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Cycle Pharmaceuticals receives license for IP on PARP inhibitor drugs for treating vascular disease

Cambridge Enterprise has exclusively licensed intellectual property relating to the use of PARP inhibitor drugs for treating vascular disease to CYCLE Pharmaceuticals.

23 Dec 2016

Terraillon to promote new wellbeing products at technology tradeshow

Terraillon, the global specialist in metrology and leader in the wellbeing industry, will launch their latest range of smart and cutting-edge health-focused devices, at CES 2017.

22 Dec 2016

Allscripts selected to help hospital become fully digital

In the fourth quarter of 2016, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust selected Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) fully integrated health IT solution to help achieve its objective to become a fully digital hospital. The Trust, a long-term user of the Allscripts Patient Administration System (PAS), will adopt Allscripts Sunrise™ as its new electronic patient record (EPR) and the Allscripts dbMotion Solution to provide community-wide interoperability.

22 Dec 2016

Latest advances in medical imaging for personalized healthcare

After the first ever MediSens conference, 2016, it is fair to say that there is much excitement in the area of medical imaging. The industry is experiencing a drive towards a more personalized approach to healthcare, providing patients with treatment that is specific and adaptive to them.

21 Dec 2016

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute establishes spin-out company, Microbiotica

Cambridge Innovation Capital plc, a Cambridge-based investor in technology and healthcare companies, and IP Group plc, the developer of intellectual property-based businesses, announce the creation of Microbiotica Ltd, a newly formed spin-out company from the UK’s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute based at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge.

21 Dec 2016

New membrane filtration systems released by Sterlitech

Sterlitech Corporation announces the availability of their fully assembled skid mounted membrane filtration systems.

19 Dec 2016

Metavision clinical information system adopted by health services centre, Canada

iMDsoft® announced that Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Canada is now live with the MetaVision clinical information system throughout their critical care environment. The system has been implemented in adult, neonatal and burn intensive care units, across a total of 145 beds.

19 Dec 2016

Mettler Toledo receive competitive top spot in technology awards

Mesures magazine, a publication of Newsco Group, has announced the winners in ten measurement categories for its annual Technology Awards. METTLER TOLEDO is proud to have won the top spot among an esteemed field of lab equipment entries.

From Mettler-Toledo International Inc. 19 Dec 2016

Recipient of the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award announced by Pittcon

The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of 15 prestigious awards honoring scientists who have made outstanding contributions to analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. Each award will be presented in a scheduled symposium during Pittcon, the world’s leading conference and exposition for laboratory science, March 5-9, Chicago, Illinois, McCormick Place West Hall.

From Pittcon 16 Dec 2016

Clinical and Digital Information Systems framework welcome newest addition, Ideagen

Ideagen is pleased to announce it has successfully achieved inclusion on a new Clinical and Digital Information Systems framework (CDIS).

15 Dec 2016

Siemens laboratory diagnostics department undergoes expansion

Siemens Healthineers will invest around $300 million in its Walpole, Mass. laboratory diagnostics manufacturing and research and development facility. The investment extends over four years and is another proof point that Siemens Healthineers invests in innovation to enable healthcare providers around the world to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments.

15 Dec 2016

Porvair sciences introduce products for use in animal and plant genetics

Porvair Sciences will showcase two important technical breakthroughs at PAG XXV in San Diego (USA) from January 14-18, 2017.

From Chromatrap® - Porvair Sciences Ltd 15 Dec 2016

Mettler Toledo help to make weighing in the lab more accurate

Electrostatic charges exert forces on material to be weighed, potentially falsifying results. Learn how these charges arise—and what to do to mitigate them—in a new white paper from METTLER TOLEDO, available only in December as part of the world-renown lab equipment manufacturer’s 2016 e-calendar.

15 Dec 2016

Mettler Toledo article outlines why proactive maintenance protects profits

Weighing is critical to most manufacturing processes. However, many manufacturers overlook the importance of regular maintenance of their weighing assets, leading to equipment failure and downtime. A new METTLER TOLEDO article details 11 reasons why proactive, rather than reactive, maintenance can help manufacturers protect their important profit margins.

15 Dec 2016

IT product manager for northern Europe is appointed at Beckman Coulter

Beckman Coulter has appointed Ed Harris as its new Product Manager for IT in Northern Europe. As a product expert with a passion for healthcare and a vision of the benefits that IT can bring to patient outcomes through enhanced efficiencies, Ed is responsible for overseeing Beckman Coulter’s clinical information systems portfolio.

From Beckman Coulter Diagnostics 14 Dec 2016

Families are probably not financially burdened by their childrens' Down Syndrome medical care

The first study to analyze the out-of-pocket costs to families for the medical care of children and adolescents with Down syndrome finds that monthly costs - averaged over the first 18 years of life - are less than $100 a month more than the costs for care of a typically developing child. The report published in American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A also finds that the additional costs are lower when the child is older.

14 Dec 2016

Curasan reveal plan for orthopedic product campaign

Curasan AG, a leading specialist for medical products in the field of orthobiologics, has received the market clearance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and thus the authorization to market its synthetic bone regeneration material CERASORB Ortho FOAM in the United States.

9 Dec 2016

Pittcon announce speaker for Wallace H Coulter lecture

The Pittcon Program Committee is extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Karl Deisseroth, the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will deliver the Wallace H. Coulter lecture at Pittcon 2017.

From Pittcon 5 Dec 2016