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T-System revises its H1N1 point-of-care charting templates

T-System, Inc., the nation's largest provider of emergency department (ED) clinical documentation tools, today announced it has issued revised H1N1 point-of-care charting templates reflecting the most recent recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

22 Sep 2009

StemCells to take part in international networking event

StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) announced today its participation in the 2009 World Stem Cell Summit to be held September 21 – 23 in Baltimore, Maryland.

22 Sep 2009

Sentillion to participate in National Health IT Week's Technology Showcase

As part of their efforts to improve the effectiveness of both security and clinical workflows in the healthcare delivery process, Sentillion, whose identity and access management (IAM) solutions are the most widely implemented in healthcare, today announced their participation in the “Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics” Healthcare Information Technology Showcase on Thursday, September 24th on Capitol Hill. The Technology Showcase is part of the activities of “National Health IT Week” going on September 21st – 25th in Washington DC.

22 Sep 2009

Data show a decrease in ozone layer

By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale - and the findings look promising.

22 Sep 2009

New sirolimus-eluting stent shows greater neointimal suppression than PES

A new type of sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) successfully showed significantly greater neointimal suppression than the paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES) with greater vessel wall integrity surrounding the stent, confirming the finding of superiority of the SES over the PES stent for the trial's primary endpoint of in-stent late loss.

22 Sep 2009

Gerresheimer opens new R&D and production centers in USA and Europe

The Gerresheimer Group expands its activities in the pharmaceutical plastic business with two strategically significant investments in the USA and Europe.

22 Sep 2009

Health Robotics chooses Device Technologies Australia as its exclusive CytoCare partner for Oceania

Health Robotics today announced that it has signed an exclusive five-year strategic partnership with Device Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. for its revolutionary CytoCare(TM) Robot. This strategic agreement enables Device Technologies Australia to achieve its goal of safely, accurately and cost-effectively automating the preparation of Oncology I.V. Admixtures to complement its other market-leading Oncology and Surgery Robotic solutions.

22 Sep 2009

Winners of the 2009 Biotechnology Vision Summit's Emerging Company Showcase announced

Six Wisconsin biotechnology companies have been selected the winners of the first Emerging Company Showcase. The showcase is part of the Biotechnology Vision Summit 2009, being held on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the Madison Marriott West in Madison, Wis. The summit and the showcase are being hosted by BioForward, the member-driven state association that is the voice of Wisconsin’s biotechnology industry.

22 Sep 2009

Antigen to block infection by genetically-diverse strains of HIV

Scientists working to develop a vaccine for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) report they have created the first antigen that induces protective antibodies capable of blocking infection of human cells by genetically-diverse strains of HIV. The new antigen differs from previously-tested vaccines by virtue of its chemically-activated property that enables close sharing of electrons and produces strong covalent bonding.

22 Sep 2009

Industrial lipases launched by EUCODIS Bioscience

EUCODIS Bioscience, a company developing, customizing, manufacturing, and marketing enzymes for the chemical industry, announced today that it has launched the first enzymes of its lipase portfolio. EUCODIS Bioscience currently offers 12 lipases that have been selected to cover a broad range of potential industrial applications.

22 Sep 2009

Moses Cone Health System installs TomoTherapy cancer treatment system

TomoTherapy Incorporated announced today that Moses Cone Health System has installed North Carolina's first TomoTherapy® cancer treatment system at the Moses Cone Regional Cancer Center in Greensboro, N.C.

22 Sep 2009

T-M-Partners chooses InterSystems Ensemble for its CMS Quality Manager healthcare application

InterSystems Corporation today announced that Technology Medical Partners (T-M-Partners) has selected the InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration and development platform for its CMS Quality Manager healthcare application. The first of many healthcare technology solutions under development by T-M-Partners, CMS Quality Manager is designed to vastly improve the data abstraction and administrative processes of reporting core measures to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS).

22 Sep 2009

U.S. HHS orders for an additional 29 million doses of MedImmune's influenza vaccine

MedImmune announced today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has placed an order for an additional 29 million doses of its live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. This brings HHS orders to date to more than 40 million vaccine doses, with a total cumulative contract value of approximately $453 million.

22 Sep 2009

MRS could be effective for identifying diabetes

Researchers have long suspected that overweight people tend to have large fat deposits in their pancreases, but they've been unable to confirm or calculate how much fat resides there because of the organ's location.

22 Sep 2009

Matching parent-child pairs not dependent on race or culture

Scientists have ample evidence that individuals use a variety of cues to identify their own kin. People can also detect resemblances in families other than their own. A new study shows that their success in doing so is the same, whether or not those families are the same race as themselves.

22 Sep 2009

MEDSEEK and Rex Healthcare sign multi-year agreement

MEDSEEK, the leading provider of enterprise-wide healthcare portal connectivity solutions, announced today that Rex Healthcare signed a multi-year agreement with MEDSEEK to design and implement a comprehensive eHealth ecoSystem, a virtual community in which patients, physicians and employees can collaborate to better manage health and more efficiently deliver healthcare, providing “the right information to the right person at the right time.”

22 Sep 2009

S2S translation systems for comunication between patients and doctors

Now, USC computer scientists, communication specialists and health professionals hope to create a cheap, robust and effective speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system for clinics, emergency rooms and even ambulances.

22 Sep 2009

NASDAQ issues InfoLogix a deficiency letter

InfoLogix, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFLG), a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility solutions for the healthcare and commercial industries, today announced that it received a deficiency letter, dated September 16, 2009, from the NASDAQ Stock Market stating that based on the closing bid price of the company's listed securities for the last 30 consecutive business days, InfoLogix no longer meets the minimum $1.00 per share requirement for continued listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market under Marketplace Rule 5550(a)(2).

22 Sep 2009

Free dental care for California's foster-care students

More than four hundred foster-care students within the Twin Rivers Unified School District will be able to receive free dental care thanks to a new telemedicine project created jointly by the California Dental Association Foundation, University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry and the California HealthCare Foundation with start-up funding from Verizon.

22 Sep 2009

Ross Procedure to be discussed by cardiovascular surgeons

CryoLife, Inc.- Elite cardiovascular surgeons from around the world will travel to suburban Atlanta this week for the two-day Ross Summit to review and discuss current peer-reviewed data relating to the survival advantage of the Ross Procedure and to practice the technical nuances required to perform this heart surgery successfully.

22 Sep 2009