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Concord Medical signs definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity interest in Tianjin Kangmeng Radiology

Concord Medical Services Holdings Limited, operator of the largest network of radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging centers in China, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Shenzhen Aohua Medical Device Leasing Co., Ltd., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interest in Tianjin Kangmeng Radiology Equipment Management Co., Ltd., a company that manages four radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging centers in Hebei province.

27 Apr 2010

Researchers identify molecular marker of pancreatic cancer

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a molecular marker of pancreatic cancer that may help spot the disease at its earliest stages, when it can be treated more successfully with surgery.

27 Apr 2010

AES CHEMUNEX to distribute SDIX's RapidChek food pathogen detection systems in Europe

Strategic Diagnostics Inc., now doing business as SDIX, a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services for a broad range of life science, biotechnology, diagnostic, and food safety applications, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with AES CHEMUNEX.

27 Apr 2010

ExonHit to acquire RedPath for upfront payment of $12.5M in cash and $10M in stock

RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc., a cancer molecular diagnostics company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, announced today that it has entered into a binding agreement to be acquired by ExonHit Therapeutics, S.A., a leading French diagnostics and therapeutics biotech company for an upfront payment of $12.5M in cash and $10M in stock, and starting in 2012, subsequent additional payment up to $9.5M dependent on the achievement of sales targets.

27 Apr 2010

Scientists develop rapid point-of-care diagnostic test to measure CD4 T-cells

Scientists at Australia's Burnet Institute have developed a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for the measurement of CD4 T-cells, a marker of the immune system for people living with HIV and AIDS.

27 Apr 2010

GE Healthcare, Ascom collaborate to launch wireless hospital-wide messaging system

GE Healthcare and Ascom Wireless Solutions today released plans to launch a wireless hospital-wide messaging system, to improve workflow and communication for healthcare providers. The agreement aligns the GE Healthcare patient monitoring platform with Ascom's wireless communication solutions to enable hospitals to customize, filter and send secondary alarms to clinicians' Ascom Voice over IP (VoIP) phones, pagers and Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) handsets.

27 Apr 2010

News outlets examine World Malaria Day 2010

Ahead of Sunday's World Malaria Day, news outlets examined global efforts to combat the disease and the mood among advocates.

27 Apr 2010

New report on women's largest cancer challenge: lung cancer

Out of the Shadows: Women and Lung Cancer, a groundbreaking report released today by the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is a call to action on women's largest cancer challenge: lung cancer.

27 Apr 2010

MorphoSys AG reports Q1 results for 2010

MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment; TecDAX) today announced its financial results for the three months ending March 31, 2010 according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

27 Apr 2010

New textbook series entitled Essentials of Chinese Medicine launched

The Baptist University of Hong Kong and Springer Science+Business Media have launched a new textbook series entitled Essentials of Chinese Medicine. The three-volume English language set is of fundamental significance for the subject. Spearheaded by the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the School of Chinese Medicine HKBU, the books were co-written by 14 distinguished scholars from Hong Kong, mainland China and the USA.

26 Apr 2010

OICR makes equity investments in three promising Ontario technologies

Frank Stonebanks, Vice-President, Commercialization and Chief Commercial Officer of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research today announced that OICR has made equity investments in three promising Ontario technologies to accelerate their commercialization.

26 Apr 2010

Investment report featuring Imaging3

MicroStockProfit.com announces an investment report featuring Imaging3 Inc. The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.

26 Apr 2010

Enhancing residence time improves drug effectivity: Study

Studies led by Stony Brook University professor of chemistry Peter J. Tonge indicate that modifications that enhance the time a drug remains bound to its target, or residence time, may lead to better diagnostic and therapeutic agents.

26 Apr 2010

Feature: Patient coding and the ratings game

In this week's BMJ, Nigel Hawkes, freelance journalist and Director of Straight Statistics, a campaign for the better use of statistical data, investigates how the way that patients are allocated diagnostic codes by a hospital can have a big effect on a hospital's performance.

26 Apr 2010

FDA clears Osmetech's eSensor Thrombophilia Risk Test

Osmetech, plc today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the eSensor® Thrombophilia Risk Test (TRT), a multiplexed molecular diagnostic test for four genetic markers associated with thrombosis. The panel includes Factor V Leiden, Factor II Prothrombin, MTHFR 677 and MTHFR 1298 in a single test panel.

26 Apr 2010

Canadian Red Cross expands Malaria Bites campaign

This World Malaria Day, the Canadian Red Cross is ramping up their fight against malaria. The Canadian Red Cross is expanding their successful Malaria Bites campaign, which has already seen the distribution of six million bed nets, to include additional health interventions and treatment options.

26 Apr 2010

Novel clinical research approaches for rapidly identifying and preventing congenital cardiovascular defects

Structural and functional congenital cardiovascular abnormalities present at birth are the leading source of all congenital defects encountered in live births. Nearly half a million children in the United States have structural heart problems ranging in severity from relatively simple issues, such as small holes between chambers of the heart, to very severe malformations, including complete absence of one or more chambers or valves.

24 Apr 2010

ACP to provide physicians, patients with evidence-based recommendations for clinical problems

Building on its existing foundation of clinical and public policies, the American College of Physicians announced plans to provide physicians and patients with evidence-based recommendations for specific interventions for a variety of clinical problems.

24 Apr 2010

AlloMap molecular expression test reduces need for invasive heart-muscle biopsies

Monitoring rejection in heart transplantation patients with a simple blood test co-developed by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center physician-scientist Dr. Mario Deng in 2005 can safely reduce their need for invasive heart-muscle biopsies, a new study has found.

24 Apr 2010

Research roundup: Arthritis racial disparities, hospital mortality data, voters on long-term care

Differences In The Prevalence And Impact Of Arthritis Among Racial/Ethnic Groups In The United States, National Health Interview Survey, 2002, 2003, and 2006 - "Blacks and Hispanics were approximately 1.3 times as likely as whites to have activity limitation, 1.8 to 1.9 times as likely to have severe joint pain, and 1.6 to 1.7 times as likely to have work limitation," caused by arthritis.

24 Apr 2010

Diagnostic News and Research

Concord Medical signs definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity interest in Tianjin Kangmeng Radiology

Researchers identify molecular marker of pancreatic cancer

AES CHEMUNEX to distribute SDIX's RapidChek food pathogen detection systems in Europe

ExonHit to acquire RedPath for upfront payment of $12.5M in cash and $10M in stock

Scientists develop rapid point-of-care diagnostic test to measure CD4 T-cells

GE Healthcare, Ascom collaborate to launch wireless hospital-wide messaging system

News outlets examine World Malaria Day 2010

New report on women's largest cancer challenge: lung cancer

MorphoSys AG reports Q1 results for 2010

New textbook series entitled Essentials of Chinese Medicine launched

OICR makes equity investments in three promising Ontario technologies

Investment report featuring Imaging3

Enhancing residence time improves drug effectivity: Study

Feature: Patient coding and the ratings game

FDA clears Osmetech's eSensor Thrombophilia Risk Test

Canadian Red Cross expands Malaria Bites campaign

Novel clinical research approaches for rapidly identifying and preventing congenital cardiovascular defects

ACP to provide physicians, patients with evidence-based recommendations for clinical problems

AlloMap molecular expression test reduces need for invasive heart-muscle biopsies

Research roundup: Arthritis racial disparities, hospital mortality data, voters on long-term care

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