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GE Healthcare launches new ultrasound technology

GE Healthcare has announced today the availability of HDlive and Volume SRI (Speckle Reduction Imaging) for women’s health imaging products within its Voluson Expert series platform. These innovations are being showcased for the first time in the United States at the 2011 International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) congress in Los Angeles.

19 Sep 2011

Revolution in drug discovery underway in West Midlands, UK

A revolution in the drug discovery industry is underway, with universities across the West Midlands leading the effort by working in partnership with industry to focus on improving patient care.

19 Sep 2011

Phytel launches new suite of automated care management solutions

Phytel today launched the next generation of automated care management solutions with its integrated Atmosphere™ platform, which enables providers to better manage quality and proactively improve chronic and preventive care across their populations. These scalable, Software-as-a-Service automation tools together comprise the first comprehensive, integrated population health management solution designed for providers.

19 Sep 2011

Laser Med Center receives FDA approval for device to treat Trigeminal Neuralgia

Laser Med Center, which specializes in treating Trigeminal Neuralgia, has received an FDA approval for its revolutionary laser device. This is a non-invasive alternative to surgery, which treats pain through nerve tissue regeneration.

19 Sep 2011

Boston Scientific introduces Coyote Balloon Catheter for peripheral angioplasty

Boston Scientific Corporation has launched its Coyote Balloon Catheter, a highly deliverable and ultra-low profile 0.014 inch balloon dilatation catheter designed to treat patients undergoing peripheral angioplasty procedures below the knee. The Company has begun marketing the product in the U.S., Europe and other international markets.

19 Sep 2011

Intelligent t-shirt patient biomonitoring platform

Using this garment-based patient biomonitoring platform allows us to register a number of the patient's physiological parameters in a non-intrusive manner. "The information gathered by an intelligent t-shirt using e-textile technology is sent, without using wires, to an information management system, which then shows the patient's location and vital signs in real time", explain the UC3M researchers.

19 Sep 2011

Enrollment commences in MINI-AMI study of Impella in STEMI patients

Abiomed, Inc., a leading provider of breakthrough heart support technologies, today announced the first patient enrolled in MINI-AMI, an FDA prospective, randomized, controlled multi-center study to assess the role of 24-hours of direct unloading of the left ventricle with Impella 2.5 support to reduce infarct size in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) without cardiogenic shock.

19 Sep 2011

SuccessEHS acquires MediaDent EDR and Dental Imaging solution

SuccessEHS has announced the acquisition of MediaDent, a Practice Management, Electronic Dental Record and Dental Imaging solution. MediaDent is the flagship product of Georgia-based MMD Systems Inc., which will operate as a new division of SuccessEHS.

19 Sep 2011

OptiScan's new bedside glucose monitoring system receives European CE Mark

OptiScan Biomedical Corporation, a developer of innovative continuous glucose monitoring systems for use in intensive care units (ICU), today announced that the company's OptiScanner Automatic Bedside Glucose Monitoring System has received CE Mark certification for use in the European Union.

19 Sep 2011

Shannon installs Toshiba's Infinix CF-i single plane vascular X-ray system

Performing cardiac catheterizations through the radial artery is proven to lower the risk of vascular complications, reduce major bleeding and improve patient recovery time when compared to femoral access. Shannon Medical Center, in San Angelo, Texas, installed Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.'s Infinix CF-i single plane vascular X-ray system to conduct radial interventions more easily and improve patient safety and outcomes while reducing costs.

19 Sep 2011

Techulon signs distribution agreement with BioConcept for Glycofect

Techulon Inc., the leader in low-toxicity gene delivery has signed a distribution agreement with BioConcept of Allschwil, Switzerland.

19 Sep 2011

Nutracheck launches UK's first weight loss App

The UK's first weight loss App that scans barcodes on food products has been launched by Nutracheck.co.uk.

19 Sep 2011

Noninvasive method can detect sudden infant death syndrome, sleep apnea

University of Utah engineers who built wireless networks that see through walls now are aiming the technology at a new goal: noninvasively measuring the breathing of surgery patients, adults with sleep apnea and babies at risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

19 Sep 2011

Gamers solve molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme

Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery by playing Foldit, an online game that allows players to collaborate and compete in predicting the structure of protein molecules.

19 Sep 2011

University of Groningen surgeons perform first fluorescence-guided ovarian cancer surgery

The first fluorescence-guided surgery on an ovarian cancer patient was performed using a cancer cell "homing device" and imaging agent created by a Purdue University researcher.

19 Sep 2011

HFSA scientific meeting to discuss long-term management care for LVAD patients

The 15th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) will feature a discussion by Laura Coyle, ACNP, on strategies for caring for LVAD patients in an outpatient setting entitled "Long-Term Management: Caring for Patients to Keep Them at Home."

19 Sep 2011

CONRAD announces results of SILCS Diaphragm contraceptive effectiveness study

CONRAD, a leading reproductive health research organization, will announce results of the SILCS Diaphragm contraceptive effectiveness study September 17th at the Reproductive Health 2011 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

19 Sep 2011

HHS awards SwRI $4.4M contract to develop nasal system for treating cyanide poisoning

Southwest Research Institute was awarded a $4.4 million contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to develop a nasal-delivery, first-line treatment system to combat cyanide poisoning.

17 Sep 2011

CLASS Act criticism continues, but new report sees 'fixes'

Though conventional wisdom and partisan positions suggest the program is fiscally "out of whack," experts say there are multiple ways to try to make it more sound.

17 Sep 2011

Christiana Care Health System named to 2011 InformationWeek 500

Information technology magazine InformationWeek has named Christiana Care Health System to its 2011 InformationWeek 500, calling the health system an innovative technology user and featuring one Christiana Care IT initiative in the annual issue's "20 Innovative IT Ideas To Steal" article.

17 Sep 2011