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Axial Biotech's SCOLISCORE AIS Prognostic Test now available in the U.S.

Axial Biotech, Inc., a company personalizing spine care through the development of molecular diagnostics, announced today that its SCOLISCORE(TM) AIS Prognostic Test is now being made available to spine specialists in the United States. SCOLISCORE is a saliva-based genetic test designed to predict the risk of progression of scoliosis, an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

24 Sep 2009

Merck, QIAGEN to collaborate to increase access to HPV vaccination and HPV DNA testing in developing countries

Merck & Co., Inc. and QIAGEN N.V. today announced their intent to collaborate on a new program to increase access to HPV vaccination and HPV DNA testing in some of the most resource-poor areas of the world.

From QIAGEN Manchester Limited 24 Sep 2009

PNNL Department of Energy researcher earns prestigious NIH Director's New Innovator Award

An analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award will support Wei-Jun Qian's drive to make new research and clinical diagnostic tools that are dramatically more sensitive, reliable and faster than current technologies.

24 Sep 2009

Guarding Hearts Alliance to protect quality care for patients suffering from heart disease

Organizations representing the vast majority of cardiologists around the country have joined forces today to preserve and protect the highest quality cardiac care available in America. Guarding Hearts Alliance is advocating to protect patient access to cardiac care in whatever Medicare changes or health care reform legislation is enacted.

24 Sep 2009

Computational models form basis to design the device for recreating kidney function

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and two other academic institutions have received federal funding to systematically assemble functional human kidney tissue from tissue modeled on a computer. If successful, the research-which ties together several emerging technologies including virtual tissue modeling and nanofabrication-could lead to a more predictable way for researchers to engineer tissue outside the body and, consequently, to screen for new drugs.

24 Sep 2009

Adolescent depression and anxiety: Two distinct psychiatric disorders

Adolescent depression and anxiety disorders are two distinct psychiatric disorders, according to Dr. William W. Hale III (a researcher of the Langeveld Institute for the Study of Education and Development in Childhood and Adolescence at Utrecht University) in a recent publication in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

24 Sep 2009

AmeriCares commits to donate medicines and medical supplies to health care organizations

AmeriCares this week pledged to expand its medical assistance across the United States at the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative in New York City. AmeriCares U.S. Medical Assistance Program, announced by President & CEO Curt Welling, is a two-year commitment to improve community health by donating medicines and medical supplies to health care organizations serving the uninsured and underinsured throughout the country.

24 Sep 2009

Genetic variation helps identify hepatitis C infected people, according to a study

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers are part of an international team that has discovered a genetic variation that could identify those people infected with hepatitis C who are most likely to benefit from current treatments.

24 Sep 2009

Cambridge Heart's modified Alternans technology to identify myocardial ischemia

Cambridge Heart, Inc. announced today that it intends to pursue research and development efforts on a new application derived from its core Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) technology.

24 Sep 2009

Golden nanotubes detect tumor cells, map sentinel lymph nodes

Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated carbon nanotubes that is capable of molecular mapping of lymphatic endothelial cells and detecting cancer metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes.

23 Sep 2009

GE Healthcare creates a digital wall to commemorate the tenth anniversary of digital mammography

In addition to being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this October is the tenth anniversary of digital mammography, a technology introduced by GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) in 1999. Similar to digital photography, digital mammography replaces the film used in traditional mammography with digital files viewed and stored on computers.

23 Sep 2009

KARL STORZ receives LEED Silver certification

KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc., a leader in diagnostic and operative minimally invasive endoscopic technology, is proud to announce that it has been awarded LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for the company’s North American Headquarters.

23 Sep 2009

Livingston Securities announces the agenda for the 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare Summit.

Today, Scott Livingston, CEO and Founder of Livingston Securities (www.livingstonsecurities.com) announced the agenda for the 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare and Life Science Stakeholders Summit.

23 Sep 2009

Melanoma patients could be spared from unnecessary surgery

Researchers have shown for the first time that patterns of ultrasound signals can be used to identify whether or not cancer has started to spread in melanoma patients, and to what extent. The discovery enables doctors to decide on how much surgery, if any, is required and to predict the patient's probable survival.

23 Sep 2009

Spread of cancer in melanoma patients can be determined by ultrasound signals

23 Sep 2009

St. Jude Medical's cardiovascular healthcare portfolio to be presented at TCT meeting

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) today announced it will display products and technologies from the company’s portfolio of solutions for cardiovascular healthcare professionals at the 21st annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco. The featured products reflect the company’s continued commitment to developing comprehensive, high-performance solutions which advance the practice of interventional cardiology by improving efficiencies and giving physicians more control.

23 Sep 2009

Revolution Medical's MRI software suit to be launched at RSNA annual meeting

Revolutions Medical Corporation ("Revolutions Medical" or the "Company") (OTCBB: RMCP), producers of the Rev Vac safety syringe, today announced that it will debut its evolutionary MRI software suite at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting at McCormick Place in Chicago on November 29th - December 4th.

23 Sep 2009

New method to identify active tuberculosis in patients

Active tuberculosis can be rapidly identified in patients with negative sputum tests by a new method, according to European researchers. Active tuberculosis (TB) is the seventh-leading cause of death worldwide, and while the diagnosis of active TB can be rapidly established when the bacteria can be identified on sputum microscopy, in about half of all cases, the TB bacterium cannot be detected, making another diagnostic option critical in efforts to control the spread of TB.

23 Sep 2009

Medifacts awarded a $1.9M contract to provide cardiac safety services

MEDIFACTS INTERNATIONAL, INC., one of the largest global providers of noninvasive cardiac diagnostic services, today announced the award of a $1.9 million contract with a Global pharmaceutical company to provide comprehensive cardiac safety and efficacy services for a large late stage clinical trial.

23 Sep 2009

Study on adults living with autism spectrum disorders in England

The first ever major study into adults living with autism was published today (Tuesday 22nd September) by the NHS Information Centre. The report, entitled 'Autism Spectrum Disorders in adults living in households throughout England 2007' was written by Professor Terry Brugha, a Consultant Psychiatrist with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Leicester with a team of UK researchers.

23 Sep 2009

Diagnostic News and Research

Axial Biotech's SCOLISCORE AIS Prognostic Test now available in the U.S.

Merck, QIAGEN to collaborate to increase access to HPV vaccination and HPV DNA testing in developing countries

PNNL Department of Energy researcher earns prestigious NIH Director's New Innovator Award

Guarding Hearts Alliance to protect quality care for patients suffering from heart disease

Computational models form basis to design the device for recreating kidney function

Adolescent depression and anxiety: Two distinct psychiatric disorders

AmeriCares commits to donate medicines and medical supplies to health care organizations

Genetic variation helps identify hepatitis C infected people, according to a study

Cambridge Heart's modified Alternans technology to identify myocardial ischemia

Golden nanotubes detect tumor cells, map sentinel lymph nodes

GE Healthcare creates a digital wall to commemorate the tenth anniversary of digital mammography

KARL STORZ receives LEED Silver certification

Livingston Securities announces the agenda for the 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare Summit.

Melanoma patients could be spared from unnecessary surgery

Spread of cancer in melanoma patients can be determined by ultrasound signals

St. Jude Medical's cardiovascular healthcare portfolio to be presented at TCT meeting

Revolution Medical's MRI software suit to be launched at RSNA annual meeting

New method to identify active tuberculosis in patients

Medifacts awarded a $1.9M contract to provide cardiac safety services

Study on adults living with autism spectrum disorders in England

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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