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ASPEX to display game-changing PSEM eXpress analyzer at Pittcon 2010

ASPEX Corporation has been advancing the novel Personal Scanning Electron Microscope (PSEM) platform since its first product generation was released in 1992. Since then, it has been "shifting" where SEMs are traditionally installed, "shifting" when SEMs are utilized in industrial processes, and fundamentally "shifting" how SEMs are identified. Come experience the shift at Pittcon 2010, in Orlando, FL from March 1-4.

3 Mar 2010

Acuo Technologies granted patent covering technology implemented in DSG software suite

Acuo Technologies, the market leading Vendor Neutral Archive supplier, was granted US patent number 7,640,171 by the USPTO which covers technology implemented in its DICOM Services Grid™ software suite.

3 Mar 2010

GE Healthcare to showcase next-generation eHealth Solutions platform at 2010 HIMSS conference

GE Healthcare today announced the launch of its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform – an infrastructure offering that includes expanded services for health information exchange, a clinical portal and a patient health management system.

3 Mar 2010

EMA validates Lux Biosciences' voclosporin MAA

Isotechnika Pharma Inc. today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) filed by its partner, Lux Biosciences, Inc., for voclosporin. Following validation of the MAA, the dossier is distributed to members of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for formal review, which is expected to take one year.

2 Mar 2010

Cleveland HeartLab completes $3.0M fundraising round

Cleveland HeartLab LLC (CHL) today announced that it has completed a $3.0-million fundraising round. The company’s new shareholders include local business leaders, and Glengary LLC, Second Generation Ltd. and Zapis Capital Group LLC.

2 Mar 2010

St. Jude Medical's Trifecta valve receives CE Mark approval

St. Jude Medical, Inc. today announced that it has received CE Mark approval for the Trifecta™ valve, marking the Company’s launch into the market for pericardial aortic stented tissue valves.

2 Mar 2010

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Primordial, a leading vendor of communication, workflow, quality management and analytics applications for the medical imaging market, announced today that it will deploy and further develop Primordial’s applications at NYU Langone Medical Center. As part of the agreement, Primordial will install its platform and applications at NYU Langone Medical Center, an integrated academic medical center, to unify communications and manage complex workflow for a highly sub-specialized and distributed work environment.

2 Mar 2010

Nuvon introduces IDM-MG 1000 portable solution for biomedical data collection

San Francisco-based Nuvon, Inc. (www.nuvon.com), a provider of next generation BMDI (biomedical device interoperability) solutions, announces the introduction of the IDM-MG 1000, extending Nuvon’s biomedical device interoperability capabilities by providing the first truly mobile and portable solution to collect and present critical biomedical device data anywhere.

2 Mar 2010

Loyola medical students and CRJHS students team up to promote healthcare awareness

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing students are teaming up with high schoolers from Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (CRJHS) to bring awareness and share ideas about health care now and in the future.

2 Mar 2010

Life Technologies announces early stage results from SMS technology

Life Technologies Corporation today announced early stage results from its single molecule sequencing (SMS) technology. The technology promises to combine virtually unlimited continuous long read lengths with unmatched accuracy to deliver targeted genomic sequence data in a matter of hours, paving the way for sequencing to become a commonplace tool in research laboratories and clinical settings worldwide.

2 Mar 2010

AnaptysBio announces strategic collaboration to generate novel antibodies for specified disease target

AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody platform and product company, today announced a strategic collaboration with an undisclosed leading global pharmaceutical company to generate novel antibody therapeutics to a specified disease target. This is the third collaboration with a leading pharmaceutical company announced by AnaptysBio during 2010.

1 Mar 2010

3DISC introduces new digital technology for medical professionals

3DISC, an innovative manufacturer of CR solutions, will introduce its new FireCR system to medical professionals at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna March 4–8, 2010.

1 Mar 2010

McGill University and RI MUHC secure $300,000 CIHR grant to develop VLP vaccines

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have awarded a $300,000 grant for research focusing on the nature of the immune response induced by the action mechanisms of plant-made Virus-Like Particles (VLP) to Dr. Louis Vezina, Chief Scientific Officer of Medicago and to Dr. Brian Ward and Dr. Ciriaco Piccirillo of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) and McGill University.

1 Mar 2010

Isis Pharmaceuticals reports revenues of $32.3M for fourth-quarter 2009

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced its 2009 financial results and reviewed the highlights of the year. Isis achieved its 2009 financial guidance with pro forma net income of $166.9 million and a pro forma net operating loss (NOL) of $14.2 million compared with its guidance for the year of pro forma net income of more than $145 million and a pro forma NOL in the low to mid $20 million range. Isis also achieved its cash guidance by ending 2009 with $574.3 million of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments significantly in excess of the $550 million projected.

1 Mar 2010

Pangu BioPharma's naturally occurring splice variants of human tRNA synthetases study awarded second grant

The Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong government has awarded Pangu BioPharma, the Hong Kong subsidiary of aTyr Pharma, a second grant to fund research it is performing in collaboration with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) provides matching funds over the next 18 months to expand Pangu's successful work in the identification and characterization of naturally occurring splice variants of human tRNA synthetases.

1 Mar 2010

Axolotl to demonstrate Elysium Open Access platform during HIMSS 2010

Axolotl Corp., the most experienced health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services company, today announced that it will be demonstrating its standards-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform — Elysium Open Access, with live third party applications – in operation today. Elysium Open Access is a core part of Axolotl’s Elysium® Exchange HIE suite.

1 Mar 2010

Researchers figure out how ATP molecule broken down in cells

Researchers at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center have figured out how ATP is broken down in cells, providing for the first time a clear picture of the key reaction that allows cells in all living things to function and flourish.

1 Mar 2010

Visage Imaging announces the signing of $2M agreement with Sydney-based Southern Radiology

Visage Imaging, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd., (ASX: PME) today announced the signing of a $2 million agreement to provide its entire suite of software and services – including its new Visage 7 thin client PACS – to Sydney-based independent imaging provider Southern Radiology.

27 Feb 2010

Federal officials focus on radiation practices at Florida clinic; Medical scan makers announce new efforts to prevent mistakes

Medicare regulations require that when patients receive some types of highly specialized cancer treatments, their radiation oncologist must be on site. But The New York Times reports that federal officials are investigating a Florida cancer clinic that billed Medicare for such treatments while the doctors were absent, sometimes on overseas trips.

27 Feb 2010

Blair House bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform: Speaker Pelosi's remarks

"As we sit around this table, I think we should be mindful of what they do when they sit around their kitchen table. What we do here must be relevant to their lives. And for them, they don't have time for us to start over. Many of them are at the end of the line with their insurance…I just hope that as we sit around this table, we understand the urgency that the American people have about this issue, how it affects not only their health, but their economic security."

26 Feb 2010

Next Generation News and Research

ASPEX to display game-changing PSEM eXpress analyzer at Pittcon 2010

Acuo Technologies granted patent covering technology implemented in DSG software suite

GE Healthcare to showcase next-generation eHealth Solutions platform at 2010 HIMSS conference

EMA validates Lux Biosciences' voclosporin MAA

Cleveland HeartLab completes $3.0M fundraising round

St. Jude Medical's Trifecta valve receives CE Mark approval

Primordial's platform and applications to be deployed at NYU Langone Medical Center

Nuvon introduces IDM-MG 1000 portable solution for biomedical data collection

Loyola medical students and CRJHS students team up to promote healthcare awareness

Life Technologies announces early stage results from SMS technology

AnaptysBio announces strategic collaboration to generate novel antibodies for specified disease target

3DISC introduces new digital technology for medical professionals

McGill University and RI MUHC secure $300,000 CIHR grant to develop VLP vaccines

Isis Pharmaceuticals reports revenues of $32.3M for fourth-quarter 2009

Pangu BioPharma's naturally occurring splice variants of human tRNA synthetases study awarded second grant

Axolotl to demonstrate Elysium Open Access platform during HIMSS 2010

Researchers figure out how ATP molecule broken down in cells

Visage Imaging announces the signing of $2M agreement with Sydney-based Southern Radiology

Federal officials focus on radiation practices at Florida clinic; Medical scan makers announce new efforts to prevent mistakes

Blair House bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform: Speaker Pelosi's remarks

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