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QualMetrix closes oversubscribed Series A financing round

QualMetrix, Inc., a healthcare analytics company delivering actionable insights to payers, providers, pharma and employers to help them reduce cost while enhancing the quality of healthcare, announced the close of an oversubscribed Series A financing round.

12 Feb 2014

Cogstate technology to be applied in paediatric clinical trial in the U.S.

Medical technology company Cogstate Limited has today announced its technology will be used in a large paediatric clinical trial in the United States.

12 Feb 2014

MIT develops robot that may speed up drug development for stroke patients

The development of drugs to treat acute stroke or aid in stroke recovery is a multibillion-dollar endeavor that only rarely pays off in the form of government-approved pharmaceuticals.

12 Feb 2014

New video tracking system could help select most viable sperm

To improve their chances of success, in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics need to assess the viability of the sperm they use. Now doctors may soon have a new technique to help them sort the good sperm cells from the less viable ones: a tracking system, developed by a team of researchers from four European institutions, that takes 3-D movies of living sperm.

12 Feb 2014

Biologists demonstrate highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies

In 2011, biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) demonstrated a highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies to mice-a treatment that protected the mice from infection by a laboratory strain of HIV delivered intravenously.

12 Feb 2014

New imaging technique can predict common congenital heart abnormality

A new imaging technique for measuring blood flow in the heart and vessels can diagnose a common congenital heart abnormality, bicuspid aortic valve, and may lead to better prediction of complications.

12 Feb 2014

Surgeons now use minimally invasive robotic surgical system for Whipple procedure

The Whipple procedure, used to remove tumors from pancreatic cancer patients, is one of surgery's most extensive and challenging operations.

11 Feb 2014

QuadraMed strikes strategic partnership with Connected Technology Solutions

QuadraMed Corporation is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Connected Technology Solutions, a leading interactive kiosk design and creative marketing company. As part of the agreement, QuadraMed's intuitive point-of-service patient registration solution, QuadraMed MediKiosk, will run on CTS kiosk technology, offering organizations a proven, cost-effective patient registration and check-in solution.

11 Feb 2014

Eternity Healthcare developing saliva-based noninvasive sugar monitoring device

Eternity Healthcare Inc., a medical device and diagnostic company specializing in diabetes management, announced today that they are in development of a noninvasive sugar monitoring device using saliva instead of blood. The technology utilizes an ultra sensitive sugar monitor and an additional sensor for salivary amylase enzyme activity.

From Medtronic 11 Feb 2014

CareView introduces new CareView Connect Patient Monitoring and Communications module

CareView Communications, Inc., an information technology provider to the healthcare industry, announced today the introduction of its new CareView Connect Patient Monitoring and Communications module.

11 Feb 2014

MedAptus releases Risk Severity Toolkit to help provider groups manage disease burden of patients

MedAptus today announced that it has released a Risk Severity Toolkit to help provider groups measure and manage the disease burden of patients covered under risk-based contracts. The initial version focuses on the Medicare Advantage (MA) patient population where premiums paid to MA health plans are based on enrollees' severity history using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) model.

11 Feb 2014

New hemostasis valve with sideport tubing and stopcock launched by Qosina

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11 Feb 2014

Colour-changing ABC Syringe shortlisted for 2014 World Design Impact Prize

University of Huddersfield lecturer Dr David Swann's design for a syringe that changes colour in order to deter its re-use - with the possibility of spreading dangerous infection - has already earned global interest. Now the project's profile will be raised higher still, following its shortlisting for a second major design award.

11 Feb 2014

Device / Technology News

QualMetrix closes oversubscribed Series A financing round

Cogstate technology to be applied in paediatric clinical trial in the U.S.

MIT develops robot that may speed up drug development for stroke patients

New video tracking system could help select most viable sperm

Biologists demonstrate highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies

New imaging technique can predict common congenital heart abnormality

Surgeons now use minimally invasive robotic surgical system for Whipple procedure

QuadraMed strikes strategic partnership with Connected Technology Solutions

Eternity Healthcare developing saliva-based noninvasive sugar monitoring device

CareView introduces new CareView Connect Patient Monitoring and Communications module

MedAptus releases Risk Severity Toolkit to help provider groups manage disease burden of patients

New hemostasis valve with sideport tubing and stopcock launched by Qosina

Colour-changing ABC Syringe shortlisted for 2014 World Design Impact Prize

GenomOncology collaborates with RPCI to develop informatics solution for Next Generation Sequencing

Prexion launches new company and product website

Neutra acquires cutting-edge developer of smoke-free nutraceutical delivery systems

Porvair Sciences to showcase specialist microplate products at Pittcon, Analytica and Genomics Research 2014

Covaris introduces truXTRAC High Throughput FFPE DNA Extraction & Purification Kit at 2014 AGBT

Researchers introduce unique micro-robotic technique for tissue engineering and 3D printing

EKF Molecular Diagnostics to exhibit PointMan DNA-enrichment technology at Tri-Con 2014

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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