at MEDICA 2009

Movea, the global leader in technology, patents, and products for motion-sensing applications, today unveiled its SmartMotion™ Development Kit (SMDK) at MEDICA 2009. The SMDK allows application developers, OEMs, and healthcare researchers to effortlessly add motion-sensing capabilities to their products or R&D projects.

18 Nov 2009

CDC awards two separate Blanket Purchase Agreements to Emtec Federal

Emtec Federal, a systems integrator, today announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded the company two separate Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) for Information Technology (IT) products and services, each with an estimated value of $10 million per year.

18 Nov 2009

Chembio Diagnostics to present possibilities of OTC home-use HIV test kits at the FDA meeting

Chembio Diagnostics, Inc., a company that develops, manufactures, licenses, and markets proprietary rapid diagnostic tests, announced today that it will present at a meeting of the Blood Products Advisory Committee ("BPAC") of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") in Bethesda, Maryland, on the afternoon of November 17, 2009.

18 Nov 2009

Technology News and Research

Click4Care receives prestigious Healthcare IT Innovation Award

St. Jude Medical announces implantation of the first patient in China with its Eon rechargeable neurostimulator

Millennium commences Phase I clinical trial for its second-generation proteasome inhibitor

Fiscal 2009 results announced by Opsens

Ionian Technologies receives supplemental funding from the Gates Foundation

Power3 Medical Products launches Phase II trials for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases blood diagnostic tests

Shamir Optical Industry discloses unaudited financial results for third-quarter 2009

IBM scientists work with Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute to use BioMIMS to treat genetic skeletal diseases

Medworxx Policy & Procedure Management System implemented at Premier Health Partners

Way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream discovered

Johns Hopkins University to create a Human Proteome Chip using Arrayit's technology

Researchers identify new way to capture tumor cells in bloodstream; findings can improve early cancer diagnosis

Johns Hopkins program reduces need for airway surgery in hard-to-intubate patients

SynCon Chikungunya virus DNA vaccine induces protective neutralizing antibody responses in animal model

VirWall KBS-1 keyboard sanitizer eradicates bacteria and viruses on computer keyboards

KAI Pharmaceuticals to receive manufacturing services from Formatech

In home evaluation trials for GeckoSystems' home care robot begins

Movea unveils SmartMotion Development Kit at MEDICA 2009

CDC awards two separate Blanket Purchase Agreements to Emtec Federal

Chembio Diagnostics to present possibilities of OTC home-use HIV test kits at the FDA meeting

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