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Senior chemist receives nation's highest award for achievement in science

Joanna Fowler, a senior chemist and Director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony on October 7. She is one of nine researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in science.

25 Sep 2009

Vermont Information Technology Leaders to collaborate with Allscripts

Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc., the non-profit organization facilitating the expanded use of health information technology in Vermont, and Allscripts, the leading U.S. health information technology provider with a major facility located in South Burlington, Vermont, today announced their intention to enter into a strategic alliance.

25 Sep 2009

Survey reveals that cardiologists are seeing more patients than ever before

The healthcare crisis that has affected millions of Americans has hit the nation's cardiologists as well, according to a new survey: they are seeing more patients than ever and performing more tests on those patients. But they are being reimbursed less for those services by Medicare and insurance firms, in what one cardiologist called "a revenue roller coaster of uncertainty," even as their costs continue to increase steadily.

25 Sep 2009

Micro Imaging announces the settlement with Divine Capital regarding issuance of convertible debentures

Micro Imaging Technology, Inc. has announced that it and Divine Capital Markets, LLC have settled all claims and counterclaims asserted in a lawsuit pending in New York State Supreme Court arising from the issuance of convertible debentures.

25 Sep 2009

Research to improve the targeting of chemotherapeutic drugs to specific cells

Kenneth Longmuir, associate professor of physiology & biophysics, and Richard Robertson, professor of anatomy & neurobiology, used liposomes, small spheres (less-than 100 nanometer in diameter) of naturally-occurring lipid molecules, as "packages" for the cancer chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin, and a small peptide molecule to "address" the package to the targeted tissue.

25 Sep 2009

Cynosure to market Smartlipo MPX LaserBodySculpting Workstation in Korea

Broadening the reach of two of its flagship aesthetic laser products into the Asia Pacific region, Cynosure, Inc. today announced that it has received approval to market the Smartlipo MPX(TM) LaserBodySculpting(SM) Workstation in Korea and the Affirm(TM) Anti-Aging Workstation in the People's Republic of China.

25 Sep 2009

Caliper Life Sciences unveils XenoLight Rediject reagents series at WMIC

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, today introduced a series of XenoLight Rediject reagents at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in Montreal, Canada. Rediject D-Luciferin Ultra is the latest in an expanding range of XenoLight reagents for Caliper's IVIS optical imaging systems.

25 Sep 2009

iCo Therapeutics, CPDD sign collaboration development agreement

iCo Therapeutics Inc. (TSX-V: ICO) is pleased to announce that the company has signed a collaboration development agreement with The Consortium for Parasitic Drug Development (CPDD) for the research and development of iCo's oral drug delivery technology for the treatment of neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis. Initial funding of USD $182,930 will be provided for formulation optimization for tropical conditions.

25 Sep 2009

FDA provides a conditional approval for Reverse Medical Corporation's ReStore Microcatheter IDE study

Reverse Medical Corporation announced today that it has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conditional approval to begin a neurothrombectomy IDE study for its ReStore™ Microcatheter at twenty US centers. The study is planned to begin enrollment in US and European hospitals following investigating study center Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals.

25 Sep 2009

Collaboration for the evaluation of peptide copolymer technology

Peptimmune, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company announced today that it has formed a research and development collaboration with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), Silver Spring, MD to evaluate the Company's proprietary DEEP(TM) peptide copolymer technology for the potential development of dengue vaccines and point-of-care diagnostics.

25 Sep 2009

Perot Systems to provide Revenue Cycle services to the West Georgia Health System

West Georgia Health System and Perot Systems today announced that Perot Systems will provide Revenue Cycle services to the LaGrange, Georgia-based hospital organization. The agreement will enable WGHS to utilize Perot Systems' revenue cycle technology and its proven best practices for revenue cycle improvements.

25 Sep 2009

Phase III clinical trial of investigational HIV vaccine regimen complete

Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases (“GSID”) announced today that a Phase III clinical trial of an investigational HIV vaccine regimen has been shown to be safe and modestly effective in preventing HIV infection. The double-blind, placebo controlled study was conducted in Thailand among more than 16,000 volunteers.

25 Sep 2009

Congressman Culberson's web site invites his constituents to debate the healthcare bill online

Congressman John Culberson, R-Texas, today announced that his office will post the current healthcare bill in the House of Representatives, “H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” on the congressman’s Web site and, using a new technology, invite his constituents to participate in, comment on and debate the pending bill.

25 Sep 2009

SuiteMed EHR package customised to receive patient data from ALR Technologies' Health-E-Connect system

SuiteMed Solutions, a NC Triad healthcare technology company, announces it is customizing their SuiteMed EHR to facilitate receipt of patient data from ALR Technologies' patented Health-E-Connect patient monitoring system. This data can be important for care plan evaluation, monitoring services billing and reimbursement as well as lending to the "meaningful use" criteria for government funding to medical clinics for implementation of EHRs.

25 Sep 2009

Three antibodies dried using EnWave's freezeREV vial dehydration technology

EnWave Corporation ("EnWave" or "the Company") today announced that it has successfully dried three different antibodies in the Company's prototype freezeREV vial dehydration technology.

25 Sep 2009

Partial success reported in the Phase 3 trial of HIV/AIDS vaccine

GeoVax Labs, Inc., an Atlanta-based, biopharmaceutical company developing human vaccines for HIV/AIDS (HIV-1, Human Immunodeficiency Virus), was pleased to hear the announcement today of partial success in the recently completed Phase 3 trial in Thailand of a candidate HIV/AIDS vaccine owned by Sanofi-Aventis and Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases.

25 Sep 2009

Free electronic medical records software for physicians

The Obama administration has set aside $19B for physicians to adopt electronic medical record systems. Today, 75% of doctors practice in offices with 10 doctors or fewer. For them, the investment is cost-prohibitive: the technology costs from $25,000 to over $75,000. Not surprisingly, only 17% of physicians use computerized records, according to the New York Journal of Medicine. Yet, one service provider allows physicians to switch to electronic medical records -- free -- and make their practice more profitable.

25 Sep 2009

Book features the link between cyber-bullying and violence in young women

The link between cyber-bullying and an increase in violence among young women will be featured in a new book published in November.

25 Sep 2009

InteGreat's browser-based EHR application to be implemented at Sun Life Family Health Center

The InteGreat division of MED3OOO Group, Inc. recently entered into an agreement to implement and deploy InteGreat EHR, a browser-based electronic health record (EHR) application, throughout the offices Sun Life Family Health Center operates in Pinal County, Central Arizona.

24 Sep 2009

Liquidia founder Dr. Joseph DeSimone honoured with the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Liquidia Technologies today announced its founder, Dr. Joseph DeSimone, has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award. Pioneer Awards are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

24 Sep 2009

Technology News and Research

Senior chemist receives nation's highest award for achievement in science

Vermont Information Technology Leaders to collaborate with Allscripts

Survey reveals that cardiologists are seeing more patients than ever before

Micro Imaging announces the settlement with Divine Capital regarding issuance of convertible debentures

Research to improve the targeting of chemotherapeutic drugs to specific cells

Cynosure to market Smartlipo MPX LaserBodySculpting Workstation in Korea

Caliper Life Sciences unveils XenoLight Rediject reagents series at WMIC

iCo Therapeutics, CPDD sign collaboration development agreement

FDA provides a conditional approval for Reverse Medical Corporation's ReStore Microcatheter IDE study

Collaboration for the evaluation of peptide copolymer technology

Perot Systems to provide Revenue Cycle services to the West Georgia Health System

Phase III clinical trial of investigational HIV vaccine regimen complete

Congressman Culberson's web site invites his constituents to debate the healthcare bill online

SuiteMed EHR package customised to receive patient data from ALR Technologies' Health-E-Connect system

Three antibodies dried using EnWave's freezeREV vial dehydration technology

Partial success reported in the Phase 3 trial of HIV/AIDS vaccine

Free electronic medical records software for physicians

Book features the link between cyber-bullying and violence in young women

InteGreat's browser-based EHR application to be implemented at Sun Life Family Health Center

Liquidia founder Dr. Joseph DeSimone honoured with the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

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