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Two new da Vinci Si HD Surgical System robots added to Swedish Medical Center

As one of the first medical centers in the Northwest to perform robot-assisted surgery, Swedish Medical Center is home to the fastest-growing and most experienced robot-assisted surgical program in the region. Swedish established the multidisciplinary robot-assisted surgical program in 2005 and has since performed more than 2,000 robot-assisted surgeries, more than any other program in the region.

4 Sep 2009

Wired Magazine features Pyng's MAT Tourniquet as one of the Top 10 Products Designed for Good

Pyng Medical Corp.'s (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:PYT) MAT® Tourniquet is being featured in the October edition of Wired UK Magazine as one of the "Top 10 Designs for Good."

4 Sep 2009

Drive to collect unused prescription drugs starts on October 3

In an effort to keep unused prescription drugs out of the hands of pre-teens and teenagers, DDN executive Joe Otto enlisted the support of Menomonee Falls Police Chief Anna Ruzinski, Community Memorial Hospital, and his company. As a result, Community Memorial Hospital will serve as collection site when Waukesha County kicks off its first drug collection program on October 3.

4 Sep 2009

Flat fees and EMR usage vary significantly in different hospitals

HighRoads, the company providing employers – for the first time – complete control over their health care costs and compliance, today announced findings from the industry’s first medical travel request for information (RFI) for Fortune 500 employers to compare health care procedural ethics, quality and costs around the world.

4 Sep 2009

SCA collaborates with Surgical Hospital to expand its services

Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma, located in Oklahoma City, today announced that it has partnered with Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), one of the country's largest providers of specialty surgical services.

4 Sep 2009

Google's Director of Technology commits $5M to the Sebastian Ferrero Foundation's children's hospital

Following the unimaginable loss of their son Sebastian less than two years ago, Horst and Luisa Ferrero created the Sebastian Ferrero Foundation with a mission to improve child patient safety and develop a full-service children's hospital. Today the stars have aligned for the Foundation with two significant steps forward.

4 Sep 2009

New H1N1 Influenza detection test used to diagnose Australia's first swine flu victim

When the first cases of H1N1 Influenza (swine flu) were reported in Mexico in April, UQ researchers got to work developing a test to diagnose the virus.

4 Sep 2009

Periurethral suspension technique results in greater continence rates after RALIP

The September issue of European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology, features an article and a video in the Surgery in Motion section by Vipul R. Patel et al, showing that the periurethral suspension technique results in significantly greater continence rates at 3 months after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP).

4 Sep 2009

Medicare advantage rates could go up, while Part D 'exceeding expectations'

"Despite near-zero inflation and recessionary conditions, health insurers in 2010 face another year of double-digit increases in the charges they pay for hospital services, physicians, drugs, and other healthcare costs," U.S. News and World Report writes in a news column.

4 Sep 2009

IMRIS sells IMRISneuro to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center

IMRIS Inc. (TSX: IM) ("IMRIS" or the "Company") today announced the sale of its flagship product, IMRISneuro, to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.

4 Sep 2009

CELDA used for assessing the cerebrospinal fluid granted CE marking

LinkMed’s portfolio company Likvor has been granted CE marking for its instrument for better and safer identification and diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH).

4 Sep 2009

Ontario Hospital Association and CAW reach tentative agreement for hospital employees

The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) announced today that it has reached a negotiated, tentative three-year collective agreement for hospital employees represented by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW).

4 Sep 2009

Healthland and PMI form partnership to provide EIS solutions to small community hospitals

Healthland, America's market leader of healthcare information solutions for small community and critical access hospitals, announced today it has partnered with the Performance Management Institute (PMI), to deliver an innovative solution to small community hospitals. PMI works with numerous state networks and hospital systems to provide a platform for monitoring and performance.

4 Sep 2009

Oncotype DX multigene expression test for breast cancer patients

In an effort to provide breast cancer patients with prompt, critical information about treatment options for use at their first visit with the medical oncologist, a number of leading U.S. surgeons request Genomic Health's Oncotype DX molecular test at the time of surgery or biopsy.

4 Sep 2009

U.S. hospitals place high precedence on environmentally responsible practices

Summary: Results of a recent survey commissioned by StandPoint indicate that U.S. Hospitals are putting a higher priority on implementing environmentally responsible practices. The major initiatives fall into two groups -- Waste Stream Management and Infrastructure.

4 Sep 2009

Giant Eagle offers generic prescription antibiotics for free at its in-store pharmacies

At a time when many families affected by a difficult economy are struggling with the costs of prescription medications, supermarket retailer Giant Eagle, Inc. is making ten broadly used generic prescription antibiotics in 46 common dosages available for free every day at all of its 210 in-store pharmacies.

4 Sep 2009

Top cancer hospitals have Elekta solutions for information management

Banner Good Samaritan treats cancers and neurological disorders with the Novalis Tx radiosurgery platform

John J. Kresl, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center are now treating a wide variety of cancers and neurological disorders with highly-accurate, non-invasive, image-guided radiosurgery using the Novalis Tx(TM) radiosurgery platform from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) and BrainLAB.

4 Sep 2009

Acurox's New Drug Application discussed with the FDA

Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that they met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") on September 2, 2009 to discuss the FDA’s June 30, 2009 Complete Response Letter regarding the New Drug Application for Acurox (oxycodone HCl and niacin) Tablets CII (NDA).

4 Sep 2009

New treatment for vaso-occlusive crisis in sickle cell patients

GlycoMimetics, Inc. (GMI), a clinical-stage biotechnology company that is developing a new class of glycobiology-based therapies for a broad range of indications, today announced that a pilot study of the company’s lead candidate, GMI-1070, is underway in sickle cell patients. The first patients in this pilot study were treated at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland in California.

4 Sep 2009

Hospital News and Research

Two new da Vinci Si HD Surgical System robots added to Swedish Medical Center

Wired Magazine features Pyng's MAT Tourniquet as one of the Top 10 Products Designed for Good

Drive to collect unused prescription drugs starts on October 3

Flat fees and EMR usage vary significantly in different hospitals

SCA collaborates with Surgical Hospital to expand its services

Google's Director of Technology commits $5M to the Sebastian Ferrero Foundation's children's hospital

New H1N1 Influenza detection test used to diagnose Australia's first swine flu victim

Periurethral suspension technique results in greater continence rates after RALIP

Medicare advantage rates could go up, while Part D 'exceeding expectations'

IMRIS sells IMRISneuro to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center

CELDA used for assessing the cerebrospinal fluid granted CE marking

Ontario Hospital Association and CAW reach tentative agreement for hospital employees

Healthland and PMI form partnership to provide EIS solutions to small community hospitals

Oncotype DX multigene expression test for breast cancer patients

U.S. hospitals place high precedence on environmentally responsible practices

Giant Eagle offers generic prescription antibiotics for free at its in-store pharmacies

Top cancer hospitals have Elekta solutions for information management

Banner Good Samaritan treats cancers and neurological disorders with the Novalis Tx radiosurgery platform

Acurox's New Drug Application discussed with the FDA

New treatment for vaso-occlusive crisis in sickle cell patients

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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