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Asahi Kasei to acquire ZOLL

Asahi Kasei Corporation, and ZOLL Medical Corporation today jointly announced that Asahi Kasei, Japan's leading diversified chemical manufacturer with businesses in the health care, chemicals & fibers, homes & construction materials, and electronics sectors, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with ZOLL, a manufacturer of resuscitation and critical care devices and related software solutions, pursuant to which Asahi Kasei will acquire ZOLL for approximately $2.21 billion.

12 Mar 2012

DeSyRe develops new design techniques for future Systems-on-Chips

For pacemakers and other implantable medical devices there are three key factors: extreme reliability, small size, and long longevity. In the EU project DeSyRe, researchers tackle these issues with a new approach: building a reliable system on unreliable components. Ioannis Sourdis, project leader, today explains the DeSyRe's approach in a tutorial on "Hardware and software design and verification for safety critical electronic systems" during the DATE 2012 conference in Dresden.

12 Mar 2012

New Burn Medical Education app for physicians, students

A newly released mobile app designed to educate medical students, physicians and health care workers around the globe on how to care for burn victims is one of a fast-growing number of medical apps being developed at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

12 Mar 2012

HIPK2 regulator protein plays a crucial role in kidney fibrosis

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a regulator protein that plays a crucial role in kidney fibrosis, a condition that leads to kidney failure. Finding this regulator provides a new therapeutic target for the millions of Americans affected by kidney failure. The research is published in the March 11 issue of Nature Medicine.

12 Mar 2012

Researchers develop Bluetooth-enabled medical monitoring device

Researchers in New Zealand have developed a prototype Bluetooth-enabled medical monitoring device that can be connected wirelessly to your smart phone and keep track of various physiological parameters, such as body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and movements.

12 Mar 2012

FDA clears Hospira's Symbiq 3.13 infusion device

Hospira, Inc., the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, announced today that the company has received regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Symbiq 3.13 infusion device, the enhanced version of the company's advanced infusion system platform.

9 Mar 2012

FDA clears Abbott's FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System

Abbott today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for the FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System, the first from Abbott to include a touch-screen interface, automated logbook and several personalization features designed to improve the diabetes management experience for patients.

8 Mar 2012

New precise 3D scanner provides image in 12 seconds

Reliable and highly accurate raw data is needed to use 3D images of a person or object, for example for body measurement. The VITUS smart body scanner from VITRONIC generates an accurate 3D image during a scan of only 12 seconds. VITRONIC will present the VITUS smart body scanner at the 3D Body Scanning Technologies Asian Workshop in Tokyo, Japan.

8 Mar 2012

NCGR to host eighth annual NMBIST symposium on March 22-23, 2012

The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) announced today that it will host the eighth annual New Mexico Bioinformatics, Science and Technology (NMBIST) symposium on March 22-23, 2012.

7 Mar 2012

Medidata net revenues increase 11% to $184.5M for full year 2011

Medidata Solutions, a leading global provider of SaaS clinical technology solutions that enhance the efficiency of clinical development, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011, and provided detailed financial guidance for the first quarter and full year 2012.

6 Mar 2012

Health Robotics receives Premier contract for world-leading IV Robots

Health Robotics announced that it has been recently awarded by Premier Healthcare Alliance a 3-year sole-source contract for its world-leading IV Robots, following Premier's industry-wide market search in late 2011. Under this agreement, Premier will exclusively license Intravenous Medication Robots from Health Robotics.

6 Mar 2012

New, freely available Web-based program helps predict effect of mutations on mRNA splicing

In a brief paper in the journal Bioinformatics, Brown University researchers describe a new, freely available Web-based program called Spliceman for predicting whether genetic mutations are likely to disrupt the splicing of messenger RNA, potentially leading to disease.

6 Mar 2012

Varian to acquire InfiMed

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire InfiMed, Inc., a privately-owned, leading supplier of workstations including hardware and software for processing diagnostic X-ray images. The acquisition, which is expected to close in early April subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions, will operate within Varian's X-Ray Products segment.

5 Mar 2012

Roche selects ICON as technology partner

ICON plc,, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that it has been selected by Roche as its technology partner for storing and managing medical images collected during the company's clinical research programs.

5 Mar 2012

Simulations Plus second quarter revenues increase to record $2.789M

Simulations Plus, Inc., a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today reported preliminary revenues for its second quarter of fiscal year 2012 ended February 29, 2012 (2QFY12).

5 Mar 2012

Philips SpeechExec now fully supports Nuance's Dragon Medical

Philips Speech Processing, the market leader in professional dictation, today announced that its SpeechExec dictation workflow solution now fully supports Nuance's Dragon Medical speech recognition.

5 Mar 2012

New Brown center for evidence-based medicine and science

The difference between abundant information and useful knowledge is a problem in many fields including health care, where life and death can depend on the decision to prescribe a drug or perform a surgery. A new center at Brown University, led by a team of five experts in evidence-based medicine, will advance the study of turning heaps of data in research papers into a powerful understanding that doctors and scientists can apply.

3 Mar 2012

Four Cockrell School faculty members receive NSF CAREER awards

Four faculty members from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards totaling nearly $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation.

3 Mar 2012

UCSD first to treat glioma with investigational viral vector

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center researchers and surgeons are among the first in the nation to treat patients with recurrent brain cancer by directly injecting an investigational viral vector into their tumor. The treatment is being developed by a local San Diego Company, Tocagen Inc.

2 Mar 2012

Non-invasive hyperspectral imaging system for skin cancer screening relies on Andor technology

Malignant melanoma (MM), the most dangerous type of skin cancer, is caused mainly by intense episodes of UV exposure and originates in the pigment-producing melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis. Early detection and complete excision of the primary lesions is crucial for reducing melanoma-related deaths but current diagnostic practice is highly subjective. This leads to unnecessary surgical procedures, which are highly-invasive and expensive.

1 Mar 2012