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Novian Health and Rose Medical Center sign an agreement to provide Novilase laser treatment to treat breast lumps

Novian Health, manufacturer of Novilase™ Breast Therapy for benign breast tumors, announced an agreement with Rose Medical Center for Rose to provide the Novilase laser treatment to treat breast lumps.

29 Oct 2009

Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by Adolor

Adolor Corporation today reported a net loss of approximately $11.1 million, or ($0.24) per basic and diluted share, for the three months ended September 30, 2009 compared to a net loss of $13.3 million, or ($0.29) per basic and diluted share, for the three months ended September 30, 2008.

29 Oct 2009

NMT Medical reports financial results for third-quarter 2009; narrows net loss to $0.22 per share

NMT Medical, Inc., an advanced medical technology company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary implant technologies that allow interventional cardiologists to treat structural heart disease through minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures, today announced financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009.

29 Oct 2009

Study looks at the impact of health insurance on the number of preventable deaths in the U.S.

Lack of health insurance might have led or contributed to nearly 17,000 deaths among hospitalized children in the United States in the span of less than two decades, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

29 Oct 2009

WaveMark CIMS implemented at St. Joseph’s Hospital

WaveMark, Inc., a leading provider of real-time inventory management (RTIM) solutions for high value medical products, and St. Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, GA today announced the use of WaveMark’s hospital inventory management solution, WaveMark CIMS™, by St. Joseph’s Hospital to manage its high value, specialty inventory. St. Joseph’s will use WaveMark’s point of use RTIM technology to track physician preference items in its Cardiac Cath and Electrophysiology (EP) labs.

29 Oct 2009

CHU Sainte-Justine and The Montreal Children's Hospital to update the public regarding H1N1 testing at emergency rooms

The emergency rooms at the CHU Sainte-Justine and The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre are seeing a significant increase in patients seeking care. The increase is due to patients with mild flu-like symptoms and fever and due to parents asking that their child be tested to determine if he has H1N1.

29 Oct 2009

Ventas reports substantial growth in third quarter 2009

Ventas, Inc. (“Ventas” or the “Company”) said today that third quarter 2009 normalized Funds From Operations (“FFO”) increased 7.4 percent to $103.4 million, from $96.2 million for the comparable 2008 period. Normalized FFO per diluted common share was $0.66 in the third quarter of 2009, compared to $0.68 in the comparable 2008 period. Weighted average diluted shares outstanding in the third quarter of 2009 were 156.5 million, compared to 141.1 million in the comparable 2008 period.

29 Oct 2009

Prosurgics sells FreeHand laparoscopic camera controller to St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights

St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, Illinois and surgical robotics company Prosurgics announce today the first U.S. sale of a FreeHand® laparoscopic camera controller for gynecologic surgery.

29 Oct 2009

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals reports fiscal 2009 third-quarter results

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009 and provided a corporate update regarding clinical programs and potential emergency use of intravenous (i.v.) peramivir.

29 Oct 2009

Grassroots Health and the University of Toronto School of Medicine to host a Vitamin D symposium

Vitamin D Deficiency - linked to significantly higher rates of most cancers, heart disease, autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even flu - affects 97 per cent of Canadians. Yet fewer than 3 per cent of Canadians say they know their vitamin D blood levels.

29 Oct 2009

Challenges elderly patients face in hospital to home transition

A project in two regions of the province that captured the experiences and challenges of elderly patients moving from hospital to home or long-term care has already precipitated changes to improve those transitions.

29 Oct 2009

Applied Spine Technologies announces first patient surgery to test safety and effectiveness of Stabilimax system

Applied Spine Technologies (www.appliedspine.com) announces the first patient surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of their FDA approved Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Stabilimax® Dynamic Spine Stabilization System.

29 Oct 2009

Residents can serve a vital role in promoting CT colonography awareness

Residents can serve a vital role in educating Congress, the medical community, and the general public regarding the efficacy of cutting-edge technologies like CT colonography (CTC) as well as the importance of radiologists' training and education and the role that radiologists serve in the provision of quality health care, according to an article published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

29 Oct 2009

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to say goodbye to its landmark Administration Building

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) will say goodbye to its landmark Administration Building at 1001 Queen St. West in a ceremony on October 29, 2009 at 4 p.m. Demolition of the building will begin in January 2010 to make way for the next major phase of CAMH's ambitious redevelopment project, which is transforming care for Ontarians living with addiction and mental health issues.

29 Oct 2009

World Journal of Gastroenterology reports a case of metallic foreign body in lower mid-abdomen

Foreign body ingestion is a frequent gastrointestinal emergency. However, long spoon swallowing is a rare event. Most swallowed spoons have been found in the stomach. Previously, there has been no reported case of a long spoon reaching the jejunum.

29 Oct 2009

Fresenius Kabi to license its proprietary HESylation Technology to Octapharma

Octapharma Group and Fresenius Kabi have signed a License, Development and Supply Agreement regarding the use of Fresenius Kabi's HESylation® Technology to develop a HESylated recombinant protein.

29 Oct 2009

Conceptus reports clinical success of its Essure non-incisional permanent birth control procedure

Conceptus, Inc., developer of the Essure® procedure, the first proven non-incisional permanent birth control method available, today announced that the clinical success of the Essure® procedure will be highlighted at the 18th Annual Congress of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) in Florence, Italy from October 28-31, 2009.

29 Oct 2009

NCCN Guidelines for breast cancer does not recommend prophylactic mastectomy in women

Despite a recent study finding that an increasing number of women who had cancer in one breast are opting to have the other breast removed, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology(TM) for Breast Cancer discourages prophylactic mastectomy in women except for those considered high risk.

29 Oct 2009

Cempra Pharmaceuticals to present CEM-102 data at the Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting

Cempra Pharmaceuticals today announced data presentations of its lead antibiotic candidate, CEM-102 (fusidic acid), at the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 47th Annual Meeting, Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2009, in Philadelphia.

29 Oct 2009

Intrauterine contraception is most popular amongst European women

A European study has defined the profile for the usage of long-acting contraceptive methods. The work, presented with the National Congress of Gynaecology award, shows, amongst other things, that 10% of women use these methods, the majority over 30 years old.

29 Oct 2009

Hospital News and Research

Novian Health and Rose Medical Center sign an agreement to provide Novilase laser treatment to treat breast lumps

Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by Adolor

NMT Medical reports financial results for third-quarter 2009; narrows net loss to $0.22 per share

Study looks at the impact of health insurance on the number of preventable deaths in the U.S.

WaveMark CIMS implemented at St. Joseph’s Hospital

CHU Sainte-Justine and The Montreal Children's Hospital to update the public regarding H1N1 testing at emergency rooms

Ventas reports substantial growth in third quarter 2009

Prosurgics sells FreeHand laparoscopic camera controller to St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals reports fiscal 2009 third-quarter results

Grassroots Health and the University of Toronto School of Medicine to host a Vitamin D symposium

Challenges elderly patients face in hospital to home transition

Applied Spine Technologies announces first patient surgery to test safety and effectiveness of Stabilimax system

Residents can serve a vital role in promoting CT colonography awareness

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to say goodbye to its landmark Administration Building

World Journal of Gastroenterology reports a case of metallic foreign body in lower mid-abdomen

Fresenius Kabi to license its proprietary HESylation Technology to Octapharma

Conceptus reports clinical success of its Essure non-incisional permanent birth control procedure

NCCN Guidelines for breast cancer does not recommend prophylactic mastectomy in women

Cempra Pharmaceuticals to present CEM-102 data at the Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting

Intrauterine contraception is most popular amongst European women

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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