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Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Cerner partner to elevate care of individuals with addiction disorders

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the nation's largest nonprofit addiction treatment solutions provider, announced today it has selected leading health IT supplier Cerner Corp. to implement a new electronic health record (EHR) system throughout its organization.

4 Mar 2015

Kinsa Groups launched to monitor overall health of children in U.S. public schools

Kinsa, the maker of the first FDA approved app-enabled smartphone thermometer, today announced the launch of Kinsa Groups for its iOS and Android apps. The Groups feature is currently available for public schools across the United States. With Kinsa Groups, parents can monitor the overall health at their child's school to better track, treat, and stop the spread of illness at the earliest signs of symptoms.

4 Mar 2015

Resverlogix, Emerald Logic complete collaborative research program

Resverlogix Corp. today announced that it has completed a collaborative research program with Emerald Logic, a leader in quantitative analytics. Using Fast Collective Evolution Technology (FACET), Emerald Logic analyzed Resverlogix's complete clinical dataset including all measurements obtained from each of 798 patients who participated in the Company's Phase 2 clinical trials ASSERT, SUSTAIN and ASSURE.

4 Mar 2015

Mayo Clinic, Gentag partner to develop wearable biosensors for treating obesity, diabetes

Mayo Clinic and Gentag, Inc. have reached an agreement to develop the next generation of wearable biosensors designed to fight obesity and diabetes.

4 Mar 2015

PINN partners with Clinicient to strengthen clinical and business decisions

Clinicient Inc., a leader in outpatient rehabilitation business solutions, announced today that People's Injury Network Northwest, a preeminent industrial rehabilitation physical and occupational therapy provider in Washington state, has selected Clinicient's PracticeInsight cloud-based EMR and billing solutions.

4 Mar 2015

Bibby Scientific announces Stuart® Undergrad hotplate stirrer kits

Bibby Scientific Ltd announced today that Stuart®, a leading UK manufacturer of laboratory benchtop equipment, has launched a new range of Undergrad hotplate stirrer kits that offer excellent value for money for a broad range of life science heating and stirring applications.

4 Mar 2015

Apollo signs license option deal with Case Western to develop point-of-care blood analyzer

A blood test yields a wealth of information crucial to a person's health. What's needed is a device that is small and inexpensive, yet capable of quickly providing a thorough analysis using a very small sample.

4 Mar 2015

Research may help cancer centers provide better radiation therapy

Using complex computational algorithms based on repeated sampling, a University of Arkansas graduate student helped spearhead a project to develop a computer simulator that provides customized electron beam tunings for radiation therapy.

4 Mar 2015

UCLA life scientists develop new method to find genetic markers for many diseases

UCLA life scientists have created an accurate new method to identify genetic markers for many diseases -- a significant step toward a new era of personalized medicine, tailored to each person's DNA and RNA.

4 Mar 2015

New rapid Ebola test authorized for emergency use by FDA

University of Texas Medical Branch researchers who helped assess the effectiveness of a new rapid test kit to diagnose Ebola learned this week it has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.

4 Mar 2015

Screening tool can help identify nations' vulnerability to Ebola

Public health experts can identify nations that are vulnerable to the occurrence and impact of future outbreaks of Ebola or other emergencies by using a screening tool that evaluates a nation's strengths across a wide range of measures such as political strength and health care capabilities, according to a new analysis from the RAND Corporation.

4 Mar 2015

World first: Antimicrobial copper supermarket trolleys

In a world first, a Brazilian supermarket has introduced supermarket trolleys with antimicrobial copper handles to help reduce the spread of disease-causing pathogens.

3 Mar 2015

Malvern launches two new ITC systems to support life science research

Malvern Instruments has launched two new-generation isothermal titration calorimeters (ITC), advancing its recently acquired MicroCal range to further support life science researchers studying biomolecular interactions. The new manual Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC and fully automated Malvern MicroCal PEAQ-ITC Automatedsystems are designed to deliver the enhanced functionality and robust performance now demanded of this essential tool.

3 Mar 2015

Chrono Therapeutics gets support to develop SmartStop device for smoking cessation

Chrono Therapeutics, a pioneer in digital drug products, today announced an investment by Rock Health, the leading seed fund in digital health, to support the advancement of Chrono's SmartStop programmable transdermal drug delivery system and real-time behavioral support program for smoking cessation.

3 Mar 2015

KaVo Kerr Group plans to present new products at IDS 2015

KaVo Kerr Group, a global portfolio of leading dental brands, plans to present 35+ new products at the 36th International Dental Show (IDS) in Cologne. KaVo Kerr Group delivers products and solutions to 99% of dental practices worldwide, making IDS — the world's leading trade fair for the dental industry — the ideal stage to share the latest KaVo Kerr Group has to offer.

3 Mar 2015

Tian Ge, Xi He collaborate to develop new mobile health management platform

Tian Ge Interactive Holdings Limited, the largest "many-to-many" live social communities platform in China, announced that the Company has agreed to invest approximately RMB24 million (~USD$3.8 million) in exchange for approximately 34.47% equity interest in Hangzhou Xi He Technology Co., Ltd., a market leader in providing health management software to hospitals and physical check-up clinics in China, on a fully-diluted basis.

3 Mar 2015

SCIEX and Labor Berlin Collaboration to Advance Forensic Testing

SCIEX announced today a research collaboration with Labor Berlin, the largest clinical laboratory in Germany, for the development of a hybrid Quadrupole Time-of-Flight (TOF) MS/MS reference library of relevant forensic chemical compounds

3 Mar 2015

MIT researchers develop new nanodevice that can help overcome drug resistance

Chemotherapy often shrinks tumors at first, but as cancer cells become resistant to drug treatment, tumors can grow back. A new nanodevice developed by MIT researchers can help overcome that by first blocking the gene that confers drug resistance, then launching a new chemotherapy attack against the disarmed tumors.

3 Mar 2015

Autism Speaks' affiliate DELSIA announces new funding for clinical trial of cognitive video game

Autism Speaks' not-for-profit affiliate Delivering Scientific Innovation for Autism has announced new funding for clinical testing of a cognitive video game designed to improve executive function skills in children and adolescents with autism.

3 Mar 2015

Use of magnetic force can make laparoscopic surgery easier, more effective

Pietro Valdastri is convinced that the clever application of magnetic force can make minimally invasive surgery easier and more effective.

3 Mar 2015

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Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Cerner partner to elevate care of individuals with addiction disorders

Kinsa Groups launched to monitor overall health of children in U.S. public schools

Resverlogix, Emerald Logic complete collaborative research program

Mayo Clinic, Gentag partner to develop wearable biosensors for treating obesity, diabetes

PINN partners with Clinicient to strengthen clinical and business decisions

Bibby Scientific announces Stuart® Undergrad hotplate stirrer kits

Apollo signs license option deal with Case Western to develop point-of-care blood analyzer

Research may help cancer centers provide better radiation therapy

UCLA life scientists develop new method to find genetic markers for many diseases

New rapid Ebola test authorized for emergency use by FDA

Screening tool can help identify nations' vulnerability to Ebola

World first: Antimicrobial copper supermarket trolleys

Malvern launches two new ITC systems to support life science research

Chrono Therapeutics gets support to develop SmartStop device for smoking cessation

KaVo Kerr Group plans to present new products at IDS 2015

Tian Ge, Xi He collaborate to develop new mobile health management platform

SCIEX and Labor Berlin Collaboration to Advance Forensic Testing

MIT researchers develop new nanodevice that can help overcome drug resistance

Autism Speaks' affiliate DELSIA announces new funding for clinical trial of cognitive video game

Use of magnetic force can make laparoscopic surgery easier, more effective

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Automation in cell-based workflows

Data management challenges in scientific research

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